| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 音樂學系碩士班 === 99 === Francis Poulenc （1899~1963）, a member of “Les Six”, was a representative French composer in the twentieth century. He had composed three operas during his life, including the comic opera “Les mamelles de Tiresias”（1944, Op.125）, the serious opera “Dialogues des Carmelites” (1953-1956, Op.159) as well as the contemporary opera “La voix humaine”（1959）which this thesis researches.
“La voix humaine” was an one-act tragedy that derived from the original drama of Jean Cocteau（1889～1963）,who was the twentieth century’s dramatist, and also, the spokesman of “Les Six”. It was composed as a modern opera with special type and creative style combining the technological product – the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell（1847~1922） during the industrial innovation in the nineteenth century.
This thesis studies the profiles and the genres of both Poulenc and Cocteau by researching the bibliography, collecting the material, analyzing the score, and studying Poulenc’s concept about the opera, the story’s development, the musical section, the characters and theatrical structure of the whole work. Expect that this thesis makes a perfect interpretation for the great opera that created by the two remarkable persons in French artistic field.
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