A Study on Music Expression of Two Kinds of Femininities in Richard Strauss’ Operas –“Salome”, ”Elektra”, and “Der Rosenkavalier”

• Main Authors: LIU, YI-CHUN, 劉怡君
• Other Authors: 王美珠
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/z8jrt2

碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 音樂學研究所 === 101 === Richard Strauss is adept at depicting all kinds of people, things or property through a variety of music techniques delicately, especially the female characters in sentimental and sorrow. In his fifteen operas, female characters almost as the major role and guide the plot development, and play an important central position. Salome, Elektra, and Der Rosenkavalier can be described as Strauss''s representative works in his heyday; and he presented topical features and rich diversity in female characters depiction and music expression in these three works. This article took five different female characters in Salome, Elektra, and Der Rosenkavalier – Salome, Elektra, Klytamnestra, Chrysothemis , Marschallin and Sophie for examples which show the ‘bright’ and ‘dark’ personality, and probed how the composer presents these two kinds of femininities in music expression.