Summarization of Opera Terminology

Opera performance should use singing, reading, doing, playing all kinds of artistic means, each of which has an inseparable relationship with music. Singing is originally a means of musical performance, which goes without saying. Nianbai is not singing, but to have musicality, it is required in the tone, rhythm, there is a rhythm, can be harmonized with the singing. As for doing kung fu and martial arts, these are all physical movements, but the physical movements on the stage of opera are not direct imitations of life movements, but performances with dance, which are strong, exaggerated and rich in rhythm. It is strong, exaggerated and rich in rhythm. Therefore, this kind of physical movement is closely integrated with music and melted into the rhythm of music. Traditional opera performances require actors to be familiar with the gongs and drums, i.e., the combination of various gongs and drums, and the movements of the body should be in tune with the gongs and drums; skilled actors feel that they cannot move without the gongs and drums, and their emotions cannot be brought into play, which is the reason why they can't do so.

Singing, reciting, acting and playing are four different instruments with different characteristics. But how do they fit together as a whole? Between these means, music is a link, through the rhythm of music, plays a unifying and coordinating role. At the same time, the conduct of a play requires a stage rhythm, and the various changes and developments in the plot and mood of a play, as well as the ups and downs of dramatic contradictions, need to be reflected in the stage rhythm, which is either strong or weak, or open or loose. Not only is it necessary to have this kind of change between scenes in a play, but even in a certain section of the performance or a certain section of the singing, there are all kinds of different changes in rhythm and speed. All of this is reflected through the music, to regulate, music to the rhythm of the whole play unified coherent.