바그너의 음악극론 = A Study of Wagner`s Musicdrama

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Romantics believed that the life had inner relationships with the world and thus could not be fully comprehensible through analysis and pure logic. They attempted to create the idealized form of synthesis between life and art, and found it in the expressive form of art. According to Romantics, everything stemmed from the innermost side of being, `soul` or `feeling`. Schopenhauer considered music as the expression of the `soul`, and only music, among the arts, as the art directly connected with feeling. Influenced by him, Richard Wagner established the theory of musicdrama. Wagner maintained that the essence of the world and life could be grasped only by music, though he admitted that language could be supplementary for specific descriptions of various phenomena. By exploring into myths, Wagner gained deeper insight into human behaviour. He thought that ancient mythology showed an archtype of real life. Through a new interpretation of mythology, he intended to describe and to criticize the industrialized civilization of the contemporary world. By emphasizing the intimate union of music and drama, Wagner differntiated the musicdrama from Italian opera. According to him, Italian opera put an importance only on the phenomenal side of music. Therefore, the essence of opera, the union of drama and music, had been neglected in Italian opera. The structure of musicdrama is closely related with the structure of mythology and drama. The structure of mythology is characterized by the unity of various components with the relationship of the innermost `soul`, and the organization of drama centered on a leading event, to which other events were closely related. Modelled after mythology and drama, Wagner devised a leading programmatic motive, called `leitmotif` and a new type of melody emanating form the `soul`. Mythology, drama and musicdrama are similar because they are all organized around a central idea. In this way, Wagner embodied the most idealized form of Romantic synthesis in his musicdrama.