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The Artistic Characteristics and Vocal Performance Analysis of A Wonderful Moment is About to Arrive

Author(s)

Ziyuan You1, Zihan You2

Affiliation(s)

1Faculty of Education and Human Development, the Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China 2Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao, China

Abstract

A Wonderful Moment is about to arrive serves as an aria performed by the soprano Susanna in Mozart's opera entitled The Marriage of Figaro. This article uses this piece of work as the subject of its research and offers a comprehensive discussion from the viewpoints of its artistic features and its vocal performance practice. This paper constructs an all-encompassing framework that ranges from role understanding to vocal presentation. This research surpasses the confines of prior studies, which typically detached music ontology examination from vocal performance implementation. Instead, it creates an all-encompassing correspondence link that extends from artistic traits, like musical structure, tonality, tune, and cadence, to vocal components, such as speed, tone color, volume, and sentiment. Thus, it attains an integrated elucidation of musical language–vocal expression. The aim of this research paper is to offer a reference for the research and execution of comparable aria styles.

Keywords

The Marriage of Figaro; The Beautiful Moment is Coming; Mozart's Operas; Soprano Aria; Performance Analysis

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