뮤지컬 연기를 위한 배우의 음악 분석 방법론과 그 적용에 관한 연구

Abstract

This study begins from the question how musical performer could understand and express the emotion and thought of their characters through the musical score. The musics are composed in every detail with the authors intention. They are their tools: the musics dominants the book. An author carves the story, the mood, and the life or death of the characters into the scores. Therefore the music have become something that actors should analyze. So far, the analytic method of music has been based on the convention that music critics and researchers have used to understand the music by analyzing the principle of the authors work; rhythm, harmony, melody, and structure. But this convention has limitation in understanding for performers to their characters of the script and approaching to the realistic emotion. This study introduces the analytic method suggested in the book, 『Acting in musical theatre: a comprehensive course』 by Joe Deer and Rocco Dal Vera. This method will look into a field example that is the acting process of the musical <Les Miserables> in rehearsal room and I will investigate whether this introduced method could be successful in drawing the true and specific movement from the actors. Joe Deer and Rocco Dal Vera applied the concept of "the units and objectives" to musical analysis. This method divide the musical score into the beats based on various musical components suc as tempo, rhythm, beat, musical key, melodic shape, musical accents, and style. The beat is the basic structure of drama. They also bring the character's mind and lyric which is the words of characters together and achieve the goal of the clear understanding of character's objectives. Using the real case of applying this analysis to ‘What have I done?’, the aria of Jean ValJean in the prologue, actors obtained more clear pictures of what the character would feel only. This was done from just careful listening. The obtained images were found to be helpful to the actors in reflecting their emotion. The abstract emotional images from the musical clues was used as the guide in cutting the scene into beats. Then there is another beat based on the change of thought and purpose of the character which is delivered by the lyrics. Combining these two beats together, the purpose to draw true emotion from the actor was achieved and the fact that this march in parallel with the self driven, creative movement of the actor was confirmed.