电影音乐叙事要素综论

电影音乐叙事的基本要素涉及叙述本质与类型、叙述内容与结构、叙述话语与方式、叙述行为与效力四大方面。就功能倾向与传达方式而言,以非语言媒介为载体的音乐以表现情感为主,无法通过自身的符号系统直接完成叙事,而需假借受众的想象与虚构。就内容与方式而言,电影音乐可以以其特有的话语元素,通过标题拟用、基调定位、节奏调控、音画配合等多种手段来提供信息、表述思想。电影音乐的叙事主体非常复杂,包含作词、作曲、歌唱、演奏、编剧、导演、演员等种种能够有效操作电影叙事系统运转的力量。在现代尤其后现代电影音乐叙事的研究中,叙述者、受众、视角等与叙述行为有关的要素,以及音乐形式结构与外部世界的关联等问题正受到越来越多的关注。

Elements of Film Music Narrative

The film music narrative includes such basic factors as narrative nature,narrative structure,narrative discourse,and narrative behavior.Music expresses emotions with the non language media as its carrier.It cannot directly complete narrative with its own symbol system,but requires the narratee＇s imagination and fantasy.With its unique discourse elements,film music can provide information and express thoughts by such means as the title,tone,rhythm and pictures.The narrative subject of film music is very complicated as it contains many elements such as lyrics,composing,singing,playing,screenwriters,directors and actors,which effectively operate film narrative systems.In the study of the modern,especially post-modern,film music narrative,researchers have paid more attention to elements related to narrative behaviors,such as narrators,narratee and perspectives,and to the relations between the form structure of music and the world.