扬昆简论

扬州在明朝时就出现了以扬州方言道白的昆剧 ,在清朝又出现了一些对昆曲有影响的戏和至今未刊的专门演出本 ,同时还融合了扬州小唱和十番的音乐 ,形成了地方特色 ;其演出已具连台本戏的结构形式和初具灯彩戏的雏形。道、咸以后 ,因赖以生存的经济基础逐步解体 ,扬昆剧团终归消失 ,只有清唱延续至今。

A Brief of Account Yangzhou Kunqu Opera

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a kind of Kunqu Opera in which the spok en part was based on the Yangzhou dialect. Afterwards, in the Qing D ynasty, some plays for Kunqu Opera, some of which were never published, had grea t effects on the evolution of Kunqu Opera. These plays borrowed the music from Y angzhou xia o chang (mini melody) and Yangzhou shi fan (10 tunes) and formed a distinctive lo cal feature. The performances of these plays took the form of multi act dramas a nd the colored lantern shows, After the Emperor Dao Guan and Xian Feng, Yangzh o u Kunqu Opera gradually disappeared owing to the collapse of its eco nomic basis. But qingchang (cantata) from these plays has been kept.