John Gay's Use of Music for Satire in The Beggar's Opera

John Gay is using satirical music by the opera John Gay is a complicated work but the beggar opera is obviously complex. Critics interpret this as political satire, moral satire, and (to some extent) Christian satire. Common to many explanations is that the opera is satire against politics and art at the time. A fairly traditional interpretation of the theater and its work suggests that the aim of the author is in particular the sarcasm of Italian opera and users of this form.

Threepenny Opera argues that it is a "singing opera", actually bored with traditional opera and operetta, creating two new musicals based on two young German artists, composer Kurt Weill and the poet's theory I will. - Playwright Bad Brecht. The show begins with imitation of the Baroque Overture to the three penny's, and starts with a nostalgic imitation of the success of Handel's opera written by Sly Opera, and by John Gay in 1728. After a short overture, the aged character came to the barrel organ on stage and uttered the song "Mack the Knife" which recorded the infamous robbery and erotic Marshall's crime. Before Queen Victoria 's coronation ceremony, the environment was held in Soho, London.

Along with the handel's efforts to establish the Italian opera in the UK, local talent is trying to make a British music format. As a result, there are The Beggar opera (1728), the poet Jo hn Gay theater, and John Christopher Pepusch music. The opera has made a form of folk opera that saturates Italian opera and modern politics. Folk songs eventually lead to that song, German comic opera and spoken dialogue, and the best development among Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's works. German early court opera showed that Frederick the Great, who likes Italian schools, compared the songs of the 18th century with German songs. German composers began to draw attention to songs

In the 18th century, British musicals evolved into two different kinds: folk opera and comedy opera. John Gay's opera is a typical representative of the folk opera. We offer new lyrics to deceive popular songs of those days. This is equivalent to ancient English jukebox music. On the other hand, the comedy opera has a romantic plot of original music, and Michael Balfe 's Bohemian Girl is a comedy model. At the same time, it was making a simpler and short-lived form of opera, such as Combination of Comedian Vodoville and Opera, which brought the concept of Burlesque, Melodrama, Voodov and Concert Hall. Many London theaters have only permission from the concert hall, so there must be music in the theater; hence musicals become more popular parts of British theater life, which is a melodrama and dance It led to popularization of drama.