Psychopathology of Female Characters in Opera: Dido and Turandot

DOI

10.2991/978-2-38476-094-7_29How to use a DOI?

Keywords

music therapy;; children with autism;; social cognition

Abstract

This article will take a psychopathological approach to classical opera’s portrait of female figures. Two cases are selected as both female characters are involved with ample profiled elements that help people to understand the role of females being imaged and how this image has been changed through time. The article will take Turandot as an example to briefly analyze the impact and the medical influence of music on the human psyche and emotions, which is considered music therapy. It will analyze some impact of the Turandot, as a female role at the time, from a sociological feminist perspective. Music Therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program. After that, this article will also see the analysis of the character of Dido. The two female characters serve as a unity for people to understand that Western culture has a coherent narrative for females in their destiny and pursuit of happiness.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jingke Hu
AU  - Yixuan Wang
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/08/29
TI  - Psychopathology of Female Characters in Opera: Dido and Turandot
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 235
EP  - 241
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-094-7_29
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-094-7_29
ID  - Hu2023
ER  -