The Discussion Of Darius Milhaud's Piano Duet Suite

Darius Milhaud was one of the greatest composers in France after Debussy in the twentieth century and was the core member of the " Six,Les".He composered 443 works in his nearly sixty years of career composition. In his long life, three places impacted his living ang his composition which was France,Brazil and United States. Because he was through the three places in the form of France-Brazil-France United States-France, so it is called "circular" of the life course. Darius Milhaud's works can be said to be good and bad, but they always reflect the combination of "traditional","moderlity" and "exotic". The music style is the "compatibility". If one factor is main, the another one or two factors are associated with it.The piano duet suite is a model for this form in his many of music works. There are eight themes in the three movements of this suite, which are clear in the tone and in the rhythm. Some of them are presented in a single voice, that not only strenghens the melodic of the themes, but also is an evidence that the melody is important in the misic performance. In addition, on the whole, the macro structure of the Suite is clear and the functional harmonic progression can be seen everywhere. However, this does not say that this technique is too conservative in this work, because some twentieth century techniques such as the second chord,the fourth chord and the fifth chord are also widedly used in the work. As a divertimento, the tonality layout of the suite also shows a certain freedom, because the main tonality of the first movement does not reproduce in the finale movement. Darius Milhaud's compositional techniques are creative from the detail of the musical structure processing, which are different from the traditionad approach because there are connection between the first movement and the second movement that weakened the contrast between the two parts. The same processings are more in this work. The third movement of this Suite is a Brazilian-style Samba.In fact, the musical style of the suite is compatibility of the three factors which are the "traditional","modernity"and"exotic"...