Deep Feelings And Life Shock

S.Rachmaninoff, the representative of late Romanticism music, combines the music style of Post Romanticism and the Russian music tradition, his own feelings on music and his excellent instrument performance talent, and thus creates his piano music full of deep feelings and profound philosophy on life. His music is marked by long soulful melodies of exuberant lyricism, dramatic climaxes and permeated with a trace of tragedy, full of artistic attraction, deserving profound aesthetic study. This paper intends to give an analysis on the piano music style in Rachmaninoff's mature stage from several aspects of musicology.The paper will be divided into four chapters. The first chapter deals with the analysis on music itself in terms of the style of type and the characteristics that music reflects (melody ^ rhythm , harmony , tonality , construction, etc. ). The second chapter will give a cultural interpretation from the aspects of social and history background (including his own background, life environment and social situation) and ideology (including the process of Romantic music style development, New Russian Spirit Philosophy and the influence by other artistic thought). Chapter Three will discuss on the beauty of artistic conception and tragedy from the aspect of aesthetic characteristics. And in the last chapter, the author will give his own idea on Rachmaninoff's piano music style from the aspect of piano performance.Rachmaininoffs piano music, produced under the influence of the social and history environment, the cultural atmosphere and the artistic thought in his age, reflects the indelible trace of the development of society and the nation in terms of forms and contents. More importantly, he brings all these elements into his own feelings, which enables people to feel his deep feelings and his philosophical thinking on life and thus create spirit shock and emotional resonance.