The Style Characteristics Of Wolf's Art Song

Hugo Wolf(1860-1903) is an the end of 19 century, the German important thecomposer at the beginning of 20 century, he created the much more than 300 art thesongs together the to from the cradle to the grave, the founding the history of themodern the art song, is a German art song well- deserved of representative's person.In his art song creations, since body now state of mind of classic and romanticdoctrine, and then have the color of the modern music, and create new style, keepingown creations style always, pursuing the musical inside essence and promoting byone's own. He are perfect the classic doctrine, romantic doctrine and the modernism colorsto combine, giving the art song unique and free from vulgarity atmosphere andvitalities, being free from other great art song composer's style influence at the sametime, insisting own creations principle always, was a development that goes to the artsong of world to rise the function of the push for the German art song. This text isfrom the development grain beginning of the German art song, and passed thecharacteristics to the meticulous analysis of the usually different from its art songcreations of stage, come to elaborate the Wolf' art song detailedly and it sings on stagethe style. Speaking in a general way, Wolf's styles mainly went through two stages. Hemade bald innovations towards artistic songs and invented artistic songs in the formof "music poem". He also made progress in such methods and inclinations as"objectively expressing emotions". And pusded forward romantic music towardrational direction. Thus Germany artistic songs further developed. Two of hisrepresentative pieces are "Mrike Songs" and "Italian Songs", which are of greatmeaning to western music history and symbolize the transition of late romantic musictowards modern music. They also serve as examples of performances artistic songsand lectures of teaching and singing. Apart from a thorough analysis of the characteristics of Wolf's artistic songs, thisthesis analyses the singing of Wolf's four works. Basically, I have an overallunderstanding of Wolf's singing styles. It is my wish that my study will be of practicalmeaning to Wolf's vocal pieces and hopefully, my study sill be of some help to thosewho sing Wolf's artistic songs.