The Study Of Composition Teachniques For Shostakovich’s Late Two String Quartets

Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich is one of the former Soviet Union’s greatest composers, whose works’style sometimes is grand, sometimes violent, sometimes beautiful, and sometimes smooth. He is based on the tradition but do not blindly follow the trend, in the twentieth Century become an independent school. He make all fifteen string quartets, This article will study the Shostakovich late two string quartets--twelfth and thirteenth-composition techniques. Along with the change of skill, field expansion and social political environment, his later works began to use some of the twentieth Century’s composition techniques, this article will focus analysis of modern skill in the two works.This paper is divided into six chapters. The first chapter analyzes the sequence twelve tone technique in the two works. Focus on the analysis of twelve theme forms, which implied tonality factor. The second chapter content for the tonality and the tonal center. Natural and chromatic material scale in the two works you can find. This chapter will also analyze the passage, composing techniques of the movement termination. The third chapter is the core, focusing on the structure of chord and harmony. The chord structure virious, the composer is also widely used by four degrees, five degrees superposed stacked chords, two degrees stacked chords and mixed stacked chords. Harmony, the traditional functional harmony has fewer. The fourth chapter is the analysis of musical structure. The content of the fifth chapter is the counterpoint techniques, this article mainly analyse the feature of melody, rhythm characteristics and harmonic characteristics. The sixth chapter summarizes the use of other modern techniques. Modern playing methods such as:long time continuous near bridge to perform, long piece of continuous muted performance.Based on the analysis of the two works, we can find Shostakovich combined the traditional Russian classical creation and modern technology, take the essence and discard the dregs, formed the unique style of Shostakovich. This to have been in the pursuit of harmony nationalization of Chinese composers, has a wealth of learning and reference.