Research On Rondo Rustico Of Woytowicza’s Piano Etudes In Modern Times

Boleslawa Woytowicza, who’s called "the Chopin’s descendant of the 20th century", is another famous Polish composer after Chopin. He is also on behalf of the next generation of composers after Szymanowski. He not only makes remarkable achievements in playing piano and composing music, but also is a linguist and Ph. D of Law and Mathematics.His composing process is divided into four periods based on the time and place, when and where his works were created. The first period (1899-1971, Ukraine), he learned piano skills, and came into contact with composing music in this period. In the second period (1917-1929, Poland), he studied piano and composition at the Warsaw Conservatory systematically. He participated in many international piano competitions in this period, so his playing skills improved quickly, and he followed music editor Mike Pavlovsky learning composing music. The third period, he studied in Paris for three years, where he learned modern European composition techniques and accepted European and American fresh musical blood. For this reason, his music began to be gradually enriched in this period. The fourth period (1945-1979), he worked as a teacher in the Chopin Academy of Music, where he taught Musicology. And in this period, he was on the peak of his works covering the social, historical, ethnic, etc. These works are realism and ethnic.In his Twelve Modern Piano Etude, which is composed in the Middle of the 20th Century, Boleslawa Woytowicza not only attached great importance to the technology and melody as Liszt and Chopin, but he also added the transition of harmony and tonal that must be considered for a composer. Using new technique of composition, modern music vocabulary and creation technique of tonal limitless until atonality, he offered a perfect blend of the etude with the world stage in the 20th century.This works has both traditional features and modern though. In the aspect of traditional features, he carries on multi-sound department rondo structure in Baroque period and owner-function harmonic language in Classical period, and also he carries on tonal music in Romantic period. In another aspect of new tough, he uses longitudinal superposed tonality, complex tough between sound departments, and features of octave and gamut. This works is combined of traditional features and modern features. For this reason, the sixth of Twelve Modern Piano Etude is a works with distinctive characteristics of the times.Boleslawa Woytowicza is deeply affected by patriotism and original ethnic melodies techniques in the country where Chopin’s music can be heard everywhere. Based on folk music tunes, using more advanced compositional techniques of tone in 20th Century, adding folk music tunes with real-life scene, he show his patriotism and writing passion with rational musical structure.In this paper, the author analyzes the sixth etude of Boleslawa Woytowicza-- the Rondo Rustico in three chapters. Chapter One is a comprehensive introduction of the life and music creation of Boleslawa Woytowicza. The introduction of his creation is divided into different department according to time, place, and categories of work. Chapter Two, is the focus of this paper. The author introduces Poland rural culture, development of Rondo and Etude, and analyzes the Rondo Rustico comprehensively in the using of musical structure, tonality, harmony, rhythm and tempo, the expression marks, and contrasting with modern composers. The Chapter Three, the author describes the formation of Boleslawa Woytowicza’s creating style in three aspects: social formation, influences of the war, and social environment, and illustrates the aesthetic reflection, the meaning and value of Boleslawa Woytowicza’s etude.