Harmony Study Of Bruckner's Ninth Symphon

Anton Bruckner(1824.9.4-1896.10.11)was an important composer and organist in the history of German and Austrian music,and one of the most outstanding representatives of composers of the late nineteenth century.This paper presents a harmonic study of the Ninth Symphony,analysing the work’s tonal layout,chord structure,harmonic sequencing,transposition and tonal alternation in specific harmonic techniques,in search of the individual harmonic language of the work.The first chapter introduces Bruckner’s life and artistic creation as well as the background of the Ninth Symphony.Chapter 4 explores colourful harmonic progressions,starting with the colourful harmonic progressions and the infiltration of genus-functional chords,illustrating the colourful harmonic progressions formed by the non-four-fifth functional relationships between root tones and the genus-functional chords in parallel major and minor harmonies.The combination of functional chords in parallel major and minor and homophonic and parallel keys is one of the features of this symphony;Chapter 5 explores the transposition and tonal alternation of this work through equal temperament transposition,modal transposition and special chromatic transposition,while the alternation between homophone major and homophone minor is also an important technique for enriching the harmonic progression and developing the melodic progression.The work is an inheritance of the classical approach to composition,combined with romanticism and individual compositional techniques,reflecting his spirit of both tradition and innovation,and fully demonstrating his mature compositional philosophy and style.