The Structural Analysis And Performance Interpretation Of Francis Poulenc“Les Soirées De Nazelles” FP.84

Les soirées de Nazelles is the largest-scale of Poulenc’s piano pieces.Poulenc begun writing this piano suite in 1930,while he is having holiday at this country home at Nazelles.He improvised the variations in the work during a long evenings in the country home,and each of the variations portrait different character of his friends.This work was completed in 1936,and was dedicated to“Ms.Lienard”.Unfortunately Ms.Lienard passed away before the work was published.This thesis discuss how the characteristics of the 20^th-century art influences Poulenc’s Les soirées de Nazelles.There are three chapters.Chapter one is divided into two sections.Section one discusses the relevance of Poulenc to Neo-classicism trend and contemporary composers of Satie and Les Six.Section two introduces Poulenc’s piano works and arranges Poulenc’s piano works styles in the early,middle and late periods.Chapter two strands with the musical background and musical characteristics of Les soirées de Nazelles.Chapter three is The core of this thesis.According to the sequence of Les soirées de Nazelles,I analyze and interpret the twelve suite.