A Remarkable Piece Of 20～(th) Century Piano Music--Piano-teaching Analysis & Study George Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue

Thinking of enlarging piano pedagogy repertory in normal colleges, the author chose the 揜hapsody in Blue?by George Gershwin the 20th century American world wellknown composer, as a subject. The thesis is divided into four parts and starts by a preliminary study of the background, then followed by discussions about the musical genre, themes and structural analysis, piano texture and technical skills in playing, and ended by giving a summary to the artistic value and profound social influence of the work.The 揜hapsody in Blue?is generally acknowledged by thehworld as an outstanding piano repertory of the 2O~ century. It is aninitiative and successful attempt to blend the American music of the Black people, folk music, and pop music into the art of the piano. Taking this work as a subject for research in normal college piano teaching is academically valuable and meaningful in practice.The core of this thesis is the analysis in detail of the music, and the definition of the form as a single movement free style FantasiaIIIAbstractwith mult-themes and multi-phrases in mosaic structure. In order to expound this definition, the article analysized and summarized elements of the musical materials and refined them into six basic and three derivative themes, while getting into the analysis of the structural core of the piece.Secondly, the article analysized the rhythm of American?s folk music of the black people and the piano texture based on these rhythms. It chose many phrases from the over 500 bars?work and expounded those which could mostly reflect the characteristic rhythm of the 揃lues?. In fact, these rhythms were the main powerful framework of jazz and pop music in the modem time. The analysis showed the relation between professional piano music and the popular jazz music in this work.In addition, the article discussed from the view point of piano performance by the author?s own experience and initially summarized the playing techniques of how to grasp the musical style as a whole and pay attention to the particular phrases as well in one?s performance. These points provides some reference in dealing with the art of its music and the playing of the work.