The Comparison Between Francois Couperin And Robert Schumann's Piano Opusculum Characteristics

Both Francois Couperin and Robert Schumann are outstandingmodels of piano opusculum creation in western music develop history.They both made great contributions to piano opusculum development.The style of piano opusculum is the best one that can represent themanner and characteristic of Francois Couperin and Robert Schumann'smusic creation. But as they experienced different society and culturebackground, we can tell differences between their aesthetic and musicalconcepts in and outside their music works. This thesis is trying tocompare social connotation and musical noumenon in Francois Couperinand Robert Schumann's piano opusculum creations, and to deeplyresearch the sameness and the difference between their piano opusculumsthrough the musical idea which seems to be similar, and to seek thehistorical evolvement of piano opusculum style and the necessity of theappearance of different music styles.The whole thesis is divided into three parts which are Foreword,Text, and Epilogue, and the Text part is also divided into three parts:The first part, is the comparison of social and cultural backgroundbetween Francois Couperin and Robert Schumann's music creations, andis matted for deeper research in latter parts.The second part is the comparison of musical characteristicsbetween Francois Couperin and Robert Schumann's piano opusculum.This is an analyze to their magnum opuses, starting with musical title,structure and language, and to deeply research the sameness anddifference between their piano opusculums.The third part, is trying to find the intention and significance of thecomparison and research of Francois Couperin and Robert Schumann'spiano opusculum's musical characteristics. This part is trying to explainthe historical evolvement of piano opusculum style and the necessitybetween social environment and musical creation.