The Style And The Structure Of Satie's Piano Works

Satie's piano works are the subject of research for this thesis.Through the analysis of musical techniques in these works,this paper attempts to summarize the style of its musical languages and generalize its structural principles.This thesis comprises four chapters.The former two chapters discuss the style of musical languages,and the latter two chapters summarize the structural principles which treat of both the form and the mathematical logic.Chapter One:An introduction to the style of musical languages in the forepart,the period of "Rose+Croix",and the times of "seeking and wandering".The impressionistic techniques germinated in satie's early piano works.The trait of "mystery" standed out in the period of "Rose+Croix".In the times of "seeking and wandering",Satie's piano style gave priority to terseness and fluency.Chapter Two:A statement about the style of musical languages in the period of "humorous piano composition"and the terminal stage.The period of "humorous piano composition"is the tiptop in the whole career of Satie's piano music,whose primary characteristics are the jocular taste and the modality mixed "seeing" with "hearing".The terminal piano works have a tendency towards returning to simplicity.Chapter Three:A summarization about the abundant principles of forms in Satie's piano works.Some of the principles inherit or reform the traditional forms,and others are entirely brand-new forms created by Satie himself.Chapter Four:A generalization about three principles of mathematical logic in Satie's piano works Golden Section,Fibonacci Sequence,and Lucas Sequence.Golden Section is the most important of all,which has four manners——Golden Section,Reverse of the Golden Section,Special Golden Section,and the "Golden Area".In this process,the new issues mentioned in this thesis are as follows:1.A partition about the five periods of the style of Satie's piano works——the forepart,the period of "Rose+Croix",the times of"seeking and wandering",the period of"humorous piano composition",and the terminal stage.2.The denomination for "linking form" created by Satie himself.3.The mention about the "Golden Area" phenomenon.In addition,the author analyses a good many Satie's piano works in this thesis,which have been analysed by nobody.