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A Study On Chopin's Nocturne

Posted on:2009-09-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z C YuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360248456430Subject:Foreign music history
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Although the life of Frederic Chopin was short, his music creation lasted nearly 30 years. He devoted all his life to the piano creation and left a great amount of precious art works. His music is elegant and exquisite, refined and special. It's typical of special creation. Nocturne is the best work that can reflect Chopin's "deposition of poet" in all his piano works. With inspiration, he developed the Nocturne, a type of romantic lyric originated by John Field, an Irish composer, into a period of full bloom. Later, it became the typical representation of romantic style.The melody of Chopin's Nocturne is elegant and full of elegance and melancholy emotion. It's a music style full of lyric and poetry. It's easy to find that Frederic Chopin's works include different emotions and colorful music language. It was lyric and dramatic. These sides can help us understand the music of Frederic Chopin's nocturne .It is also a good point that we can know well about the music of romantic doctrine period. We still need to study deeply and actually.In the introduction, it gives a detailed into diction to the status. Basis and method of the research..The first chapter is about the birth of nocturne, it starts with the development of nocturne, studies the evolution course of nocturne. Then it starts with the originated—John Field and introduces the establishment of nocturne's name and conception.In the second chapter, Frederic Chopin and nocturne, it starts with the introduction to Frederic Chopin's piano works. Classifying the difference styles and creation features clearly. Then it summarizes the nocturne. Through the analysis of this chapter, we have an initial knowledge about Frederic Chopin's music and his Nocturne.The third chapter is about the research of Frederic Chopin's Nocturne's art features. It starts with the noumenon analysis of the work by using the synthetically knowledge of the woks of Frederic Chopin's nocturne clearly and expounding the basic language features of the nocturne. From it, we summarize the lyric meaning and dramatic connotation about the nocturne.All in all, Frederic Chopin created his own style about nocturne on the basic of predecessors. He made a great contribution to the development of Nocturne and the development of the music in romantic period.
Keywords/Search Tags:Frederic Chopin, Nocturne, John Field, Lyric, Dramatic
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