Musical Analysis Of C·P·E·Bach Keyboard Sonata's Ornaments

Ornament is the most representational one in Baroque, which is used so frequently in the period that it makes the music in the period became ornamental, which makes a important role in Baroque music and come to its' zenith in the late of the period. Carl Philip Emanuel Bach(1714-1788) is one most important spokesman in the late of Baroque and the forepart of the classicalism era. He had inedited lots of concertos, sonatas, symphonies and cantatas. In the process of his invention of the music, he had introduce the ornament into his keyboard, which makes his keyboard not only include the gallant style of the Baroque keyboard but also include the Empfindsamkeit style of the classicalism music. So, his music represented both the whole period of Baroque keyboard music and the classicalism keyboard music's germination.In this thesis, we introduces four of the representation solely keyboard sonata in the forepart, the middle and the late of C·P·E-Bach as the noumenon to be analyzed. In the introduction, we give a detail of the study of the C-P-E-Bach's key solo sonatas both in and out of the motherland, and we also show the topic of this thesis and the methods we launch on the study of the topic. In Chapter one, we separate the ornament in Baroque into two parts according to the style, and we illustrates the origin, the characteristic and the representation types of literature and the composers of the both parts. We choose four of the most representation key solo sonatas in the forepart, the middle and the late of C·P·E·Bach in chapter two, and we analyzed their noumenon according to the rhythm of them. The chapter three can be divided into two sections. In section one, we give a conclusion of the characteristic of the C·P·E·Bach's key solo sonatas consult to the noumenon which has been analyzed in the former chapter. In section two, we give out the history factor of the reason why C·P·E·Bach used the ornament and what's more, we explain the ornament as a music style, it's used not only as a decorate but also as a measure to express the emotion. As we have analyzed the noumenon and the connotation of the four most representation key solo sonatas in of C·P·E·Bach in the first three chapter, we come to the conclusion of the thesis. C-P-E-Bach, as a forerunner, his usage of the ornament surely exceeded the other composers of the period, Semitone of conduct,Instrumental recitative and Rhetorical use of language, these are the other composers didn't have. His usage of the ornament as a express measure also affect the Vienna Classical Music School.