A Study On The Harmony Technique Of Alan Copeland 's "Piano Sonata"

Aaron Copland (November14,1900-1990December2. He is one of the most importantcomposers of the20th century the United States, specializing in American music historylandmark figure. Is internationally recognized as the first composer with a Native Americantwist. Copland’s works demonstrate his style has been pioneering and innovative spirit andmusic features. In early jazz music using his material for works labeled "American Music"label, to have a modern musical language chords, harmonic progression, rhythm, music toreflect the intention to pursue innovative and breakthrough model of classical music. Hebegan to make a highly effective exploration of rhythm, melody, modal tonality, harmonytechniques, etc., ultimately its outstanding achievements and contributions to the UnitedStates to become a professional musical development path a landmark figure. This paperselected works of Copland "Piano Sonata" in harmony techniques for the study, attempts toexplore the use of Copland works and sound technical features and style. Articles usinginductive method, through this work in tonal treatment, chord structure, harmonic progression,harmony, texture and other aspects to sort and classify acoustic techniques to explore Coplandmodern harmonic language, for further Copland music system research foundationtechniques.This article consists of four parts:Chapter One: Copland’s life and music history, followed by social background andcultural and artistic background two fronts "Piano Sonata" creative background.Chapter2:"Piano Sonata" overview of the analysis is divided into two sections, the firstsection of this work is the rhythm, beat and melody, Section II musical structure.Chapter Three:"Piano Sonata" harmony analysis, this chapter is full of body parts,respectively, from the tone (color of the two-tone design, layout tonality), chords (ThreeChord, non-three degrees Chord, second degree and sound), harmonic progression (parallel,reflection-type conduct, sustained harmonic progression), and sound texture detail Coplandfour aspects in this work the use of acoustic techniques.Chapter4:"Piano Sonata" has the American spirit of harmony style, the first from theperspective of breaking the traditional harmony, constantly absorbing, integration, innovation, reflecting the composer and sound techniques in the American spirit; Section II effortsmodern techniques, see how simple chords Copeland material interwoven with complexdesigns together, so full of modern musical works.The conclusion: the basis of the previous research on the classification of thecharacteristics of Copland "Piano Sonata" harmonic technique to generalize the study to do,trying to explain the significance of this work is full of the spirit of America and Coplandmodern techniques and sound value and impact.