An Analysis Of The Harmony Of 35 Art Songs By Richard Strauss

In the late Romantic era of Richard Straus (Richard Strauss1864-1949) is not only animportant German composer, conductor or a rise above the common herd. In many of hismusic creation (opera, symphonic poems, orchestral works, songs),200songs madecontributions to Richard-Strauss reputation in the late romantic music. In the use of art songsand sound effects, Richard-Strauss by Friedrich William Maier in his childhood learningmusic instruction and Wagner, Lester et al in the traditional style of music, harmony as a way,to explore and pursue new changes, such as harmonic language, tonal chord structure rich,from diverse ways of tone, in order to achieve the sound color and sound effect of the novel.The development of art songs through the early, middle, late three stages, Richard Strausoccupies the dominant position in the history of the development of late romantic art songs,his art songs to another peak. His art songs will be rich in poetic music with German poemsshow the form, is called the model of western music industry. This paper focuses on theanalysis of Richard Straus’s art song harmony techniques, chromatic form of art songs formedon Strauss Richard-the creation of art song introduction, the chord structure form andtransformation and the use of modal solution, the multiple forms of tonal thinking, and in hiscreation of art songs in different periods.