The Characteristics And Performance Of Samuel Barber 's New Romantic Piano Music

Samuel Barber is one of the most important composers of the 20 th century in the United States. He inherit and carry forward the end of the 19 th century European romanticism music and coalesced their profound emotional experience, to created a large number of music works with graceful melody and strong feelings. Injected new vitality for tonal music which accepted the challenge of atonal music, be honored as the new romantic master by the critics. He has great achievements in the field of piano music creation. He pushed the new romantic piano music to a height with people’s respect. His piano opus not only inherited the style of nobility, elegance, romantic and highly characteristic of lyricism of the romanticism in the 19 th century, but also into new music language and elements of the 20 th century. For example applied the flavor of American jazz music element which is presenting the time breath. Two kinds of style blend mutually, complement each other, the characteristics of the traditional and romantic have mixed, make the Barber’s works have a unique artistic charm eventually, and established him in a unique position and important value in the development history of piano music.Researching Samuel barber’s new romantic piano music is the center of this paper, On the one hand, through literature analysis, this paper analyzed the representative works of new romantic piano music and to analyzed its piano music’s features in detail; On the other hand, combined with the author’s own piano playing and teaching experience, explore the performance skills and methods to play the Barber’s piano music, and several problems that should pay attention to in the play. Eventually expect through writing this paper make the piano player and piano teacher will understanding Samuel barber and his new romantic piano music deeply, and this paper will provides several theoretical supports for play and research Samuel Barber’s piano works, and to provide some beneficial enlightenment for the personage of piano study, make a contribution to the spread and popularization of Barber’s New romantic piano music in China.