An Analysis Of The Singing Of "Winter Tour" In

Schubert, the pioneer and a great master of Romantic music, left a lot of immortal artistic heritage to human beings during his short life. The song cycle "Winter Journey" have created milestone of art song with its rigorous layout and the vast length and the perfect combination of poetry and music, and finds its status in repertoire of many art song concerts. This paper is a simple analysis and summary of how to sing "Winter Journey" better from three aspects. Firstly, it makes a short overview of Schubert’s life and creation. Secondly, it reveals the creation background of "Winter Journey" by the analysis of social background and Schubert’s creation motivation. Thirdly and most importantly, it focuses on how to accurately grasp the singing of " winter journey ", discussing what preparation should be done before singing the song cycle from three aspects and illustrating the difficulties during the process of singing, namely, language learning, musical analysis of "the linden tree" and "spring dream", and the technical difficulties and emotion controlling to sing the song cycle.