Analysis Of Music Content And Performance Skills Of William Bolcombe 's 12 New Piano Etudes

In twenty century,the creation of modern music have a inprecedented breakthrough in all aspects,but people rarely contact with the works of the new period.Piano etudes as a branch of modern music of twenty century,also has not been widely attention. This paper is analysis the content of the music and performance skills through the William Bolcom’s etudes.It can make the players grasp deeper of the creation style and the way of performance in the twenty century piano etudes.To show these are valuable piano works that worth people playing and researching.This thesis is divided into three parts: first, introduce the William Bolcom’s life and the creation background of the etudes, then to analyse the content of etudes; second, analyse and research the musicality of the 12 new piano etudes from the singing,the strength and the tone; and analyse the use of the popular element in this works; third, analyse and research the performance skills of the 12 new etudes from the common performance skills aspect and emerging performance skills aspect.Conclusion:these etudes are very valuable piano works that worth people playing and researching.