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Creation Of The Schumann Piano Divertimento "carnival" (op.9) Personalized Study

Posted on:2010-12-20Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:F ZhuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360302965110Subject:Music
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Schumann(1810-1856) is one of representatives of the Romanticism music in the 19th century in Europe.His musical creation is unique,and there is full-bodied strong romanticism in his musical works.As one of the most representative composers of the romanticism camp in the 19th century in Europe,his music dares to break the traditional stereotypes,and carries out the bold innovation based on the succession of the early Romanticism camp's style,which produces a great influence on the subsequent musical creation .Schumann is the founder of the headline piano divertimento in the Romanticism camp,this is his most representative musical genre.he not only creates such works for the first time,but also develops it into a new stage."carnival" is a more representative one in his headline piano divertimento,its bold innovation in the headline and the dual character in the musical thought promote the development of the whole piano divertimento in Europe,and have indelible unique meaning and historical value in the development of the piano.This passage refers to his achivement in the musical creation and related information,and combines his historical background ,family background,mental state,creation state etc.This passage studies the musical creation of carnival,the musical image,the musical ontology and the musical style.This passage has four parts.The first part describes his piano divertimento and the creation of "carnival ",the second part analyses the personalized musical image which is described through the headline in "carnival",the third part describes the personalization reflected by the melody,rhythem,harmony,musical form in the musical creation of "carnival",the fourth part describes the personalization of the musical language and style in "carnival".In chapter one ,it introduces the formation of his piano divertimento and the creation background of 'carnival"and the musical thoughts expressed when created.Schumann is one of well-known representative charecters of the Romanticism camp in the 19th century in Europe.His life experiences when he was young give him strong fantasy ability,plus his life experience when he grew up and his egagerness to integrate into music,which inspired his musical fantasy and creation ability .He absorbed the experience of the predecessors and finally succeeded to create a unique musical genre-headline piano divertimento."carnival",as the representative work of the headline piano divertimento,this chapter analyses and introduces its creation background in details.it analyses the formation of the 'carnival" and his multi-layered musical creation thoughts from several aspects such as its actual meaning of the headline and what fantasy implies,the emotional clues and musical fantasy clues in the creation of this music and his willing to take advantage of the musical image to break the corrup old culture.it is the peak time of his creation when the "carnival"was created,plus the historical background of the alternation of the old culture and new culture,which makes "carnival"full of fight spirit.Therefore, to study the piano divertimento "carnival" thoroughly and meticulously,it is necessary to study his life ,his creation age,life background which are the most basic prerequisite.Chapter two analyses the musical image in "cvarnival".it sudies the headline and the image.The headline is the most important feature in the Romanticism headline music.Firstly,the passage contrasts his headline with troditional headline .It highlights his unique creative method and shows the deep literary foundation by analysing and studying the 21 character headlines in "carnival";Secondly,this chapter also let us know the unique charm when he portrays the character image and shows the musical world between the reality and fantasy through his portray to various character image vividly and the mysterious combination of the characters in reality and in fantasy.Meamwhile,this is a kind of reflection of his advanced musical thoughts.Chapter three analyses the unique feature in the musical creation through musical ontology of "carnival".It analyses the musical ontology through melody,rhythm,harmony and musical form four parts.it points out the personalization of the musical creation by analysing the diverse methods of the 21 ballads'melody,the unique design of the rhythem ,the romantic feature of the harmony and the refining of the structure,etc.His biggest advantage is:he can use subtle changes in the melody changes to portray various character images and scenes beautifully and amazingly.Meanwhile ,he can use the unique rhythem design in the simple rhythem to highlight various character features of different images.He can use different accompaniment texture and unexpected to obtain unexpected musical effect.He can use subtle tecnique to enrich the musical scene in a simple but full musical structure.Chapter four perceives the personalized musical style of the musical creation based on the sytudy of the musical ontology.It shows his distinctive musical language and the personalized style incisively and vividly through the analysis of the musical language of "carnival",the show of the classics and romanticism ,the illusion of his personality permeating in the music (eg,combine one in reality and one in fantasy),the show of the dual personality of the superficial and metapholical(eg,besides the musical thouhghts expressed by the music ,but also use the musical notes to substitute the alphabets to imply the puzzle,etc).The passage analyses this representative headline piano divertimento through the creation background ,the life of the composer,the musical creation feature,the musical style ,and the new musical thoughts.It starts from the musical genre,headline piano divertimento,and introduces the ctration background ,historical background and the formation conditions,and analyses every headline's literary feature and the portray of the musical image.It focuses on the analysis of the ontology ,summarise the persomalized feature in the melody ,rhythem, harmony and musical form.fimally it summarises where the personalized musical language and style in "carnival" lie through all the analysis.From the whole passage ,we can see the great contribution that schumann has made in the piano divertimento,especially the representative one,carnival,which plays an important role in his musical career ,even the development of the whole piano divertimento.He is the founder of the headline piano divertimento ,while carnival is the most important and representative piano divertimento.It portrays 21 headline ballads into different musical image,showing he requests innovation which is advanced musical thoughts.Carnival displays his amazing creative ability and his distinctive musical talent.He and his carnival like a bright pearl,brighten the Romanticism musical stage in europr and promtethe development of the whole european musical history and will be shining in the world's musical stage forever.
Keywords/Search Tags:Schumann, piano divertimento, "Carnival", music image, creative personality, musical styles
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