"seen In The Romantic Literature Of Piano Music From Schumann's" Childhood Scene

Schumann is a romantic pianist, composer and music critic of Germany in 19th century, who, unequivocally defended the progress of romantic music aesthetics through his music inditement and music reviews activities, and called for music combination with other art forms, especially literature, which made him a model for aftertime Romantic composers. He put up a big banner for Romantic musicians, and regarded as a great master by later composers, this all from Schumann's progressive art conception.Formation of progressive art concept of Schumann originally came from literature. Literature gave birth to his romantic temperament, provides creative material, inspiration for his music, and helped him to pursuit the essence of romantic art; It also can be said literature'edification bring up his romantic feelings. Under the guidance of his father, Schumann had a strong interest in literature and poetry, and tried to write in childhood; he also started to learn music at the same time. Reading literature was a habit in his life, and progressive of romantic writers became his worship, such as Hoffman, Jean Paul and Heine, who made important influence on formation of his artistic concept and inditement. It can be said writers and poets play the first important help in Schumann's development of arts road, followed by musician; In the process of learning piano, imagination and passion coruscated by sincere love with Clara also played a significant impact on his music inditement. In Schumann's life, his music inditement included art songs, piano music, orchestral music and chamber music, in which most reflected his inditement characteristics, embodied progressive romanticism art concept is his art songs and piano works. "Childhood scenes" is a piano works, complished in 1838. The inditement inspiration was from the miss of Clara. whole song of "Childhood scenes" are composed of the 13 small songs, each song has a corresponding title, in which music language is simple, the form is novel, full of romantism poetic and profound meaning of literature.In romantic period, music is more emphasis on the interaction intamalgamation among arts, especially music and literature, poetry, which had been fully embodied in the creation of and many other Romantic composers. Music and literature are two different expressions style of art forms, they have the origin relationship since ancient times, it also can be said music accept the influence of literature since ancient times. Romantic music movement was formed under the influence of romantic literature. The romanticism as a social thoughts, its essence reflected the idea of a bourgeois pursuit of individual liberation, freedom and equality. After the 18th century Enlightenment and the birth of the French Revolution, Romanticism was all-around in Europe, and this torrent first appeared in the literary movement, then under the influence of romantic literary movement, driven romantic music movement. it can be said that Romantic music creation be deeply affected by romantic literature. under the influence romantic music began to emphasize the emotional expression of subjectivity, pay attention on chanting the nature, attach importance to blazon forth and inherit the folk literature and traditional culture; This impact also is particularly notable in piano music performance. In addition to characteristics narrated above, Piano music embodied the influenced footprint of literature in the subject matter, genre forms and performance techniques and so on.Under the influence of literature, Piano Music'inditement begin to focus on nature, focus on inner feelings characterization. In addition, subject matter, genre forms and performance practices were also greatly affected. Inditement of piano music was impacted by literature, firstly, it manifested in genre and form, on the one hand, it exhibited the breakthrough of traditional structural forms, a large number of poetic song theme to be used in instrumental genres, such as (Schubert's "Sonata" D664); On the other hand, it formed new piano styles possessing music title character, such as piano divertimento "Childhood scenes" Advocated by Schuma,Mendelssohn's "Songs without Words",Chopin's "Ballade" and so on. The impact of literature on the music is also reflected in the subject matter and content. The composer either imbibed theme and performance content directly from the literature, or inspired by literary works to further develop and create music to start thinking. Such as Schumann's piano divertimento "Butterfly", Kreisleriana Mendelssohn's Overture to "Midsummer Night's Dream" and other works are drawn performance content from the literature works. Romantic music also received the influence of literature in performance technique, and became more richness.on the one hand, use the similarity of tone and intonation combined with means of suggestion and symbol that formed narrative technique of music; "Childhood scenes" section 13 "the poet's words" in which music applied narrative tone, where the poet is Robert Schumann himself; primers and ends of Chopin's "Ballade" and Weber's Aufforderung zum Tanze all contained narrative style. On the other hand, use some common features of music sound and natural sound, and with feeling as resonance formed music descriptive, "hide and seek","extremely happy","riding a horse","sleep" and other songs of "Childhood scenes" showed Schumann' delicate brushworks through depicting scenes and heart inside movement of people. In additiao to this, the classics works of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition " and Tchaikovsky's The Seasons are full of descriptive.Under the influence of literature, romantic music continuously enrich the connotation of music, expand its performance field, and enhance the music's expressive force. To make music become a art of attention on life, live, society and times.