Debussy Art Songs, Piano Accompaniment Research

As a graduated student who's major is piano, it is not only to be good at piano playing, but also to be good at piano accompaniment. Art song is one of the most important former of songs. It has great structure with splendid and poetic lyrics. Generally speaking, most of art songs'accompaniment was written by composers themselves, which has highly art value. Therefore, the piano accompaniment could be thought as one important part of the art song, or lead, otherwise to set off. In order to accomplish the art song entirely, it is important to play the accompaniment accurately.French art songs have a great history, it can be related from 16th century, and well-developed in 19th century. In Europe, art songs,which is called melodie, have a special taste. Debussy was one of the most important composer in France and he made the most contributions to the development of melodie in the second half of 19th century. He had published more than 50 pieces of melodies, who was in favor of using nature, love factors and made the melody so special with French pronunciation and rhythm. Both the shape and the content of his piano part were fully reflected his impressionism character. Therefore, it's very difficult to fully express the song's artistic conception and great accompany with singers.Recently, more and more Debussy's melodie has been used as technical practice songs. It means a lot to research the piano accompaniment for piano students. I pick three songs"C'est I'Extase""I1 Pleure Dans Mon Coeur""Green"which are from the suite of "Ariettes Oubliees"to research, and hope it will be useful to practice and sing.