The Study Of Piano Accompaniment Of Winterreise In Schubert's Vocal Song Cycle

Franz. Schubert (Franz Peter Schubert, 1797-1828) is one of the greatest romantic musicians in 19th century, and he is praised as the king of the art song. The piano accompaniment plays a very important role in his art songs and it is even treated equally as the vocalists, what's more, it is sometimes more important than singing part itself. The piano accompaniment is put into a new era and gets a new start point and a further development stage.Die schone Mullerin and Winterreise, Schubert's two vocal song cycles, are still famous and known for their piano accompaniment of beautiful descriptions of musical situations and various melody changes. Winterreise, the last vocal song cycle in Schubert's life, originally written by poet Wilhelm Muller, contains 24 songs. It tells a story of a millman's seeing and feeling after being abandoned by his beloved woman. Schubert shows his great melody-writing skills and the high level of piano accompaniment design.Schubert's art songs have great effects on the art songs creation after him from specific art songs to piano accompaniment and it is hard to make a conclusion for such an influence because of the huge amount of the works. This thesis is to study piano accompaniment in Winterreise from angle of writing background, guided by emotion, mood, image and artistic conception. The characters of mode, the use of harmonic in piano accompaniment, the character of accompaniment sound-type, the relationship between accompaniment and sing, the use of playing skills, the dealing of prelude-interlude-code, the key points of playing are all to be analyzed in this thesis, just like the analysis of piano accompaniment in Winterreise. This thesis is also to discuss carefully the art characters of piano accompaniment in Winterreise, and expound on the influence to the composers after him.