Pure And Romantic Childhood Memories

Robert Schumann is one of the most excellent musicians among all the Romantic Artists in19th century。His creation of works is due to the inspiration of music motive, which makes his music characterized by poetic phrases, lingual melody, literary captions and improvisatorial style。He puts the romantic interests in the classic forms and makes the poetic music verses with forms of diary, which characterize his music as literary and autobiographical。Amongst all the piano music of Schumann’s, Symphony Childhood Scenes, as a cyclic form, is one of the distinguished works。Due to the inspiration of memory of Clara, it is composed in1838。Symphony Childhood Scenes consists of13programmatic pieces, which makes it having humorous and vivid musical images and a strong flavour of Romantic tastes。Although it contains little strongly dramatic power, it expresses the delicate emotions with concrete and concise writting technics, Symphony Childhood Scenes is a piece of classical programmatic music of Schumann’s therefore it needs further discussion。The discussion will proceed as follows。First,I give a general introduction of Robert Schumann and his creation of piano music。Then the background of composing Symphony Childhood Scenes, such as the influence of prevalent literature and music at that time the incentive of composing, ect, is uncovered。 next, the composing technics and musical phrases of Symphony Childhood Scenes are discussed by analyzing its texture, key, harmony, rhythm and melody。 Then, from a piano performer’s point of view, in order to give a concrete interpretation of Symphony Childhood Scenes and better the expression of its contents, the play technics, such as the dealing with tempo and quality of tone, the phrasing of general struture, and the articulation of phrases, are discussed Last, Part five uses practical methodologies, and analyses this work through various, so as to enhance students understanding of the work, thus to realize the value of this masterpiece, which will pave the road for further appreciation and performance。In addition, it is good for music students to have a better understanding of romantic stream of pianist and their performing style。By this, I not only bettr the understanding of special character of Schumann’s poetic, magical music, but also give some valuable advices to the piano performers。...