The Polyphonic Techniques In Schubert’s Song Cycle

Schubert’s historical period is a transitional period during the development of vocalmusic. As everyone knows, in the classical period, the development of vocal musicdevelopment is far less than the instrumental music. When the vocal music, piano foraccompaniment to singing part, is still in a subordinate position, But in the romanticperiod, Schubert created a new form of art song, he will be singing voice and pianoaccompaniment com., will both put in the equally important position, Among them, twoof his vocal divertimento "beautiful mill girl" and "journey of winter" is his field songsin the pinnacle, the art song became the genre of romantic period and the mostcharacteristics, by composers favored, and the vocal music was revived.In order to artistic charm to dig Schubert song creation, according to Schubert’stwo song cycles, with the polyphonic technique as the starting point, through thecomparative analysis of Beethoven’s "to the distant lover", use and process of combingthe polyphonic techniques in Schubert vocal Divertimento broken. In contrast toBeethoven’s vocal Divertimento, in the emotional portrait, Schubert not only used avariety of mode scale, more show ingenuity to the development of the polyphonictexture, Mainly used in the comparison of polyphony between piano accompanimentand singing voice, A large number of this polyphonic techniques, enriched the songs ofthe artistic image, realize the perfect fusion of music and poetry, as the late romanticcomposer opened up a new way of thinking in the creation of art songs.Through the study of Schubert’s vocal music divertimento polyphonic technique,the aim is to show a include songs, piano and music aesthetics, multi-level andmulti-angle Schubert’s polyphonic thinking for readers.