A Study Of The Feature On The Harmony In Albéniz’s Suite Iberia

Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909),Spanish composer,pianist,representative piano worksOp.47Spanish suite,suite Iberia,Op.164Spanish suite and flat A Third Piano Sonataand the opera Pepita Jimenez,etc..Spanish composer Albéniz is first in his creation ofthe country’s rich folk material and professional compositional techniques organicallyfuses in together Spanish composer,he created the artistic value of Spanish music, andto lay a foundation for the development of Spanish national music. Isaac Albéniz isthe founder of Spanish national music,his music has always been rooted in theSpanish national music culture,learn Spanish folk song and dance elements in thecreation of music and skill,these works of genius showed all of Spain’s nationalspirit,occupies an important position and in the history of Western music.Debussy inthe evaluation of Isaac Albéniz said: his works and no apparent reference folk musictheme traces,but no traces of folk music into his music.In this paper,the piano suite Iberia as the object of study,the harmonic feature asthe focus of this paper,based on the life and music of Albéniz,Iberia creativebackground and overview analysis and harmonic analysis and harmony characteristicsreflect the four aspects of research,exploration and the style and technique Albénizlate works unique from in,a good foundation for further study of the work to lay a niz.This paper makes research on the harmony Iberia Albéniz characteristics from thefollowing four aspects:Chapter One Albéniz’s Life and the Main Feature of His Musical Creation.This chapter firstly introduces Albéniz’s life and his music,and then discusses thetypical features of his music to the whole.Chapter Two Overview Analysis of the form of the Music of the Iberia.Thischapter brief summary about the background and generic feature of Iberia suite;and inthis section of the creation background,will mainly states the effect to the Albéniz’sintroduction on the Spanish national music,Impressionism music and the composerslike Pedrell,and in the music ontology in this section,gives a brief introduction aboutmelody motivation,works rhythm,musical structure; in order to the whole of theworks have a general understanding.Chapter Three The Harmonic Techniques of the Piano Suite Ibria. As the composer who connection of the Romantic period and Impressionist,on thisbasis,Albéniz made further exploration about the color of the music and the sound ofharmony in order to make the harmonic much more colorful. As the focus of thispaper,the author from the tonality (medieval modes，the whole tone scale,the Spanishnational mode,with the adjustable composite,tonality layout),chord material(Threechord,non three chord,additional audio and composite chord) and the harmony(parallel,persistent harmony,the four tone scale,down two degrees and four degreesbetween harmony),in three aspects of Isaac Albéniz piano suite Iberia harmonytechniques in detail.Chapter Four The Harmonic Feature and creative impact of the Iberia. On thebasis of the analysis of the third part harmony,summarize the Iberia’s harmonycharacteristics,and summarized its harmony style in the macro impact on the Spanishnational music.