Samuel Barber "Piano Sonata" Op.26 Music Analysis And Performance Exploration

In this paper, Samuel barber late piano works "piano sonata Op.26as the researchobject. Through overall arrangement of the work and the analysis of the music forms,structural framework, the work in the traditional use of the romantic period musiclanguage expression melody writing, use new techniques in the twentieth century as acreation technique, and fusion of American jazz music element, make works containrich emotional expression, as well as the superb skill, show the barber will fusion oftraditional and modern. On this basis, the author combines the actual conditions oftheir performance practice, to the piano sonata Op.26shows the piano vocabulary, sothat they can more objective understanding of the work. Through the music analysisand performance analysis, to better grasp the barber’s piano music style.The piano sonata Op.26is of only one piano sonata in the composer’s life, it is itsuniqueness and the unique writing style, music expression makes it become the modelof American20th century piano sonata.