Research The Harmonic Techniques Of Debussy Art Songs

Achille Claude Debussy(1862-1918)is one of the representatives of French Impressionism in the late19th century and early20th century composer.This period is a most complex period in the history of world art,various kinds of art has undergone enormous changes,such as the impressionism of the field of painting, the symbolism of the field of literature.Debussy as the composer of this period,carries the historical task that break through it from the Romanticism in the late to the "new" music of the20th century. Art songs is an important area of his creation.In this paper we will take Debussy as the research object,take its art songs as the research scope,take the harmonies techniques use in the art songs as the research contents.By studying the CreativeConcept of the Representative figure of Symbolism Literature and Impressionist painting to explore the impact of Debussy, From the lyrics and melody, piano accompaniment, the relation of melody and lyrics, the emphasize chord in beginning and the position of melody in termination and compare the works in the same period with Faure and so on to study the Characteristics of Art songs. By studying the expansion of Mode and Tonality, the diversification of chord structure, the relationship of Chord progressions, the diversity of termination, the performance significance of harmonies and so on to study the harmony techniques so that we have a more comprehensive understanding and knowledge of the overall characteristics of the Debussy harmonies techniques used in the creation.