Research On Malawski’s 5 Miniatures

Artur Malawski is one of the Poland most influential and creative composers after Karol Szymanowski in the 20th century.As a modern Polish composer,he thoroughly recognized his responsibility,which not only transplanting of modern West European music onto Polish soil,but taking the Polish traditional music in new directions to the whole world.To be a composer in this special period,Malawski’s extraordinary creative talent has close relationship with the inspiration of music, the not-yet-dry style and the full energy of Poland.5 Miniatures is the famous work written by Malawski,which was completed in his peak phase.To be one of his few pieces for solo piano,it has certain model and representativeness as the case of Malawski’s work.It consists of five small works which have different music styles and characteristics.It’s undoubtedly a best-practice to analysis the composition characters.How does he use the different modern music styles flexibly in the work and apply the modern words to the Polish traditional words?Maybe in the process of forming of reflections,we will get the answer.Type of miniatures like this work which is a combination of innovation and tradition is uncommon in the 20th century.The superb skills and deep emotions can also be found in this work.This article takes 5 Miniatures as the research object,divides into 3 parts of thinking of analysis.The first part introduces the life experience of Malawski,the characteristics of four stages in his music composition and the background and process in the composition of 5 Miniatures.The second part is based on several elements of music,and mainly concentrated at the analysis of its music ontology.The third part mainly explores its aesthetic value preliminarily from the view of western tradition and modern aesthetics.In these parts,the second one is the most important.Through the detailed analysis of 5 Miniatures,the research will enable a more comprehensive understanding of the importance of the development of Malawski’s and Polish modern music.It can also help us understand the exhaustive and fontal connotations of music more effectively by composing,performing and enjoying other excellent work of music in the future.