Music And Performance Analysis Of Gershwin "Rhapsody In Blue"

George Gershwin is the most representative composers in the early 20 th century in the United States. He tried to the traditional music in Europe and the United States Black Music perfect fusion together, to promote the development of American folk music. Gershwin created a lot of songs, operas, musical and film music, and many of the works have strong American national music elements. "Rhapsody in blue" can be said to be Gershwin landmark works, works perfect to jazz and European classical music and fusion, jazz as a wild girl boarded the elegance of art. It is traditional music injected fresh blood, to promote the development of American popular music. The works of success and a strong response Jean Gershiwin famous round the world class, he dreams of the composer. "Rhapsody in blue" is like a kaleidoscope of American music, listen it can think of the big melting pot, think of the insanity of blues music and urban life. Humor Frank personalized music expressed the American enthusiasm for life and rich orchestration to the jazz as the theme music works into a symphonic jazz.Reason for choosing "Rhapsody in blue" to analyze, in addition to exploring its landmark, the works appear the piano in jazz music accompanied by musical instrument has become the main instrument, and the piano as a percussion instruments. This works regardless of from the creative background or writing body, a music style of the fabric have value analysis, as a student of piano playing, playing the works can improve rhythm feeling, sense of structure, musical ability.In order to more in-depth study of "Rhapsody in blue", I passed network, books, periodicals and other channels collected a lot of data and sorting, considers sufficient reading literature is an important prerequisite for further study. In addition, this paper also from the music structure, melody, harmony, musical form, carries on the analysis, discusses "Rhapsody in blue" style of music; from the rhythm, strength, speed, pedal and other aspects to analyze playing, make some guidance and treatment of technical difficulties and music.