Study On The Orchestration Of <Alps Symphony Of Richard Strauss>

Richard Strauss is one of the most important composers of the late romanticism,the Alps symphony takes the longest time of all his works.It is obtained extremely high evaluation and praise as soon as the work produced.The work reflects the composer's superb music accomplishment and deep knowledge of the assembler language from both the creative ideas and techniques.The composer uses the symbolic theme to describe of things realistically and pays attention to the scene rendering,which enables the audience to further touch the soul of the composer.He makes us feel the different landscape of the Alps in 24 hours using the brilliant music language,we can also feel the philosophy of the harmony and coexistence of man and nature which he advocates.The first part of this article is a brief introduction of the composer's life background,including the introduction of the work and works assembler.The second part focuses on the application of band timbre in the symphony.The third part studies the establishment of band and the frequency,register and strength of commonly used instrument,as well as important performance skills.The fourth part studies the band texture.The fifth part uses computer audio software to analyze the sound dynamic of the work.The last part is the summary statement.A deeper understand of the composer comes from the detailed and in-depth research and arrangement of the works assembler of the whole work.The composer does not separate the lines of writing and dramatic(tone),but makes them mutual penetration ingeniously,leading to the combination of the lines of writing and dramatic in creation and instruments techniques of the work.As he says: “only through a meaningful real polyphony,can reach the summit of band sound miracle”.The composer combines the orchestra with nature perfectly through the exquisite para writing technique and gorgeous instruments technology,which enables us enjoy a comfortable “movie”music.The purpose of this paper is to dig deeper and study the exquisite instruments technology and the thought of band writing,demonstrate the polyphonic thinking of the composer by a large number of composes,and study the so-called “meaningful polyphony” how to reach “the summit of band sound miracle”.