Henry Dutier's Flute And Piano "Small Sonata" Music Analysis And Performance Study

Henri Dutilleux is one of the most distinctive composers of France music in the twentieth century.Influenced by modern musicians such as Claude Debussy, he formeda unique music style of his own by absorbing the essence of his predecessors' works without blindly chasing the avant-garde tides, and adding new materials to his music based on his own understanding of modern music. His works not only have abundant masterly composing techniques, but also have emotional expressions with profound connotation. As a composer, he was more interested in instrumental music composition, and his Sonatine for Flute and Piano left an indelible mark for the French School on the modern and contemporary development of flute art.The Sonatine was specified by Conservatoire de Paris as the graduation test piece for flute majors, and is nowadays one of the designated works in various flute competitions worldwide, which is indeed a modern classic of the French style of flute playing.The paper studies Henri Dutilleux's Sonatine for Flute and Piano and describes the features and background of Dutilleux's works through the introduction to the French School as well as Dutilleux himself, with a brief analysis of the composing techniques and musical style of the Sonatine for Flute and Piano. The paper provides complete and concrete analysis to the Sonatine by analyzing the playing techniques in breath, timbre, tonguing, rhythms and dynamics based on the comparison between the two versions of interpretation by two flautists and the author's own comprehension, and thus provides helps and references to flute fanciers in their future playing.