A Comparative Study Of German And Austrian Art Songs And Chinese Art Songs In The Early 20th Century

The art song is music and Literature(Poetry),a form of vocal music,vocal instrumental merge,he embodies the composer,singer,writer played at home with the aesthetic,highly consistent feelings of not only singing,the player's skill level,more of the humanities the connotation,have higher requirements.At the end of eighteenth Century,in Germany Austria art songs,known as the "leader",as a poetic genre,Germany accepted this new type of narrative song lied,he is an imitation of Scotland and the British popular narrative songs developed.This song is a long narrative poem.This the narrative song and the background is closely related to the rise of lyric piano,also popular in Europe at the time,in the German Democratic Republic thought to breed,all this makes art songs has been growing.The development process of development process of art songs and European Romanticism has a close relationship,romantic is produced in the French Revolution,the European national liberation movement and the Democratic Movement period.During this period the composer foundation in classical music with some of their inner thoughts,advocated to music focused on spiritual activities,"people" as the center,should not be confined to some rules,must have the innovation,emphasizing the subjective feelings,romantic composers,generally have a strong interest in music and culture of their own nation.The early Romantic German and Austrian music developed rapidly,representative Is Beethoven Beethoven,the late music creation began to add some humanistic spirit,so he was called "classical set into the great composers of the romantic precedent".Then "Archer > play Webb,marking the romantic opera.The opera in the Overture on use the theme,harmony,tonality,texture,sound and other aspects of the composition techniques,which has strong romantic color.Austria Schubert,a known as" the great composer king of songs ",as the early romantic composer,he used Gerd,Schiller,Shakespeare,Henie and other famous poets the poem,plus In the song,often strophic,changes in strophic three forms,wrote more than and 600 songs.The development of Chinese art songs can be divided into two stages: Modern and contemporary,and the development of contemporary art songs is divided into the following three aspects:the beginning of the twentieth Century China art song was introduced first,Chinese appeared widely spread in the folk song of Guqin.The second aspect is the beginning of the twentieth Century,some composers in Germany a lot of Western learning,theory of composition technology,combined with the traditional culture and China created a number of influential works,for example<Tell me how I don't want him>,<ask>,<The mighty river flows eastward>,<I live in the Yangtze River>and so on.This is representative of the composer Xiao Youmei,Zhao Yuanren,Qing Zhu,Huang Zi.During this period,there are some composers,created a large number of art songs,but not to write the song accompaniment,just to pursue the creation of art songs in melody,lyrics mostly to poetry,he also has a very important feature is that the piano accompaniment,the allocation of the band has high artistic quality,some piano accompaniment of art songs can enjoy a song as independent piano music.So there are also separate creation with the accompaniment of song writing of the two.The third aspect is the contemporary art song composers,more close to life,Close to reality,there are some folk songs of art songs,as well as some ancient poetry,new poetry composing lyric art songs.Mahler and green life at the same time,Mahler is the most influential late romantic composers,he inherited the classical period Haydn,Mozart,Beethoven emphasized the function composing skills,and heritage of the romantic period Schubert,Brahms and other people in the pursuit of color composition,the performance of individual ability,combined with oneself,create excellent works,The most famous of”Vocal symphony”<Song of the earth>This work has a "Symphony of a thousand said." this work,he cited a lot of Chinese Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai,Wang Wei and Meng Haoran's works.He started early study in Germany,not the main music professional,but later in the learning process,learn some advanced western composing skills.Through the combination of traditional culture and China,by Su Shi of the Song Dynasty,Li Zhiyi's words,The creation of two songs are still sung art songs<The mighty river flows eastward>and<I live in the Yangtze River>.And the master in music aesthetics also has a very high attainments,<Music words>and<General Music>.