Music Image Analysis And Performance Processing Of Grieg's Four Mythical Lyric Pieces

Edward Grieg is a representative of Norwegian national music.He obtained inspiration from Norwegian folk music and natural scenery.He is an important composer who is the first one to integrate the nature into his own music.When he was 15-19 years old,he studied at the Leipzig HMT and underwent a rigorous professional education.However,he was bored with the rules and regulations,and was unwilling to endure the constraints of the academy.Therefore,he returned to the motherland in 1864.He was influenced by Nordraak,a Norwegian national musician.Since then,he increasingly revealed a strong national personality in his works and created a large number of works with rich national style.He introduced the Norway's folk music to the world stage.Lyrics Pieces is the most unique one with world-renowned reputation and Norwegian national characteristics at the same time.Lyrics Pieces was recorded what Grieg saw,heard,thought and felt in his entire life.Each piece of his work has a single artistic image and poetic title.The whole work is drawn from a wide range of sources.The four pieces selected in this paper were created by myths and legends.Some are based on the epic Edda and some are based on folklore in Northern Europe.They are a group of relatively unique works in the whole work with both literary heritage,Norwegian culture and the mystical of folklore.Although the scale of Lyrics Pieces is short,its music images are very clear with rich music expression.Therefore,it requires the performers to make great efforts to understand Norwegian national customs and folklore.The literary background and theme content of these four pieces have been focused in the first chapter.I wish it can help the performers to explore the creative intention of the composer.For the emotional experience of the title music,it is necessary to clarify the image and theme in order to devote the emotion to the music as soon as possible.The author start from the music image of the four mythical pieces,divided it into different categories according to their own character,the authors' s intent.Moreover,this image of misic often have different personality profiles,can be more abundant comprehensive analysis.The music images of these four pieces are all with the nature of mystical fantasy,but each has its own characteristics,and even the same image has different character sides.So the harmony,tonality,rhythm and melody will be focused to analyze how the composer shapes these different music images and the different temperament sides of one image through these techniques of composition.Feel the exquisite,realistic and characteristic of Greig' s musical creation with music.Finally,in order to make the player can better interpretation this four mythical pieces,in the third chapter the author summarizes the four mythical pieces' s phrasing,dynamics and speed,touch the keys,as well as control and pedal use tone.It will provide a clearer idea for the majority of music lovers to play this four mythical pieces an d improve the artistic performance of the work.