A Study Of Harmony Techniques In Mendelssohn's Piano Sketch Song Without Words

As one of the representative composers in the German romantic period,Mendelssohn had a great influence in the whole Europe at that time,and made outstanding contributions in music creation,music teaching,conducting,Bach revival and other aspects.In terms of the creation of music,he initiated the genre of "songs without words",a piano piece.The creation of the whole set of " songs without words " lasted for more than ten years,almost throughout his entire creation career,which is a very representative work of his creation characteristics,which is also the reason why "songs without words" is chosen as the research object.This paper mainly studies Mendelssohn and his piano sketch "songs without words" from three directions.First of all,a brief introduction is made to Mendelssohn's background,life,creative experience,comments on him at that time and after,as well as the whole set of "songs without words".Later in the focus of the article-the "songs without words" harmony techniques in this chapter,the most ink for the "songs without words" in the natural sound of concise chord configuration,romantic metaphone chord is applied,and is not complicated but it creates extraordinary and moving the acoustics modulation technique,and the use of numerous and complicated and colorful chords sound outside the four aspects respectively carried on the thorough careful research.In the end,the artistic features of "songs without words",such as the development of melody and mode,the treatment of texture and the selection of form,are briefly explained,and the aesthetic features contained in the whole work are also discussed.Through the above research and analysis,I hope to have a comprehensive and multi-angle understanding of the harmony techniques in "songs without words" from the shallow to the deep,and to have a clear understanding of the creative features contained therein.Based on the 2001 people's music publishing house published "Mendelssohn songs without words" score as the research object,the harmonic technique as the main Angle of view,from several aspects of Mendelssohn's "songs without words" used in harmony techniques,creative features a detailed study,deeply understand the "songs without words" and Mendelssohn's art pursuit of artistic characteristics.