The Comparative Cognition About Performance Style Of Four Faure & Hahn’s Art Songs

French art songs occupy an important position in the history of world music.From the second half of the 19 th century to the beginning of the 20 th century,it was the golden-time for its development.Gabriel Faure and Reynaldo Hahn were the representative composers during that time.Their works have a very significant artistic value and greatly influenced the later development of French art songs.This article focuses on the repertoires in the author’s degree concert with own stage experience and comparative cognition way,carries out a comprehensive discussion about the two art songs of Faure(Après un reve,Chanson d’ Amour)& Hahn’s two art songs(Si mes Vers Avaient des Ailes,à Chloris)on the side of understanding of poetry,the musical analysis,the singing techniques and deductive experience.In order to learn their deductive style of more completely,deepen the understanding of the partial characteristics of art songs and improve own singing skills eventually,this artic also sums up the similar and difference states of deductive style.There are five parts in this article: introduction,main body(three chapters)and the conclusion.The first part briefly introduces the background and related knowledge.Then,the first chapter analyzes the poetry,lyrics and meaning of these four songs to illustrate that the praise of love is the essence with various expressing ways.The second chapter explains the strict requirements of the composer in the second creation in terms of musical structure and singing techniques and also reflects the different styles of the works.The third chapter moves to the stage of comparative cognition.The specific commonality is reflected in the convergence of French artistic temperament and similar voice part adaptation.It also states the difference of the sentiment and creation style,the age difference and the borrowing of song-writing.It describes the different methods of deductive styles upon similarities and differences.The conclusion part summarizes the six points of understanding about the deductive style of.The key is the use of pure lyrics,the exquisite simple content and the soft tone to create the musical atmosphere.Then it reflects the perfect combination of poetry,the vocal melody and piano accompaniment,the elegance of artistic temperament and other characteristics.Now,there are few relevant results of Hahn in China,the author uses the method of theory and practice to summarize own experience by thesis writing and theoretical research.It urges the author to better understand the interpretation of French art songs of Faure and Hahn?s.In this sense,this topic has a certain way of innovative and applicative value.