Analysis On The Harmony Technique Of Grieg's Lyric Pieces For Piano

Edvard Greig(1843-1907)was the founder of Norwegian national music school.Influenced by late romantic music in the early stage of his creation,he began to draw inspiration from Norwegian folk music in the middle stage,arranged and adapted folk songs,created with folk themes,draw on others' experience,collected the great achievements of folk music,and form the unique music style of Greig's creation.In his lifetime,he composed 66 lyric pieces,which almost ran through his life,and embodied typical techniques of harmony creation and the use and fusion of folk music elements.Previous studies on the folk style of Grieg's music mainly explored from the two aspects of Norwegian folk dance and folk instruments.As one of the earliest collections of folk music in Norway,Aeldre og nyere norske fjeldmelodier broadened the horizon for tracing the influence of Norwegian folk music on Grieg's writing style.In addition,the author finds out the style source of the melody in Grieg's lyric pieces in the in-depth analysis,and the characteristics of this melody determine the style embodiment of Grieg's harmony.Through analysis of the complete works Lyric Piece For Piano and represented by Aeldre og nyere norske fjeldmelodier the folk music style between the close inner link,affecting 66 song lyric pieces creation feature has the following four features: 1.Mode application with Norwegian folk and Gregorian characteristics.Such as higher level 4 sound mode,increase the ? and the ? level downward melody sounds minor scales,non-traditional forms of six sound order with pentatonic scale,with characteristics of minor nationality artistic use of the scale.2.Inherit the traditional and integrate the chord materials and progress of the innovation under the national style.Whether the liberation of dissonant notes,the aversion of traditional cadence,does not solve the leading tone(leading note),has a tonal expansion of special surprise,or unstable in the folk tune three interval with major tonic minor change under the influence of harmonic and imitate the continuous sound of folk instruments and widely used,etc.jointly formed the Grieg lyric sketch characteristics of motorization.3.The irregular stress of folk tunes and the use of fixed vocabulary mainly based on non-resolution enrich the national temperament of the lyrical sketches,and further reflect the development course of the artistic and global development of Norwegian folk elements in the lyrical sketches.4.It is mainly composed of single form and influenced by the “repetition” of folk tunes.