Music Style And Performance Interpretation Of Grieg′s Ballade In G Minor

Edward Grieg,known as "music poet" Grieg is the most representative composer and pianist of Norwegian national music school in the romantic period.Most of his piano works are based on Norwegian folk tone and dance music.With unique creation techniques,Grieg gradually formed and developed a variety of themes and genres with strong Norwegian national tone music style.In Grieg’s large-scale piano works,the author will select the ballad in G minor as the research object,respectively,from the influence factors of the formation of Norwegian piano music style,music style and the thinking of learning the ballad in G minor.This paper analyzes and proves that Grieg is deeply influenced by geographical environment,historical environment and folk dance in his piano works,and sums up the musical features of lyricism,description and rhythm in his works.Through the analysis of music characteristics,we can conclude that the music style is tragic,tense and mysterious.The music tune of this work is mainly melancholy and painful,and a large number of writing techniques of half tone scale descending and half tone octave are used to create gloomy tragic features;a large number of creative means of partial impressionism such as continuous tone of accompaniment of five and eight degrees are used to create the mystery of its music.Combined with their own stage practice and watching the performance video and audio analysis of famous pianists,this paper sums up: wide and solemn chord playing method,melancholy skipping method,humorous duet playing method and furious and uneasy duet playing method.Through the above research and analysis,the author elaborates how the performer can correctly learn and master the music style and performance skills of the work,and takes the angle of touch key and the use of pedal as the starting point to think about the performance techniques,so that the learners can further understand and master the immortal works of the great composer.