A Research Of Dominick Argento’s Six Elizabethan Songs

"Six Elizabethan Songs" by American composer Dominick Argento is one of the best examples of American art songs.Regardless of singers or piano collaborators,successful interpretation of this work will bring a great sense of accomplishment.Based on the unique perspective of the piano collaborators,this article uses the method of comparison with the piano soloists and uses "Six Elizabethan Songs" as a specific analysis case to unveil the differences between the concepts of the piano collaborators and the piano soloists.As a piano collaborator,it is the premise and basis of the performance of the work to establish a sense of balance in the strength of both hands when playing,unique visual and auditory concepts,and to consider the singer’s breathing category in the performance.The composer Dominick Argento chose the lyrics of five writers from the British Elizabethan period as the lyrics of the suite.As the earliest inspiration of the composer,the importance of the piano collaborators to accurately grasp the pronunciation and meaning of the lyrics is also an important topic of this article.In addition,this article also accurately translates all the lyrics of "Six Elizabethan Songs" word by word,sentence by sentence,and explores the ingenious combination of literature and music in this work.Every pianist is more or less troubled by playing skills and is annoyed by stage mistakes.The final topic of this article will be from the perspective of avoiding stage mistakes,using flexible rather than traditional performance techniques,special fingering and page turning design that is not valued by everyone to discuss the secrets of avoiding stage mistakes,to provide lessons for learners to troubleshoot and solve problems.