The Music Analysis And Performance Interpretation Of Ravel's Sonata For Violin And Piano In G Major

Maurice Ravel(1875-1937)is one of the greatest French composers in early 20 th century.His creation involves various fields such as piano,art songs,and orchestral music.He is known as "Master of Orchestration" since his most outstanding works are orchestral music.While following the features of traditional French music,Ravel's works also learnt from folk music worldwide,which helped form his unique art style.Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major is an excellent work of Ravel which took four years to complete,and the only sonata for violin and piano in his late period works.Ravel adopted the method of polytonality in this work to incorporate jazz style into impressionism,forming a unique style.Therefore,this work has high requirements for performers in terms of technique and the understanding of the style.The article is divided into three chapters.The first chapter states Ravel's creation background and summarizes his musical styles and Blues Music.The second chapter elaborates the features of musical form and tonality,including bitonality,blues scale and middle-aged and church scale.In the third chapter,the author summarizes several characteristics of the Sonata in terms of performance technique based on her performance experience.This chapter expands in detail on the aspects of left-hand glide,fingering,right-hand Tremolo,pizz,alternations of fast and slow bow and interval resolving.In summary,the article mainly researches on the music feature and performance technique of Ravel's Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major.It aims to help us further analyze the work and hope to provide some new ideas for the performance of this sonata.