The Artistic Features And Singing Treatment Of Britton's Vocal Suite "On This Island"

On This Island Op.11 was composed in year 1937.Benjamin Britten’s early published song cycle for vocal solo and piano,the poetry is selected from the well known British poet Wystan Hugh Auden’s collection of Look Stranger!Later,renamed it On This Island and published in the United State of America.The core content of the song reflects the political and social problems in England..This research paper explores and studies the poems of the song cycles On This Island and the artistic features of the music.The results of this topic represented the re-creation of singing performance technique and stage performance.This paper is divided into three chapters,the first chapter,to explore Britten’s life profile and the music creatives background.The second chapter,through song cycle On This Island to master the composer’s unique artistic features of music creatives and further the singing performance technique as a review of the paper.The singing performance technique is specially aimed for the difficulties of pronunciation and vocal articulation,the singing performance technique of breaking the ventilation of phrasing and the emotion express.The song cycle On This Island combines diversified tradition with innovative music art creation style on the basic of creatives as of musical art features.It reflects the anxiety society of development and change at that time.Britten made a set of valuable song cycle for the creation of the latter in the social,music and vocal circles,and made a great contribution to the development of vocal music in Britain in the 20th century.