A Study On The Musical Characteristics And Interpretation Of Schubert's Art Song "In Spring"

As a musical composer of romantic school,Schubert is one of important inaugurator in European music development history.Over more than thirty brilliant years,he had composed more than six hundred art songs that has become great number of extant classic s for the common people,so he is reputed as ‘The King of Art Songs’ in the history of music.Schubert was rather good at composing the poems into songs and further that his art songs endowed new life to the literature and art of The Germans,therefore laying the foundation for the basic style of German art songs.So his art songs have super high research value and profound influence in vocal music teaching.This paper selects Schubert’s art song Im Frühling,and shall sort and research the literature of the art song through literature study and notation analysis.The writer shall summarize with the experience from personal singing practice and shall analyze the musical features of his art songs and how to interpret the singer’s emotions in the process of singing as for the art song of Im Frühling.Through research on piano accompaniment,it helps to recognize the significance of piano accompaniment more directly.Thus the singer can have better understanding of the musical style of Im Frühling and enrich and strengthen his understanding of the works,hopefully to provide reference for other singers.This paper has introduction and three chapters.The first part is introduction that introduces the reasons of topic selection,research significance and domestic and foreign state of research on the topic.Secondly the first chapter introduces creation of Schubert’s art songs,the historical background of Im Frühling and creation background of the composer and the poet.The second chapter analyzes the musical features of the song from the perspectives of music text and emotional changes,musical structure and tonal changes,harmony and vocal melody,piano accompaniment,etc.The last chapter three elaborates pronunciation and articulation of German words in the song,interpretation of works style and emotion handling started from performance interpretation.