Harmony Study Of Gabriel Faure's Two Cello Sonatas

Gabriel Faure,a French composer,musician and educator,is a representative of the transition from Romanticism to music in the 20 th century.Fraure is especially good at the creation of small-scale genres,including art songs,piano works,chamber music,etc.His harmonic style was not bound by the "Wagnerism" craze sweeping France in the late 19 th century,nor blindly following the neoclassical style in the early 20 th century,but based on the traditional German Austrian functional harmony system and not stick to the rules Innovation.In his early music works,Schumann,Chopin and other people represented the romantic style of exquisite and beautiful music,and in the later period,it indicated the characteristics of Impressionist Music School headed by Debussy.In this paper,the author mainly studies the harmonic means in the two cello sonatas of Faure,such as the mode material,the chord material and the function of colorization.The second chapter focuses on the application characteristics of the tonal materials of the two Cello Sonatas.It explains that Faure uses the church mode in the two Cello Sonatas,as well as the specific means of mixing and alternating with the tonic,parallel major and minor,and tonal systems in the same middle,and further explores the new tonal materials on the basis of the traditional functional tonal harmony.The third chapter,all kinds of chord structures and their applications.This paper studies the inheritance and innovation of Faure in the use of chord materials,summarizes the development and dissimilation of Faure's traditional functional tonal chords,and specifically expounds Faure's further exploration and experiment on the basis of inheriting the tradition in two Cello Sonatas,innovatively using new elements of modern chords such as composite chords,high stacked chords and non triple stacked chords Timber.The fourth chapter mainly discusses the color harmony,and summarizes the characteristics of Faure's harmony.Faure promoted the transition of French music from Romanticism to music in the20 th century,and had an important impact on ravel and the French six.