A Study On The Harmony Technique Of Schumann’s "Novelletten"(Op.21)

Robert Schumann(1810-1856)is one of the most prominent figures in the history of German music culture in the first half of the nineteenth century.He created a large number of works in his life,mainly focusing on art songs and piano music.Piano works involve sonata,variations,divertimento and other genres Piano divertimento plays an important role in Schumann’s many works.“Novelletten” is a piano divertimento composed of eight pieces.The structure is short and concentrated.The works connect the themes in series with different intersections.They all have their own distinct personality and originality in melody,harmony and rhythm,which fully shows Schumann’s unique creative personality Although Schumann’s harmony idea is mainly inherited from Beethoven and Schubert,the romantic pursuit of infinite beauty and Schumann’s subjective character of indulging in dreams drive him to seek diversified and characteristic harmony effects.While inheriting the harmony norms established by classical ancestors,he constantly develops and innovates.This article is mainly aimed at Schumann’ s “Novelletten” harmonic technique research from the rich material semitone external sound individualized harmonic carries on the application as well as the mode alternation transfer has the design tonality layout and so on several aspects carries on the research and the elaboration From the point of view of the combination of music text and harmony techniques,the author interprets the artistic expression of harmony in his works by “Novelletten”,marching structure and harmony techniques with the characteristics of harmony techniques in classical harmony and romanticism.