An Analysis On The Musical Images And Performance Of Isang Yun’s Lina Im Garten For Solo Violin

Isang Yun(1917～1995)was a German-Korean composer.He was born in Dongyang,South Korea in 1917 and died in Berlin,Germany in 1995.In his lifetime,Isang Yun composed three solo works for violin a cappella,"Konigliches Thema"(1976),"Lina im Garten"(1985)and "Kontraste"(1987),in which "Lina im Garten" is the second solo for violin a cappella,Isang Yun wrote it for his granddaughter to learn the violin,using the technique of "main tone."Starting from the different titles of the five movements of Lina im Garten and taking the musical images with different titles as the starting point,the author studies how Isang Yun presents the musical images of five different animals,namely,The Greedy Cat,the Hare,the Squirrel,the Neighbor’s Bulldog and the Bird,through the violin.Moreover,from the performer’s perspective,Analyze how to better highlight the theme of the movement from three aspects: left hand intonation,right hand bow handling and timbre processing.There are three chapters in this paper.The first chapter introduces Isang Yun’s life.Isang Yun’s life is full of ups and downs.The second chapter describes how Isang Yun created five musical images of greedy cat,hare,squirrel,bulldog and bird through music creation techniques.The third chapter analyzes the technical difficulties encountered in realizing musical expression as a performer,such as the need to simulate the animal image in the violin’s timbre,the coordination between the player’s right hand and left hand,and gives performance analysis and guidance.