| Variation is one of the most ancient genre of music work, it mainly adopts variations of typeof writing, and through the music theme contains images of different types of change manytimes.Piano variations of development and reform throughout the Renaissance until the20thcentury music always, each period piano variation has a unique development direction, becauseit is the composer display their superb skills and express their imagination in composition ofform and technique.The main research method of this paper are: literature study method: comprehensivecollection literature related to this topic, audio data, is the guarantee of this subject completedsmoothly. Inductive analysis: will the data obtained after the conclusion from the perspective ofthe detailed analysis and research. Three, comparison: comparison from three aspects,(1) thesame between composers in different periods.(2) between different composers;(3) the baroque,classical, romantic and modern piano variations between. Four, summary method: the analysisand comparison of the results found in the differences, in order to study the piano variations ofdevelopment.This article through to in different periods, different composers piano variations of structureform, mode, tonality, music style and performance characteristics of the specific analysis andsummary, from the whole to grasp the western piano variations of art development. Through thestudy of this issue to make our knowledge and understanding variations from the baroque periodto the history and evolvement of the20th century, have basic academic guiding significance.The first chapter mainly elaborates the piano variations of historical origin. The secondchapter to the fifth chapter separately from the baroque period, the period of classicism andromanticism, and the structure form of the20th century, mode, tonality, music style andperformance characteristics of the piano variations was summarized, analyzed and summarized.. |