Analysis On 9 Different Tempo Of Acoustic Versions Of Chopin Nocturnes (op9.no2)

As a kind of re-creation, piano performances all show performers' personal understanding about the music. Just like what is called "there is no leaf is the same", regarding the same music, each exponent has different understanding and owns the characteristic comprehension. Such diversity which makes the music shows the richness and nonrepeatability reflects the essence of creating music performance.As is known to all, the music is one art of time. For music works, tempo is an important dimension level for the time, and it directly decides the stereo music works presented fundamental key. It also affects the emotion experience of audiences to music works.Based on this, the paper attempts to use Chopin nocturnes (op9.no2) as the key theme, and chooses audio versions of temporary nine reputation piano masters who earn the international reputation (Claudio.Arrau, Arthur.Rubinstein, Daniel.Barenboim, Nelson.Freire, Idil.Biret, Maria-Joao.Pires, Maurizio.Pollini, Maurizio.Pollini and FuCong) as examples. By the praat acoustical analysis software, to the same work, the differences and similarities of tempos which deal with by nine piano masters are analyzed in order to find its internal logical rules. And then these rules can be references of music performance and teaching.