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Debussy Piano Works Timbre Research

Posted on:2011-08-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330371453040Subject:Music
Abstract/Summary:
There is a charming and beautiful flower in the western piano artistic garden. It owns the mystical acoustic color, innovative, sound structure and the novel music subject as well as the unique angle of view. The name of the flower which is called impression idea music, Debussy a French composer is precisely the founder of this type of music.The piano work of Debussy has excellent deals in its timbre which is an extremely challenge for its performer. The causes of leading the challenge are various. The first factor is defined in harmony .In Debussy's musical language, the most individuality is his harmony. The second is the utilization of unique timbre to control and organize the structure of melody. In order to pursue the fuzziness of music, thus forms weave the body motive and the short phrase melody massively is used to figure the subject characteristic. The Debussy usually used the union between the timbre and the rhythm is its third characteristic. He liked using the duplicate time and the mix time, such as 6/8 pats, 5/4 pats, 15/8 pats and so on. In the rhythm the segmentation was always be used. It caused the stress is not appeared in the traditional position. This enhanced the difficult in the change of the stress. These innovation techniques are widely utilized by afterward the 20th century composer. The last difficulty in his work is the way of touching key and the utilization of the footboard. No matter the method in touching key or the utilizes of footboard, all of these served him to arrive the primary intention that the impressionist timbre when creates music.
Keywords/Search Tags:impressionism, timbre, harmony, rhythm, touch key
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