A Research On Liu Cong’s Piano Accompaniment To Art Songs

As a important component of art song performance,piano accompaniment itself has itsunique artistic characteristics, which often reflects a composer’s intelligence and competence.This paper focuses on Liu Cong’s piano accompaniment to art songs, specifically on itscomposing background and techniques, aiming to a thorough analysis and understanding ofits unique feature and composing techniquesThis paper is divided into five chaptersThe frist chapter does a general survey on the development of the piano accompanimentin and out of China, putting forward the reason for paper topic selection and explaining thesignificance of this research as well as combing up the research methods of the previousrelevant researches.The second chapter is an introduction of the composer Liu Cong, including his musiccomposing characteristics and his great achievements in the field of art song composing.The third chapter analyzes the unique features of Liu Cong’s piano accompaniment infour perspectives, namely its eternal topic choice, its flexible musical structures, its highlypersonal melody and its appealing effects.The fourth chapter carefully analyzes the characteristics of Liu’s pianoaccompaniment,covering its functions, its sound-type selection,the form of its prelude,interlude and epilogue as well as the composer’s innovations on mode and tonality, thusgetting a overall understanding of Liu’s worksThe fifth chapter provides some operative advice to the performer of Liu’s works in threeangles,including the performer’s competence,the understanding of emotions and style and thecooperation with singer...