Where Does The Sadness Come From And Where Does The Song Go

In this paper,it takes Bottesini's contrabass composition The Elegy as an example to elucidate how contrabass players express feelings and emotion in the form of music during the performance.From the perspective of musicology analysis to discuss Bottesini's understanding and interpretation of The Elegy under the background of the 19 th century.This paper follows the path of "Where does the sadness come from and where does the song go" as the way to interpret and understand this masterpiece.