The Musical Analysis And Performing Research Of Hubert Parry's "HANDS ACROSS THE CENTURIES"

This paper mainly introduces the background of the "rejuvenation" movement of British music at the end of the 19 th century.At that time,under the promotion of the "national music school" in various countries,Britain gradually began the "rejuvenation" movement of its own nation.British composers have created a large number of works one after another.As one of the pioneers of this movement,Charles Hubert Hastings Parry(Charles Hubert Hastings Parry),a great British composer,created HANDS ACROSS THE CENTURIES,which is a work of Baroque ancient ensemble.This work inherits the form of the ancient suite,and the creative techniques of polyphonic alignment are as follows: And the layout of the music form,but in terms of ideas and techniques,it adopts the characteristics of the Romantic period,such as the nominalization of music and the variability of harmony,and so on.This combination of traditional techniques and new technologies makes HANDS ACROSS THE CENTURIES like a direct dialogue between Britain and Baroque music at the end of the 19 th century and the beginning of the 20 th century,linking the two once glorious periods of England.Like a pair of big hands directly through 200 years of silence.This paper makes a comprehensive,systematic and in-depth analysis of the creative background,musical structure,musical techniques and style of the work,and studies the performance of the work on the basis of the above research.The author will excavate the research value of the performance of the work,and put forward some suggestions on the performance.It provides reference materials for scholars who study and play HANDS ACROSS THE CENTURIES in the future.