Musical Characteristics And Performance Analysis Of The Double Piano Adaptation Of Charles Camille Saint·sans The Carnival Animals

Charles Camille Saint·Sans is a famous composer,music critic,music educator,organ player,mathematics expert,philosophy and astronomy lover of French national music school in the 19 th century.The orchestral suite "The carnival of the animals" was created by Charles Camille Saint·Sans in 1886.When creating this work,Charles Camille Saint·Sans changed his previous style and began his creation with exaggeration and humor."The carnival of the animals" is one of Charles Camille Saint·Sans representative works.It is often used by artists at home and abroad for performance,and has been adapted many times.The version of double piano adaptation studied in this paper also has high artistic value in the field of music.The author with "animal carnival" double piano adaptation as the research object,analysis the work from the following four parts: the first part is the work situation,summarizes the introduction to authors and works;The second part is the music characteristics of the works,which analyzes the music image and performance techniques of the 14 works,and focuses on the melody line,rhythm and voice part in the performance techniques;The third part is the analysis of the key and difficult points of performance,taking the five key and difficult points of double tone,octave,interval,scale and decorative sound as examples to analyze the music materials in the works;The fourth part is the performance experience,which analyzes and summarizes the image of symphony and the cooperation of two pianos.Through the analysis and research of this paper,characteristics of works of music and works of present and practice many reasonable suggestions are put forward.