The Musical Features And Singing Art Of Gounod "Serenade"

Gounod is a representative composer of salon music in the French romantic period in the19 th century.His art songs,like Lyric Opera,aim to pursue strong and sincere emotional expression in music and pay attention to the depiction of characters’ psychological emotion.As one of his popular art songs,"Serenade" has high artistic research value."Serenade" is a romantic,implicit and lyrical love song.It is selected from Hugo’s love poem of the same name and has high literary value.The overall atmosphere of this song is relaxed and pleasant,with obvious melody characteristics.It has the characteristics of delicate,aesthetic and elegant style of the French nation.This work is an art song with two parts in parallel.The phrase is mainly composed of smooth progressive and zigzag melody lines,and the accompaniment texture is simple.The singing of the work should be appropriate,and any boastful interpretation is not suitable.In terms of singing,it should show soft and kind timbre,full and implicit emotion,combined with the cadence of poetry rhythm,so as to achieve a music performance with both voice and emotion.