Musical Characteristics And Singing Analysis Of Richard Strauss's Art Song "Night

Art songs are the main constituent aspect of romantic music.Art songs in Romantic period music originated in Germany and Austria in the early 19 th century and influenced art songwriting in other European countries of the same period.The art song "Night" composed by German composer Richard Strauss during the Romantic period uses beautiful music melodies and first-person lyrics to express the author’s fear of losing and worrying about his lover being stolen by others in the middle of the night.Taking Strauss’ s art song "Night" as the research object,this thesis uses the literature combing method,music analysis method and singing practice method to study the musical style and singing analysis of this work in the following three chapters.In the first chapter,the author starts from the composer’s personal life and summarizes the background of the German art song "Night",so as to grasp the musical creation background and historical generation context of this art song as a whole.In the second chapter,the music ontology analysis of the art song "Night" is carried out from the aspects of song structure,accompaniment texture and melodic form,so as to grasp the musical composition characteristics of this art song and lay a theoretical foundation for subsequent singing analysis and exploration.In the third chapter,the author explores the singing analysis of the art song "Night" from the aspects of the use of breath,the pronunciation of singing words,the change of intensity and the expression of emotions,in order to provide strong theoretical support and academic basis for the author’s master’s degree concert to better sing and interpret the work,and also provide certain references and references for subsequent singers to sing German-Austrian art songs.