| Summary: | 碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 音樂研究所 === 94 === Among the romanticists, Liszt wrote two songs of “The Legend “, which were really special kinds of music. The two pieces of music were Liszt’s original works in the period of Rome. It was the summit for Liszt to reach his great works. Liszt made use of them to manifest his solo performance in piano about St. Francis. Liszt mentioned how St. Francis preached to the swallows in his first song of “The Legend”, and mentioned how St. Francis walked on the sea. The song of “The Legend was derived from Chapter 16 of Petites fleurs de St. Francois Assise, a religious literary work in the Middle Age, presented to Liszt’s second daughter, Cosima Bulow. Liszt developed his immediate performance and the color of piano playing to the best.
In the second song of “The Legend” about how St. Francis walked on the sea, a wonderful picture of how St. Francis walked on the sea inspired Liszt and made his creating his piano solo performance. In describing how St. Francis walked on the sea to his destination, this piece of music was one hinting sex. Liszt took his motivation from his early choral work, presenting to Pola’s St. Francis, as the theme. It was an immortal work of music and picture combined.
These two songs of “The Legend” have their unique and splendid art of music playing. In the first piece, Liszt used the piano to picture how St. Francis to preach to the swallows, and describe how a composer tried to use his piano to build and imitate the twittering of the birds. In the second piece, Liszt described lively and vividly how St. Francis walked on the sea. A performer can by no means accomplish such a difficult piece of music without fineness, dedication and tension.
The Spanish Rhapsody is one of the piano pieces of music which takes hardwork and art to play. I introduced firstly in one of the chapters of my thesis its title and subtitle, then I tried to paragraph it clearly and in order, and analyze the whole piece of music, The Spanish Rhapsody. Not only did I classify it in every paragraph skillfully but I explored a little in part of its gitar performance and integrated it into the explanation of the art of the performance of this piece of music, and finally developed it into the explanation of the style of the whole piece.
It takes profound theory and knowledge to lay the foundation of music on the form of the style of music performance. Thus, in two chapters of my thesis, I explored the composer and his background of creation in order. To the original contents of literature, the structure of music, the exposure of the theme, I tried my best to collect and arrange their data to help make the music player to show not only his remarkable art of performance but also his rich content of music performance and his lively style of performance.
From the traditional music document, we come to the conclusion that the three pieces of music were written by the great composer Liszt, in the period of Rome. I called in my thesis ”The Liszt in the period of Rome” piano solo performance, of which the name also helps the readers and the learners understand the periods of the time of Liszt’s original works and contents of performance quickly and precisely from the special background of Liszt in the period of Rome.
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