布拉姆斯《四首敘事曲，作品10》分析

Abstract

In the 19th century, the glorious era of Romantic times, Johannes Brahms（1833-1897） spent his teenage times for twenty years in the bar, year after year, he made many friends in art and music fields through his tour all over the Europe, all of these turned into the power of creation. And Brahms’ special music style between classical and romantic became a unique style in the 19th century. In different countries, different ages, there are so much different meanings for ballade from ancient times till present, the poetry in Medieval times to the instrumental music in Romanticism times. For this article, we are going to explore the ballade by Brahms in 19th century. First of all, we examined the Brahms lifetime to realize the background of his time and who affected him or what kinds of things inspired him. Secondly, understand the works of different styles in different four periods from general way, and then we entered the piano works in the chronological way. Finally, we analyzed the ballade op. 10 in depth. Preliminary, we analyzed the structure of music form, speed, time signature, modulation and harmonic progression for four different tunes. Furthermore, we try to find the motivation, sentence and paragraph to fathom the intention from composer and offered a suitable interpretation. Brahms’ 《Four Ballades, Op. 10, No. 1》, alias Edward Ballade. First part was based on the Scotland Narrative Poetry 〈Edward〉of German poet Johann Gottfried Herder’s Stimmem der Volker, this Narrative Poetry run through four ballades, even though the second, third and fourth part do not specify the meaning behind the ballades, but from the perspective of the emotion in the music, we could see the continuity of the story. Generally, it is worth to analyze the structure, tonality and the harmony of this ballade.