| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺南藝術大學 === 鋼琴伴奏合作藝術研究所 === 99 === Ralph Vaughan Williams was a great contributor to the development of British music. He lived from late nineteenth century to the twentieth century. Through his enthusiasm for traditional British music, he was devoted to collecting national folksongs and gradually escaped from the basic frameworks of German and Austrian music, writing works with his own characteristics. The lyrics of the two song-cycles Vaughan Williams wrote during his compositional life were all from local literature. The work chosen from the two song-cycles for this research took six sonnets as lyrics from the series of poems called “The House of Life” by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a British poet and painter. This song-cycle is a combination of six songs and kept the original title “The House of Life”.
This thesis has three main parts: the first part introduces Vaughan Williams’ life and the styles of music at different stages of his life; the second part describes Rossetti’s life and the anthology “The House of Life” , which was the fruit of painstaking labor of his whole lifetime; the third part firstly provides an overview of the content and structure of the poems of each song, then analyzes the overall framework of music, discussing how the composer arranges the presentations of voice and piano based on the poems and offering the appropriate proposals of interpretation for this work.
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