| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 音樂學系 === 101 === The piano characterpieces of nineteenth-century are full of “characters”. It’s very difficult to explain or define what the “characters”are. These “characters” are called “poeic ideas” in music.
This dissertation studies the concept about “poeic ideas” in characterpieces by examining the relationship between music and words. There are five chapters devoted in this thesis. The Chapter One (Introduction) starts from the composing background of characterpieces, including the improvement of the piano and the popularity of salon music. In such situations, composers wrote more and more piano characterpieces. The focal point in Chapter Two is the using and the meaning of the word “character- pieces”, exploring the definition, content, development and appearance.
Chapter Three analyzes Schumann’ characterpieces. To find out the “personality character” and “musical character” by examing the titles and words in the music. Chapter Four focuses on the characterpieces of Mendelssohn, specially the Lieder ohne Worte and characterpieces op.7. Explore how Mendelssohn melt his words into music and establish the unique “character”of composition. After that, We compare the titles and words in Mendelssohn’s characterpieces to Schumann’s, analyzing the similarity and difference in their compositions. Chapter Five, the conclusion, sums up the First four chapters, bringing out the view that there are still plenty “poetic ideas” in the characterpieces.
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