| Summary: | 碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 音樂學系 === 102 === At the Beginning of 18th Century, Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti（ 1685-1757 ）moved to Spain, Scarlatti use folk music as his composing ingredients－this composing way not only influenced to Spanish composers, but also create some different new ideas for Spanish piano music. At 19th, influenced by Nationalism, Spanish piano music became even more popular than before. At this time, famous composers such as Albéniz , Granados, Falla, etc., they use much Spanish traditional music as composing ingredients. Because of this, Spanish music became really popular by people, and people called this era as “ The Garden age of Spanish Piano music ”.
With background of this era, Xavier Montsalvatge ( 1912-2002 ) created a really different way. Montsalvatge had various works such as Orchestra works, string music, piano pieces, vocal works and ballet music, etc. Except using Spanish traditional music as compose ingredient, Montsalvatge also influenced by Impressionism，he use chromatic, polytonal, twelve-tone to compose his works at the same time.This essay is about Montsalvatge’s piano work Sonatine pour Yvette which composed on 1961 and dedicated to his daughter Yvette. There are three movements of this work. There are some specialties in each movement, especially in the last movement, which use worldwide famous nursery rhyme Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star as main melody to create some variations.
This essay will start reseach from the biographic sketch of Montsalvatge, background of the era, discuss about the composing ingredients and performing techniques.
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