| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 音樂學系碩士班 === 102 === Claude Debussy (1862-1918), an important French composer in the 19th century, with the modern music style and innovative composition technique, is an icon of impressionism music, and also has profound influence on 20th century composers. Dedicated to F. Chopin, the last solo piano piece of his, “Études” was written in 1915. Demonstrating his wisdom and experience as a composer, this remarkable work distinguishes itself from other traditional piano etudes with rich tone color and inventive composition skill which enriches the artistic part, thus benefits the performers not only fingering dexterity but also the music mind in his concept of art.
Etudes No. 7, 8, 9 and 11 are mainly used as a research range; this essay is divided into five chapters. The first chapter is "preface", explaining research motivation, target, range, limit, step and data or literature of this essay. The second chapter is "Debussy’s life", investigating his piano repertoire in music characteristics and composition skills. The third chapter is "Etudes and Debussy’s “Études”", talking about historical development of etudes, species and composition background of Debussy’s “Études”. The fourth chapter is "formal analysis and music interpretation"; formal analysis is mainly focus on analyze the performance aspects, which includes pieces overview, formal structure, harmonic grammar and figuration with various musical composition concepts. In addition to music style discussions on the overall performance; melodies, velocity, touch, sound, phrase, fingering and pedal usage are researched in interpretation analysis to help pointing out the techniques that need to pay particular attention while performing. The fifth chapter is a brief summary; expect this essay would help those who interest in Debussy’s music for their research, teaching and performance.
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