An Analysis and Interpretation of To Julia and Three Shakespeare Songs by Roger Quilter

• Main Authors: CHUANG, PING-HAN, 莊秉翰
• Other Authors: LO, HWEI-CHU
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8tk55j

碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 中國音樂學系 === 107 === Roger Quilter(1877-1953) spent the predominance of his life creating artistic English songs and music. This culminated in his irreplaceable status in the musical history and historical zeitgeist of the United Kingdom. This thesis is mainly explores the two pieces of Roger Quilter “To Julia” and “Three Shakespeare Songs”. The two pieces were written by two different poet, as the result the author will discuss the backgrounds of these two poet first in order to help readers to understand the meaning. And then discussing the biography of Roger Quilter and his personality to have a better understanding of interpretation and style. The author divides it into six chapters to explore the poet and the history background. In order to discuss the importance of the English art song in the western music history. The author will analyze these two pieces by the writing motivation of Roger Quilter, the writing technique and the interpretation of English art song. Last, the author will discuss the relationship between the rhythm of the poem and the melody. It is my sincere hope that my fellow singers will find this theses a helpful reference in their future preparation in English art songs.