| Summary: | 碩士 === 臺北市立大學 === 音樂學系 === 107 === In the novel Wilhelm Meister Lehrjahre, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) created the character Mignon and wrote four lieder describing the vicissitudes and mystery of the beautiful dancer. His creation captivated many musical composers and inspired a range of musical pieces from opera to instrumental centered on Mignon. Apart from musical works, Mignon became the subject of many artistic productions as well. This thesis focuses on the lied titled “Kennst du das Land,” which was set into song by more than 40 people from the Classical to the Romanticist period, and hence representative of the times. This author selected five composers for in-depth study, including Ludwig van Beethoven, (1770-1827), Franz Schubert（1797-1828）, Robert Alexander Schumann (1810-1856), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), and Hugo Wolf (1860-1903).
The thesis is in five chapters. The first chapter covers the introduction, research motive and purpose, research scope, and methodology. The second chapter introduces the life of Goethe, the novel Wilhelm Meister Lehrjahre and its plot, a discussion on the character Mignon, and the translation of the lied “Kennst du das Land?” along with an interpretation of it. The third chapter introduces the lives of the five composers and their compositional characteristics. The fourth chapter offers a compositional analysis and performance interpretation of each of the five composers’ rendering of the lied “Kennst du das Land?” The fifth chapter is the conclusion of this study, which summarizes the analytical and interpretative contributions of this thesis.
|
|---|
