This thesis aims at analyzing the romantic characteristics of R. A. Schumann's piano music especially in "Carnaval" op. 9. This work is expected to contribute to the understanding of piano music in the Romantic era and also the interpretation of Schum...
This thesis aims at analyzing the romantic characteristics of R. A. Schumann's piano music especially in "Carnaval" op. 9. This work is expected to contribute to the understanding of piano music in the Romantic era and also the interpretation of Schumann's piano works.
The second chapter has the general view about the meaning of Romanticism and its social background. The characteristics of music in the Romantic period was dealt with also.
In the third chapter, the writer surveyed the life of R. A. Schumann as a musician and critic respectfully and then she tried to examine the distinction on the piano music of Schumann as a Romantic musician in general.
The analysis on Carnaval op. 9 was in the fourth chapter. The effort was concentrated to discover the relationship between 22 titles and contents of the works, and to point out the romantic in the style and technique adopted in Carnaval.
In conclusion two suggestions was made.
The first is that Schumann's piano music has deep relationship with the Romantic literature in theme and its proceeding method.
The second is that schumann has tried to give varieties and liberty to the classical music and musician by applying following style and techniques to his work ; (1) chromatics, (2) dissonance, (3) transposition of assent, (4) unexpected tempo and key, (5) diversity of pedaling.