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A Study of The Piano Concerto in A Minor of Robert Schumann.

The first movement of Robert Schumann¡¦s A minor piano concerto is originally the Fantasy in A minor for piano and orchestra which composed in 1841. Four years later, Schumann himself added another two movements to let it become a concerto of three complete movements. The idea of monothematic is through out all movements to unite the concerto.
This text is divided into four parts to research. The first part is the discussion of composing background. The second part is the realization of the compositional process. The third part is concentrated on the analysis, the formal structure of the three movements, includes the monothematic using and the strategy of thematic metamorphosis using. And the last part investigates the sound, harmony, melody and rhythm of this concerto, in order to understand the special composing method of Schumann.
The A minor concerto not merely successfully incorporated Classic and Romantic composing styles, in the meanwhile, Schumann displayed his outstanding strategy of balancing the soloist and the orchestra.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0614102-110726
Date14 June 2002
CreatorsChung, Pei-Chi
ContributorsTzyy-Sheng Lee, Yeashiuh Lin, Mei-Wen Lee
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0614102-110726
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