Busoni was one of the most celebrated pianists of late nineteen century. Besides his wonderful performing, his virtuosic transcriptions of Bach compositions contribute to Romantic piano repertoire. Through years, the music of Bach still popular on stage, and inspires many composers transcribe his works to other instruments. In 1893, Busoni transcribed, for the piano, the famous Bach Chaconne for violin solo from the Partita No.2 in D minor and dedicated it to the pianist Eugen d'Albert. Today, among the numerous versions, Bach-Busoni Chaconne is most often performed.
This thesis mainly discuss the arrangement of Bach-Busoni Chaconne, and divided three main directions. The first part, concentrated on background research and investigated on correlation between Busoni¡¦s and Bach¡¦s Chaconne in D minor. In second part, aimed at the analysis of texture in Bach- Busoni. In third part, discussed the features of the original works which Busoni inherited from Bach, and the differences between Busoni¡¦s work and Bach¡¦s original work. The differences are divided into the emphasis on sarabande, the imitate colors of the pipe organ with sound effects, the usage of octave, and different register.
Busoni followed closely to Bach¡¦s original work; he not only added virtuosic passages, pedal usage, dynamic change, different register, but also gave expression terms to reach the result of imitate the quality of orchestra and pipe organ. The Chaconne in Busoni¡¦s hand became a piano piece with great Romantic spirit in it.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0724107-154101 |
| Date | 24 July 2007 |
| Creators | Chou, Mei-fang |
| Contributors | none, Mei-wei Lee, none |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0724107-154101 |
| Rights | campus_withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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