内容与体裁的完美统一——简论肖邦的《叙事曲》

The Perfect Unity of Content and Genre——On Chopin’s Ballads

波兰钢琴家、作曲家肖邦是一位典型的浪漫主义音乐家。随着对浪漫主义文学和音乐的认识逐步深化,肖邦决定采用一种全新的体裁来尝试二者之间的结合,其直接结果就是他的四部钢琴叙事曲。他是第一位为钢琴写叙事曲的作曲家。在肖邦叙事曲的创作中,他把传统的奏鸣曲式作了富于独创性的改造以适合他自己所钟爱的气息宽广的抒情性—戏剧性—叙事性三位一体的结合。就结果而论他是成功的。

Chopin,the Polish pianist and composer,is a typical romantic musician. With the deeper understanding of romantic literature and music,Chopin decided to adopt an entirely new genre to combine the two. As a direct result,he composed his 4 piano ballads and became the first composer writing ballads for pianos. In his composition of ballads,Chopin changed the traditional sonata style creatively to adapt to his favorite combination of lyricism,dramaticism and narrative. In terms of the result,he succeeded.