本論文以研究浪漫樂派作曲家蕭邦(F. Chopin)的第二號與第四號敘事曲為研究主題,共分為四章:第一章為緒論,第二章為文獻探討,第三章為敘事曲第二號與第四號之分析、詮釋與比較,第四章為結論。 除了分別分析與詮釋這兩首的樂曲之外,也針對這兩首的內容做了比較,比較的項目包含:導奏、主題、曲式與尾奏。比較結果顯示,蕭邦在此二首敘事曲的創作手法上,運用複拍子、主題對比性、導奏再現、模進與卡農及變奏手法、和聲與調性變化、強烈尾奏等於敘事曲的創作上,使得此二首敘事曲各自呈現出不同的風貌。
This study focuses on Romanticism composer Frédéric Chopin’s ballades No. 2 and No. 4. There are four chapters in this thesis: the first chapter is an introduction, the second chapter is literature review, the third chapter includes the analysis, interpretation and also the comparison between ballades No. 2 and No. 4, and the last chapter is the conclusion. Besides analyzing formal structure of the two pieces, the introduction, theme, form and compositional technique of coda were also compared. The result of the comparison reveals that F. Chopin frequently used compound meters, contrast character of theme, recurring of introduction material, sequence and canon, technique of variation, special harmonic and tonality language, and brilliant coda in his ballades. These compositional skills also distinguish the difference between ballade No. 2 and ballade No. 4.