薩謬爾‧巴伯五首英文藝術歌曲研究

美國的英文藝術歌曲自建國開始，從十八世紀的聖詠詩歌風，到十九世紀受歐洲浪漫樂派藝術歌曲的影響。接著於二十世紀開始加入當代各式各樣的音樂風格與美國本土豐富的音樂元素與民族特色，以及採用非西方的音樂素材來進行創作，發展至今已超過兩百年，歌曲的產量日豐富，更充滿多元文化的特色與多樣性的風格。作曲家薩謬爾‧巴伯的英文藝術歌曲在美國有非常重要的地位，雖然已出版的作品數量不多，但是每一首歌曲都很精采且迷人，充滿著豐富多元的音樂風格。本研究主要是針對巴伯的〈雛菊〉、〈真在這閃耀夜〉、〈修女揭開面紗〉、〈老女人的秘密〉、〈釘在十字架上〉等五首英文藝術歌曲進行研究分析與樂曲詮釋。本文共分為五章。第一章說明研究目的與架構。第二章介紹美國英文藝術歌曲的發展演進。第三章介紹巴伯的生平與他的英文藝術歌曲。第四章則針對五首英文藝術歌曲分別就詩詞意涵、作曲手法與樂曲詮釋進行分析與探討。第五章為研究內容總結。藉由這五首藝術歌曲的研究分析與詮釋，來了解巴伯在藝術歌曲的詞曲創作手法與音樂風格，並提供演唱者對巴伯的藝術歌曲於了解樂曲以及詮釋方面有價值的參考資料。

關鍵字

薩謬爾‧巴伯；英文藝術歌曲；藝術歌曲

並列摘要

The Englishart song in Americasince the nation founding, is from the chant poetry stylein 18th century to the affectby art songof European romantic music in19th century. Then in 20th century the art song adds a variety of contemporary musical styles, American local rich elements, ethnic characteristics, and the use of non-Western musical material for the creation, the development of English art song inAmericahas been more than 200 years,the composition is increasingly rich, full featured and more multicultural and diversity of style . The English art songs of composer Samuel Barber occupy a very important position in America, although there are small number of published works, but each song is very brilliant and charming, filled with rich and diverse musical styles. This study focuses on analyzing and discussing the interpretation of his five English art songs, they are“The Daisies”, ’’Sure on this shining night”, ”A Nun Takes the Veil”, ”The Secrets of the Old” and ”The Crucifixion”. This study includes five chapters. Chapter 1 outlines the purpose and the structure of the study.And the development of English art song in America is introduced in Chapter 2. Thenthe study describes the life backgrounds ofBarber and his English art songs in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 focuses on analyzing the lyrics, compositional style and interpretation of these five pieces. The conclusion of the study can be found in Chapter 5.I hope this study can be a valuable reference ofunderstanding, interpreting and performing for those who wants to sing or study this five English art songs of Barber.