Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Comprehensive Art and Cultural Communication (CACC 2022)

Art Appreciation of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Piece: Dumka

Authors
Wang Siwen1, a
1Soochow University School of Music, Wuzhong, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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Wang Siwen
Available Online 14 May 2022.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220502.043How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Tchaikovsky; piano piece; Dumka; appreciation
Abstract

Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), a great Russian musician, is one of the outstanding representatives of the Russian nationalistic music. He dedicated his life to music composition and composed a large number of artistic works. He is not only a creative all-round musician in the history of world music, but also a great creator of romantic music. With his unique ideas of music composition, he brings Russian national art to the world, and his works show the charm of Russian culture in all respects. Dumka, is a folk story music of the East Slavic ethnic minority. It usually takes the melancholy as the theme. Also, it connotates the meaning of meditation and contemplation. Typically featured with long melody which is intertwined with extremely fast melody, it is the transition from melancholy and meditation to gorgeous movement. In the music piece, sadness, melancholy coexists with positivity. Full of contradictory elements, it has typical national musicality. More famous includes A. Dvorzak’s Piano Trio and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Piece(OP.59). This paper takes Tchaikovsky’s piano piece Dumka (OP.59) as the research object, mainly clarifies from its historical background, work style, the image, structure and artistic conception of music, revealing the special artistic style and musical meaning of Tchaikovsky’s Dumka.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Comprehensive Art and Cultural Communication (CACC 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
14 May 2022
ISBN
978-94-6239-576-3
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220502.043How to use a DOI?
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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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