English: In my memory, 'Ständchen (Schubert)-Serenade' (Little Night's Song) D957 No.4 (Wikipedia introduction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwanengesang;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ständchen_(Schubert) )has always taken a place. To be very honest, I didn't know Schubert very much. Just, from childhood, I repeatedly heard this song and its piano accompaniment in different stages of my life. Then, once by chance, I got its manuscript from my China home university's Works-analysis Collections. Playing its piano accompaniment (solo-feeling) wasn't quite my major. But, I merely want to say: piano and piano man also have our own musicality of 'Little Night's Song' for beloved someone somewhere kept unknown...
One child, in learning its piano accompaniment, asked me: Hi, uncle teacher, how to understand this piano song? I said: in your age, you can understand it as 'to achieve an uncompleted & sweet dream, by spending a hard & dark night, of searching a real & bright dawn...' Then, he showed a face, like 'almost having understood something but still with a little bit headache...' to watch me...
In analysing this Piano solo-accompaniment (indeed, I wished someone can give it a beatiful voice), you will find that a wandering emotion was deeply covering its dark night, pathway, and the pass-by wood beside. Then, a growing self-encoragement slowly rised up from your bottom of heart. You can confirm that you need to keep yourself always on the way... to pursue, to dream and to wait... for the first light of morning... Could there be some breathless, hopeless or deepened expression? Yes, I like minutes 2.55-3.01, which voice's part didn't clearly sing out, but with an extreme sadness appeared in piano's repeatedly highlighted motif... Soon, it turned to be warm major colour. I knew it's a hard time for Schubert, and it's the motivation of searching for his happiness which strongly supported him to go over all the things. I believed that the final part was his continously falling into sleep... in his happiness dream alongside the coming of day break.
It's in the night and hopefully you like 'Ständchen (Schubert)-Serenade' and nightingale's voices.
Jason M. C., Han (
talk) 14:00, 26 December 2018 (UTC)