This thesis consists of two parts: concerning about the “Solo Recital” and the “Graduate Performance Recital” respectively. The program and the program notes are included in both parts.
The program of the Solo Recital includes: Roger Quilter (1877-1953) Op.18 from Six Songs:‘To wine and beauty’, ‘Where be you going’, ‘The jocund dance’, ‘The spring is at the door’ ; Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846-1916): ‘Sogno’, ‘Non t''amo più’ ; Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901): ‘La seduzione’, ‘L''esule’ ; Claude Achille Debussy (1862-1918) Fêtes galantes, série II:‘Les Ingénus’, ‘Le faune’, ‘Colloque sentimental’ ; Franz Schubert (1797-1828):‘An die Musik’, ‘Die Forelle’, ‘Auf dem Wasser zu singen’, ‘Der Wanderer’ ; Francesco Cilea (1866-1950 ): “ Lamento di Federico ” from 《L''arlesiana》; Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901): “ De’miei bollenti spiriti ” from 《La Traviata》
Then, the program of the Graduate Performance Recital are: as ‘Nankipoo’ in Arthur Sullivan’s(1842~1900) Opera “Mikado” :Act I, No.1 ‘If you want to know who we are(Opening Chorus and Recitative)’, No.2‘A wandering minstrel I(Sole and Chours)’, No.4 ‘Young man, despair(Song)’, No.4a ‘And I have journeyed for a month(Recitative)’, No.9 ‘Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted(Duet)’, No.11‘With aspect stern and gloomy stride(Finale of Act I)’, Act II, No.3 ‘Brightly dawns our wedding day(Madrigal)’, No.4‘Here’s a how-de-do!(Trio)’, No.9 ‘The flowers that bloom in the spring(Song)’, No.13‘For he’s gone and Married Yum-Yum(Finale of Act II).