The investigation on harmony style of Grieg's semitone

As the most important composer in Norway and founder of the folk music camp,Edvard Grieg 's most outstanding feature for his creative theme is that he applies music to describe the splendid and beautiful scenery,the civilian life in the rural mountain area and the fantasy image in tales and legends. As the features of melody thinking and its harmony approach in Grieg's production can give us some inspiration to the development of our folk melody harmony,so this thesis will focus on analyzing the Melody Thinking and the Harmony Application of the Grieg's piano production in details,and summarizing the application of melody diversification and chromatic harmony.