美國藝術歌曲為現今相當重要的樂種之一，它融合多種元素及特色，創作出自己的藝術內涵和獨特風格。此次研究以美國現代作曲家莉比・拉森（Libby Larsen, 1950- ）的歌曲集《國王陛下，審判我吧！》（Try me, good King）作為研究主題，進行深入的研究與探討。

本論文共分為六個章節：第一章概述美國的音樂歷史發展，及美國藝術歌曲《國王陛下，審判我吧！》的研究動機與方法；第二章為研究美國音樂之源起、發展及音樂特徵；第三章概述英格蘭的歷史發展，以及亨利八世六位皇后的生平介紹；第四章介紹作曲家莉比・拉森之生平及創作動機；第五章為《國王陛下，審判我吧！》之歌曲分析與演唱詮釋的研究；最後第六章總結本研究之內容，呈現筆者研究後之觀點，並敘述此樂曲風格及與詮釋方法。

American art songs are one of the important genre in this era. It mixes diverse elements and features in the compositions and creates its artistic content and unique style. This study takes “Libby Larsen’s 《Try me, good king》” as the topic to research and to bring out the discussion of the song.

The study has total six chapters. The first chapter gives the summary of American music history and development. The other part is the motivation and the research methods for American art songs 《Try me, good king》. The second chapter elaborates the origin of American music as well as the development and musical characteristics. Third chapter states out the English history and the introduction about Henry the eighth and his six queens. The next one focus on Libby Larsen’ s life and the motives for the composition. The fifth part is the analysis of the songs 《Try me, good king》. How to sing and how to interpret the work is also the main idea of the chapter. The last chapter concludes the study. The paper presents researcher’s perspectives and gives the statement on 《Try me, good king》’s musical feature and interpret methods.

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Eileen, Strempel,. “Try Me, Good King: Last Words of the Wives of Henry Ⅷ: Libby
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五、 網路

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Richard Kessler, “Larsen: communicating through music”.
http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/libby-larsen-communicating-through-music/,（November 19 2014）