Samuel Barber的《the first symphony》创作于1936年,首演于意大利罗马,全曲为一个单乐章交响曲,作者特意在乐谱上标出了“inone movement”的字样。二十世纪上半叶正处于西方音乐的新旧交替时期,新的音乐创作手法的出现使得音乐创作在不同的层面发生了变化和扩展。同时交响音乐在体裁上也出现了一些新的发展,传统的四乐章套曲常常被一些单乐章的交响曲替代,乐队的编制有时也变小,常常使用室内乐队的形式,作曲家喜欢使用规模较小的音乐语言来表现 Samuel Barber’s “the first symphony” was created in 1936 and premiered in Rome, Italy. The whole song is a single-movement symphony. The author specifically marked “inone movement” on the score. The first half of the twentieth century is in the midst of the old and the new era of Western music. The advent of new methods of music creation has changed and expanded music creation at different levels. At the same time symphonic music also appeared in the genre of some new developments, the traditional set of four movements is often replaced by the symphonies of some single movement, the band sometimes smaller, often used in the form of chamber orchestra, composers like to use a larger scale Small musical language to express