Art songs aim to inspire an inspiration and atmosphere through the joint action of music and poetry, so that listeners can deeply feel a unique aesthetic charm through a certain language.

"Serenade" is the fourth song of "Swan Song", composed by the poem of French poet Lyle Staber, and it is also one of Schubert's most famous artistic songs. The song is presented in the form of chorus, with a prelude in front, an accompaniment for each lyric, an interlude between two paragraphs and an ending.

Song of the matador is a prelude to the opera Carmen. At the beginning, the band played a brilliant and lively progressive theme with a strong voice.

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This "Serenade" takes love as the theme, describes a young man's deep affection for his beloved girl with beautiful melody, and vividly shows the young man's inner feelings when he expresses his love to the audience with music. Schubert combined lyrics and tunes with delicate brushstrokes, and organically combined piano accompaniment and vocal music, and achieved classic music, which is still sung today.

As a representative of early romanticism, Schubert was the first "free musician" in the history of western music, and left a lot of excellent works of art in the fields of symphony, chamber music and piano. His works are exquisite, distinctive in personality, simple in folk customs and appealing to both refined and popular tastes, all of which shine with his superb skills and extraordinary wisdom.

What is particularly prominent is that he used exquisite composition techniques to make ancient German art songs glow with new vitality. Poetry, melody and accompaniment are organically combined, which complement each other, shape the image of music together, deeply depict artistic emotion from the psychological level, and make artistic songs reach a new realm.

He wrote more than 600 art songs in his life, so he was awarded the title of "King of Art Songs". Such as Margaret by the Spinning Wheel, Endless Love, Wild Rose, Trout, Devil, Bodhi Tree, etc. , are outstanding works that are still sung today.