Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 385 86. Schubert, Fantasia of the Wanderer

"The piano is balanced. The left and right hands add up to [-] points. If the left hand has more points, the music will lose one point."
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Knowing that her daughter needs good donkey-hide gelatin, Song Lian asked on the phone who she was giving it to.

Chen Xuan didn't hide anything, and replied truthfully that Li An was going to give it to Liang Huilan, Li An's mistress.

Song Lian has often heard Chen Xuan mention Li An's teacher's family on the phone in the past six months, and he also knows how much the old couple took care of them, so thinking of this makes him know.

"I see. Is the courier sent to work or home?"

"Thank you mom, just send it to the unit, and I will transfer the amount to you when the time comes."

"No need, let me support you unilaterally."

"Li An will definitely give me the money when the time comes."

"Then I don't care about your business."

"Hey, I see that the temperature at home has cooled down again these two days, you guys should wear more clothes for work these two days."

"We're paying attention, so you don't have to miss us, but you two have been so busy recently, eat well, rest well, and pay more attention to your body."

Since mid-March, Song Lian saw Chen Xuan reposting this and that in Moments every now and then. It was all about work, it was a video, it was a band recruitment, and it was a publicity competition. From the content, it can be seen that Ang Lee No matter how busy you are, there are still online and offline classes to teach.

"Well, Mom, let's pay attention, we can eat and sleep."

"That's good, you definitely don't have time to come back on May [-]st."

"There's definitely no time for May Day this year, I guess we'll have to wait for the summer vacation, mom, how are you going to take off on May Day?"

"I don't know yet. When the time comes, it will depend on the situation. Have you considered the summer competition? I heard from your sister that you have changed your mind again."

"Well, Mom, I've made up my mind, I'll take a look at it when I go back to school. I was too busy last time, so I only had a meal with the teacher."

"That's right, let's go out to have fun too. Usually you two don't have time. Isn't he busy during summer vacation?"

"I'm not sure what he said for the time being, so don't worry about him, Xiao Yu also said to accompany me when the time comes."

"Is Xiao Yu still idle?"

"It's still idle for the time being, but she said that she will definitely find a class before the end of the year."

"Okay, hurry up and do your work, don't talk about it, I'll call your uncle later, he has a friend who specializes in health care products."

"Thank you mom, keep it secret for me."

"Hmm, hang up."

Putting down the phone, Song Lian thought for a while. Considering that the day after tomorrow is Mother's Day, since she wants to send a female elder, now is a good opportunity.

Then she picked up the phone again, and just about to call Uncle Chen Xuan, Chen Xuan sent another message.

Xiaoxuan: Mom, you must choose the right one. Mrs. Liang’s family has a good background in the education system in Rongcheng. I don’t know if there is something wrong with Li An.

Song Lianxin laughed that his daughter, who stayed in Rongcheng for a year, finally opened up a little bit, but if she really asked for help, what would she do with this little thing.

Thinking about it, Li An shouldn't be doing anything right now, but he doesn't know if he has any plans for the future. From the various descriptions Chen Xuan gave him, this kid has big ideas in his heart.

She also thought about Li An's refusal of the school's government-sponsored study last time. Chen Xuan said that Li An didn't discuss it with his family, so he decided on such a big matter.

Call him stupid, since last spring, relying on himself, he worked as a small teacher in a training institution until this spring, and his income has doubled several times. She believed her daughter, first got a high-quality teacher, and then was promoted to an art consultant. Jing won a special award, and she even searched for that award on the Internet, and there were only five in the country.

It can be said that he is smart, such a good opportunity was handed over to others for nothing, and she felt it was a pity when she knew about it, such a good opportunity, go out to see the world, strengthen your professional ability, and be gilded, how good it is, just relying on this Brain melons and this group of people work steadily. It is not impossible to enter a university in the future and become a university teacher. Even if you do it yourself, the starting point is completely different.

Hey, the risk is indeed risky. She also knows the situation of Li An's family. It really takes a lot of courage to let Li An let go of everything in his hand and go abroad. In addition, Chen Xuan said that a considerable part of the reason for Li An's giving up is because of two people. Feelings.

Perhaps it was precisely because of these objective reasons that Li An's abandonment made her regretful and at the same time brought her some peace of mind.

Courage is the mast for a man to face the social tide, but for a family, responsibility is an indispensable quality for a man.

Or maybe Ang Lee's giving up is a manifestation of courage. In short, she hopes that the two of them can get along well.

Although they haven't met each other yet, from the bottom of their hearts, Song Lian has given Li An the green light.

There is another reason for this. In the year since her daughter left home, she has seen her daughter's growth. No matter how she looks at it, Li An's help is indispensable. As a mother, she is very clear about what her daughter was like before. There are many.

"Hey."

When the phone was connected, Song Lian asked Uncle Chen Xuan to help find someone to distribute six boxes of donkey-hide gelatin under Chen Xuan's signature. They were divided into two parts, one with two boxes sent to Yanjing, and one with four boxes sent to Rongcheng.

"Xiaoxuan has a bit of work on hand recently, and she will go to Yanjing to find her Teacher Xiao to participate in the competition during the summer vacation."

Uncle Chen Xuan understood now, "Are you in a hurry?"

Song Lian: "Worry."

After hanging up the phone, Song Lian sent Teacher Xiao's address and Yudong's address.

A few minutes after Chen Xuan finished talking with her mother, the phone rang.

"Hello uncle."

On the phone, "Xuan, are you at work tomorrow?"

Chen Xuan: "Yes."

Uncle: "Okay, I see."

Chen Xuan: "Thank you, uncle!"

The uncle smiled: "What's the hard work, take care of yourself outside, call uncle if you encounter something, hurry up."
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Piano Room, 201.

As the sound of the piano faded to disappear completely, Li An raised his hand to turn off the metronome.

"Not bad." He said to the boy in front of the piano, "Ji Kai, have you played any other Schubert works?"

Ji Kai replied: "I have played a lot, but I like the impromptu in B-flat major the most."

"Improvisation in B-flat major." Ang Lee began to hum while talking, his fingers still flicking in the air. "It still has the feeling of Liszt's Adagio."

Ji Kai nodded again and again: "Yes, indeed, I also felt this way when I was practicing."

The two found the topic in an instant, and chatted about Schubert's impromptu in B-flat major as if digressing a bit.

At the end of the chat, Ji Kai seemed to have found a kindred spirit, "If I have a chance, I would like to hear the master talk about this song."

Ang Lee smiled modestly, "I can't play this piece well."

Everyone also laughed.

Ang Lee turned around: "Really, Schubert's works are not easy to play, I'm still learning."

If everyone didn't believe it, just listening to Ang Lee's narration of the piece Impromptu in B flat major just now, they could be sure that Ang Lee knew this piece very well.

The whole room is full of piano players, and no one can fool anyone. Everyone knows that only when you know a certain degree of a piece of work can you just blurt out how to deal with a certain expression term in a certain section during performance .

Facing everyone's suspicious eyes, Li An smiled.

He didn't lie to everyone, nor was he being modest. He really thought that his playing of this piece was average, anyway, it was definitely not as good as the Liszt he pointed out.

There is a reason for this.

Classifying works according to difficulty, Schubert's Impromptu in B-flat major can only be regarded as a sketch, a small dessert after dinner.

But it is a rather delicate little dessert, because he is a Schubert work.

"How do you define the period in which Schubert lived?" Ang Lee asked.

Ji Kai was a bit inaccurate when asked, he hesitated: "It can be regarded as a composer between the classicism period and the romanticism period, similar to Beethoven."

Li Ang nodded: "It's about the same as Beethoven, and he lived a year longer than Beethoven."

The voice changed, "But they are different. Beethoven's late works only revealed a romantic style, but history defines him as a composer in the classical period, while Schubert is considered to be a composer of the early romanticism. representatives."

"There's actually a big difference here, even though they're in the same era."

"Let's talk about this later. I personally think that when you get a work, you need to determine the composer and the format of the piece."

"This Wanderer's Fantasia by Schubert, do you tell me it's a fantasia?"

Ji Kai thought for a while: "No."

Li An asked again: "What is that?"

Ji Kai: "Sonata."

Ang Lee: "Sonata, it is a sonata, not only a sonata, but also a standard classical sonata form, four movements, Allegro, Adagio Scherzo, Allegro."

"The first movement, the standard sonata form, unfolding and reappearing, the coda."

Speaking of this, Ang Lee paused, "Here we have made it clear that it is not a fantasia, but a work similar to a fantasia, somewhat similar to the two sonatas in Beethoven's Op. 27."

Ji Kai vaguely grasped something and nodded.

Ang Lee noticed this detail, "Then after we determine the format to play him, we should establish a clear performance attitude."

"How to play a sonata, let's go back to our previous question, how do we define Schubert, what period of composer it is, and which period he wrote it for. Set in the classic period, Berio insists that Schubert is romantic, and I think there is no right or wrong here."

"No matter how you define it, once you know it, you should know how you're going to practice."

"I remember that in the second professional class of my freshman year, Teacher Wei taught us a term called unified performance."

"It not only includes strength, speed, and the color of different registers, but also includes the interpretation of a piece of work. Unity is the premise and the result of our pursuit."

Ji Kai suddenly grasped some problems, and he needed to think for a while.

Li An gave him this time, turned around and asked with a smile: "I think the teacher also told you about unification."

Everyone nodded in chatter, and Mr. Wei sat beside him laughing. He said this to every freshman, but there were only a few people who could realize it in the end.

Ji Kai's current problem with this piece is that he plays it too loosely, which is also the problem he will help Ji Kai solve next. He wants to see how Ang Lee will talk about this problem.

After about five or six seconds, Ji Kai asked: "Master, I probably understand, but I'm not sure what I think, can I try again?"

Li Ang smiled: "Come on, the first movement, come again."

This time Ji Kai took the initiative to turn on the metronome and played less than twenty bars before being stopped by Li An.

Through the [-] bars played by Ji Kaiyou, he can make it clear that the other party's understanding is not a problem. The other party has understood what he expressed and has made some adjustments.

But to save time, let him come.

Then Li An borrowed Ji Kai's score and sat in front of Teacher Wei's piano for class, "I haven't played this piece for a long time, you can just listen to it."

As he sat down in front of the piano, the temperature in 201 rose several degrees in an instant, and Ma Fei and the rest of them almost stood up with their necks wide enough.

Slightly adjusted the piano bench, inhaled shallowly and exhaled deeply, looking past the music sheet in front of him, Li An raised his hand and dropped his fingers.

"Dang-dang-dang! Dang-dang-dang!"

Brilliant chords with a strong sense of shock give people a very strong appeal. Ji Kai sat the closest, frowning and moving forward with the rhythm of the music.

Suddenly, just when the music had fully filled his sense of anticipation, and in the next second, when a bass with a climax color was about to come out, the sound of the piano weakened.

Just as he was surprised, he saw that his elder brother had already looked at him with a little teasing in his eyes.

He touched his nose, as if that's what he did.

Then the music returned to the right track, but after a few bars, he found that the music was getting faster and faster, which was far from the previous stable speed.

Then the music is back on track.

Predictably, the music went off the rails again after a while.

Just like that, when Ang Lee played the first movement to the end, everyone seemed to have eaten a meal with a strange taste, sweet for a while, spicy for a while.

It is a pity that the classical piano does not have a sweet and spicy taste.

"Appeal."

Just when Ang Li pressed the last note of the first movement and everyone thought the music had stopped, he asked Ji Kai to pay attention to it.

Ji Kai was listening attentively, and there was still a faint lingering sound in the air. Just when the voice was about to dissipate, the second movement seemed to emit a dim light from the lingering sound.

Goosebumps crawling all over my neck!This is the effect he has always wanted to pursue!
Looking at the elder brother again, Ji Kai is no longer worshiped.

Ang Lee didn't go any further, and chuckled softly, "The fantasia-like style means that the composer used some improvisation methods in it. Composers such as Mozart Haydn have such a feature when they write such works."

"Schubert is no exception. A work in the style of fantasia will have unpredictable musical parts containing various types of sounds. That is to say, all the composer's musical ideas appear one after another. We There should be no breaks during the performance."

Ji Kai understands! !The same is true between movements, which cannot be truly disconnected.

"But the premise is that you have to design the performance, how to establish their connection, and how to leave buttons at the interface."

"The decrescendo at the end of your first movement obviously gives people a feeling that the movement is about to end. Is it because the pedal is too fast, or the final touch is too shallow so that you can't continue the music."

"This is the first question of your composition."

Li An got up and took the sheet music to Ji Kai's side, "The second question is strength."

Referring to the bass part that he deliberately played lightly just now, "It's not that you can't be weak here, but you can't be so strong in the front. According to the treatment method of the classical period, although it needs a strong and weak contrast, it itself does not have the style of the romantic period. dramatic."

"There are many places like this, and you can categorize them."

"The third issue is speed."

Ang Lee didn't talk about the score this time, "The first time I asked you to turn on the metronome, I just wanted to tell you that when playing works in the classical period, where the composer did not clearly indicate the speed change, you should keep the control speed consistent. "

"If you define this track as a sonata of the Romantic period, as I said before, it's ok, then you have to boldly reflect your ideas and designs in the speed changes, and don't be afraid."

"The premise is that you have to understand that the needs for this kind of processing are different in different works. Some free changes occur in the melody, and some free changes occur in the accompaniment."

"Like your favorite Schubert impromptu in B-flat major, in which—what?"

"Variation three, big brother." Ji Kai seemed a little excited, "Variation three!"

Li An raised his eyebrows: "Do you understand?"

Ji Kai nodded, "Understood, big brother, thank you big brother."

Li Ang waved his hand: "You understand these things. My personal suggestion is to connect these together in a unified way. No matter which way you want to play this work, you can, but you must do it from one to the other. final unity."

"If you pay attention to the sound effect of the bass in a passage, you must make the melody fade out a little bit. If you focus on how to let a sound enter, you must make some sacrifices when it comes out."

"The piano is balanced. The left and right hands add up to [-] points. If the left hand has more points, the music will lose one point."

Wei Sanwan nodded, and he began to wonder if this brat was secretly having lessons with someone.

But he is smiling.

For a while, 201 became quiet, as if everyone was thinking about Ang Lee's last words, including himself.

If he is asked to record Bay Thirteen again, he may be able to pop up some new things.
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Beth Thirteen, the first of Beethoven's 27 works, a sonata similar to a fantasia.

(End of this chapter)