Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 650 349. Journey Narrative 35: "Contemporary Reflections, Deep-rooted Voices"

Music is in the heart, so well said.

Ang Lee can't wait to hear what Boss X's Bach will be like, but this will have to wait until the closing ceremony.

Although there is still some time before the closing ceremony, he can listen to the three children's duet for a while.

With such a teacher to check it, I think it will be very exciting.

"Wow——"

Boss X nodded again and extended his hand to Carl Fraser, Hua Guo’s son-in-law, Professor Martin.

"Wow——"

The music continues.
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Applause ushered in the second program of the evening. Professor Martin took the stage to play the keyboard works of another master of the Baroque period, Dominique Scarlatti.

Throughout the Baroque period, Scarlatti's greatest contribution was the creation of a single-movement keyboard sonata.

The brisk monotone composition style of his works is very distinctive. Martin played five pieces in a row and received enthusiastic applause from the children.

In the third program of the concert, Yuan Xiaoyu took the stage as a representative of domestic teachers and played the fortepiano sonata by French composer Couperin during the Baroque period.

Similar to the situation of the Bach family in Germany, the Couperin family also has great influence in France. He was praised like a saint by Debussy and Ravel, and both Bach and Handel also studied and imitated his works. .

From Bach to Scarlatti to Couperin, the three teachers used their superb playing skills to let the children swim in the ocean of Baroque keyboard music.

Let children listen to and experience different Baroque music styles.

After each piece of work, Boss X will come on stage to introduce and explain it to the children with a conversational speech.

But looking at the long history of music, Boss X can only uncover a corner of history in a limited time.

For example, when talking about Domingo Scarlatti, we have to mention his father Alexander Scarlatti.

Scarlatti the Elder was one of the first composers to use harmonic jumps after cadences. He made an indelible contribution to the overall unity of the cantata, an important vocal genre in the Baroque period.

For example, when talking about the Poucolain family, we must mention a point put forward by Francois Couperin at the time: "The bass part was not composed at all to add a lute-style, syncopated inner part." '

This point is meant to emphasize that when the Italian Sonata for violin and continuo was played on the harpsichord in early eighteenth-century Paris, the unwritten inner part had been added by the player's habit. , which also hints at the fundamental difference between the French style and the Italian style at that time.

It was an era of highly prosperous culture and an era of collision of ideas.

Due to time constraints, he could only use one short story after another to unveil a corner of history for the children.

Combined with the music that children hear, try to shorten the distance between children and history.

In his opinion, children should understand at least two things at this stage of piano learning.

The first is how the piano they play now developed.

The second thing is what kind of composer created the work they are playing now.

He also hopes that through his interpretation of Bach, he can inspire teachers to think about whether they can use another way to explain musicians in history to children in the future, a way that children can directly resonate with.

For example, Bach was a "copying homework" guy.

Rather than one that emphasizes how great this father of harmony and the author of the Old Testament is.

He feels that letting children know about a composer's achievements is not more meaningful than letting children understand the process of how a composer achieved these achievements.

Just like after assigning a new piece of music to a child, many teachers are always used to standing at the end and waiting for the child.

This approach is indeed convenient and trouble-free, but the consequence is that children will become accustomed to it and think that learning music means playing new songs one after another.

Starting from Little Soup, then to Hanon Czerny, to Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Chopin, Liszt and so on.

There are countless paths, but the directions are all surprisingly consistent. One lesson after another, one song after another, it's like climbing a mountain.

In this process, countless children were screened out. Perhaps among these children there are children who really like music.

And the children who persist to the end may finally be able to remember which songs they have played and which songs they have not played yet.

This is not how learning music works, nor should it be.

Regarding the current situation of piano education in China, Boss X feels that those who have the ability to reflect on it should really reflect on it.

The number of piano boys in China has grown to an astonishing number today. Has anyone really thought about who will be responsible for such a huge group?

From the millennium to today, the development of piano education in China has proven that it is hopeless. Boss X knows that with his own meager power, he cannot shake reality at all, but in every innovation, someone must stand up first.

He didn't think he was naive, especially when he looked at the innocent and lovely smiling faces in the audience.

He believes that day will come.

After telling the last little story about the Coupland family, Boss X smiled softly, and the audience burst into applause again.

It was the first time for Ji Yang and several eldest children to hear about the Couplain family in France. They did not expect that there would be such a proud family during the Baroque period.

From being unable to accept Italian style, to finally secretly adding Italian style to the family's works.

"Wow——"

Under warm applause, Boss X once again extended an invitation to the audience.

There was a small commotion at the scene. Wang Xiaohu and others stretched their necks and looked towards the left hand side of the first row.

Tang Xiaoxing, Liu Zihan, and Lu Hanwen stood up at the same time. At the same time, the staff pushed the other two pianos to the center of the stage.

No one at the scene didn't know that today's last program was a trio, and the performers were three classmates of similar age.

At this moment, the children were all a little excited, because the teachers were on a different front from them after all, especially the children in groups one and five. Seeing their new partners walking onto the stage, they all wanted to slap their hands to pieces.

Tang Xiaoxing is the unanimous consensus among most boys that she is the cutest girl in this summer camp.

When Tang Xiaoxing walked onto the stage, under the lights, she was dressed in a pure white dress, with her long silky hair tied behind her back and a red headband, giving people an indescribable sense of elegance.

Even girls couldn't help but think that this female classmate looked so good standing on the stage.

Children have entered adolescence and have established a set of aesthetic perspectives and labels for both the opposite sex and the same sex.

It’s okay to have some ideas.

It's just that there are always one or two "outliers".

Wang Xiaohu thought for a while but still didn't push Marco. He really didn't know what it was about Tang Xiaoxing that attracted Marco so much.

Can't figure it out.

But one thing he was also curious about was why Tang Xiaoxing was so shy off stage, but on stage he was so calm as if there was no one in the audience.

Very cool!He couldn't do it anyway.
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Different from the children's perspective, the teachers discovered the gap the moment the three children stepped onto the stage for the first time.

Ang Lee objectively commented that there was nothing faulty about the appearance and behavior of the two children, Lu Hanwen and Liu Zihan, on the stage.

But standing next to Tang Xiaoxing, he still seemed too reserved.

Of course, Ang Lee can understand that compared to 99.9999% of children, children like Tang Xiaoxing have grown up on the big stage, so for Tang Xiaoxing, going on this stage is probably as casual as drinking water.

This is not an exaggeration by Ang Lee. Just looking at Tang Xiaoxing's steps and breathing, without any deliberate emphasis, gives people a sense of calm from the inside out.

Without even any desire to show off, this calmness alone is not something a child of this age can possess.

"Wow—"

The three people on the stage first bowed to the audience side by side, and then sat down in front of their own pianos.

Tang Xiaoxing sat on the middle one, and after sitting down, he began to adjust the height of the piano bench.

After confirming that there was nothing wrong with her, she looked at her two partners respectively. After receiving their affirmative looks, her eyes returned to the keyboard in front of her.

As the applause fell, the scene fell into silence.

Everyone had to focus on the piano in the center of the stage. Sitting in front of the piano, Tang Xiaoxing seemed to have such a magic power. It was like as long as she sat on the stage, there would be only one focus on the stage.

call.

Tang Xiaoxing felt the familiar atmosphere of the scene. The stage light above his head was still so hot. He took a breath, raised his hand and dropped his fingers. With the sound of the glazed harp ringing above the stage, even the oil paintings on the hall wall that had faded over time, They all seemed to be rejuvenated at this moment.

In the blink of an eye, the car was completely attracted by the deep texture under the bright background of the piano sound.

Bach's English Suite No. 808 in G minor, bwv[-].

Trio arrangement, Song Kang.

(End of this chapter)