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Chapter 698 397. Journey Notes 83: Melody’s Viewpoint Bombing!

At [-]:[-], the classroom was already buzzing with excitement, and everyone was looking forward to today's class.

What will Teacher Li talk about later?

The subject of melody expression seems easy to understand at first glance, but if you think about it carefully, you will lose your way of thinking.

What does the expression of melody mean? The melody starts as soon as the music starts. Play it softly or with emphasis, slower or faster. I feel that the expression of melody is related to these things, but it seems that everything about piano music is divorced from it. No discussion on priority or speed.

Most children can only think up to this point, and a few children with advanced knowledge can extract the word melody through the title. There are single-part melodies and multi-part melodies such as polyphony.

Children of different levels, with different levels of problems, are waiting for Teacher Li's arrival.

In addition to children, there are also teachers who came to listen to today's class. Not only domestic teachers, but four foreign teachers also came to the scene.

Old Charlie specially sat next to Boss X. The old man wanted to hear how Ang Lee explained the melody.

At a quarter past eight, as the tall figure walked through the door, the classroom fell silent at first, and then burst into warm applause.

"Wow——————"

The children welcomed Li An with applause, and Li An responded to the children's enthusiasm with a bow after walking onto the podium.

He could see that many children had brought notebooks and pens, but before the class started, he had to announce yesterday's winners.

This task was given to him by Boss X during breakfast.

"Good morning, classmates."

"Hello, Teacher Li!"

A tacit opening of the interaction.

Li An nodded: "First of all, let me tell you your thoughts after the class yesterday."

The children's ears pricked up.

"As of the start of the concert last night, we had collected a total of 33 feedbacks from the class, among which there were [-] students whose effective word count reached the requirement of more than [-] words."

Audience: "Wow!"

"Miao Hengrui, Yu Xiaobei, Liu Ziqian, Shen Qi, Marco, Liu Fengrui, Wang Jiajia, Fu Yu, Che Lin, Tang Xiaoxing, Meng Yanxi, Wang Xiaohu, Liu Zihan, Ji Yang, Xing Haotian."

"Wow------"

Applause broke out again.

The children whose names were read were naturally filled with joy. This was the result of their rest time and countless brain cells.

The children whose names were not read out naturally did not meet the requirements. They also knew in their hearts that the children who had written six to seven hundred words at this moment were somewhat disappointed. If they had written more, they would also have received this honor. .

There was actually a dispute about this list at the beginning. Although the post-class reflections submitted by Zhang Haoyang and Pan Anran met the word limit, there was considerable overlap in the content submitted by them. In some places, they could be said to be wordless. Difference.

The teachers do not object to the children looking up information. For most children at this stage, the topic of Baroque dance music is indeed very difficult.

But copying information on a large scale seems unfair to other children who have to complete it on their own and children who are two to three hundred words shy of reaching a thousand words.

After discussion, Wang Han and Sun Liwen finally made the decision to cancel the music score distribution rewards for Zhang Haoyang and Pan Anran. The two teachers also communicated with the two students after the meal and informed them of the results in advance.

How should I put it? It's quite embarrassing.

"I hope everyone will keep up the good work."

After announcing the winners, Li An looked around and finally his eyes fell on Xiaobei and the others. He couldn't say he was surprised that all the members of Piano Classroom No. [-] received awards, but at the same time, he felt that these little things were really impressive.

You must know that yesterday afternoon, I was so busy that I didn't pay attention to a few children, and several children even came to watch Chen Xuan's game.

In other words, several children completed it before four o'clock yesterday afternoon.

pride.

"All right."

When the classroom became quiet again, Li An changed his voice and put down the list in his hand, walked to the podium, stopped, and assigned a task to the audience.

"Give everyone 3 minutes to think again. Think quietly. After 3 minutes, raise your hands. When you are called, the students will stand up and tell me what your favorite melody is."

"Pay attention, it must be your favorite melody."

"start."

With a crisp snap of his fingers, Ang Lee started a 3-minute countdown for everyone.

After finishing cleaning up the podium, Li An walked to the piano, bent down to lift the cover, lowered his head to check the keyboard, and finally walked around the classroom.

You can name your favorite thing in one second. If you waver back and forth, it’s hard to call it your favorite.

But since it was children, Ang Lee gave everyone 3 minutes.

Three minutes passed in the blink of an eye, and there was another snap of fingers. The children seemed to wake up from hypnosis and raised seven or eight arms in an instant.

Among them are Liu Fengrui and Che Lin.

There were only five places available. In view of the situation, Li An could only selectively ignore them, and had no choice but to bypass the two children and look at the other raised arms.

Li An, who raised his arms after several children, also chose to "ignore", because in his opinion, no matter what the reason, you should show a stress reaction when facing your favorite things, and he has already told everyone 3 minutes left.

"Xu Jiaxing." He called out to the first child who raised his hand from his perspective.

Xu Jiaxing couldn't control himself and wanted to share it with everyone. Before he could stand still, he shouted: "The melody at the beginning of Schubert's Serenade."

Li An subconsciously looked at Tang Xiaoxing. Sure enough, when he heard Schubert's name, Tang Xiaoxing's expression changed slightly.

"Okay, Schubert Serenade." Ang Lee hummed as he spoke. His magnetic baritone filled the triplet texture, and the high and low movement of the tune gave people warmth and beauty.

As one of Schubert's famous melodies, Serenade is widely circulated, and no one at the scene does not know this melody.

Even the other three foreign professors who could not understand Chinese thought of the melody of the serenade when Xu Jiaxing said "Schubert".

It was such a melody, and now Ang Lee asked his next question.

The moment he finished asking, there was a commotion. The children had strange expressions and looked at each other, as if they wanted to verify from others whether they heard correctly.

Old Charlie asked Boss

Old Charlie thought for a moment and smiled.

"Really," Xu Jiaxing was confused when he was asked. He loved this melody from the first time he heard it. It can be said that he insisted on learning the piano just to play this piece of music. "Mr. Li, this It’s my favorite melody.”

Li An also laughed: "I like it so much."

"Okay, then I'll play this melody for you."

Li An walked to the piano and sat down. The classroom suddenly became quiet. Teacher Li was going to play the piano again!
Especially Xu Jiaxing, but as the sound of the piano sounded in front of the piano, Xu Jiaxing was dumbfounded. At the same time, almost all the children present were dumbfounded.

This is Schubert's Serenade! ?

The children's first reaction when they heard it was that this was not a serenade.

But listening again, this is indeed the melody of a serenade.

Teacher Li did it on purpose!
Gradually, the children discovered the problem, Teacher Li's accompaniment!
Children heard it right. The beginning was supposed to be a minor chord, but Ang Lee deliberately played it into a major chord. This made the music that was originally a bit sad become brighter, and it still had the feeling of bathing in sunshine.

How strange! !
But the children can’t say that this is not Schubert’s Serenade, because Teacher Li’s right hand plays the melody of the Serenade!

Listening to the serenade in major harmonies, the Xu family felt as if they were in a mess under the sun, as if the original serenade in his heart could no longer be found.
Ang Lee put his hands away and stood up, facing all kinds of eyes, he asked Xu Jiaxing: "Is this Schubert's melody still your favorite now?" Xu Jiaxing looked like he was about to cry, "Teacher Li "

Li An smiled and motioned for Xu Jiaxing to sit down, and suddenly a line of small words popped up in front of his eyes.

[Tang Caiyun’s teacher-student index dropped to 83]

Haha, Li Anxin smiled and said that Xiaonizi was also a temperamental person, and he didn't say anything bad about Shu Bo, either.

"next."

Li An looked around and saw that there were many more people raising their hands this time than before, but he still picked one of the first children to raise their hands.

"Shen Qi."

Doudou stood up: "Hello, Teacher Li, my favorite melody is Senbonzakura."

As soon as Doudou finished speaking, there were various responses in the classroom.

But Li An scratched his head, he had never heard of it, "Can Shen Qiqian sing briefly?"

Shen Qi hummed a few words, and Li An knew which piece of music it was in, so he smiled and said, "okok."

As soon as he smiled, the "good-hearted" child couldn't help but start to look forward to how Teacher Li was going to "ruin" Senbonzakura again.

Sure enough, the originally good melody became unrecognizable under the special effects of Mr. Ang Lee's left hand.

Doudou sighed, thinking that no matter how well Teacher Li played it, it would not change the status of this piece of music in her heart.

But she was wrong.

"Everyone be quiet."

Ang Lee stood up from the piano and motioned for everyone to put their hands down, walked to the middle of the classroom, looked around and asked, "Has the melody changed?"

"Have."

"no!"

The two diametrically opposed answers did not confront each other for more than two seconds, and the voice that did not change won an overwhelming victory.

"The melody has not changed, so why has the music changed? From familiar to unfamiliar, what happened in the meantime?"

Ang Lee asked the question again, "Now I'll give you three more minutes to think about what a melody is."

A crisp snap of the fingers.
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Children with quick reactions or experience can already blurt out why the feeling of music has changed, because the changes in chords lead to changes in the direction of harmony, which in turn leads to changes in the familiar music colors.

The change in color ultimately results in a change in the music everyone hears.

But Teacher Li’s ultimate question is – what is melody?

The known condition that children can get is that the function of melody does not seem to be as powerful as they originally thought.

Just like that popular serenade, when the melody remains unchanged, just changing the harmony progression makes everyone feel that the melody is not so moving.

After 3 minutes, Ang Lee did not ask a child to stand up to answer the question, nor did he directly give a standard answer. Instead, he first led the children to re-understand the composition of the melody from the phenomenon.

He gave similar explanations to several children in the car on the train.

First of all, the sound of two tones one after another constitutes the movement of the tone value in time. This is the smallest unit of melody.

Secondly, taking the smallest unit of melody as an example, if the first pitch is high and the second pitch is low, the two notes form a descending progression, and vice versa.

"That's what we usually call upside and downside."

"Finally, if two notes are at the same pitch position, that's parallel."

"When we expand the smallest unit of two tones to three tones, five tones, or ten tones, and we connect each tones in series by connecting lines, we can get a zigzag line."

"What is this line called?"

Kids: “Melody Line!”

Ang Lee: "Very good, so have you noticed that this line is always drawn in one direction? So what do we call this progression?"

Children: “Melody progression!”

Looking at the scattered teaching points in front of him, Li An smiled and applauded everyone. It was not surprising that the content he was talking about now was the most basic content for most children, but everyone needed to sort it out a little more clearly. .

"When we play the piano, besides the melody progression, what else is there to do?"

Kids: “Chord progression!”

Ang Lee: "So should the chord progression be included in the melody progression?"

Children: "No!"

Ang Lee: "Then we kick out the chords and go back to the melody progression. If our melody reaches a small group of la, it is a quarter note, and the next note is a small group of si, which is an eighth note. Notes, first of all we can clarify which note has the longest duration?"

Kids: “La.”

Ang Lee: "No matter what the unit beat is, is la here longer than si? Because the length of a quarter note is always equal to the length of two eighth notes, this is no problem, right?"

Children: “No problem!”

Ang Lee nodded: "Okay, then my question is, can the length of each note be reflected in our melody line?"

"Yes." Only some of the children answered this time, earning a sly smile from Li An.

Ang Lee turned around and drew four dots on the big screen, "These are the four notes. Who can express the length of their note values ​​while connecting them into a melody line?"

The children were lost in thought.

It seems that no matter how you draw it, it is just a zigzag line.

Ang Lee seemed to be talking to himself, or asking: "Is it possible that when we discuss the melody line, it actually has nothing to do with the rhythm."

There was an uproar!

The rhythm is not part of the melody? !This subversive point of view brought the atmosphere of the scene to its peak in an instant.

Although several teachers had a premonition that Li An was going to talk about this according to the previous ideas, but when they actually heard it, they had a different feeling.

In the understanding of most teachers, rhythm and beat are part of the melody.

Can this be taken apart?
Old Charlie showed a playful smile. The first time he heard this theory was when he was studying piano with Serkin.

Serkin told him the same thing at the time.

He was as shocked as the atmosphere at the moment, and he was looking forward to Ang Lee's next decryption.

Taking off his hat, old Charlie changed to a more comfortable sitting position. He wanted to see what kind of theoretical and practical support could allow this young man to put forward such a point of view.

"Okay, let's officially start today's class."

"The expression of melody."

The way the melody is expressed, looking back at today's topic again, combined with Teacher Li's guidance just now, some children seem to have noticed something.

Xiaoche suddenly remembered what her teacher had told her: performance is subjective, while musical notation is objective.

(End of this chapter)