Chapter 45 Lectures on Chopin
Shan Yi glanced at the people under the stage and said casually to them.
"Just like what I said today, today I just put forward a possible teaching idea for everyone here to think about. Whether this teaching method is applicable or not depends on the specific analysis of specific students, and it should not be
Directly applying formulas will cover all students in a teaching discussion, allowing them to understand the same things."
"Because today I am just giving a speech, not a master class, so today I will tell you in a relatively simple way about a student I met recently. I won't say his specific name, but he is in music.
His talent is very strong, especially his ability to understand music. He is almost one of the most powerful students I have ever seen..."
"Perhaps someone may want to ask me, what else can I teach a student with such a strong musical perception? If you just say something casually, he will be able to understand by analogy. What you teach is really that important to him.
Is it useful? Actually not... He has a very strong understanding of the beauty of music, but his musical performance is a little problematic."
"For example, let's take a piece that I taught recently, which is a piece that everyone here should know, Chopin's Piano Ballade No. 1. Everyone should know this piece, right? If you don't know
Get out of trouble!" Shan Yi made a joke to everyone: "He actually doesn't play this very simple piece of music very well. He can understand my teaching very quickly and can even directly play it.
Everything in it is used in my own music, but..."
Shan Yi's expression became extremely serious, and he slowly said: "But his performance was not perfect! It did not reach one percent of his talent for music comprehension! You can even say that he completely wasted his talent!
"
Fu Diao was stunned. He always felt that this person was a bit similar to his current situation. He couldn't help but turn his eyes to He Shen who was listening to the speech next to him, and found that He Shen's expression was also a little surprised. He didn't expect this time at all.
The example given by Professor Shan Yi is actually such a...coincidence?
Shan Yi didn't know what the two people on the stage were thinking. He just shrugged and continued.
"You said he works hard at practicing the piano. He does work very hard. He can even be said to be the hardest working among my students. But you say he plays well, but in fact he is average and not great.
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"Because I started researching and changed the direction of teaching, I soon discovered the problem... He did not have a complete and unified understanding of music! In other words, his understanding of music was scattered.
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"When we teach, we don't actually adjust the feel of the entire piece. We let the students complete the entire piece by themselves first, and then we adjust some of their details. This is most of what we do.
The direction that teachers or colleagues are working on, but there is an obvious problem, that is, this kind of teaching is too one-sided and superficial. It may be useful for ordinary people, but it is not so applicable to specific groups of people."
"Take the Chopin Piano Ballade No. 1 just mentioned. We talked about the Neapolitan sixth chords at the beginning. We have always said that we want to play the feeling of the Neapolitan sixth chords. What is the expansion of the sixth chord, what is the dissonance, and what is the need?
It is even more sad. If you use these words to teach students, they should understand the Neapolitan sixth chord in Chopin's work, but they will not be particularly aware of the role of this Neapolitan Liuhe County in music.
of clarity.”
"For example, the role of the Neapolitan Sixth Chord in the entire work, the expression of Chopin's emotions by the Neapolitan Sixth Chord, and why we need to play it like this is actually not particularly clear. It's just that
The simplest formula, you need to do this in this place, and you need to do that in that place, that’s all.”
"Then the question is, how do I guide him to start understanding a work?"
Shan Yi looked at the people off the stage with a smile, his expression did not change at all, and he spoke to the people in an extremely calm voice.
"Form analysis!"
"I will give you the simplest and clearest example. For example, Chopin's Nocturne, Op32, No1. For this piece, I led my students to analyze the musical form. This piece is a reproduction of the second part
If my work were written down in words, it should be..."
Shan Yi stretched out his hand and waved it, and a set of formulas immediately appeared on the screen next to him.
""A[a3(K46D7)+b4(DT)+c5(D-DD7)+a4(K46D7)+b3(DT)]+B[d5(Dt)+e6(Dt)+c11(D-DD)
]+B'[d5(Dt)+e6(Dt)+c'14(D-DD7)]”
"This is the formula for writing this piece. Taking section A as an example, we can clearly see the phrase a in section A. The first three measures are the progression from K46 to D7, and the following section is
They appear once, and they are still K46 to D7, so what are the differences and similarities between these two sections? We should use similar ideas to understand and build the skeleton of this piece."
"The same goes for the following. For example, the c phrase in the A section, which is the direction from D to DD7, this section also appears in the B section, but this time it goes from 5 bars to 14 bars.
There is also deformation.”
"Since these two phrases are actually the same musical idea, we must think in similar ways. At the same time, it is not just my own thinking. You also need to inspire his thinking and let him think about this.
How should we interpret the differences between the two places?"
"As we often say, what is the most interesting thing in music? It is contrast! Through constant comparison, the levels of music can get more changes!"
"Just like those variations, why variations are so interesting is not only that many things in this piece are changes from one musical idea, but also to a greater extent, it is also the contrast of the overall content of this piece, using
Various forms of contrast make music extremely interesting."
"Therefore, my lecture today is about how to build the skeleton of the work, so that the performers can have a clearer understanding of the internal skeleton of the music through teaching, and explain my method of teaching the works of specific performers."
"..."
Shan Yi on the stage was simply describing his method of instructing his students, while Fu Diao off the stage was completely stunned.
His thoughts had no idea where they were going.
A completely different door in the music opened to him, and his eyes were filled with light!
classical music……
It’s so much fun!
Chapter completed!