Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 910 170. Starry sky duel, rational teaching

Children sometimes really do remember some of the adults' habits as a ritual, especially when they have experienced certain scenes and pictures.

In their memory, every time the teacher stood in front of the piano and took off his watch, they could hear the piano music that they could never forget.

Over time, they got used to it. Whenever they saw the teacher taking off his watch, they would naturally think of what would happen next. The scene that had not yet happened, together with the extraordinary expectations in their hearts, made them unable to control their inner excitement.

The children have reasons to be blind because this is the teacher they respect and love the most.

The adults are somewhat blind, because Lee has a reputation for winning awards and has performed at concerts and music festivals, so they have uncertain expectations about what kind of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star or Mozart he will play.

In other words, whether a complete nursery rhyme will undergo a gorgeous transformation under Ang Lee's fingering, or whether it will bear new fruit, this kind of secondary creation in which the performer gives new life to the work itself has always been popular with everyone.

After a moment, under everyone's expectant gaze, Teacher Li, who was sitting in front of the piano, raised his hand and played the twinkling melody of the theme.

"Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-"

The six consecutive quarter notes have full grains, mellow and smooth tone, and are played at a medium speed, indicating the speed of the work right from the beginning.

Wang Xiaohu was a little disappointed that the teacher did not make any complicated treatment at the beginning. Wang Xiaohu originally thought that the teacher would start in a rather romantic way, just like what the teacher said when directing "Echoes Under the Stars", the music should be quiet and have a sense of mystery.

But then Wang Xiaohu heard something from the flowing music that made him feel instantly happy.

Grace notes, he couldn't help but slowly move back two steps, now he could see everything that happened on the keyboard.

His attention was focused on the teacher's hands.

Wang Xiaohu, who has played this piece before, knows where the grace notes will appear. The amazing thing is that when he knows clearly that the grace notes are about to come, he hears them immediately, and then the music passes.

What about ornamentation?

It turns out that Mozart's ornaments can be played like this.
Xiaoche didn't have time to think about it anymore, as the music in front of him had already started to change.

The smooth and round sixteenth notes are laid out and woven in an extremely calm and delicate manner, and the uninterrupted music makes people almost forget to breathe, as if in just a blink of an eye, the music enters the next variation.

Unconsciously, everyone moved closer to the piano.

The distance of two meters was enough for Mu Xin to feel the movements of the ten fingers on the keyboard. Although she already knew that Li Ang's finger technique was excellent, at this distance, listening to the notes flying around her ears, looking at the hands on the keyboard, and feeling the elasticity between the notes, she couldn't help but sigh that the real-life effect was more shocking.

Mozart's touch requires absolute relaxation, and then the fingertips must bounce up like a ball the moment they fall and touch the keyboard. Only in this way can the gorgeousness and lightness required by Mozart's music be guaranteed.

It is actually not difficult to achieve this. There are many ways to practice. As long as you practice diligently with the correct method, everyone can master Mozart's touch.

The real difficulty lies in how to change the dynamics of long sentences with such fast and elastic touch. This is one of the reasons why most of Mozart's works cannot be played movingly despite their simple scores.

The two captains, Lao Tang and Hai Tao, looked at each other from time to time and then smiled. Their smiles seemed to say: See, the principal is the principal.

There is nothing much to say about Haitao. He will never get tired of listening to "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" a hundred times because it is so beautiful.

He and Mu Xin had exactly the opposite idea.

Mu Xin believes that the effectiveness of Li An's performance can be attributed to his strong finger technique and understanding of the German and Austrian styles, while Hai Tao believes that Li An's performance is primarily due to personal feeling.

Technology is dead, but talent is alive. Only when the performer has music in his heart and knows what kind of movement to produce, can the technique be put into motion.

Otherwise, it would just be a matter of piling up music with technology. Would that kind of music be good? In Haitao's opinion, it obviously would not be.

Lao Tang was not like the other two who were interpreting and listening at the same time. Lao Tang was simply enjoying the moment.

Compared with the two of them, Lao Tang felt that there was nothing to analyze, as people are always in the process of changing.

Lao Tang and Ang Lee have participated in competitions together, and they had a lot of exchanges at that time. Let’s not talk about the competition, but the Mozart played by Ang Lee today is different from the Mozart played at the music festival.

If Lao Tang must say a few words, he can only say that Li Ang's performance is more solid than Xia Tian's, and has far surpassed his current stage.

The key touch is delicate and crisp, and the strong control makes the performance more like a series of light touches and clicks. The force is exerted more on the fingers than the wrist, so the sound particles are extremely delicate, and the auditory shape has a unique charm.

It is this aura that makes Lao Tang believe that no matter what Ang Lee plays now, it will have a distinct personal style.

Just like the seventh variation at this moment, at the beginning of the octave, a sense of the vast and boundless universe arises spontaneously.

Lao Tang believes that this is where Ang Lee's real strength lies. Under Ang Lee's fingers, music is like having wings. Whether it is romantic or simple, Ang Lee can give music a clear direction or a clear path at any stage.

"Ding ding ding."

Senior sister Xiao Ji once again included a live performance of her teacher in her photo album.

The small car next to it stared at the keyboard eagerly, as if it had fallen into a mysterious space constructed by the black and white keys.

She seemed to have seen every scene in that mysterious space before. It was so intimate and familiar. She saw every scene that the teacher had described when he was rehearsing the program with the storyteller, and it was more real and clear.

What a beauty.

That’s right, if Ang Lee were to play the piano part instead of Han Yiming, he would probably play it like this.

Because this is the k265 in his mind.

When the last variation reproduced the theme in triple beat under his fingers, the entire second floor seemed to be pulled into the gorgeous night sky.

Each note flashes with a condensed light, and then droops down, like a drop of water falling into the mortal world from the thawing of a glacier.

One note after another, one piece after another, Wang Xiaohu was dumbfounded and mesmerized. He seemed to understand why the teacher played so quietly at the beginning. It turned out that everything was the teacher's "trick".

Bathed in this last wave of sound of falling stars, Wang Xiaohu had only one thought at this moment: if the teacher played the piano part, how magnificent the echo under the starry sky would be!

If there is another opportunity to perform, he must find a way to direct the teacher once!
Just as the ambitious Captain Dragonfly was making his own plans, the piano melody that filled the air above the stage gradually faded away.

"Wow————"

Applause broke out at the scene. Li Anfuqin stood up, turned around, bowed, and smiled as he left the stage to his opponent in this round.

He stepped aside and took over the applause, then took the lead in raising the applause again to Mu Xin who was walking towards the piano.

Ah Xin was born short, and her steps were not as big as the three men, so she did walk a little slowly, but she was not in a hurry at all.

Teacher Xin stopped in front of the piano calmly, turned around and bowed, then looked around, smiled and nodded, and then sat down in front of the piano, giving people a very calm feeling.

After sitting down, she began to adjust the height of the piano stool.

suddenly.

"Come on, Teacher Mu!" a voice came from the winning team.

Ah Xin turned around and gave the cart a confident thumbs up, then turned back to adjust the height of the piano stool.

Li An walked to the side of the car, and the car looked up. The teacher and the student had not smiled at each other like this in the past two days.

"when."

When the piano sounded, both the teacher and the student turned their eyes back to the piano at the same time.

Whether you have kung fu skills or not can be revealed once you make a move.

After listening to Mu Xin play the first three bars, Li An knew that Lin Youyou's evaluation of Mu Xin was still conservative.

After listening to the three variations played by Mu Xin, Ang Lee's evaluation of Mu Xin rose to a higher level.

No wonder the other party was so firm in emphasizing the importance of orthodoxy in the cafe just now. It turns out that this is where his confidence came from.

This time he really found a treasure.

I'm sorry, Teacher Xin.

Li An pulled the cart a little, and the cart was startled. Seeing that the teacher had already walked backwards, the cart quickly followed.

The actions of Li An and Xiao Che quickly attracted everyone's attention. Then Li An hooked his hand towards Senior Sister Xiao Ji, who also ran over quickly. Seeing this, Lao Tang thought something had happened and wanted to come over, but Li An pushed him away and said, "You don't have to come over."

Lao Tang curled his lips and smiled, then turned back to continue appreciating the music. "You play well, really well."

The two sisters who were called over didn't know what was going on. Then they saw the teacher squatting down and said, "Come here, come closer, and speak softly."

The two sisters followed suit and squatted down.

"Listen carefully, both of you. First of all, this piece is a variation. We have to make it clear."

"All variation-type works have one thing in common. Their harmony and various elements are static structures. Remember the dynamic structure I talked about when we were rehearsing the duet? On the contrary, its interior remains unchanged."

The two women nodded.

"In the variations of the Classical period, the melody and harmony are repeated over and over, always in the same pattern. The most prominent part is the harmonic contours between different variations. Listen carefully to what Mr. Mu plays. Is it very clear?"

Xiaoche nodded. She had the same feeling when she heard the second variation just now.

After a moment, Senior Sister Xiao Ji also nodded. After being reminded by the teacher, she also found that it was true.

"So when we get a variation, we need to first study the number of sounds and the contrast of the textures of each part, then build the shape of each variation in our mind, and finally achieve the diversity of the variation through changes in speed and strength. Teacher Mu's interpretation is very worth learning."

As Li An finished speaking, the two sisters couldn't help but cast their eyes on the petite figure in front of the piano again.

Under the influence of the Enlightenment, the concept of musical structure also underwent significant changes in the mid-eighteenth century.

European composers were increasingly concerned with harmonic and tonal goals.

Not only should the beginning and ending of a piece be arranged in a hierarchy according to the strength of their relationship to one another, but more importantly the piece should begin with an original tonality and move through a series of modal moves to complete the sense of musical movement, giving the music new direction and impetus, until finally returning to the main key again.

This process also fully reminds future generations how to play the works of this period. Extraordinary speed and finger flexibility are far from enough, and they must also be infused with clear performance logic.

What is a clear performance logic? From the beginning of the theme to now, Mu Xin explains this logic with every note.

From quarter notes to eighth notes, to sixteenth notes, and then to triplets, every clear dialogue between Mu Xin's left and right hands allows the music to gradually strengthen its inner dynamics at the most cautious pace within a unified framework.

In such a performance, the listeners no longer need to find out what the performer wants to express. Just appreciating the beauty of the rules of classical music is an extraordinary enjoyment.

The excitement of rhythm and lyricism go hand in hand. From time to time, Mozart's most outstanding inspiration will be glimpsed, and the beauty of German and Austrian piano will bloom again.

This is real power. Small body but huge energy. Ang Lee admires it!
"how?"

Senior Sister Xiao Ji: "It feels like a European-style building."

Ang Lee: “The Brilliance of Reason.”

Senior Sister Xiao Ji: “Hmmmm!”

Li An: "Lin."

Xiaoche: "It sounds good, but I can't put it into words, teacher. Is it after this that the classical period will usher in two new directions of change?"

Li An smiled and said, "To be more precise, the prototype has already appeared."

Xiaoche: "Questioning voice."

Li An: "It looks pretty fast."

Xiaoche: “Hee.”

Senior Sister Xiao Ji actually didn’t know what was going on. She could only shout “little pervert” in her heart!
At this moment, as the piano music coming from the stage suddenly accelerated, different expressions appeared on the faces of the teacher and students.

I don't know when Lao Tang had walked to the back of the stage. Lao Tang had no bad intentions. He just wanted to see how such a small pair of hands could run so quickly on the keyboard.

However, Haitao was still somewhat glad that he did not meet Mu Xin.

It is difficult for him to judge Mu Xin's ability to handle large-scale works, but when it comes to interpreting this kind of sketch, Haitao thinks that he is not much inferior to An Ge.

If Ango's little stars were a handful of golden sand thrown into the night sky, then at this moment Mu Xin was using the golden sand to make a smiling face of Mozart in the night sky.

Feeling the pressure coming at him again, Haitao felt that he had to rescue himself again, otherwise he would be embarrassed to say that he was a professional teacher of Sigang.

As a burst of intensive piano sounds soared to the highest point and then fell, Haitao was the first to applaud.

"Clap clap clap!"

Then applause broke out.

Mu Xin finished beautifully, stood up, breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and bowed with a smile.

"Eh?"

She was so focused on playing that she didn't notice how Li Ang and his two students ran so far away.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Mu."

Li An walked back with the two sisters, "It's a good opportunity to borrow your demonstration. I explained to them the logic of playing the variations."

Haitao: Is this possible?!
Lao Tang: You are such a teacher!

Mu Xin laughed out loud when she heard that. So this meant she passed the interview. She was very happy and felt like she was really recognized.

But she has to say that she really admires Ang Lee, who is still thinking about teaching children knowledge even in this situation.

The older one can almost understand it, but can the younger one understand it too?
Senior Sister Xiao Ji: "Thank you, Teacher Mu."

Xiaoche: "Thank you, Mr. Mu."

Oh my, look at these two girls, one big and one small, they are so cute.

While the two sides were interacting and scoring, Wang Xiaohu took the opportunity to get close to Xu Li and whispered, "Mom, who will be on the Victory Team in the fifth round?"

Xu Li was busy drawing a table to count the scores, and was too lazy to pay attention to Wang Xiaohu: "Go away."

After the two teams submitted their second-round scores, Wang Xiaohu announced that the third round of improvisation was about to begin.

Xu Li was the first to announce the two teams competing against each other, "Che Lin from the Victory Team, Ji Yang from the Slow Combat Team."

A burst of cheers pushed the two girls to the front.

Wang Xiaohu was instantly relieved after hearing this. It seemed that Che Lin could not possibly participate in the fifth round!
yeah!

But the question that follows is, does Che Lin's attack on her senior sister count as cannibalism?

"Linlin, I will do my best."

"Yeah, Senior Sister, me too."

Seeing the two sisters smiling and shaking hands, why did Wang Xiaohu feel a murderous aura in the air?

"Ahem, next, please ask Teacher Mu Xin to cooperate with us in announcing the repertoire for this round."

Mu Xin went on stage and unlocked his phone. Under the gaze of Wang Xiaohu, he opened the first playlist on Cloud Music and chose random play.

The song was changed six times in a row. On the seventh time, Mu Xin returned the phone to Wang Xiaohu.

When the prelude sounded, Mu Xin laughed, but his laugh was helpless.

If improvised on piano, this music would be a bit too unique.

Haitao: How can this be improvised?

Wang Xiaohu: This tune is interesting. Whose song is this?