Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 912 172. Inheritance: Endless Joy

After saying harsh words to each other, the teacher and the student shook hands in a ceremonial manner.

He actually became the teacher's "rival". To be honest, besides feeling nervous, he also felt a little bit amused.

"Let's play rock-paper-scissors?"

"Yeah, rock, paper, scissors!"

The car played cloth again, and Ang Lee played his fist.

"Okay, I'll go first."

As the order of appearance was determined, everyone's eyes turned to Wang Xiaohu.

Wang Xiaohu scratched his head with an embarrassed look on his face.

Seeing this, Li Ang said: "Hurry up, announce the track list."

"Forehead."

Since this is the case, there is nothing we can do. Come on, Che Lin, Wang Xiaohu prayed in his heart as he raised the music score in his hand.

"The music for this round of the sight-reading competition is Haydn's Symphony No. 94." As he spoke, an idea suddenly occurred to him, "The sight-reading passage is the prelude to the first movement!"

"What?!" Haitao was shocked!
The second floor was instantly in an uproar, and all the questioning voices were directed at Captain Dragonfly.

Piano sight-reading, you play the entire symphony, what's the point of this?
"Teacher," Wang Xiaohu looked at Li An guiltily, "We don't have a rule that prohibits sight-reading symphony scores, right?"

Alas, Li An sighed in his heart that this was nonsense, but Wang Xiaohu was not wrong, piano sight-reading can be done with any score, but different scores require different levels of sight-readers.

Obviously, sight-reading a symphony score is the highest level. Not to mention Che Lin, he himself has only played some concerto orchestral scores, and that was based on a full understanding of the piano part.

He had never experienced sight-reading a symphony score.

"Ok."

What could Li An say, "Music score."

Lao Tang interrupted: "Wait."

Everyone looked at Lao Tang, who was very surprised. Is Li An sure he wants to sight-read the symphony score with Xiao Che? ?

"How about changing the music?" In Lao Tang's opinion, Xiao Che had no way of sight-reading a symphony score, and it had nothing to do with whether he was a genius or not. "Since this is a piano competition, we should use piano music."

Lao Tang's proposal was instantly unanimously agreed upon by everyone, and Wang Xiaohu also shouted, "Teacher, I'll go down and pick another piece of music and bring it up."

"Don't worry." Li An looked at the car, "You said, if you want to change it, let's change it."

All eyes immediately turned to Xiao Che's face, but to everyone's surprise, Xiao Che actually shook his head cheerfully: "Teacher, I have no problem."

Lao Tang, Mu Xin, Hai Tao: "."

Does this kid really not know what a symphony score is? Che Lin's words shouldn't be true.

Piano scores have only two parts, while even symphonic works from the classical period have at least ten parts.

Various musical instruments, clefs and key signatures are gathered together. It is difficult to just look at them, let alone play them at the same time.

Even if you are good at reading music, do you know which parts to play among so many parts?
How to grasp the necessary content to play in a short period of time involves professional courses on reading and playing the full score in professional colleges.

Haitao had never even glanced at the score, and Lao Tang had only tried to play the score in the Piano Concerto.

Mu Xin had been exposed to it for half a year when he took an elective course on art direction while studying in Vienna, so he knew the difficulty of it. Its difficulty has little to do with the playing itself. The key lies in the reaction speed and whether one has the ability to analyze the score while playing.

Obviously, this ability is something that non-professionals simply cannot possess, but Xiao Linlin said it was no problem.

If any other child said it was okay at this moment, Mu Xin would think it was just childish talk.

But because of the hearing and performance that Che Lin had just demonstrated, she had a little unrealistic fantasy in her heart. Maybe little Che Lin really had some confidence in herself.

It's really exciting.

Another excited person was naturally Wang Xiaohu.

Wang Xiaohu was impressed by Xiao Che's speech again. Feeling Xiao Che's full confidence, he suddenly felt that he should not have added that sentence just now. Wouldn't sight-playing the overture part limit Che Lin's performance?

"music score."

"Hey." Wang Xiaohu handed it over quickly, "Teacher."

Oh, it’s the clean version from abroad. “Who bought it for you?” Li Ang asked casually after taking it.

"Grandpa." Wang Xiaohu didn't dare to be proud, but he couldn't help showing off a little. "Grandpa bought me all the symphony scores of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. He said if I do well in the final exam, he would buy me symphony scores of three more composers."

".Grandpa is really ruthless," Li An made a rough estimate. There are nine Beethoven works, 41 Mozart works, and a little over 100 Haydn works. If all of them are genuine, even if they are purchased through channels, the minimum cost of these scores will be more than 10,000 yuan. "Come on."

He walked to the piano, bowed and took his seat. "It's the end of the overture, right? Give me a minute to take a look. Do you have any questions, Mr. Judge?"

"No, no." Wang Xiaohu bought time for the car, "Three minutes each."

offstage.

"So that's how it is. Xiaohu is still the conductor of the orchestra at school." After listening to Lao Tang's explanation, Mu Xin was a little speechless. How could he conduct if he couldn't play the piano like that?
Is he a real conductor? Mu Xin had no intention of criticizing Wang Xiaohu's professionalism, but Wang Xiaohu's piano professionalism made her wonder, can Wang Xiaohu understand the score, and can he still be the conductor of the orchestra?
If Xiao Linlin is in charge, she will have no problem. Xiao Linlin's level is there. As for Wang Xiaohu, right?
Hai Tao: "Xiao Hu has led the group to perform in the Rongyuan Grand Concert Hall. As far as I know, there have been two performances open to the public."

Mu Xin was surprised: "He's a resource guy."

Haitao smiled awkwardly when he heard this. Mu Xin was really bold.

This was not what he wanted to express. What he wanted to say was that Wang Xiaohu had certain command experience.

It seemed that Mu Xin must have misunderstood him, but he could also understand that for such a large student orchestra, it didn't matter whether there was a conductor or who was conducting it. In other words, if there was no Ang Lee, Wang Xiaohu would not have had such an opportunity.

This is true, but the child's family is well-off and the teacher is very capable.

This is how the world is. There is no fairness to speak of.

"Sister Xu attaches great importance to Wang Xiaohu's music education." Lao Tang reminded kindly.

Mu Xin was stunned, then nodded.

Li An took a quick look at the music score in front of the piano and called Xiaoche over, "Help me turn the music score."

You only need to sight-read one page of piano music, because one page of piano music can contain at least 20 to 30 bars.

However, since there are too many parts in the score, one page of the score actually only has seven or eight bars, and an overture with only seventeen bars also needs three pages of score.

Of course, Ang Lee asked Xiao Che to come and help her turn the music so that Xiao Che could preview it in advance. How much he could learn depended on Xiao Che himself.

The scene fell silent, with all attention focused on the master and apprentice sitting in front of the piano.

Just then, Li An turned around and said, "Come over here too."

Wang Xiaohu ran over quickly, thinking that the teacher had forgotten about him! In fact, he set this sight-reading piece for the teachers out of "selfishness". He wanted to take this opportunity to see how the teachers played the symphony score.

With the left and the right in place, Li An raised his hands and looked left and right, then seemed to intentionally move his chin towards the top of the first measure.

The two children looked at the same time, and saw the tempo hint left by the composer in capital letters at the beginning of the first measure: Adagio
Adagio, speed is around sixty.

After determining the speed, the car first looks at the first measure in a vertical column. Only the instruments marked with oboi, Fatotti and Corni in G have notes displayed behind them, while all other instrument parts are rests.

Looking at these three parts again, Xiaoche thought for a moment and then fixed his eyes on oboi.

"When-when-when-"

Ang Lee moved his hands, and melodious music with a triple beat sound rose from the piano castanets.

Sure enough, when the car heard the sound, it immediately continued to grasp the notes after oboi, which was the melody of the overture.

The bass played by the teacher's left hand was undoubtedly Corni's part. Suddenly, Xiaoche felt it.

Ang Lee slightly adjusted the tempo of the third bar, and his gaze fell on the string part below.

Here, the composer uses strings to take over from wind instruments, like a dialogue between three types of wind instruments and three types of string instruments.

But there are only two hands for the piano, so Ang Lee could only choose two of the string instruments to continue.

He chose the first violin and cello, and the principle remained unchanged, one melody and one bass, only in this way could the music continue.

Xiao Che stared at the score, and after noting down the teacher's playing path, his eyes jumped back to the wind instrument part.

flu!

Listening to the teacher's performance while comparing it to the music score, the car quickly determines the next melody choice.

Because Teacher Chen plays the flute, Xiaoche knows that flu is the abbreviation of flute in the score.

However, she directly abandoned the obli and fagotti parts which had the same rhythm and pattern.

The piano plays in the high range in a dialogue format until the end of the sixth bar, and Ang Lee returns to the string area again.

Xiaoche already knew how to play one page, and waited until the teacher finished playing the violin melody before turning to the next page.

Wang Xiaohu almost couldn't keep up.

Haydn's overture gradually unfolds in this opening and closing dialogue.

The vivid high-pitched string staccato notes come alive under Teacher Li's elastic right-hand fingers, while the cello part in the bass string area is the focus of the teacher's left hand.

In this colorful abridgement, Ang Lee demonstrates how to move a symphony forward by controlling the bass. Although the overall sound is thin, it can be said that the framework is very clear.

"Dang! Dang!"

After two clear motives and chords, Xiaoche quickly turned to the third page of the score.

"when!"

With a group of chords in his left hand and a descending stream of violin music, Ang Lee finished the last two bars of the overture.

The moment he put his hand away, he pointed directly to the score, "Pay attention, this is the Allegro."

The battle scene turned into a classroom in seconds?! Before the audience could react, Li Ang started singing with his mouth.

The passionate singing does not forget to swing arms in the air to increase the emotion, and the best thing is that there are also explanations interspersed in it.

Lee Ang: "Vivace."

Wang Xiaohu: "Lively allegro, 133 to 140 beats."

Lee An: "assai!"

Wang Xiaohu: "Very fast."

"Very good! Go down!"

Ang Lee started singing again, and as if he felt that singing alone lacked motivation, he started playing and singing, interpreting the phrases of the first theme of the main part with a feeling of musical climax, which stunned everyone in the audience.

"Ding!" The key was pressed to record the sound. Li An stood up and looked at Wang Xiaohu. "Just follow this feeling and move forward. You must make two points clear here."

"First, orchestral works in the Baroque period could not be included in symphonic works. It was during the Haydn period that he introduced this new mode in his creation, showing two or more motives in the same theme, so the music contained multiple emotions instead of a single one. This was a great liberation from the relatively restricted musical form of the Baroque period."

Wang Xiaohu: “Yeah, yeah!”

"Second point."

Wang Xiaohu was stunned when he heard the teacher turning to the car!!!
"Linlin, here you have to first distinguish the difference between piano and symphony. With the same sonata form, symphony is more dramatic and highly personalized, while piano is more inclined to inner rationality. But whether it is symphony or piano sonata, they are inseparable from a long development process."

"The artistic level of Haydn's works is very important when we study the classical style in the future. His greatness lies in all his early works. None of them gave him a clear future direction. On the contrary, his spirit of exploration allowed him to gradually strengthen the fluency of the syntax in his subsequent creations, and the relationship between the main and the subordinate was highly contrasted."

"This high contrast was later further developed by Mozart and Beethoven, so please pay attention to this process."

The car nodded.

Li An turned back to look at Ji Yang and said, "Do you understand why I didn't recommend you to play Haydn's grace notes like that at the beginning?"

Senior Sister Xiao Ji: “Yeah!”

Ang Lee: "Right, although Beethoven and Haydn are considered classical composers of the same period, there is still a sequence between them. We use a work from a specific period to find the musical vocabulary of that time. This is not only about playing the piano, but also an experience of piano music culture."

"I want to emphasize this again," Li An said, looking at several teachers again, "I hope that our teachers will try to avoid giving a direct result when explaining similar issues to students in the future, saying that you must play it this way, otherwise it is wrong. We cannot directly tell students that the performers at that time played it this way, so we have to play it this way too. This is absolutely irresponsible. We must tell them why the performers at that time played it this way, and this is definitely not something we say casually."

"Let's talk about the question I just mentioned. Why do the grace notes in Haydn's early keyboard works have to be long and in counterpoint to the main note?"

"Don't tell your children that Haydn liked to use this feeling to beautify the melody. That's absolutely nonsense. Haydn knew better than us whether it was beautiful or not."

Everyone laughs.

"It's simply because the main keyboard instrument at the time was the harpsichord. As we all know, the harpsichord's sound quality is not good enough and it can't be compared with the modern piano. So Haydn had no choice but to play it in that way."

Lao Tang: So that’s how it is. I’ve learned something new!

"Later, with the advancement of musical instrument machinery, fortepiano began to appear in large numbers in various corners of the market after 1770, and the harpsichord was replaced."

"Does this mean that the development of science and technology also has an impact on music? Right? The impact on the development of music is not just literature, architecture, and some metaphysical factors."

Everyone nodded.

"We can extend this further. Haydn and Mozart, right? Even though technology has developed, they both grew up in an environment with harpsichords."

"So they have the blood of composing for the harpsichord in their bones. Such deep-rooted thinking habits cannot be changed, but they have to accept new things."

“Then can we experience the collision of new and old ideas in their mid- to late-period works, which are still in sonata form?”

Ang Lee's gaze finally returned to Xiao Che's face, and his speech slowed down: "Then the teacher asked you, it's still sonata form, but are there some things in it that are different, and then the romantic era is about to make its debut."

Xiaoche's face flushed and he nodded vigorously!

Li An laughed: "What do you call this? This is called inheritance, and endless joy."

"Wow————————"

The four people in the audience clapped as if there were forty people applauding.

Including Lao Tang and Mu Xin, both felt that they had taken two lessons.

Ang Lee is really good, Piano Classroom No. 4 is awesome! !

"Linlin, are you still going to play?" At this point in the atmosphere, Lao Tang felt that it was okay and decided not to make things difficult for the child.

Everyone looked at Xiaoche, and Xiaoche looked at the teacher.

Li An smiled: "It's up to you."

suddenly.

"Teacher, I have a bold idea!"

Wang Xiaohu raised his hand, and Li An knew something was wrong when he saw his constipated face.

When everyone looked at him, Brother Xiaohu felt a little shy for a moment.

Xiaoche blinked: "~?"

(End of this chapter)