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2019-4-10 16:14:37
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知友们,你们好!
我是宋如音,现在是美国茱莉亚音乐学院(2015年起)和曼尼斯音乐学院(1999年起)的在职教授。在过去这些年中,我很荣幸遇到了很多来自中国的学生。通过与他们的接触,我开始了解中国的音乐教育,也很高兴看到古典音乐教育在中国的蓬勃发展。
现在,我希望和广大热爱古典音乐的知友们,来分享我个人在钢琴表演及教学方面的知识,与大家一期切磋交流!我的同事及好友 @秦琴Asuka 会帮我把内容翻译成中文,方便大家阅读~
我一直觉得,这世界上很难再找到像弹钢琴一样,会要求人“一心多用”的事情了。
也许对旁观者来说,演奏钢琴似乎只是坐在琴凳上,手指在琴键上动动。看似轻松, 实际上却是需要钢琴演奏者积累大量的专业技巧,并且可以同时运用多种能力。
对于长期练琴的人,因为要区分非常细微的音高或音色差别,都必须磨练出一副极其尖锐的耳朵(即听力)。同样,为了达到弹琴时完美的坐姿,需要极高的平衡感和力量均衡感。所以,弹琴的人都具有极其精准的身体协调能力(不仅仅是手指和手臂)。
长期练琴的人还具有极强的逻辑性,因为他们经过了从理解“单独音符的构成“ 到“自己创造复杂的乐曲“这样一个漫长的过程。长期弹钢琴的人,具有丰富的个人表达能力。这是因为弹奏钢琴要求我们时刻接触自己的内心世界,并将我们的情感和思想通过无限变化的琴声传达给观众。
我经常被问到一个问题:“孩子在弹钢琴时到底学到了什么技能呢?”
其实,家长们真正想问的也许是:“孩子学琴过程中收获的技能有哪些是 ‘可转移’ 的呢?” 比如说:“他们真的会更擅长数学吗?我通常会给出的答案是:“当然了,他们数学当然会更好。”
怎么可能不好呢?通过音乐,孩子们学会了数数和逻辑,同时又学会了空间性思考和抽象思考。同时,孩子们变得自律和专注,变得学会仔细观察。更多的是,孩子们学会用具有创造性的方式解决他们遇到的问题:双脑并用!他们学习在压力下表现自己,增强自信心,这些能力对考试来说都是至关重要的。
通过反复练习钢琴,孩子们还会学到益于他们一生的美德:耐心,冷静和坚持。特别是在当今快节奏的世界中,所有这些特质都很难训练,同时对孩子的书本学习起到了关键性的作用。
还记得小时候,我的母亲会来到我的房间,将我裹进暖暖的被窝里然后离开。哄完我入睡的母亲,会开始练习钢琴,而她的琴声成为了我最早的音乐记忆。这么多年过去了,这些旋律一直留在我身边,就像在梦中一样...每当我听到这些旋律时,我都会敬叹音乐的魔力。儿时母亲的琴声深深地印到了我的记忆中,直到现在,这些旋律还在向我传达爱的真理。
现在,我年已耄耋的母亲,每天仍会弹钢琴。弹奏钢琴似乎已经成为她精神和身体的锻炼,成为了她心灵的寄托,也成为了她的伴侣。弹奏钢琴对母亲来说是她安静思考的避风港,更是依旧激起她热情和好奇心的一门艺术。
所以,我认为这可能是长期学习音乐最有意义的地方吧,不仅仅是作为让孩子学习满分的踏板,而是作为一门宝贵的、不可替代的学习科目。音乐是一门无所不包的技艺,她让我们的灵魂变的敏锐,给我们带来一辈子的满足。
以下为英文原文:
My name is J.Y. Song, and I am on the faculty of The Juilliard School (since 2015) and Mannes School of Music (since 1999) in New York. It has been a privilege teaching many Chinese students who have come to study piano in the United States, and I have learned a lot about music education in China through my daily contact with them.
In return, I’m wanted to share my knowledge in piano performance with Zhihu audiences and the many people in China who are passionate about music. My colleague and friend, Asuka Qin @秦琴Asuka , will help me translate answers into Chinese for your convenience. Thank you, Asuka!
There are few activities that engage as many of our capabilities all at once as playing the piano. To an onlooker, a pianist appears merely to be sitting on a chair, moving fingers swiftly across a keyboard; yet for this simple action to be precise and communicative, a whole host of specialized skills need to function together, in perfect harmony.
There is acute listening, attuned over years of training to the minutest pitch and color change. There is split-second physical coordination involving not just fingers and arms, but the entire body to achieve perfect posture, balance, and weight distribution. There is logic in understanding how notes are put together, how these become harmony, form, and ultimately complex scores producing beautiful music. There is also personal expression, requiring us to be in touch with our emotions and inner thoughts, which are then communicated to others through infinitely varied sound.
I am often asked what skills children learn when playing the piano – that is, what is “transferrable” (will they really be better at math?). I typically give the practical answer: yes, of course, their math will improve, how could it not?
Through music, children learn to count, to think spatially and in abstract ways; they learn discipline, concentration, and careful observation; they learn to problem solve while being creative – yes, using both sides of the brain! They learn to perform under pressure and develop poise and confidence, essential for test-taking.
Above all, through the repeated practice of piano, children learn certain virtues that will benefit them throughout their lives: patience, calm, and persistence, all qualities difficult to train in today’s fast-paced world, yet so crucial for learning.
My earliest musical memory is of listening to my mother play the piano after she tucked me in bed. These melodies have stayed with me after all these years, as in a dream… and whenever I hear them, I am reminded of the magic that is music: that it reaches deeply into our memories, and conveys emotional truths not only in the here and the now, but through time.
My mother, having just turned eighty, still plays the piano every day. It now serves her as mental and physical exercise, as emotional therapy, as companion, as an art that stimulates her curiosity, and as a quiet place of repose and thinking. In the end, this is where the long-term benefit of music is at its most meaningful: not just as training wheels for math, but as the invaluable and irreplaceable subject that it is. Music is an all-encompassing craft that brings to the sensitive and discerning soul a lifetime of gratification. |
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