When it comes to classical music, what are your key words? High-end, atmospheric, high-grade? Traditional, decaying, old-fashioned? Or is it difficult, lengthy, and uninteresting? ...... Or you're the kind that mentions the word "classical music" and doesn't have to mention anything else, nothing to say. So today, when you are stuck in a certain high-speed and bored to play mobile phones, or waiting in line to enter a certain scenic spot and there are hundreds of people in front of you, or it is difficult to "lie down" at home, you may wish to look down (listen) to see (listen).
Myth 1: Listen less
Truth: Life is full of classical music
Listen to the following two sets of music and follow your inner logic to pair one or two pairs:
Group 1:
A.
B.
C.
D.
Group II:
a.
b.
c.
d.
The right answer is revealed: A&b, B&a, C&d, D&c. However, after watching it continuously, I found that this is not a test, just to let you find out: there are so many familiar pop songs that are directly adapted using the main theme of classical music.
That's not enough, you think you grew up to hear some adapted classical music?
So what follows is that you've heard the series at such a young age!
The first is the background music of "Tom and Jerry", which is a few dozen songs at a random time.
Jerry's "Sleeping Beauty Suite Dance" played while skating:
"Song of Spring" when Tom fell in love:
Another famous mouse animated figure: Micky Mouse's cartoons featuring him are often a classical concert in one episode, such as Mickey Mouse in the picture below, which challenges the classical song "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" that Tom cat also challenged:
The background music in Bugs Bunny's "Opera Barber" is the "Serbian Barber Overture":
Guess who this is a tribute to
And the red rabbit in the Japanese anime "Prison Break Rabbit" released in 2004 will ring out as soon as he sees his favorite sneakers: Bach's "The Joy of Jesus And Our People Look Up Bach: Jesus, Joy of Man's Desiring"
Even the recently popular domestic animation "Please Eat Red Beans!" In just 12 episodes, the updated album uses 5 classical music excerpts as interludes, including the "Spring Festival Overture" that is familiar to Chinese people:
If you were a kid who didn't watch much cartoons, here are some of the songs you should have heard when you grew up:
Jiang Wen's use of classical music as a soundtrack in the film has become a strong personal style, and lao Xiao's "Jazz Suite No. 2" sounded at the opening of "Evil Does Not Pressure Justice".
How does it sound so familiar? The version you have heard should be the version that Gu Tianle sang in "Hedong Lion Roar", "Come here we are all fruits, fruits and fruits and fruits..." (it turned out to be its !!! ）
Canon is not the name of the song, but it has become a repertoire that is played in the streets, men and women, young and old, and will always be remembered under the name of "Cannon", all by a performance by Jeon Ji-hyun in "My Savage Girlfriend"...
All in all, you think you have little exposure to classical music? The truth is: there is classical music everywhere in life, and you listen to it a lot.
Misunderstanding two: listening is not hi
(Why are their emotions aroused by classical music?) ）
Truth: You've been quietly moving with Mimi's heart
I believe that there will always be one or a few classical music fans around you, who collect various classic versions of CD records and even vinyl, do not miss any high-level concerts, fly often just to witness the style of a certain master player, and the car stereo is always playing Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Berlioz... And finally once, you can't help your friend for a year to continue to Amway, and finally appeared at the Scene of the New Year's Concert with him and her at the end of the year, only to find yourself in a long movement confused and yawning, embarrassed to glance at the friend on the side, fortunately he closed his eyes, his face was full of emotion, did not notice you...
If you don't have such friends around you, and you can't get the point of those enthusiasts very well, there is a person in the writer's world who loves to mention classical music in his works, you must know. Search for his name on a music app: Haruki Murakami and you'll find a variety of playlists.
Stills from the movie Norwegian Forest
For example: Haruki Murakami's music collection in the original "Norwegian Forest", "Kafka by the Sea" music collection, "Dance! dance! dance! Music Collection... And click on it and you'll find that a large part of the playlist is classical music. Murakami Amway can be said to be very brainwashed, and each work has a musical work that the protagonist mentions repeatedly, "it is better to say that the theme song of the whole book is not known." In the "1q84" series, Yanáček's "Little Symphony", "The "Rose Knight" that "I" always like to play when painting in the Assassination of the Knight Commander, Schubert's "Winter Journey" will show the situation of "South of the Border, West of the Sun" when it sounds...
Indifferent to the ecstasy of these classical music lovers? Anyway, I didn't feel it when I listened to it horizontally... The truth is! In fact, you have been quietly moving with the heart of Mimi...
If you don't believe me, listen to the following music:
As soon as the surging music sounded, the regular tune, the distinct rhythm, and the picture of the Imperial Legion marching in the vast universe were ready to come out. And the use of march as a song to match the war scenes of the film to show the power of the army is to mobilize your auditory memory of a specific musical genre such as the march, such as the March of the Volunteers, the Radsky March or other theme-oriented "Wedding March", "Funeral March", etc. are all using their specific creative forms, unique combinations of notes to incite your emotions...
If you've seen the Harry Potter films, you'll feel déjà vu, and many of the soundtracks in the film are like the 7th "Aquarium" of Saint-Saëns' "Animal Carnival", full of magic and jumping. Those clanging sounds are like magic wands, pointing around, using sound to weave a beautiful magical world (underwater paradise)...
The June Boat Song from Tchaikovsky's "Four Seasons" has appeared in many movies, and only because the sad and romantic mood conveyed by the music is suitable for various lyrical pictures, by the bank of the overcast river, the lost protagonist, the rainy grassland, the small square shrouded in blue-pink sunset, or a killer who receives black tulips as a secret sign, has just found a pot in front of the door, like the hero in the movie "Daisy". And this kind of lyrical emotion in music similar to Impressionist painting did not exist at the beginning in the history of classical music.
The Hungarian composer Liszt was the first to try to express the jumping sensation of glimmering in the painting in a musical way. Passing on this style, did Debussy's "Moonlight" ever touch you on a moonlit night...
Impressionist painter William Turner, "Coal Harbor Under the Moon"
There are also many classical music used as soundtracks in movies, and when the melody is remembered in your ears, you will naturally see the corresponding picture in front of your eyes. In the end, the biggest function of the film soundtrack is to match the picture, fully mobilize your emotions, and immerse yourself in the plot. In fact, the earliest prototype of film soundtracks can be traced back to a musical genre invented by musician Liszt: symphonic poetry. Unlike the fanatical tradition of using music to express abstract states, religious ideas, or faiths, his symphonic poems began to focus on a specific painting and attempted to describe the picture in the language of music.
Misunderstanding three: I don't understand
Truth: This is a false proposition
Speaking of which, the third misunderstanding seems to have been resolved, as in the art form of cinema, when music and pictures are presented in combination, it is often easier to obtain the so-called meaning in it. So what if you simply listen to a classical music? It's not necessarily that hard to understand, if you can hear the nervousness and anxiety in Maxim's "Bee Butterfly Dance", the cheerful playfulness in Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker Suite", the turbulent flow of the river in Johann Strauss's "Blue Danube", the sometimes surging and sometimes surging sea surface in Debussy's "The Sea"... Why is it so difficult?
"Thirty-six Views of Mt. Tomitake, Chunamiri, Kanagawa"
Regarding this misunderstanding, the famous pianist and classical music educator Duan Zhaoxu has a more subversive view:
"I often say on various occasions, don't worry about whether classical music can be understood, first of all this proposition is a pseudo-proposition, because usually this "understanding" refers to the exploration of its meaning, to explore what it expresses, for example, to understand English, to understand Japanese, to understand Italian, to know what it represents, but music is not such a thing, it is completely different from language, not such a category. So itself "understand or not" is a pseudo-proposition, music is first of all to judge whether it is good to listen to or not, if you think it is good, you have actually understood. ”
Duan Zhaoxu, pianist, doctor, scholar and well-known music critic of the Central Conservatory of Music, associate professor of the Department of Music, Master Tutor of the School of Arts and Media of Beijing Normal University, member of the Chinese Music Aesthetics Society.
In Teacher Duan's view, for music, an important criterion for good and bad is "good or bad", that is, how the perceptual experience it brings to the listener. Therefore, as long as a person's auditory organs and nervous system are normal, he has the right to judge good and bad, not only professionals can judge good and bad. And if you pay attention to the history of classical music, the repertoire that has been handed down to this day was actually well received in the era when it was created, such as the most acclaimed excerpt from the premiere of Verdi's opera, which is still the tune that the audience can hum the melody today. The so-called classical, in fact, was the popularity of the time.
So, if classical music can be enjoyed based on personal likes and dislikes, why do we need a professional teacher to guide us? For Mr. Duan, his classical music column "Classical Music Instruction Manual" (click to subscribe) is actually more like a collection of "favorites" that a senior music fan hopes to share with everyone, and his professional academic background, rich performance experience and related experience in music education make this sharing the initial classical music, and people who want to further understand classical music come to the "instruction manual".
▶ If classical music can be enjoyed based on personal likes and dislikes, why do we need a professional teacher to guide us? There are three reasons for this:
◎ For longer works, it is difficult for the untrained ear to keenly capture the narrative structure of the musical language, and even due to the lack of judgment on the segmentation between movements, it leads to auditory fatigue, and finally the inability to concentrate, which inevitably misses some details of the entire work and misses some key points worth noting, just like reading an article without segments and punctuation. In fact, every musical work has similar punctuation marks, and what you need is to learn to distinguish them;
◎ Understand the background of the creation of some works, the playing skills will help you better understand the work, you may say, no background knowledge is needed, I will naturally use my imagination when I hear music. It is true that this imagination is the greatest source of your pleasure, but at this moment, the imagination is in a state of divergence without a clue, and the supplement of background knowledge will create a ladder for your imagination, helping you step by step to the musical paradise that the composer himself wants to create for you;
◎ Teacher Duan explains each song in the form of performance, avoiding the situation of analysis and disjointed with the music, helping you to understand more intuitively, and after each explanation, there will be a recommended version of appreciation, eliminating the need to find a needle in a haystack to screen a musical version of the same name and different players.
Below, this "Beethoven's Tenth Symphony" you can try to listen to yourself, after listening to Teacher Duan's explanation, listen to it again, and see if there is any difference between before and after.
Click on the audition column "Classical Music Instruction Manual"
Isn't that rewarding? Speaking of which, interest is the best teacher, and the real significance of Mr. Duan's "Classical Music Instruction Manual" is to help you get the most pleasure from classical music.
Click on the image above
Order the first season of the column "Duan Zhaoxu Classical Music Instruction Manual"
For content and business cooperation, please contact:
▼ Click [Read the original] to subscribe to the "Classical Music Instruction Manual" column