Of the above four rules-

The first stipulation that the repertoire is mandatory for everyone to play, and there is nothing to say about that.

But when it came to the second one, Qin Jian was a little uncertain at the moment.

41 and 56, he had been hesitating for some time between these two numbers, two numbers with completely different styles were his favorites, and he loved both of them.

Shen Qingci didn't say much about this, he just asked him to decide for himself, but he must make a decision after careful consideration.

This is the first question at this stage.

The repertoire prescribed in the third may seem complicated, but it is actually a choice of choosing either one of Chopin's sonatas or playing all of Chopin's preludes from beginning to end. [Op. 28, Chopin's collection of preludes, contains 24 preludes, all of which are extremely short.] 】

Of the two options, Chopin's sonatas were a weakness of Qin Jian, and although Chopin wrote only three sonatas in his lifetime, he had not yet practiced them systematically.

So if he was asked to make a choice at this stage, he would not hesitate to choose the latter.

Qin Jian believes that it is exciting to connect these 24 pieces with completely different major and minor colors, rhythms, styles and characteristics, and play them in one breath in the third round.

And the excitement itself is dynamic.

But last night, Shen Qingci's last sentence made him sober up a lot.

"In the history of the Chopin Competition, there has never been a finalist who could skip the sonata and reach the final stage. ”

Shen Qingci's sentence does not mean that you can't enter the finals without playing the sonata in the third round, it can only be said that the contestants who have entered the final stage in history have played the sonata in the third round.

But these words did give Qin Jian a wake-up call-"Chopin's sonata was indeed neglected by himself." ”

Due to time and effort, he really didn't take care of everything in the previous phase.

This was his second choice at this stage, and he had to think carefully between the sonata and OP28.

As for the fourth article, you have to wait until Qin Jian has determined all the previous works, and then you can plan according to the sum of the last time.

"There is still a month left before the time to submit three rounds of tracks. ”

"Hmm——。 ”

Pushing open the window of the piano room, a warm breeze blew, Qin Jian gradually retracted his thoughts, and he already had a general direction in his heart.

Looking at the figures on campus who were walking out with their luggage, he sighed slightly, "It's time." ””

"Let's go. ”

Setting the repertoire is Qin Jian's first priority at the moment, and he feels that he has to start with the sonata.

Turning around and stretching, he sat down at the piano and began today's morning exercise.

Sonata is important, but the steps of practicing the piano should not be messed up.

...

With the arpeggios of various scales, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, in the piano room, the time of two hours quickly changed.

...

At half past eleven, Qin Jian finished his morning exercise and took a piece of bread from his bag to deal with the afternoon's meal.

Then, after resting for less than a quarter of an hour, he took out Chopin's three sonatas.

The practice began with 'Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 1'.

"First movement, C minor. ”

The piano continued in the afternoon, and continued to tick.

Chopin's sonatas are also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

...

Regarding these three works, Qin Jian has done some homework before, but he has never found time to practice systematically.

This time, he decided to spend half a month to touch these three works in detail, as for the touch of fine or not, he doesn't care for the time being, there are still five months before the competition, he has time to polish the work.

What he needs now is to finalize the repertoire he wants to report for the third round in half a month - if he decides to play the sonata, he also has to know which one he wants to play.

The afternoon passed quickly.

...

At half past 19 in the evening, Qin Jian finished practicing.

"Don't call~"

After most of the day's practice, Qin Jian had given up on Chopin's First Sonata.

It's not that he doesn't think the piece is bad, it's just that after an afternoon of practice, he's determined that it's not suitable for his third round.

Of course, this piece is really not much better.

Throughout the work itself, the sense of connection between each movement is extremely weak.

The structure and treatment of each movement also exposes many deficiencies and laxity in support that can be felt by Qin Keys.

In particular, what puzzles Qin Jian is what the purposeless 'angry phrase' that appears from time to time in his works is what it means.

It can be seen that Chopin is consciously imitating the dynamics of Beethoven's sonata structure, but between the lines it is full of climactic weakness with insufficient foreplay

There is one thing to say, just like Chopin's own evaluation of this work, a work of immaturity when he was young.

This sonata was Chopin's first sonata work written at the age of 18 at school, and it was actually an after-school assignment given to his then-harmony teacher, Joseph.

From this point of view, it is understandable that this work is full of unsuccessful compositions, and this bold attempt also provided great guidance for Chopin's later piano composition.

"It was a good day. ”

It took an afternoon to clear the first 'wrong' answer, which is a phased progress.

After a simple tidying up, Qin Jian left the piano room.

After passing by the second meal and having a lonely dinner, he returned to the dormitory and talked to Duan Ran on the phone for a while, and he started to check in today's translation.

Before going to bed, he opened the "Baroque Theory of Music and Art History" and flipped through it for a while.

Nothing was said all night.

...

Early the next morning, Qin Jian opened his eyes and picked up his mobile phone, and Duan Ran's several messages were mixed with a message from He Jing.

clicked on He Jing's information, and it was a list that looked very foreign.

Then Qin Jian's gaze searched for the list, and he suddenly smiled.

Although the pictures were all in English, he quickly found the word 'JingHe'.

Let it go: Congratulations to Mr. He for advancing to the next round

Let it go: take a stage look

He Jing passed the first round of the Fifty States Piano Competition, which was not surprising to Qin Jian.

After sending the message, he continued to look for other people's names in the form.

Soon, the names of Fang Zongyao and Zhao Yinuo were found by him one after another, but Feng Ziyan was found in the entire list.

Seeing that there was no movement in the group of six small ones, he didn't ask much, and after replying to Duan Ran's message, he got up and washed his backpack and left the dormitory again and rushed to the piano room.

At half past eleven o'clock in the afternoon, Qin Jian finished his morning practice and opened Chopin's second piano sonata.

"Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor"

"First movement, B flat minor, very slow. ”

...

Just practicing and pondering, this week's time has passed in a flash.

...

May 8th.

18:14, piano room.

Qin Jian just finished today's practice and picked up his mobile phone.

A message arrived on his phone just 25 minutes ago.

The letterman, a long-lost note.