The knock on the door did not interrupt the sound of the piano in the room, and soon the door was opened, and Old Asa greeted Qin Jian as if he had already been ready.

"Teacher Assad, you're early. ”

Liao Linjun told him about his understanding, Qin Jian stood still outside the door, took the initiative to stretch out two hands, and after shaking hands with the other party, he entered the door.

"Teacher Assad, you're early. ”

Qin Jian's politeness made Old Arthur's heart secretly approve, and most of the month's contact he knew that Qin Jian was an excellent young man, and this other party's behavior made him strengthen this impression.

As a highly educated Syrian, even though he now lives in a friend's house, it smells a bit of a host, but it is still his private domain, although only temporarily.

The living room is not big, Qin Jian was invited to sit at a small tea table, and took advantage of the time when old Assad was brewing coffee, he briefly looked at the room, the interior was similar to his first floor, but there was an extra tapestry like a scripture on the wall, he couldn't read it, and thought it should be old Arthur who hung it.

In the left corner of the living room is a closed door from which Ido's sound comes from.

At this time, old Assad sat opposite Qin Jian with two cups of coffee. "Please use it. ”

"Thank you. ”

Qin Jian got up and accepted the kindness handed over by the other party, and then sat down again

Old Assad: "Your German is not bad, I heard that you have lived in Germany for a few months. “

Qin Jian: "Thank you for the compliment, when I spent some time in Hamburg to record Mozart, Uncle Potter always said that I had a strange accent. (laughs)

Old Assad also laughed: "He used to say that about me. ”

Pleasant opening.

Through Liao Linjun's description last night, the old Assad also has some understanding of Qin Jian's basic situation, but as a composer and teacher, he still wants to personally understand Qin Jian's views on counterpoint.

After all, in his opinion, even if the other party has not learned any knowledge about composition, the Chris variations he composed are enough to show the hidden talent of the other party in this field. "Counterpoint and polyphony are compulsory in composition courses. 」

Perhaps the other party has mastered some rules hidden in the framework of composition, but lacks a systematic knowledge structure.

Old Assad: "What do you think of Chopin's counterpoint?"

Qin Jian thought for a moment and said, "Chopin should be the greatest counterpoint master of the Romantic period. ”

"Oh?" said the elder Assad, "as far as I know, most of Chopin's works are in the main key style, and there are very few works that are purely polyphonic. ”

Qin Jian nodded in agreement: "That's true, but that doesn't mean that his counterpoint technique can't be called an absolute master." ”

His knowledge of the counterpoint is limited to a few simple superficial appearances, which he had accumulated when he had gone to a polyphony class in the composition department in order to practice Bach.

However, combined with the insights he has gained in the practice now, he still has a little bit of unacademic opinion.

"In a sense, I feel that each of Chopin's works is polyphonic, playing the main theme with one hand and actively singing a melodic harmony with the other. ”

"I see this melodic harmony as a stand-alone melody, and I think they can be safely treated as a main theme, and if I play the right-hand treble part of the bG major etude as the theme melody of the music, I still play the left-hand part that was originally defined as the theme melody. ”

"Doesn't this work become a kind of polyphonic music, so that there are two thematic melodies in this work?

"Maybe it's naïve, but I don't think there's anything wrong with it from my own point of view. “

"Because Chopin is such a master of melody, his works deserve to be dug into. “

Qin Jian finished expressing his thoughts and opinions in one go, just as he thought, he came to class, he trusted the counterpoint teacher that Liao Linjun chose for himself, so he should express his views and thoughts without any reservations in the face of the teacher.

Let the other person find out their own problems. Variety Literature

Moment.

Old Assad: "Have you ever tried to play like this?"

"Uh," Qin Jian paused, "not yet." These are the conjectures he had sparked through yesterday's rapids, and he hadn't had time to try them yet.

Old Assad snorted: "You can try it when you go back, and then this topic can be used as another research topic for us, and by the way, there has been a person in history who has put forward a similar point of view to you." ”

Qin Jian was curious: "Which one?"

Old Assad smiled, "Leave that to yourself, now we have to start the lesson." ”

At 8:30 a.m., Qin Jian began the first course of counterpoint in his life.

If you follow the domestic parlance, this is a real one-on-one master class.

As old Assad opened his mouth to speak, Qin Jian took out his notebook and pen in case of emergency.

"Counterpoint is one of the oldest musical composition techniques in the history of music, and it is the most important writing technique for polyphonic music, derived from the translation of 'note to note' in the Lyding text..."

The course officially begins.

...

...

A morning passed in Old Arthur's narration, and Qin Jian rarely interrupted the other party during the period, except for what he didn't understand.

Most of the time, he spends his time memorizing these conceptual things.

As a musical discipline, there is no doubt that the counterpoint is based on theory and nothing complicated in any other category of disciplines.

Some of the laws are like theorem formulas in mathematics.

But it's not simple, either.

In the same way, just because you understand a mathematical formula doesn't mean you're going to do a problem.

Use learning in practice to deepen understanding, and the same is true in counterpoint.

At the end of class at noon, old Assad assigned Qin Jian an assignment, a simple assignment.

Old Assad gave Qin Jian a 4-bar single melody in 44 time, and asked Qin Jian to use the knowledge in today's class to write a two-part contrasting polyphony.

In Old Arthurd's opinion, this is as simple as letting Qin Jian play an ode to joy on the spot.

But when Qin Jian faced this melody alone in the small piano room in the afternoon, the elder Arthurd could never imagine that the piano winner of the dignified Mozart International Music Competition was biting the tip of his pen and humming from time to time.

This really stumped Qin Jian.

When he really faced writing, he once again felt the greatness of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, and Chopin.

By the end of the afternoon, he had a clearer sense of how difficult it was to compose.

The hardest part is that when you have countless melodic combinations in your head, you find that none of them satisfy you.

Therefore, the achievements of the great men were once again magnified in his heart.

Qin Jian guessed that they might have come over like this?

It's just that no one knows how they beat their chests on the ground?