"As the last class of your class teacher, I will talk to you about some interesting things!" Turning around, Chen Yongren wrote two words on the blackboard: "Vulgar, elegant!"

Turning around, Chen Yongren said: "Vulgar, vulgar, elegant, elegant! It can be seen from the idiom that people subjectively oppose them, one is tall and the other is low and unbearable!"

Li Feng raised his hand and asked, "Teacher, isn't this the case? In music, we need to study for ten years, decades, just for those ten minutes of performance."

But pop music doesn't have that kind of rigor, anyone can perform on any occasion, isn't there a difference between the two?"

Chen Yongren nodded: "What Li Feng said is right, I can understand your thoughts. We're all musicians, or to be more modest, we're all musicians of the future, not like pop singers.

Whether in terms of musical literacy or musical knowledge, pop singers are completely incomparable to you. However, this does not mean that pop singers are vulgar, virtuoso and bel canto are elegant!"

Seeing that Li Feng and they still wanted to speak, Chen Yongren waved his hand and said: "Listen to me first, there is actually no so-called elegance in art at the beginning of its birth, when our ancestors used stone tools to play the first sound, maybe the song is not a tune, the tune is not in tune, is it vulgar?"

When our ancestors started making flutes, making guzhengs, making guqins and starting to play, the venue was dirty and no one appreciated it, can we say that it was cheesy? Of course not, it was not cheesy, it was great!"

Chen Yongren pointed to the word 'vulgar' and continued: "There has never been vulgarity, if you want to talk about it, all art originally starts from vulgarity.

Why did the word Ya appear later? It's just that the stage of the performance is different.

After the ancient aristocracy began to accept music and found that the sound could be pleasant, some music masters were invited into the mansion to play in front of the nobles or in the court, for the nobles and for the royal family.

Gradually, people felt that musicians who performed for nobles were elegant, for ordinary people, and musicians who performed at ceremonial events were vulgar!

"The same origin and the same ancestor do not necessarily mean the same thought, like Confucianism. The same teacher of Confucius, due to different emphases and different characters, it evolved into the Confucius school, Mencius school, Xunzi school, and music from the beginning of its birth.

For example, court music, orchestral music, musical and dance dramas, piano music, bel canto, ethnic, etc., don't they also make a fundamental distinction between music?"

I have to say that the students of the art academy are really outstanding, the men are handsome, the women are beautiful, and everyone has a special temperament. or indifferent, or dusty, or masculine, or scholarly atmosphere, everyone is considered a male god and goddess when placed outside.

Facing the students' doubts, Chen Yongren just smiled slightly: "Lin Xue's question is very sharp, and it can be regarded as a fundamental question.

However, the division of music does not distinguish between elegant and tacky music, but only makes some divisions.

More students who like music can choose their studies according to their preferences, just like you, majoring in musicology while learning various musical instruments.

Some students have participated in the school's piano training, some students are studying bel canto majors, and some students are learning ethnic singing.

In your hearts, you must feel that the major you study is the most elegant, and other majors are not worth mentioning. However, in fact, there is no difference between the various majors in the eyes of the teacher, and they are all in the same category of music!

Turning around, he continued to write two more words on the blackboard: "Preferences!"

"It is precisely because of your preferences that you will subconsciously feel that what you like is elegant, and what you dislike is vulgar, this is your subjective view of music, not that music itself is high or low!

At the same time, whether it is piano music, folk music, or bel canto, the places where they are generally performed are more magnificent, so some concepts have been left in your hearts, and you feel that they belong to elegance.

Actually, the reason why you think they're elegant is not the music itself, it's the occasions. ”

Seeing the students in the audience falling into thought, Chen Yongren smiled lightly: "Let's change the topic again, the stage of "I Am a Singer" is not just a simple pop music stage, I don't know if you have seen it, on this stage, each singer has their own different performance.

They began to dabble in folk music, into bel canto, into various orchestral performances, and so on. Is it not appropriate to say that all those performances are vulgar?

Finally, Chen Yongren concluded: "What are elegance and vulgarity? They are just artificially defined concepts, and we cannot distinguish between them.

If I had to say it, I could only emphasize two words, the right music for you, then it belongs to your own elegant music.

Music you don't like will naturally be classified as vulgar. If you're just an ordinary person, you can distinguish according to this standard, and if you're a musician, it's best to completely abandon the notion of elegance and vulgarity.

Because elegance can be summed up as nothing more than six criteria: not good-looking, not good-sounding, not easy to understand, not down-to-earth, insist on judging ugliness, and insist on being inexplicable!"

Looking at the silent students, Chen Yongren sincerely hoped that they could get rid of their stubborn notions. Many conservatory students don't look down on pop music, they don't look down on A-list singers, they feel that they don't bother to participate in those competitions, so they have the opportunity to be ordinary people.

In fact, even if they participate, they may not get any good grades.

Now is the Internet era, it is difficult to hide talents, only sand can be covered. The top students of the conservatory are sandy soil?

No, they just don't want to be sand, they want to stick to what they call elegant.

But now is not the era of elegance, it is already very difficult to eat at the elegant rice, only down-to-earth, only the public likes, can get results.

To be recognized, they have to change their mindset. Of course, if the students continue to insist on elegance, Chen Yongren will not refuse, but will respect them. People who are not afraid of the world and have the courage to persist are inherently worthy of respect.

"Teacher, isn't it meaningless for us to study for many years and persist for many years?" Li Feng asked quietly. If there is no distinction between the noble and the vulgar, what is the point of them staying in school to learn?

Chen Yongren shook his head: "Of course not, our learning is very important now, only by going deep into music, can you understand the meaning of music!" After a pause, he continued: "In this way, I recently read a story, and I had an idea in my heart, and I reluctantly composed a piano piece, I will play it for you to see if you can understand the story I want to tell through the sound!"