Monday, September 27, 2010

A genre of music I particularly enjoy

As a music student, If you ask me what kind of music you like?I definitely would say I like classical music.Although most people difficult to understand classical music.If you try to study and listen, you will find it is very interesting.Victor Hugo(French writer)had ever said:"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brains."You can feel that the spirit of Beethoven struggled with destiny(Beethoven Symphony No 5);The inherent humor of Mozart(Mozart Concerto in C major for oboe);Strauss romantic style of love(Blue Danube).You can see music is the art of emotion, in the classical music has beautiful melodies,rich in emotion and urgency and orderly of rhythm,can resonate with the inner feelings.

Classical music is the art of emotion.I want to ask you a question:Have you ever had this situation that when you listen to some classical music you will shake your body, scalp tingling,and cold extremities?If your answer is yes.I want to tell you that is music resonate with your heart.The feeling is like you have a conversation with the composer,You enjoyed the music.Music can make the metal and physical pleasure,relaxation, and healthy.

Classical music is the art of beauty.Music comes from life,it's the praise of beauty,nature,and life;the depths of the human mind and personality of the revealed wisdom, it contains a blend of human nature and the magnificence of heaven and earth.Like classical music is the respect for intellectual and personal excellence noble.

Classical music is the art of rational.I had ever read a news about:Scientific evidence,music can develop thinking ability.On the surface,music is inspired by the beating,but between the movement and the movement;between the phrases and phrases;between the voices and the voices;between the mix of all musical instruments reflects the careful logic.In a complete symphony in the development of different music,progressive,interactive,musical instruments are among the show embraced the music of reason.Therefore,classical can improve thinking ability.

In conclusion:This is the reason I enjoy and choose to study classical music.I have benefited greatly from the classical music.Classical music is left to the non-material cultural heritage of fathers.It's the most beautiful things of the world.We should inherit and carry forward.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Effective strategies in learning a musical instrument

Some good effective strategies are the requirement to do anything, this is the same as learning a musical instrument. My major is oboe. Through I learning by the oboe for many years. I discoved some good methods to play the oboe well. Firstly, is ponder. Secondly, is understand the music. Thirdly, is to practice and workhard.

Think is the most important of these 3 strategies. Before you play the oboe. You should know the structure and principle of the oboe.Why makes such shape? What kind of reeds can make the nice sound? These are all very important. Let me introduce:Oboe originated from France. People call it like the pricess depends on it's shape and sound.

Lecture Report

Today, I participated a lecture which causes me to benefit greatly. The lecture approximate content is Beethoven Symphony No.9 is an iconic work performed by iconic performers but the speaker proposed some different views. For example, chart the rise of the symphony and the impact of Wagner's performance style on subsequent generation of conductors.

Richard Wagner, who in word and deed was passionately at pains through out his whole life to rescue the execution of Beethoven's works from what had gradually become an unbearable negligence, has in his essay" On the performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony" directed one to that way of executing this symphony which corresponds as much as possible with the intentions of it's creator, and to which more modern conductors have conformed. He proposed:(1)"The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability always to indicate the right tempo, the right tempo[was found because the conductor] persistently fix[ed] the attention of his orchestra upon the melos is the sole guide to the right tempo. conductors so frequently fail to find the true tempo because they are ignorant singing...(2)Things which formerly existed in separate and opposite forms, each complete in itself, are now placed in juxtaposition, and further developed, one from the other, so as to from a whole.We may consider it established that in classical music written in the later style."

Since Beethoven there has been a very considerable change in the treatment and the execution of instrumental music. The speaker took the Beethoven 9th symphony as an example. In work Beethoven, for can express own thought profoundly explicitly, to speak to the universe, has broken the symphony traditional form boldly, has joined the sounds of people chorus, therefore the work calls it "The chorus symphony" Is also in music history first joins the chorus the symphony.

Conclusion: Wagner laid it down that the two fundamental principles underlying the art were:(1)Giving the true tempo to the orchestra;(2)Finding the "melos" by which he means the unifying thread of line which gives a work its from and shape. Given these two qualities, of course, we have the conductor in excelsis and most of our lives must be spent in the pursuance of these qualities, more especially the first.