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There is a passage in the ancient book Liezi Tang Wen, which is only 5 1 word. Classical Chinese always pays attention to conciseness, trying to be concise, unlike the illusory style that we are popular today.
Today, I will copy the original text as follows: Xue Tan studied under Qin Qing, but he did not lack Qin Qing's skills, so he said that he had exhausted it and resigned. Qin Qing, stop. In the suburbs, touching elegies, shaking trees, very sonorous. Xue Tan thanked him for his rebellion and never dared to say anything again.
I tried to translate this ancient prose into the vernacular that we are used to. Before translation, explain several unfamiliar ancient words in the original text: "Fu", that is, singing; "Fu", no; "Farewell", holding a farewell party to say goodbye; "suburban song", the avenue of urban suburbs; In ancient times, the word "fu" used with the word "Dai" was used as a verb to express the meaning of slapping and slapping; "Jie", an ancient percussion instrument; "Anti", Ancient Times and Return to Universality. This ancient prose tells a story that happened in the Warring States period 25,600 years ago. There was a young singer named Xue Tan in the State of Qin. In order to improve his singing skills, he studied vocal art from Qin Qing, a singer of Qin State. Before learning all the skills of Qin Qing, Xue Tan blindly thought that he had learned everything and was ambitious to travel alone, so he asked Qin Qing to finish his studies, bid farewell to his teacher and return to his home. Qin Qing didn't criticize or stop the complacent students. He not only agreed to Tan Xue's request, but also solemnly held a graduation ceremony. Qin Qing personally went out of the city to bid farewell, and hosted a banquet for Tan Xue on the suburban avenue. Seeing that Tan Xue is leaving, I don't know when we can get together again. Recalling the years when Xue Tan studied art, teachers and students passed on the art and respected each other harmoniously. Qin Qing's chest is full of reluctance. Qin Qing took out his percussion instrument "Knot", patted and knocked, and sang to the beat. He poured out his sadness of leaving in the song. But see, Qin Qing's passionate singing shook the trees in the Woods near the boulevard; Qin Qing's sonorous singing soared into the sky, and the white clouds floating in the sky were blocked by the powerful singing, so they had to stop swimming. For the first time, Xue Tan witnessed his teacher's singing skills so high and his skills so superb that he sincerely respected him. Xue Tan suddenly woke up and realized that the gap between his superficial studies and the artistic highland that the teacher boarded was as big as the sky. Xue Tan immediately apologized to the teacher and begged the teacher to allow him to return to his original school to continue his studies. Qin Qing forgave Tan Xue, and both teachers and students were happy. From then on, Xue Tan studied with peace of mind and never dared to say that she wanted to go home after graduation.
The world observes things and judges right and wrong because it is influenced or bound by many factors such as perspective, mode of thinking, life experience, environment, status and so on. The impressions and conclusions are very different from each other, so people have their own opinions and can't reach an agreement. The same is true of reading. When people read the same book, they have their own interpretation methods and their own post-reading associations. Now let me talk about the feelings of this article "The Biography of Xue Tan".
Among the limited books I have read, Learning to Talk about Learning in Liezi Tang Wen is the oldest text I have ever seen describing vocal music education. This article tells us that professional vocal music teachers appeared in China 2500 years ago, because Liezi was a book published during the Warring States Period. It's a pity that Liezi's works are not authentic history books, and it's a pity that China's authentic history books don't record the development history of China's science, education and literature, so that we scholars who are good at making great people love them can't do our best to show our national prestige by holding Liezi's books.
Xue Tan's transcript does not describe the specific details of Qin Qing's vocal music education, nor does it introduce the content of Xue Tan's vocal music learning. Even if Xue Tan wants to "resign", he has learned from Qin Qing, and Rio Tinto has not confessed. I think there is a suspicion of deviating from the topic of "learning" In Liezi, there is also a paragraph that describes the method of learning the arrow, the training method of Wei Fei, the teacher, and the fact that he studies and practices shooting hard. The article introduces this in detail. I guess this is probably because the author is unfamiliar with vocal music teaching and familiar with shooting training.
The full text of Xue Tan Biography focuses on the portrayal of Qin Qing and Xue Tan, praising the excellent qualities of Qin Qing's "treating his apprentice as a child" and Xue Tan's "correcting his mistakes". Qin Qing is tolerant, generous, kind and kind to his students. The author successfully created the tall image of Mr. Qin Qing with the most concise and concise language. However, no matter how high Qin Qing's personality is, it's a pity that it has changed. No matter how wide our eyes can be, it is difficult to find Qin Qing's respectable figure easily in any school today. The respectable teacher is staring greedily at the students' wallets with his eyes open. I know a thing or two about the dirty things in some universities, and I have heard and witnessed the behind-the-scenes situations in some conservatories, but I have to be subject to the iron rule of "Goethe is the only one who follows" in China's culture and education, especially in the music industry, so I have to shut up. "Once bitten by a snake, twice shy", so as not to be criticized again, and I am afraid that someone will denounce me again. I am a man who was put into prison more than 30 years ago and had all his teeth knocked out by proletarian revolutionary soldiers. I'm full of dog teeth
Actually, Tan Xue is very cute. Xue Tan not only has the manly quality of "correcting mistakes", but also has the fine virtues of persistent pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty, especially vocal music art, as well as clear-headed and sharp-eyed artistic discrimination. In troubled times, especially in bad years, it is difficult for students to find teachers; It is more difficult for teachers to find good students. It is difficult for students to find a master because they must have a pair of sharp eyes. People in China suffer from many diseases, otherwise there would not be so many drug advertisements in TV advertisements. "Red eye disease", "snobbery" and other eye diseases of Chinese people abound. Drugs for treating eye diseases have never been widely publicized on TV, which shows that these eye diseases are incurable cancers. A snob will "cover his eyes with a leaf, but he can't see Mount Tai". Why is there a fate to meet a master? When Xue Tan heard Qin Qing singing loudly, he immediately recognized that it was the highest vocal art. Out of his true love for art, he resolutely admitted his mistake and tried to go back to Qin Qing to study real art. It's a pity that there are too many young people in China who have no artistic discernment and are led by people easily and obediently. Otherwise, where would it be "groupies"? How can so many people be infatuated with Twelve Music Rooms? What is "artistic discrimination"? This is a big academic problem, which cannot be explained clearly in a few words. I often tell my students that those who can "judge people by reading" are expected to knock on the sacred door of literature; Only those who can "know a person by his voice" can step into the elegant music hall. This is actually just a drop of water in the sea. There are many physiological conditions that a master must have to find a "good student" (for example, color blindness can't learn art, hard of hearing can't learn music, and poor bones can't learn dance). Students with good spirits (persistent pursuit of art and hard study) are not hard to find. If a master wants to find a student with good personality and moral character, he is undoubtedly looking for a needle in a haystack. Why is this happening? I hate to say it, but I have to say it. I have to blame the society for exposing the indulgence of "king of the children" in special protection. I have to nag like an old lady of nine pounds written by Lu Xun: "Nowadays, the world is getting worse every generation."
There are eight words in the full text of Xuetan Liu Xue: "The sound tree is very sonorous". These eight words are romantic and exaggerated, and they are powerful and powerful, which can be called the eternal quatrains. This quatrain, after more than two thousand years, has been continuously used by people. These eight words have profound connotations, including strength, volume, sound quality (firmness), broadcasting power (that is, the "penetrating power" that is often said in today's music industry, but no one actually does it), vocal music and so on. How easy is it to explain strength, quality, broadcasting power and vocal music clearly? Every problem here is a big academic problem, and I'm afraid it can't be solved by a large number of professional works. I'm not a music expert, of course I can't explain it. I can only know a little about these academics. Unfortunately, the current conservatory of music doesn't even tell students anything. Five years ago, I was telling students about the sound quality of the flute. A flute graduate student from the Conservatory of Music asked me, what is sound quality? I said, sound quality is the quality of sound. Graduate students say, where does the sound come from? I said that from a physical point of view, everything in the world has mass, such as high-quality steel and ordinary steel. They have different mass and different molecular structures. For example, Chinese fir and sandalwood not only have different molecular formulas, but also have different firmness. According to the theory of physics, the vibration of objects produces sound, and sound is a physical phenomenon, so of course sound has quality problems. For example, if you throw a dustpan made of iron into the ground, the sound is so loud that outsiders can't hear it, because the sound made by hitting iron is not good; You accidentally tripped the kitchen knife on the chopping board, and the volume dropped was not loud, but outsiders heard it, because the kitchen knife was made of high carbon steel, and the sound quality would be good. This is the reason why there are materials for musical instrument manufacturing. Nowadays, the conservatory of music pays little attention to vocal music, not only because of the impact of "pop music", but also because it has to obey the needs of the market. Real singers are not popular in our entertainment market. Hu Xiaoping, an outstanding singer in Shanghai, was booed by the Shanghai youth while watching the performance, and the inferior "singer" came. Shanghai youth were ecstatic and paid for expensive tickets. In this cold reality, singer Hu Xiaoping had to go to the United States to survive, where Hu Xiaoping was treated with courtesy. Authentic vocal music teachers are depressed and disheartened. There is a person who is not very serious. He only accepts female students' vocal music professors, but "creates" a "new road" and boasts of "the combination of Chinese and Western", without having to engage in * * * singing, and making sound scientifically. As long as he engages in kitsch and enjoys the scenery for more than 20 years, he will have money, reputation, status, power and other items that can shine and attract people in vanity fair. The "youth" of the singer's vocal music is always there, and Pavarotti is still as loud as a bell in his seventies. The female disciple trained by the great professor has a sweet singing voice, and the singing youth lives and dies with the secretion of female hormones. After forty years old, my voice is hoarse, and the dumb eat coptis chinensis. Nowadays, most people who sing on the stage hum and shout, and few people sing. There are hundreds of thousands of contemporary singers, and only the Italian Pavarotti deserves to be "very sonorous with sound and vibration". In fact, the singer sounds like a mosquito whining, so he has to stick a megaphone to his teeth, and then make some sensational gestures to squeeze out strange grunts from his throat to confuse the ignorant heart of the deaf. If the power is cut off or the tweeter is banned, I dare say that no singer has the courage to show off on stage because they have no real kung fu. In China's past dramas, great attention was paid to training the spreading power of sound. The old actor "hangs his voice" every morning. Hang what? Hanging is the sound method, hanging sound quality and hanging power. There is no sound reinforcement equipment in the old theater, and the audience entering the theater does not abide by the rules of watching movies. The audience can go in and out of the theater at will, and they can chat while eating melon seeds. The performance was carried out under such difficult conditions. The actors on the stage must let all the audience in the theater hear their singing clearly. The audience sitting in the front row must not make any noise, and the audience sitting at the last can also hear clearly. In the old days, people with such vocal skills were everywhere; Today, it is difficult to find people with real kung fu in the theater. The vocal music world, as I said above, is also the drama world. Forty-five years ago, I entered the Central Conservatory of Music (attached middle school). There is only one auditorium in the school, not only for holding press conferences and watching movies, but also for music performances and students' graduation exams. There is no public address equipment in this auditorium. There is no loudspeaker, probably to assess the sound quality and broadcasting power of students playing and singing. At that time, the teachers of the school had to train the students in sound quality and broadcasting ability. "Strong grass is learned from strong winds, and real gold is refined from fire." In order to cope with the graduation exam, all students can work hard to exercise their sound quality and broadcasting ability. Which conservatory of music in China is training these kungfu now? I 16 years old entered the middle school attached to it, and Old Master Q, an ancient master of Beikun, taught me fine arts for three years. Ye Lao often tells me about the training procedures of vocal music and instrumental music in Qing Palace Opera. For example, flute masters in the Qing Dynasty practiced playing long notes (mainly high notes) every morning. There are more than 30 students playing flute in our school, and only one Jane Guangyi practices playing long notes according to the teacher's instruction, so Jane Guangyi's qigong and lip skills are really kung fu. When I went to Inner Mongolia to be a flute teacher after graduation, I punished my students in the way of Ye Lao. Only one of my students, Li Zhen, is willing to suffer this loss. Therefore, Li Zhen's qigong and lip skills are as deep as Jane Guangyi. I don't know who dares to compare the sound quality and broadcasting power of the flute with Li Zhen.
After reading Snow Lake Liu Xue, I suddenly guessed one of the secrets, that is, Qin Qing is engaged in vocal music teaching and never gives students a teaching demonstration. The reason why student Xue Tan is arrogant and wants to "resign" has a direct causal relationship with the teacher's failure to demonstrate.
Without profound knowledge, it is not easy to be a teacher who does not demonstrate. I have met two such music educators. One is Professor Erhu, whom I met at the Central Conservatory of Music 45 years ago, and the other is my master Liu Sen. Professor Lan is very strict in cultivating students. He has a dignified face like a judge, which can make Zhang Qiang, a naughty boy, daunting; His sharp words made Wang Guotong, a simple and honest student, enlightened; He showed the music of China and the West, which persuaded Liu Changfu to put down the clarinet and hold the erhu to practice hard. "Strong generals are no weak soldiers", and the students trained by Professor Lan have all become the masters of Erhu in China. After careful observation, Professor Lan taught students to play the erhu with bows and fingers, which is exactly the same as the piano fingering that piano master learned from the Conservatory of Music, that is, the word "nervous". There are many people who advocate "relaxation" in China's flute, and they are very famous. They are disgusted with my remarks, so I'd better keep my mouth shut and know what to do.
My teacher, Liu Sen, gave me and Jane Guangyi flute lessons. He just talked without demonstrating. The master has profound attainments in western music and vocal music art, and he is open-minded, active, articulate and humorous. He is good at showing the clouds and guiding students. I was taught for two years and benefited for life. We often listen to Master playing the flute, but that is not a teaching demonstration for us. We often watch performances with radio folk music and enter the rehearsal room of radio folk music to watch rehearsals. In these two venues, we can listen to Master's wonderful flute. Master taught us to play Liu Sen's flute music, but never demonstrated it in person. He only played his flute music for us once or twice. In most classes, he taught us to sing well, but he was lax about how to play. He never asked us to be parrots, and often encouraged us to start thinking machines to open up new horizons. My teacher Liu Sen has two flute skills, namely "playing the flute" and "speaking the flute". Jane learned to play the flute better than me, and I learned to play the flute better than Jane. Later, I went to Inner Mongolia as a flute teacher. I once showed my "flute playing" skills, which was praised by many people in Inner Mongolia. In fact, my "flute playing" skill is always far from that of Mr. Liu Sen.
These are my views on Xue Tan's research. I hope it can inspire and help young people who really want to learn music.