In the minds of ancient literati, hometown and confidant are the most difficult to give up spiritually. Thinking of an old friend, like homesickness, is an eternal topic, probably because it is the most difficult to dissipate, and it is this homesickness and yearning for the old friend that is the most difficult to get rid of. According to legend, the Guqin music "Remembering the Old" was written by Cai Yong, a great writer in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The original song was written by Confucius who missed his beloved disciple Yan Hui. After several revisions by later generations, it became a yearning for relatives and friends. There is a sentence in the title of "Remembering the Old" included in "Guqin Music Collection" compiled by Ming Taizu's son Zhu Quan: "My heart is good and I have no complaints; Or lament the time, or think about the past, or mourn, but have nothing to say, why and why? So, I thought I was cute in the past, but if I wanted to sue, I couldn't get it; It's a song. " It can be seen that this piano piece was written by a pianist because he felt that there was no bosom friend around him and there was nowhere to talk about his nostalgia, so he missed his old friend and created this piece. The music depicts the hazy moonlit night in the mountains, where the pianist left his sadness and nostalgia for his old friends, and the sound of the piano could not help showing the meaning of injury and missing the distance. The melody is lingering, which is intended to miss the old friend. Whenever it is played in silence, it will cause feelings of missing relatives and friends far away, meet for life and make people cry. The whole song * * * six paragraphs, beginning with overtones, is fresh and elegant, which makes people miss their old friends in the silence of empty mountains and valleys. In the last few paragraphs, the slow and steady rhythm and the continuous sound of the piano express the deep yearning for the old friend, which is touching. Music shows the sentimental feelings of wandering and thinking and missing friends under the empty mountains and the empty moon.
"Remembering the Old Friend" is a very famous piano piece, but it didn't last long. This is a piece of music collected in the home of the ancient violinist Mr. Peng Zhiqing in the 1930s. Mr. Zhang Ziqian, a famous Guangling violinist, said: At that time, other violinists hoped that Mr. Peng would spread this score. However, Mr. Peng said that the music collected in his family has been asked not to be published because he is afraid of going out of shape. Later, with the efforts of many teachers and old-timers, Mr. Peng Zhiqing agreed to publish this song, and Mr. Zhang Ziqian published this song in Qin Yu Bao Today 1937. Modern musicians have also added their own playing style to the interpretation of Memories of Time Past. Zhang Ziqian's performance can be said to be the closest to the original sound. Mr. Zhang Ziqian's piano playing skills have reached the pinnacle, and he has been personally taught by Mr. Peng Zhiqing, so the expression of piano music is closer to the original taste.
The Expression of "Memory" in Memories of Time Past
Xu Shangying, a famous pianist in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, put forward the harmony of "string and finger, finger and sound, sound and meaning" in his book "West Mountain Qin Qing", and these three requirements have clear requirements for piano players' playing skills. The idea in Missing the Old Friend is the pianist's yearning for the old friend. If the pianist's skill has not reached a high level, he may only pop up the phrases on the score according to the piano score, and the feelings to be expressed in the piano music can't be expressed at all. In this case, the pop-up piano music is dull. The reason why Mr. Peng Zhiqing didn't want to spread this song abroad at first was also related to the technique. "Remembering the Old Friend" has the artistic characteristics of less sound and more rhyme. From the beginning of the technique, "memory" was the theme, paving the way for presenting the artistic conception of "memory". In our performance, the pianist is required to play the right hand with just the right speed and strength, and play a lasting charm. Its music content runs through the whole song with Memories, full of melancholy thoughts. Therefore, the piano player's left-hand pitch and other techniques are required to integrate the theme of piano music into the melody of piano music, so that the music can have priorities and handle the transition well. When you play "Remembering the Old Friend", you must feel something in your heart in order to make a difference. If all you want is harmony and happiness, it is very different from what the original song wants to express. Only by doing this can performers truly interpret the song "Remembering the Old".
Willingness of confession
Guqin is a musical instrument that talks with oneself. Its timbre is quiet, and the piano sounds like whispering. The song "Remembering Old Friends" shows the characteristics of guqin very clearly. The so-called memory of the old friend is the pianist's own yearning for the old friend, and it is impossible to be as noisy as other musical instruments. Only the pianist can understand this yearning. He indulges in the past alone in the sound of the piano. Playing the piano is the vibration of life.