Chapter 21 Sadness(2/2)
Li Yingzhen called Yang Jingxing, who was already greeting him respectfully: "Yang Jingxing, this is what Professor He, Director He of the Composition Department of our college, told you."
Yang Jingxing simply bowed ninety degrees: "Hello, Professor."
Professor He looked Yang Jingxing up and down and smiled: "Sit down and play a song first."
Li Yingzhen asked Yang Jingxing to play "Pathetique". He couldn't play the other pieces, so he asked again: "You didn't bring the music score with you!?"
Yang Jingxing said: "I remember."
Yang Jingxing played it once, and the one who reacted the most was Zhang Chujia. She simply couldn't accept it. There should be a limit to weird things! She walked to the door and sat down in two strides. The look in her eyes at Yang Jingxing was quite unfriendly.
Professor He nodded and asked Yang Jingxing again: "With such good conditions, why don't you take the piano major?"
Yang Jingxing flattered him by saying, "Because Professor Li is already my teacher."
Both professors smiled and did not care about the children. Professor He asked again: "Have you ever written anything by yourself? It doesn't have to be written down, just a melody that suddenly came to mind."
Yang Jingxing sat upright in front of the piano, put his hands on his legs, and said to Professor He: "One night when I was practicing the piano, it suddenly rained. It rained lightly. I felt that it was quieter after the rain than before the rain, so I started playing randomly.
One paragraph."
Professor He was very interested: "You play and have a look."
It is indeed a very quiet and soft piece of music, less than half a minute. It is a very common and ordinary tune. Anyone with a little theoretical foundation can play it. It can be used to soundtrack advertisements and so on. Most people don't listen to it.
You will pay attention, but you will forget it once you have heard it.
Professor He was not picky and nodded: "The feelings are right... let's take the first half as the theme. Using this motive, I asked you to write a piano sketch. How would you write it?"
Yang Jingxing thought for a while and said, "I will use the structure of variations."
Professor He nodded and offered some help: "Well, where's the mode?"
Yang Jingxing held his head high and said: "E flat, Andante, beat 42."
Professor He stood up, walked to the piano, and played it impromptu with one hand. He took a verse from Yang Jingxing's previous paragraph as a variation on the theme. An expert is an expert after all, so he just reached out. After playing, he said to Yang Jingxing: "Then
This is the smell, do you think it's what you want to express? Andante is right." He was a little unhappy.
Oops, if I had known it earlier, I wouldn’t have pretended to understand. Yang Jingxing acted like he was doing a multiple-choice question: “Four-four is better, in A minor.”
Professor He said: "Play it again yourself."
After changing the key and tempo, Yang Jingxing played it again according to Professor He's variation method. Hey, it felt different. The two professors exchanged glances. Li Yingzhen meant that Yang Jingxing didn't know anything about composing before, but now it seems
He seems to know a thing or two.
Professor He did not praise Yang Jingxing and said: "If you have time, just complete it completely. It is best to use a free variation at the end. Show me when you are done. My office is upstairs from Professor Li."
Yang Jingxing nodded: "Okay, thank you Professor He."
"Then I won't detain you any more and practice the piano well." Professor He said goodbye.
Li Yingzhen told Yang Jingxing, a layman, Professor He's background. He has scored many movies and written many themes for national festivals. He has won many awards at home and abroad, including the famous He Hongchui.
Yang Jingxing is very honored. He has already met so many great people. It seems that he has taken a good first step on the road of music.
However, under the supervision of Li Yingzhen, Yang Jingxing, who had just finished playing the Pathetique, had to go back to the etudes. Starting with 299 today, Li Yingzhen was not afraid that Yang Jingxing would run away after finishing the lesson.
Li Yingzhen did not take care of Zhang Chujia's mood and said to her: "The pedals he uses here are better than yours."
Zhang Chujia quit and went to pull Yang Jingxing down to play piano with him. Yang Jingxing listened very seriously and followed him up, absorbing Zhang Chujia's advantages.
Li Yingzhen said: "You two can learn from each other and promote each other."
Chapter completed!