Debut Online Recording: A Little Piano Rondo Written as a High School Assignment!
2006/3/20 21:33:54
I mentioned this afternoon that I'd put up a small piece. Plagiarism and piracy are rampant online nowadays, so nothing important can go on the internet. After thinking it over, I went with a little piano rondo written as a high school assignment -- nobody would bother ripping this off, right?
By that time I had already written a lot of things, but since I hadn't had rigorous formal training, I specifically hired a very famous professor for one-on-one lessons. That professor strongly emphasized Chinese style and was quite hostile to avant-garde music, which differed considerably from this ID's thinking. At first, he required me to write a piece each week according to various forms, and every single measure and phrase had to conform strictly to the form. Extremely tedious. Since it was one-on-one instruction, there was no chance to slack off, so I could only go through the motions.
He would often grab a folk song theme at random, then require me to write various pieces in specific forms using that theme as material. The main theme of this little rondo uses a few measures from "Guerrilla Fighters Came Down from Hengshan," a northern Shaanxi folk song, as its material. The two episodes were just made up freely, as long as the style was consistent. This kind of thing isn't really interesting -- just consider it a bit of fun.
I cobbled together an MP3 here -- the quality isn't great, make do with it. It's not long, just over one minute, the lighthearted kind.
Link below:
Little Piano Rondo (composed by Chán Zhōng Shuō Chán)
Chán Zhōng Shuō Chán 2006/3/20 22:29:37
Don't have too many people downloading at once -- it'll crash!