Appreciation of national musical instruments is urgent.

Zheng, a treasure in national musical instruments, is a wonderful work that appeals to both refined and popular tastes. It originated in the Qin Dynasty and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. With a history of nearly 3,000 years, it is one of the most representative musical instruments in ancient China. There are rich and colorful music changes in guzheng performance, forming multi-level music lines to express music connotation. These objectively existing musical beauty shocked the heartstrings of the audience. Only in the process of guzheng music appreciation can students be shocked by the colorful music beauty. In addition, appreciation will also help us form, influence and improve our own aesthetics. Every performer and performer wants to present the best feeling of guzheng music, and guzheng appreciation is a means for us to constantly refine good feelings in the process of identification, comparison and analysis, and also an important way to implement quality education.

First, the basic characteristics of guzheng appreciation process

Few people say that he knows nothing about drama and novels, but he often hears people say, "I like music very much, but I just don't understand it." Copland, a famous American composer, said in his book How to Appreciate Music: "If you want to understand music better, nothing is more important than listening to music." As long as you believe in your musical potential and insist on listening to music, you will get more and more sound aesthetics. At the same time, we should actively experience music on the premise of listening and produce our own musical feelings and understanding. In other words, "listening" and "active experience" are the basic characteristics of guzheng music appreciation process.

From the perspective of guzheng appreciation, the mastery of a guzheng work depends on hearing first, and there is no music appreciation without hearing experience. In the final analysis, the creation and performance of guzheng are aimed at the vast number of guzheng appreciators, who are the recipients and consumers of guzheng music creation and performance. Being pleasing to the ear is the direct purpose of music art, and it is also the first need for people to carry out music activities. Whether it is the composer's creation or the performer's performance, the value of these activities can only be finally realized through the audience's listening. The beauty of guzheng music is first possessed by human hearing, and auditory perception is the basis of enjoying music.

Appreciating guzheng music also requires understanding the artistic conception and profound connotation of guzheng music. If the appreciator is not satisfied with the formal beauty of guzheng music, but expects a deeper aesthetic pleasure, it is necessary to work hard to understand the artistic conception and profound connotation of guzheng music.

Artistic conception is the realm of images created by artists in their works of art, and it is the artistic expression of life, society, history and nature that artists feel through sensitive hearts. For connoisseurs, artistic conception cannot be obtained directly, but through rich associations and feelings. Painting, sculpture, photography and other arts all have visual images and intuitive works of art for appreciation, so the appreciator can often quickly feel the artistic conception and connotation through the specific content of the works. However, the musical images created by musical works are intangible, just some abstract sound combinations, which require the appreciator to mobilize rich auditory associations and cultivate "musical ears". First get a certain musical image, then enter the artistic conception created by music, and finally understand the profound connotation of the work.

Second, the importance of guzheng music appreciation

Appreciation is an aesthetic activity for various artistic activities when people watch artistic performances. Music appreciation is an aesthetic appreciation of music as an auditory art. Music appreciation is a complex aesthetic activity, which includes people's perception of the formal beauty of music, in-depth emotional experience, imagination and creative thinking and other different psychological activities. Through music appreciation, we can get beautiful feelings and cultivate our sentiments.

As a guzheng learner and performer, his aesthetic ability can be cultivated, edified and strengthened in this unique artistic activity. Music appreciation is first to contact with the perceptual image of music works, that is, the formal beauty, and then to experience and associate the musical connotation on the basis of the formal beauty of works. A better and more efficient learning method is to explore your own learning. This learning method is different from blind acceptance, which is completely instilled by teachers, but a more conscious method. So what aspects does our inquiry learning include? Taking the study of a piece of music as an example, we need to pay attention to playing skills, techniques, artistic conception of the music, musical expression of the music and so on. It is not limited to a piece of music, and the notes on the music spectrum are equivalent to music. As performers, our task is to turn the score into the flow of music and live music.

It is not enough to study hard and practice hard, but also to deeply experience and understand the connotation of music, and to constantly explore and experiment in performance and practice in order to obtain the correct tone and strength of a music. In the process of playing, it is necessary for us to join the appreciation link. Appreciation is an advanced stage for people to appreciate things, including identification and comparison.

In the process of appreciation, our own aesthetics plays an important role. In addition, appreciation will also help us form, influence and improve our own aesthetics. Every player and performer wants to present the best musical feeling, and appreciation is an important way and means for us to constantly refine our good feelings in the process of identification, comparison and analysis. A person's performance level and feeling are closely related to his personal appreciation ability. A person's aesthetic ability often directly affects his feeling, experience and performance of music. High appreciation often makes the performance and interpretation of music more vivid and appropriate.

Third, appreciate the musical connotation expressed by the famous guzheng songs.

As the saying goes, "whoever plays a thousand songs and then knows the sound, watches a thousand swords and then knows the instrument." Learning guzheng can't be limited to playing this instrument. What's more important is to train your ears and cultivate your sense of music. Therefore, we need to pay more attention to the appreciation of outstanding guzheng songs, or famous songs. By appreciating the performances of famous artists and reflecting on some problems in their own performances, we can finally effectively improve our aesthetic sensibility. Learners can cultivate their ability to appreciate music art through the process of appreciation, which is an educational process. By appreciating excellent works, we can fully feel the beauty of Zheng music and cultivate a pair of ears with high aesthetic consciousness.

Appreciation cannot blindly choose works. Each performer has his own kind of music, and each guzheng school has its own representative figures. We often choose some representative excellent works to appreciate and learn.

For example, the whole music of "Fishing Boat Singing Late" is very poetic, with smooth melody, first slow and then fast, first loose and then tight, and the emotions are layered, vividly depicting the pleasant realm of lakes and mountains, fishing boats fighting for their return and fishermen singing together in the sunset.

The music of "Water Lotus" is subtle and soft, fresh and stretched, with endless charm.

The song "Mountain Flowing Water" is widely circulated among the people through the story of Boya Guqin meeting a bosom friend. The music is profound, clear and fluent, vividly depicting the towering mountains and flowing water. Quyi provides a sufficient world for the exhibition of guzheng specialty. From bass to treble, from treble to bass, the rolling technique vividly shows the wonderful sound of a trickle and a clear spring, making people feel like they are in magnificent natural beauty.

Dong Dance Music is a song that shows the customs of Dong village, and expresses the happy mood of Dong family's children who love a better life.

The theme of Chunxiao Snow Mountain is beautiful and has a Tibetan style.

The music of "Swimming in Western Western jackdaw" fully shows the changing characteristics of melody color and tonality of Chaozhou music, and it is soft and charming under the touch of heavy glide.

Fishing Songs in the East China Sea is a work written by Zhang Yan in the 1970s. Music shows the happy and tense working life of fishermen in the East China Sea, as well as their love and yearning for a new life.

The author of "Shooting Drum in Xiangshan" borrowed the skills of Qin Zheng in Shaanxi, absorbed the charm of Shaanxi local opera, and made the music full of strong local flavor. The music shows the empty Sanskrit, ethereal artistic conception, and the lively scene when people hold incense parties in the mountains.

"Fighting against Typhoon" was written in the mid-1960s, and the author Wang Changyuan was moved by the indomitable spirit of Shanghai dockers in fighting against typhoons.

The Red Sun on Jinggangshan is adapted from the song of the same name of Jiangxi Revolutionary Song Collection Group. Music expresses love and praise for the mountains and rivers of the motherland with a light and smooth melody.

Miss Prairie Hero is the theme song of the movie Miss Prairie Hero. This song depicts the musical image of Mongolian girls Long Mei and Yurong fighting against the snowstorm and protecting the collective sheep. The melody is lyrical and beautiful, and the scene is mixed, which is very touching.

In short, in guzheng teaching, we should insist on teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, develop each student's artistic potential, cultivate musical literacy, and at the same time pay attention to cultivating sentiment through the appreciation of guzheng famous songs, create a harmonious, happy and healthy learning atmosphere, stimulate students' interest in learning, and meet their diversified and personalized artistic education needs. This is also an important way to implement quality education.

I hope it helps you.