The piano has been introduced to China as a Western culture for more than 100 years. Just as the inheritance and development of all cultures are inseparable from education, Western piano culture has been closely linked with piano education activities since the day it stepped into China, of course, education here is education in a broad sense, that is, not only school education, "all activities that enhance people's knowledge and skills and influence people's ideas and concepts are called education."
With the early forms of school education and private teaching with missionaries as the main teaching force, piano education began to take off in China. The foreign culture of piano has gradually integrated with China's national conditions through various forms of education, forming a Chinese piano culture based on Chinese cultural heritage.
Piano career related issues. I always believe that as a piano educator in China, truly valuable research should not be separated from the observation of the local piano field in China.
Today's Chinese piano culture has made remarkable achievements in piano education, piano creation, theoretical research of piano art, Sino-foreign piano art exchanges, piano manufacturing and other aspects.
In all undertakings, piano education is undoubtedly the fundamental link to promote the deepening development of various fields, and the driving force behind the prosperity of Chinese piano culture. All talents in all fields of piano need to be cultivated through piano education as a direct or indirect way. Therefore, if you want to pay attention to China's piano industry, you must first pay attention to China's piano education.
Through the analysis of the close relationship between "culture", "education" and "people" in the framework, it can be affirmed that the three have an important influence on each other.
However, it is not enough to study Chinese contemporary piano education from the perspective of culture, we must be clear about how Chinese contemporary culture plays a role in piano education in this era, and in turn, how contemporary piano education has an impact on the corresponding culture and even on the whole culture.
Only by studying the interaction mechanism between piano education and culture theoretically can we grasp the relationship between piano education and culture from a higher level, and at the same time, it will also provide reference for other factors affecting piano education and the relationship between them. Next, we will analyze the interaction mechanism of the two in depth from two parts. The first part is the influence and characteristics of culture on piano education, and the second part is the mechanism of piano education on culture.
Although the semantics of "mechanism" are not as complex as the semantics of "culture" or "education", they always present a sense of mystery and profundity. Actually,The word "mechanism" was originally derived from the Greek word for the construction and operation of a machine.
Later, mechanisms were introduced into economic and sociological research, such as "economic mechanisms" and "social mechanisms", to express the relationship and function of the interconnections and functions of various constituent elements. Accordingly, in this paper, the "mechanism" of the interaction between culture and piano education can be understood as the process and mode of interaction between culture and piano education.
People make their own history, but they do not create it at will, not under conditions of their own choosing, but under conditions that they encounter directly, that they have established, that have been inherited from the past.
To a large extent, this established and "inherited condition" is expressed in the spiritual existence of values and ways of thinking, which is the "culture" in this article. After culture is created as a result, it begins to have an impact on all human activities, and this influence may promote the cultural re-creation of human beings, but it may also restrict its development.
As a branch of "education", one of the cultural achievements of human beings, piano education is inevitably strongly influenced by the social culture during its existence. Therefore, it is necessary to seriously examine the question of how culture has an impact on piano education, or what are the characteristics of culture in the role of piano education.
The influence of culture on piano education is first of all comprehensive, and this comprehensiveness lies precisely in the ubiquitous and pervasive characteristics of culture itself.
It influences the cultural and psychological structure of "people", and then affects people's behavior, and ultimately has an impact on all aspects of piano education.
Educational values are the reflection of educational values in people's consciousness, people's understanding of educational values, and it reflects the relationship between educational attributes and human needs. In fact, the entire institutionalized system of education is influenced and governed by its values, so the influence of educational values at the core level on various educational behaviors is huge.
Regarding educational values, from the perspective of time, people in different periods have different needs for education, therefore, different educational values will appear in different periods, and from a spatial point of view, different countries and different people in the same period also have different needs for education, therefore, these different countries and different people also have different educational values.
The influence of culture on the values of piano education is mainly reflected in the reflection of cultural traditions in the field of piano education. Although piano education is recognized as the same value embodiment as other types of art education, it is an aesthetic education for people, due to different cultural traditions, the educational values upheld in the implementation of piano education in each country are still fundamentally different.
For example, after World War II, Western countries such as Britain and the United States paid more attention to the social value of education, and at the same time, China, Japan and other Eastern countries also realized that if education wants to better serve the development of the country and society, it must pay attention to the cultivation of students' personality.
The influence of culture on the content of education is an indirect reflection of the influence of people. In piano education, the educational content is inseparable from the teaching and learning of many piano works, so it can be said that piano works are the basic medium of piano education content.
Next, it is proposed to improve the influence of culture on the educational content of piano education from two aspects: culture has an impact on the creative style of piano works by influencing composers: second, culture affects and restricts the selection of piano works in piano education in this period to varying degrees.
The cultures of different periods are always different, and these cultures are also imperceptibly influencing the values and ways of thinking of composers in that era.
Because the development of piano art in Western history is much longer than that in China, the piano works created by Westerners have an extremely important position in the treasure house of piano art in terms of quantity and quality, and these excellent piano works are also an important part of the piano education content in China today. Therefore, the following takes the Western piano as an example to explore the influence of different cultures on the creation of piano works in different eras.
The Renaissance was the time when the keyboard was born in the true sense of the word. As composers became more and more interested in handling instruments independently, the long-term dependency of instrumental music as a vocal accompaniment gradually increased. In the Renaissance period, marked by humanism, it advocated human-centeredness and believed that man was the measure of all things.
Under the influence of this trend of thought, the ** family of this period began to pursue the emancipation of human nature and the expression and expression of people's inner feelings, and believed that ** should be aimed at touching people's hearts.
Fast forward to the 17th century. With the vigorous rise of capitalism in Europe, people's ideological concepts and aesthetic tastes have also undergone certain changes. The emerging bourgeoisie is calling for a new style of art to reflect its life, while the remaining monarchs and aristocrats are also demanding a new way of life for them to enjoy.
As a result, a grand and exaggerated artistic style that emphasizes individuality, that is, the "Baroque" style, came into being. It is different from the solemnity, balance and harmony of the Renaissance, and advocates the exploration of novelty, boldness and change. Influenced by this aesthetic orientation, keyboard works of this period began to appear in an infinitely dynamic style, with bold harmonic changes, magnificent and complex lines and decorations, and delicate emotional expressions.
There are many examples of culture influencing people's psychological cognition and thinking concepts, and then influencing piano education. This potential but profound influence of culture can be seen everywhere not only in the rapid development of the "piano fever", but also in the subsequent booming piano education activities in China.
Taking the phenomenon of "dropping out" that often occurs in piano education in both Chinese and Western societies as an example, the traditional culture of Europe and the United States believes that people are independent individuals from the day they are born, with independent will and personality, so in the process of piano teaching, neither parents nor teachers will force children to do what they don't like to do, and at the same time pay attention to cultivating their independent and innovative personality.
Western children who grow up in this environment usually do not insist on long-term practice in the process of piano learning, and even soon make the piano just a decoration, but these children will naturally be full of imagination and interest in the process of contacting the piano.
It can be seen that all the above-mentioned cultural influences on piano education are realized on the basis of the influence of culture on people's psychological structure. It can have a powerful and direct effect, and it is also different from the practical clarity of economic data. Culture imperceptibly affects people's ideological concepts and psychological cognition, and all education is engaged in and aimed at people's activities, so in this subtle chain of people's piano education activities, it can be said that culture has an impact on piano education through the externalization of internal concepts.