Wang Yijing Lecture Hall: The Beauty of Timbre and Rhythm in Erhu Performance

168 views · Organized by 风月呢喃 on 2022-06-09

Teacher Wang Yijing shared her teaching experience and learning experience with everyone, so that erhu lovers can learn more about the timbre and charm of the erhu, so that they can play and appreciate the erhu better.

Wang Yijing Lecture Hall: The Beauty of Timbre and Rhythm in Erhu Performance

Erhu is a two-way sounding musical instrument. It needs the tacit cooperation of the left and right hands and the coordinated use of the left and right brains to deliver a beautiful melody. The traditional Chinese musical instrument, the erhu, pays attention to the rhythm of the qin and the subtle and atmospheric Chinese beauty.

Wang Yijing Lecture Hall: The Beauty of Timbre and Rhythm in Erhu Performance

Erhu needs to learn professional and scientific performance methods. Bowing is a foundation of performance, and the four characters are "flat, straight, even and heavy". The bow must be flat, not up and down, straight, not forward and backward, evenly fast, slow, and sinking. While playing, Mr. Wang explained in detail the "straight and even sinking" of the erhu. When playing the erhu, changing the bow, changing the strings, and changing the handle must be made without traces through technique and practice, and there will be no points and even points when playing. When practicing, you must also improve your efficiency. Each bow must have a goal, and you must check whether you have achieved the effect.

Wang Yijing Lecture Hall: The Beauty of Timbre and Rhythm in Erhu Performance

The beauty of rhythm is the fluctuation of volume, the length of sound value, and the frequency of timbre, all of which can reflect the beauty of rhythm and rhythm of music, and bring people a beautiful listening enjoyment. If the regular dynamic music needs to be motivated, he will infect others and have the beauty of rhythm.

Wang Yijing Lecture Hall: The Beauty of Timbre and Rhythm in Erhu Performance

In the end, the children came to the stage to play Mr. Wang's live teaching.

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Erhu (Pinyin: Erhu) originated in the Tang Dynasty, called "Xiqin", and has a history of more than a thousand years. It is a traditional Chinese stringed instrument. Erhu, or Erxian Huqin, also known as "Nanhu" and "Omzi", is one of the main bowed and stringed instruments (wiping strings) in the Chinese national musical instrument family.

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