Keywords: the influence of piano literature and art
China Library Classification Number: J60 Document Identification Number: A
Piano art
Since/kloc-Italian Christopher invented the world's first keyboard instrument similar to modern piano in the early 8th century, piano art has gradually become a symbol of western culture in this long history of more than 300 years. The original piano was named "Piano e forte", which means "weak and strong", that is, players can play dynamic and varied melodies such as weak, strong, gradually strong, gradually weak, suddenly strong and suddenly weak at will, which is beyond the reach of all musical instruments except the piano in history. Only from this point, it is enough to prove that the piano is an important milestone in the history of music and even art development.
Music is the art of sound. Art decorates life, beautifies life and brings infinite fun to life. In this respect, the contribution of music is indispensable. Unlike language and literature, music can't directly express feelings about the world, society and life. Music, as an abstract artistic expression, aims to express a kind of artistic conception, and express people's association with a certain life situation through various complicated changes such as the ups and downs of melody and the strength and speed of rhythm. The foundation of art comes from human language. At the same time, in the process of practicing art, people always express it in their own language. It's just that this so-called language and narrow language have different heights, angles and artistic conception. Although it can't give people an intuitive visual image, music can achieve a descriptive effect in people's association through the interpretation of sound. As the carrier of music, the piano, with its infectious playing breadth, has interpreted the art of this sound to the extreme.
Second, literature and art
Literature is essentially an artistic expression based on language and belongs to the category of social ideology. The author directly expresses his thoughts and feelings through organized language, thinking and understanding of society and life. Popular language makes the author's inner world intuitively and vividly conveyed. Literature is an important part of life, which is closely related to the value world, spiritual world and real world in people's minds. It is a way for human beings to find and build spiritual home and understand and grasp the real world.
The earliest known literary work is a forgotten epic written by Sumerians in 2700 BC, which describes heroism, friendship between friends, gains and losses and the pursuit of eternal life. In history, literature with different characteristics and viewpoints in different periods directly reflects people's cognition, feeling and thinking about the world and themselves in a period. In the early days, because those in power needed to consolidate their political power, the works in this period usually had religious or educational purposes; With the bourgeoisie's demand for personality liberation in the Middle Ages, the French Revolution, the European democratic movement and the national liberation movement were unprecedentedly high, and romantic literature was born. In China, literary works of different genres and styles are constantly emerging with the changes of the times. It can be said that the inspiration of literary creation comes from the background of the times, and at the same time, literary creation also affects the development of the times.
Third, the far-reaching influence of piano.
Generally speaking, there seems to be no connection between piano and literature. However, as far as the essence of art is concerned, no matter what kind of creative form, all roads lead to the same goal. Two seemingly unrelated parallel lines actually influence each other in a subtle way, just as the piano has a deep influence on literary and artistic creation.
First of all, music is a language that communicates directly with human mind. The pursuit and enjoyment of beauty endows mankind with precious dignity. In an emotional and civilized society, music is a symbol of high civilization, especially the piano. When the performer calmly sits in front of the piano and expresses elegance or passion between his hands, the ultimate concern for human nature is also vividly reflected from the Taoist nature in the East to the natural human rights in the West! This endows literary creation with soul, which is human's own humanistic spirit. For example, Pianist in Battlefield, Piano Lesson, Legend of Kloc-0/900, every piano performance in the Universal Music Temple, and every child who plays the piano at home, every key touches the purest soul of mankind. It can be said that every note played on the piano has a positive meaning, or it is strong and forceful, or it is euphemistic and lingering, and some even have artistic conception that literary language cannot express.
Speaking of piano, we naturally want to talk about some famous pianists in ancient and modern history, such as Bach and Handel in baroque classical period; Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart and Schubert in Vienna's classical style period; Chopin, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Brahms and Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky in the Romantic Style Period; Debussy and ravel in the impressionist period. The piano music works of these great musicians have obvious influence on the literary and artistic creation at that time and later generations. Most of this influence lies in people's literary creation about the world and life. The simplest example is that due to the limitation of written expression, sometimes the author's ideal feelings and artistic conception cannot be fully expressed, while the piano is different, and its innate broad performance space gives it stronger artistic expression. Although it is not as intuitive as words, it can fully express the feelings and ideas of the author or performer. This also promotes the progress and innovation of literary creation in order to achieve a higher and more ideal performance effect.
This can be seen from Liu Zhiyi, a member of the China Musicians Association, a shenyang military area command lyricist and a military poet. As we all know, the lyrics are written after the formation of music, in order to make music more straightforward, which proves the influence of music on literature to some extent. It was Liu Zhiyi's wish to make his lyric works rank among the literary circles in China on a large scale. The fifth series of Liu Zhiyi's personal works "Love You Forever" published by Guangxi Nationalities Publishing House is another small monument of his music and literary creation career. Music literature derived from the combination of music and literature, such as The Book of Songs, Songs of Chu, Yuefu, and later Song Ci and Yuan Qu. Poetry, mostly sung with music because of the loss of music score, has gradually become desk literature. It is not difficult for us to find that without the unique expressive force given by music, those straightforward and aesthetic words are pale and powerless.
In addition, more often, music can stimulate people's literary creation. Piano, as the carrier of music, can usually inspire this inspiration more thoroughly. Whenever talent is exhausted, a Chopin or Beethoven's work can often make people feel more about life, which is why many writers usually like to listen to music, especially piano music, and even write while listening to music. So is Peter A. Thrower, editor-in-chief of the famous American magazine Carbon. He once said interestingly that when writing, if the inspiration space created by piano music can be assisted, his literary thoughts can often emerge from the depths of his mind like a raging river, and the aesthetic feeling of music can often affect the words he wrote, making the words and paragraphs full of musical melody and making his works full of vitality.
To sum up, it is basically the direct influence of piano on literary creation, which can deepen people's understanding of the world and life. In the field of literature and art in China, there is a saying that writing is like a man, painting is like a man, writing is like a man, and singing is like a man. Then when it comes to piano art, we can also say "the piano is like a person". This is because piano art is an emotional art, a musical art and an art about people. Piano performance is the externalization of the players' thoughts, feelings and life experiences, and the musicalization of their artistic views and aesthetics. Piano gives people a heavy and profound connotation, as Master Liszt said, "Piano is my self". Piano art also has a profound influence on human nature, which makes people think about human nature in literary creation.