There is no other way. We can only follow the cases extracted from the works of masters, feel it, imitate it, and try to modify it repeatedly. If you can't learn it, you don't have enough inspiration.
But next, Fan Ning completely restored and embodied the hidden principles behind it!
Starting from the basic principles, he taught everyone how to write bass, explained the connection skills between sixth and third chords, terminated/passed/auxiliary fourth and sixth chords, and various situational applications of dominant seventh chords.
As for why the master's works are so good, he analyzed how the key notes in those fragments played a role, and named them by function as passing notes, auxiliary notes, lingering notes, and pre-occurring notes.
He pointed out that a beautiful harmony of the masters was the alternating use of dense arrangement and open arrangement. Finally, he also elaborated on practical techniques such as harmony connection method and melody connection method.
All the perceptual cognitions were confirmed by rationality, and these people who had been thinking hard on daily life were relieved. Moreover, when the clouds came out, they also discovered their huge misunderstandings in the past.
——The music that I always thought sounded beautiful in the past must have been composed with a large number of colorful chords due to an explosion of inspiration. If I fail to taste it in daily practice, it is usually attributed to insufficient inspiration.
Fan Ning's demonstration made them discover that the first problem in harmony writing is not to spread inspiration and find colorful chords, but to first arrange the existing chords in the four-part harmony.
Rigorous and accurate!
The connection of each part, the conflict and resolution direction of intervals, whether chords should be in original position or inversion, which notes can be omitted and which ones can be repeated and emphasized. The reason why a serious music is natural is that more notes will appear redundant and fewer notes will appear redundant.
The reason why the structure does not exist is precisely because the creator refined the simplest musical materials, instead of abusing colors throughout the piece, piling up double tones, thickening the octave, or stuffing a large number of arpeggio passages to create momentum.
As long as you follow these principles proposed by Fan Ning and understand these techniques, you can write a few measures of very pure and beautiful classical four-part harmony even by simply using I, IV, and V chords!
The 600 audience members in the audience were completely convinced.
As Fan Ning said, harmony is an "empirical discipline" and the reference standard is good-sounding music. However, people's acceptance of "good-sounding music" varies in different periods.
However, he has thoroughly understood the experience of "how to make music sound good" and turned it into a theoretical rule that can be practically implemented!
Although it is tiring and troublesome, it is really useful. I no longer have to search for inspiration when writing and modify it randomly!
The plan for this round of courses was 3 mornings and 9 hours. In the evening after the first day, Fan Ning continued to polish the follow-up lesson plans in the office of the administration building of the conservatory. He suddenly felt that the image of the person outside the door was in his mind.
Outlined in my mind.
So Fan Ning raised his head with his pen and said: "Dean Xu Ci, please come in."
The "bang bang" knock on the door came a beat late. Professor Xu Ci, who opened the door, hurriedly took off his hat: "
Professor Caron, please urgently negotiate, can the venue of the second class tomorrow morning be changed?"
Several old friends have passed away. Xu Ci, who is already the dean of the conservatory, is currently the most familiar with Fan Ning in the school. He is one of the attendees of today's class, and he is not polite at this time.
"What happened?" Fan Ning asked in confusion, "Isn't the quota for this course fixed at 400? And more than a hundred small stools can be added to the walkway in the open space?
"You don't know how violent the response is." Dean Xu Ci said with a wry smile, "Given your popularity, you were already so popular before class that you were asked to add seats, but the response after this class spread again. Starting from noon, the Music Academy
We have received a large number of new requests for auditors, including students who did not get extra seats today, faculty and staff from the Music Academy and other colleges, and people from the music industry from other schools.”
"Now the number of people who want to attend has exceeded the number of students who have chosen courses! Many people are looking for connections to get a spot, and they all come to me one after another. There are even people who can't get there in time from other cities and call to inquire about Professor Fan Ning's "He"
When is the next lecture on "Introduction to Acoustics" scheduled for next month? I can only reply that I have no answer yet and ask him to pay attention to your "Introduction to Counterpoint" at the end of October."
"The school has fully anticipated your popularity, but I really didn't expect that an internal elective course would be extended to the outside world!"
Chapter completed!