China Yangqin Grading Exam: Scales and Etudes, Grades 1-10

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Publisher: Shanghai Music Publishing House
Author: Cheng Haihua
A graduate of the National Music Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, now an associate professor in that department. Over a long career performing and teaching the art of the yangqin, she has carried out valuable exploration and practice. She advocates progressing step by step, teaching according to each student's aptitude, combining Chinese and Western approaches and embracing many traditions; she advocates absorbing foreign playing techniques to enhance the means of performing on national instruments, drawing nourishment from national folk music to enrich their expressiveness, and emphasizing the technical training of fundamentals — all in order to break through the present limits of yangqin technique. In particular, over the past decade she has boldly reformed and innovated upon the traditional teaching model of "I teach, you learn; master leads apprentice," infusing her teaching with a "brand-new interactive teaching philosophy" — a people-centered, ecological approach. On this basis she has built interactive teacher-student and teaching relationships, transforming the purely "receptive learning, force...

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