To Explore The Kappa Levski. The Third Piano Concerto In D Major "for Teenagers", "op50 Value And Its Teaching

Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky(1904-1987) was a Russiancomposer, teacher and musical arts social activist. Most of his worksexpressed the major themes of contemporary society, helping to shapethe image of the Soviet youth. In many of Kabalevsky’s opuses createdfor young people, the tonality is fantastic and imaginative, simple andmoving, fervent and lively. The music brims with the romanticenthusiasm and vitality of youth. Kabalevsky also founded his ownmusic education philosophy, and implemented it both in the writing ofmusical pieces as well as in the music teaching programs of regularschools.Op.50Piano Concerto No.3in D major ‘Youth’, created in1952, is a work that reflects the composer’s teaching philosophy. As apiece of piano music for young children, its choice of theme isundoubtedly unusual, but it was chosen so as to enrich theperformance forms children are exposed to, to promote thecooperation ability of musical performance, and to strengthen theconscious control to the opus. With regards to musical image andrhythmic pattern, this concerto embodies the educational concept of“three whales”, which was proposed by Kabalevsky, otherwise knownas the “three pillars” in general music education. With regards to playtechnique, in consideration of the target player, the entire piecerequires a comprehensive use of basic techniques, without anyexceptionally difficult sections. The purpose of this paper is to analyzethe music body and performance form for the purpose of expoundingon the value in children’s education of performance form, musicalcontent and technique of this youth piano concerto. It is hoped thatthis text may inspire the piano playing educators of tomorrow, and thatmore musicologists could pay closer attention to children’s music education...