The Practical Exploration And National Feature Of Li Yinghai’s The Piano Fingering Practice Of The Pentatonic Modes

Piano is a western musical instrument.The knowledge pedigree and discourse system of piano playing are based on the tonal nature of western music works.The Chinese folk music is mainly based on the pentatonic mode,playing Chinese piano musical works based on the pentatonic mode on the piano with Equal Temperaments,performers will always encounter some technical difficulties and obstacles.Faced with these difficulties and obstacles,we have been always lacking a set of scientific,effective and targeted practice textbooks for many years.In the 1950 s,Li Yinghai summed up the The Theory of Integrated Pentatonic Modes,created and published the Piano Fingering Practice of the Pentatonic Modes,successfully solved the technical difficulties in Chinese piano musical works which based on Pentatonic Mode.Li Yinghai has broad academic vision of music,profound academic quality of music and extraordinary academic courage of music,he not only absorded the essential of the western classic piano finger practicing such as Schmitt Fingers Exercises of the Piano and Hanon Piano Fingering Practice,but also deeply rooted in the splendid folk music traditions.He constructed the Chinese piano finger exercise system which was based on the Pentatonic Mode and was full of Chinese ethic flavour,it covers the skills and trainings like arpeggio and tuning in the pentatonic mode,the training of techniques that focus on the tune type of stimulated traditional Chinese instrumental music,or the precise performance of decorative tones,or the solutions to those technical difficulties such as fifth chord(omitting the second note),fourth and fifth overlapping chord,four and fifth chord played in arpeggio,etc.It also applies the scientific tune-transfer method for the pentatonic mode folk music.Through the guidance and training of the Piano Fingering Practice of the Pentatonic Modes,thus efficiently solved the difficulties in Chinese folk piano works,and paved the ground for the sinicization and nationalization of the piano finger practicing system.Li Yinghai is the creator and founder of piano fingering practice system by the pentatonic mode.His the Piano Fingering Practice of the Pentatonic Modes is the original work that built the Chinese piano fingering practice system,it provides a solid step for the exploring of Chinese folk piano music playing and training system,it has the significance of paradigm.It is impossible to construct a complete Chinese piano fingering practice system without summarizing and carrying forward the “Li Yinghai Experience”,and making academicbreakthrough on this basis.