Research On The Law Of Wrist Movement In Piano Performance

Piano performance is a coordinated movement that needs active involvements of every organ, including fingertips, fingers, wrists, arms, shoulders, upper body, waist and even muscles of the whole body and brain. And wrists play a key role in links of arms and hands in the process, for they are not only the supporting point of power transition between arms and hands but also the prerequisite for fingers touching keys under the control of them, thus beautiful music are performed.Piano performances techniques are diversified. Arms, wrists and fingers are always ready to adjust their movements according to changes of different skills. Wrists movements are found diversified and flexible based on the research of their physiological structures. They can shift movement directions of arms and fingers up and down, left and right and even circularly. Therefore, wrists are hubs of power transition in the process of piano performances. The movements of fingers and arms are bound to be affected without its control and flexibility, let alone music performance. Based on the above consideration, this paper tries to rationally analyze wrist movements in piano performance with principles of medicine and sports physiology: summing up laws of wrist movement in piano performance with wrists, arms and fingers as parameters, and the analysis of their physiological structure and muscular movement capability as departure point to provide a scientific theoretical reference to piano players.There are four chapters in the paper. The first chapter analyzes wrist physiological structures and muscular movement capability, which provide scientific grounds for the paper; the second chapter elaborates the functions of wrists in piano performances;the third chapter is the key part of the paper, which concludes basic law of wrist movements in piano performances and comprehensively and systemically analyze wrist movements from basic methods, different techniques and composition analysis; the fourth chapter concludes the errors of using wrists from process of playing piano and teaching practice and corrects them, thus provides a practical training method for correct way of using wrists.