Comparative Study Of The Four Basic Textbooks In The Piano Instruction

Embodying a specific pedagogical idea, purpose and content, the piano textbooks is one of the essential factors for maintaining the normal piano instruction, and the basis and promise for improving the quality of the piano instruction. Therefore, it is theoretically and pragmatically important for us to make a profound and detailed analysis of various kinds of teaching materials in the piano instruction published at home and abroad, thus absorbing all the useful elements so as to render the piano instruction institutional, systematical and scientifical.With the following four basic teaching materialsBeyer, Czerny Elementary Course op. 599 for the Piano Beginners, John Thompson 憇 Modern Piano Course and Microcosm as the object of study, the present paper makes a comparative analysis and study of them from the perspectives such as the structure and content, the progression arrangement, musicality and interest. Based upon this, this paper systematically induces the features of these four courses together with their respective merits and demerits, thus objectively judging their respective stature in the artistic history of piano and their value in the piano instruction.Through the analysis of the characteristics of the piano instruction, the third part of the paper states the developmental tendency of the basic curriculum for the piano instruction. With a view to the current state of the elementary teaching of piano, I put forward my ideas and suggestions about the choice of the basic curriculum in the last part.