Studies On The Application Of Harmonic Theory Into Piano Accompaniment

As an important composition theory course, Harmonics has always been attachedmuch attention from music majored professors and students. Learning Harmonicshelps students better understand music and master skills of playing and even therudimentary ability of arrangement. However, Harmonics is so theoretical that is cannot be easily understood in the learning process, not to say being applied into pianoaccompaniment. More often than not the reason is that students can not integratetheories into practice comprehensively at times when getting to know and learningharmonic theories, which resulted in the divorce of theory and practice. That is mainlybecause current teaching materials is too traditional and backward to be renovated andadapted taking advantage of modern teaching methods and it can not be matched bythe development of theories on application of Harmonics into music and especiallyinto piano accompaniment. Because of this, the application of harmonic theories intopiano accompaniment has got more and more attention in the field of music educationand research.As a matter of fact, studying and practicing theories of harmonics can serve asguiding light. With the help of harmonic theories, piano players may demonstratemusical effect and mood in a more perfect manner through accompaniment.Meanwhile, the player would be more familiar with keyboard and thus improveplaying skills. What’s more, when integrating theories to playing, the player mayshow musical effects in a more objective way. This may help teachers to find outstudents’ mistakes in understanding of theories which is usually hard to exposed indaily theoretical learning and identify the gap of student’s music understanding,abilityof playing and singing and some other aspects. Both the teaching effect and students’comprehensive quality can be improved thereafter. This can also be helpful forstudents to master a certain amount of piano playing skills after finishing the study ofprofessional music knowledge, and boost their knowledge and understanding ofharmonic theories.