Studies Of The Performance Art Of Piano Downsizing

The professional courses of piano performance are mainly divided into two types,solo piano and collaborative piano.The collaborative piano course consists of three parts: vocal accompaniment,instrumental accompaniment and piano chamber music.The collaborative piano course is an essential professional skill for piano performance students.Due to factors such as sites and budgets,the piano is used to replace the orchestra for vocal and instrumental concerto in teaching,rehearsing,and performance.Therefore,the major music schools in China have adapted and compressed some of the band's scores to the scores used in collaborative pianos,which is called piano downsizing,and used them extensively in the collaborative piano curriculum.In view of this,learning to play the piano downsizing is an indispensable part of the collaborative piano.The arise of the piano downsizing has also expanded the field of piano works and enriched the piano literature of the ensemble.The piano Downsizings of the band's works put higher demands on the player's basic theory and technical skills,which is beneficial to improve the ensemble ability and the comprehensive artistic culture.This paper will take Beethoven's " Piano Concerto No.1 in C Major" as an example,aim at the necessity of the piano downsizing and focus on the studies of performance thinking,text(music score)and performance techniques of piano downsizing.Through Systematic analysis on it,piano performers can better grasp the performance of the piano downsizing so as to get more attention from professional scholars,teachers and students.