Chapter 14 Section Fourteen

Now, I can understand my father's intentions, and I am very grateful to him.I can more or less imagine his regret at not being able to tell me these things himself.He blurted out the word "coyote" once, but at least I'm sure he didn't mean to be self-deprecating.But, even so, I can't deny that that anger-like emotion is still simmering somewhere. After that accident happened for so long, I was finally able to really face the piano, not for Chiori's piano practice.Thinking about it carefully, since I discovered Chiori's talent, in order not to let her hear the incomplete performance, I have always forbidden myself to touch the piano.After searching carefully, I found a few etudes that don't require the ring finger. Even if I don't, as long as the rhythm is not too fast, I can play it with the middle finger and little finger instead of the ring finger, and it still sounds like a complete piece.However, to my surprise, the ring finger of my right hand, which is still intact, is not as flexible as before.I don't know if it's because of a nerve injury or just a psychological factor, but I didn't seek treatment specifically, and I have been letting it go until now.Because, even if the ring finger can't move, it won't affect my daily life. I even got the driver's license successfully.

Of course, there is no way to play more difficult pieces.A sonata or concerto itself has many tones, and the more you practice it repeatedly, the less you will be able to master it.I was both discouraged and annoyed that I couldn't show the fingering that had become instinctive again.In other words, for me now, the piano is just a kind of consolation, and there is no other meaning besides that.And I only choose to play the piano when Qianzhi and mother are away, I don't want to play in front of them, let alone let other people hear it.Although there are not many such opportunities, just being able to touch the keys will make me feel comfortable and forget about all trivial matters.

I would think countless times, if there was only one piece, if I could only play one more piece perfectly, which one would I choose?My answer is "Moonlight", Beethoven's piano sonata.It doesn't have to be all of them, as long as I play the third movement, I am satisfied. As long as you look at the score, you will understand that compared with the first and second movements, the third movement has many more notes, and because each section has fewer measures, the third movement has more pages.Although the playing time is only about seven minutes, during this time, the player's fingers must strike the keys without stopping, and the music style instruction is an excited allegro, and there is almost no room for breathing during playing.

The third movement consists of three themes.At the beginning, the first theme is composed of sixteenth notes like a surging river, followed by a singing-like second theme composed of monophonic and chords, and finally the third theme is a sonorous eighth theme with two-note chords. diaeresis.These three themes are interspersed throughout the whole piece of music, influencing each other, repeatedly destroying the harmony, and then building it again, forming a climax at the end.The whole movement is not suitable to be described as "slow and slow", but it makes people feel as if they are being forced to keep moving forward, and what finally runs through the whole song is a menacing, thunderstorm-like continuous percussion sound.The whole piece is just poignant and profound.

Of course, I have played this piece countless times, and every time I get thunderous applause. The tension before playing "Moonlight" is unmatched by other music, even the comfort of playing the last note.In seven minutes, a torrential rain fell from the keyboard to the world, and the person who rained this heavy rain was me-the former me. If a pianist who is deprived of his freedom to play is suddenly asked: "If you could play the keys again, which one would you like to play?" I think, out of ten people, nine people should have the same answer as me!But it would be better not to be qualified to answer this question.

Because of this, I never let Chiori listen to "Moonlight", and I asked my mother to do the same.If I let Chiori play this piece in front of me—and it is very likely that she can play it better than me—I don’t think I will have the confidence to continue to give Chiori the same love.Fortunately, for some reason, Chiori is not very good at listening to Beethoven's music, and rarely plays it.Especially for Beethoven's later sonatas, Chiori became very unhappy whenever she heard them, and sometimes turned off the record player.However, she doesn't seem to dislike this music saint. Although I only taught her "Pathetique", Beethoven's Eighth Sonata, she still played it very well, but she never played it in the order of the movements.