John Thompson’s Modern Course For The Piano

John Thompson "Modern Course for the Piano" piano education is recognized as a more comprehensive integrated learning materials, provided the materials for the US copyright Willis Music Publishing, the world is currently translated version of the text of the tutorial already has 7. In China, John Thompson’s << Modern Course For the Piano >> is published by the music press of Shanghai,whose feature is adapted from the famous songs, and it has extremely positive significance from the strategy eyes of “Learning to play the piano begins with learning music.” This set of textbooks consists of 5 books from shallow to deep. Book1 and Book2 are primary books, which are mainly learned from the aspect of the position and shape of five fingers, aiming to learn the fundamental theory of music knowledge and learn how the thumb cross under the pawl as well as how hands cross above the thumb. After learning these two books, students will be encouraged to admire music and take an interest in playing the piano. Book3 is a intermediate level book, whose aim is to learn the playing style of different composer and different kinds of musical genres. Book 4 and Book 5 are advanced books, with the aim of improving the skills of music and playing the piano. When students learn the songs, besides the piano music, introducing the composer and the feature of the song,explaining the common sense of music or pointing out the key point of connection before every song, they will obtain more knowledge and improve their musical accomplishmemt. These songs are popular with teachers、 students and parents,because of its loveliness and vividness. Learners will improve overall in both the music sense and playing skills by learning.The author researches into << Modern Course For the Piano >> from its content、schedule 、musicality 、 interest and so on. The author will summarize the feature of these books systematically, point out the existent advantage,key points and difficult points of each book and analyse the value of this set of books in teaching to play the piano together with its status in piano art history. Based on researching the classification of works in teaching material, the author will analyze its practicality,by analyzing the different angles of inspiring students’ interest of learning to play the piano and combining children’s learning feature of different ages. This article will tell the content,aim and main practices of << Modern Course For the Piano >>,whose purpose is to lay a correct and intact fundament for learnmers, making them feel music,love music and enjoy music based on their understanding music. Accoding to the current situation of teaching playing the piano, I will point out my view on choosing the content of this teaching material.