Accumulation Of Harmonic Vocabularies In Keyboard Improvisation

Keyboard improvisation is of great practical value.However,Chinese piano major students failed to acquire improvising skills because of isolation between harmony theory teaching and the classical piano learning.This dissertation attempts to probe into methodology of learning keyboard improvisation by practicing classical piano works.Variations on a Theme of Corelli by Rachmaninoff is used as an example to show how to improve improvising skills by analyzing,imitating and assimilating harmonic vocabularies in classical piano works.