"Girl's Prayer" is a work written by Polish female pianist and composer Badajewska when she was 18 years old. This piece has a simple structure, simple technique, cheerfulness and lightness, and fully expresses a girl's emotions. Mood: Full of dreams and reverie, overflowing with youth and happy wishes.
The structure of this piece of music is in E-flat major, in 4/4 time, andante. It adopts the musical structure of theme and variations. The melody of the music is beautiful, gentle, graceful, intimate and touching, although it is slightly Sad but extremely soft, it truly expresses the beautiful wishes of an angelic and pure girl. It is loved and fascinated by all piano beginners. Almost every girl who studies piano must learn this piece and often use it as a guide when playing. Repertoire.
"Girl's Prayer" was written in 1856 and was first published in the supplement of a music magazine in Paris, France in 1859. People loved it and it became a best-selling song. Since then, it has been circulated in more than 80 different versions.
In terms of music structure, it depicts the beauty of the artistic conception represented by the music itself in a lyrical way. The E-flat major scale in the first four measures is short and clear, just like the ringing of church bells, which is eye-catching and outlines the image of a tall and solemn church. The following two arpeggios serve as an introduction, and then five variations of the theme of the music are presented. They are gentle and beautiful, with distinct colors, sometimes cheerful and sometimes sentimental, which seem to foreshadow the rich emotional changes in the girl's heart when praying.
The first theme variation of the music is composed of ascending tones of decomposed chords and light descending octave tones. Its wavy melody line and ascending and descending sound patterns have a soft sense of gyration. In the second variation, the octave main melody in the right hand becomes a three-octave arpeggio, which is cheerful and clear, and is another embodiment of the theme. In this variation, the appearance of arpeggios and vibratos is a detail that expresses the emotion of the music. It is also a detail of emotion. It is the key to reflecting the girl's inner thoughts and is also the focus of the whole piece. You must pay attention to the music when playing. The rhythm and the coherence and granularity of notes.
The third variation of the music is the cross-playing of the left and right hands. Its low octave chords are like sighs from the girl's heart. It is reverie and unforgettable. The emotion of the whole song is in The variation in this section changes from high joy to deep low. After repeating two variations, it is the fourth variation of the music. The fourth variation has a slight change in form from the second variation: the third arpeggio becomes the second arpeggio, which makes it more powerful to play. , and vibrato is interspersed between each repetition to make the melody more coherent, compact, and natural and smooth when repeated. In this variation, the emotion of the music returns from low to cheerful, but not as high as before.
The last variation of the music is the main melody of a triplet progression, which is full of passion, excitement and eagerness, full of the youthful vitality of a girl and her longing for a better future. The octave legato of the left and right hands pushes the emotion of the music to a climax and sublimates the theme of the whole song.
The whole piece of music sounds like it is repeating the same melody, but after listening carefully, you find that the pitch is not the same. The ups and downs of pitch in the song bring different emotional colors and different artistic experiences. Only through repeated listening and constant speculation can we better understand the emotions expressed in this piece of music, and grasp the key points of playing, the emotions the author wants to express, and its detailed and subtle changes.
In terms of composition, "Girl's Prayer" is a veritable creation of a girl. Its author, Badajevska, composed this soul-narrating piece of music when she was 18 years old. She hurriedly passed away due to pneumonia at the age of 24. Her main works are thirty-five piano pieces, but most of them are unknown. Only "Girl's Prayer" is widely circulated and has become one of the most popular piano pieces in the world.
Badajevska’s youth is short-lived, but the piece she brought to us is like a strange little flower in the altar of music, sending out a faint and faint feeling with its petite figure. The fragrance, whenever you calm down and listen carefully, it brings a friendly, warm and sweet feeling, which is intoxicating and unforgettable.
The best way to understand a piece of music is to get into the heart of a musician, and to understand the life experience of the author Badajevska, the composer, and her mood during the creation period It is undoubtedly the key to understanding this piece of music.
However, who at the moment has such a mood, such meticulousness and feelings, to listen to this piece of music after understanding Badajevska's life experience? Too often, we just treat it as fast food in music, chew it hastily and then swallow it whole. How can we have the leisure to savor the mood of this girl writing about a girl, which is full of so much emotional accumulation? What about the piano music?
In today’s noisy world, it is rare to find such a pure and beautiful piece of music that can cleanse people’s already numb hearts...