A Pedagogical Analysis of Darius Mihaud’ s Piano Duet Suite Scaramouche

Abstract

With the development of piano education, higher music colleges and universities are exploring scientific teaching methods, and the teaching mode of piano duet has entered the public’s view as an effective way to cultivate students’ musical perception. In today’s research, the performance analysis of piano duet has been involved, but the pedagogical analysis of the repertoire has not been explored in depth. Therefore, the study of analyzing repertoire with pedagogical analysis as the main body is very beneficial to the development of piano education. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the current situation of piano duet teaching, analyze it through hardware and software, and elaborate the important value of piano duet teaching. Taking French composer Mihaud’s Piano Duet Suite Scaramouche as an example, we start from the ontological analysis of the music, and study its compositional structure and the three major features of neoclassicism. On this basis, visual full score exercises, aural level and phrase exercises, and exercises of musical imagination are discussed in detail for pedagogical analysis. This paper follows the logic from macroscopic to microscopic to form a systematic teaching method of piano duet, with a view to providing reference and insight for the current research on the teaching of piano duet by applying analysis in piano education.