Beautiful Sound, Rapid Progress with DVD, N-Group's Theme for 2009
Kiyomi Niibori (a member of NE & Ladies' Quartet, Master of Arts in Music)
It was a great honor and happiness that great many New Year's Greetings to be
carried on January issue of this magazine were sent to us. Thank you.
New Year's message of Dr. Hiroki Niibori was also carried on January issue and
N-Group's theme for this year was shown. Dr. Niibori talked more practically and
explained how to use textbooks of N-Method, CD and DVD at "New Year's Round-table
Discussion" as shown in this issue. That is introduced here to be able to
refer effectively for all of you.
[From Dr. Hiroki Niibori's talk at 2009 New Year's Round-table Discussion]
Studying music in the past --- especially for the music called as classical, peoples
studying it are supposed to be getting eagerly much knowledge and tried to reach
wonderful performance. That is to say, study theory first. They tried, utilizing
theory and knowledge with left brain, to understand the image drawn by composer.
However, I think it will be better to change the method of study. I became aware,
through my experience for long years, of sense for the first, that is to say studying
with right brain, gives more rapid progress.
Sound and image come first to study. Needless to say that appreciation of live
performance is the best way and possibly to do in daily life is to fully utilize
DVD.
Studying and giving lessons with utilizing DVD, sense the first, = "right
brain centered" has been theme from last year. For this year, "beautiful
sound" was added as theme. The biggest charm of music and guitar is beautifulness
of sound.
Beautiful sound to heal heart of peoples is thought to be most necessary one for
modern society.
CD, DVD and "beautiful sound" are necessary to be fully utilized for
actual lesson and home study. Actually, making software has been proceeded for
some time, and it becomes at final stage to complete systematically. "Beautiful
sound", of course, and high standard of agogic (increase and decrease of
tempo) are utilized, the educational system for this field in the world is very
few, and this method is thought to be epoch making to be able to learn naturally
and easily.
Learning agogic on the desk or teaching with letters and diagrams is almost impossible
work, said to be ultimate method to express musical impression and I would like
to make it possible to learn for beginners without any difficulty. It became possible
with the age of DVD has come.
Picking up examples of software = texts concretely, one of them is "Small
Collection of Beautiful Pieces of Music", collection of my original small
pieces for beginners = just began playing guitars. CD is already put on sale and
"collection of pieces•educational method" will be published soon,
as scores were described separately on various textbooks and collection of pieces
before.
Next one is "Textbook of How to Produce Beautiful Sound" edited with
beautiful sound as the theme. Moreover, this is a collection of pieces with red
arrow marks at "heart" to sound beautiful ones and this will be the
collection of pieces of the first in the world! (To tell the truth, editor at
that time refused as "printing the collection with 2 colors was assumed to
be expensive".) Publishing went ahead for this case and now sound recording
= CD is now started. I selected performers carefully from N-Method teachers performing
with exceptional beautiful sound in Japan and gave lessons of ideal agogic for
specific piece of music. It will become marvelous CD remembered forever.
The 3rd one is the field of solo combined with ensemble = concert and it is "Six
Concertinos", my original pieces assuming to be performed by children. Collected
scores were already published and DVD with performance by children were also put
on sale but,,,. Unfortunately, it is regrettable that the musical performance
did not reach my ideal level. Of course it was greatly valuable for educational
aspect.
Composer him self wanted to present actual sound of ideal music as he imagined.
Then, for this time, I am going to produce CD or DVD with solo by professional
performers, not children, in musically high leveled performance also with latest
sound as a model of performance.
The 4th is "Collection of Famous Pieces Performed by Niibori Guitar Ladies'
Quartet". It is the field of origin of N-Sound•Guitar Ensemble, Quintet
with N-Method guitars of each sound range. Collected scores of pieces and CD are
already completed. Both of works are very popular.
The 5th is "Nocturne", with the organization tending to guitar orchestra
and collected healing sounds. This is CD.
The last one is DVD, "International Friendship Public Performance 2007 by
Niibori Guitar Philharmonic Orchestra", with enjoyable sound and image recorded
at the hall giving the most beautiful sound of guitar in the world = Golden Hall
of Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien.
Thus, the curriculum, making it possible without difficulty even for beginners
to study music in very high level up to sound at Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde
in Wien, with enjoyable DVD will be completed soon. Continuously making up insufficient
points, genuine lesson system, possible to study with right brain = sense, will
approach its complete finish. Paying attention to this point in starting this
year, as the theme for this year, the slogan was set.
Prominent teaching materials described above are shown below. (Prices including
tax)
1."Small Collection of Beautiful Pieces of Music" CD (2,100yen)
2."Textbook of How to Produce Beautiful Sound" Textbook (3,360yen)
3."Six Concertinos" Collection of pieces (3,161yen)
4."Collection of Famous Pieces Performed by Niibori Guitar Ladies Quartet-1"
Collection of pieces (2,940) CD (2,100yen)
5."Nocturne" performed by Niibori Guitar Philharmonic Orchestra CD (1,575yen)
6."International Friendship Public Performance 2007 by Niibori Guitar Philharmonic
Orchestra" DVD (3,150yen)
HOT NEWS
*Dr. Niibori was awarded Golden Medal from The Mongolian Red Cross Society on
Jan. 3, 2009. This prize was sent for his contribution to humanitarian activities
for vulnerable people of Mongolia. (Certificate of merit, Medal and Lapel Badge
are carried on p.13 of this issue.)
*Promotion DVD of Niibori Guitar Philharmonic Orchestra was completed.Japanese
and English versions are available now. German version is under way.
Enquiries and orders will be accepted at following address:
Niibori Guitar Music Academy
143-14 Fujisawa, Fujisawa-si, Kanagawa, 251-0052 JAPAN
Phone:+81-466-23-8338 Fax:+81-466-23-9337
URL http://www.niibori.com E-mail info@niibori.com
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