前言

Foreword

随着小提琴普及教育的推广，越来越多的少年儿童学习小提琴演奏，而且开始学琴的年龄也越来越小。怎样选择合适的小提琴教材这个问题也越来越突出。通过半个多世纪的小提琴教学活动，我仍然认为这本《张世祥小提琴启蒙教程》（以下简称《启蒙》）是一本非常适合少年儿童学习小提琴的教程，它的内容安排十分科学而且合理。

With the increasing popularity of violin playing and teaching, more young people have the opportunity to learn and play the violin, with many children starting at very young age. Choosing the appropriate violin teaching material can therefore be a challenge for many teachers. With over half a century of teaching experience, I have concluded that the Zhang Multimedia Violin Method for Young Children(briefed as Zhang Multimedia Violin below) is a wonderful teaching material for children in their early stages of violin learning. The content is pedagogically and scientificallysound.

在我看来，现在的初级小提琴教程一般情况下是按两种不同目标而编写的。一种是为那些把学习小提琴演奏当作增加兴趣爱好和提高音乐修养的孩子们而编写的。这类教程往往都是采用孩子们所熟悉的儿歌、钢琴上演奏的曲子，来激发孩子们的兴趣。我认为基于这个目的，采用这样的教材学琴也是适合的。另外一种教程则是根据演奏小提琴左右手动作的难易程度和技术训练的科学步骤来安排学习材料的。目标是在一开始就为孩子们打下坚实的技术基础，为他们今后进行高难度的训练做好准备，但同时又兼顾了孩子们的年龄特点来选材。我现在编选的《启蒙》属于后者。它的内容十分短小，每个学习单元都把音阶、练习曲和乐曲按照学习目标，科学地安排好。这是为那些想认真学好小提琴演奏的孩子们准备的教程。

In my view, the objective of many contemporary violin tutor books can be divided into two categories. The former category of violin tutor books is written to encourage children’s interest in learning the violin for leisure and to promote their appreciation of music. These tutor books often contain children’s songs and piano pieces. In my view, these violin tutor books are appropriate for their teaching objectives. The latter category of violin tutor books is written with a strong pedagogical approach in sequencing the development of both the left and right hand techniques in violin playing. The objective of these tutor books is to build a solid technical foundation, selecting age-appropriate teaching materials for future more advanced work. I have compiled the Zhang Multimedia Violin with the latter in mind. The materials selected are short. Each unit is pedagogically arranged with scales and etudes preceding the pieces. This tutor book provides a solid foundation for children who wish to pursue advanced violinstudies.

在这本教程中，我们采用了一些示范演奏的照片，我认为这对于孩子们的学习非常有用。多角度的照片清晰直观，能够达到很多文字解说所不能达到的效果。为进一步提高教材的实用性，我们还根据孩子练琴时应使用的速度，录制了全部内容的示范演奏和动作讲解。这样孩子们就可以独立地跟着视频进行练习，并有意识地纠正演奏时出现的问题。孩子们下课回家后的练琴也有了视频作为参照。所有视频都可以在网站zviolin.com（中文）和zhangviolin. org（英文）上查看到。实践证明这种教学及学习方法既可以使孩子学琴兴趣盎然，又可以让他们的学习变得更加容易和规范。同时，也可以极为有效地减轻教师大量日常的重复劳动，帮助教师取得更好的教学成果，成为教师最好的教学助手。

This tutor book includes many photos demonstrating various violin playing positions, which are valuable in assisting the children’s violin learning. These photos clearly demonstrate the various basic hand positions from different angles, many of these are difficult to explain with words. In order to enhance the teaching materials provided in the tutor books, we also recorded videos playing all pieces at a reasonable performance tempo for children, along with demonstration and explanation of the hand motions required. In this way, the children can independently practice by playing along with the video, and consciously correct performance mistakes by matching those on the screen. These become home practice aids and assist in eliminating mistakes during home practice. All these tutorial videos are provided on the website zviolin.com (Chinese version) and zhangviolin.org(English version). This teaching and learning method has proven to stimulate the children's violin learning interest, as well as assisting children to learn more easily and in a methodical way. It can be used as a teaching aid, preventing simple practice, thus enhancing the teachingresult.

我认为在初学阶段让孩子养成正确的演奏习惯是非常重要的。我时常对我的学生说：把琴拿高，把弓拉直，把音拉准，心里要有拍子。”这是我们对初学小提琴的孩子最基本的要求。它远比拉得深、拉得多、拉得快更为重要。只要扎实地做到这些要求，就为孩子今后的学习铺平了道路。

In my opinion, it is of utmost important to instill in children good playing habits at the beginning stages of learning violin. I always remind my students the following, "hold up the violin, move the bow parallel to the bridge, play in tune and maintain a steady pulse." These are my basic requirements for children learning the violin at the elementary level. These are more important than progressing quickly through more and harder pieces. Mastering these basic skills well will smooth the pathway for future advanced stages of violin learning.

愿这本启蒙教材为广大学习小提琴演奏的孩子铺就学好小提琴演奏的坦途，也为广大教师和家长提供一些帮助。

It is my sincere hope that this publication will offer young violinist the wonderful pathway in their violin learning journey, as well as providing some useful assistance to violin teachers and violin parents.

2 017年8月4日于悉尼

4 August 2017