Old-time musicians

From a geographical and cultural perspective, the fertility rate in the South Continent is very high, and the population base is not significantly less than that of the North Continent and the West Continent.

The reason why it is so sparsely populated is because of its vast territory. The jurisdiction of the three city-states is half of that of Theolien, not including the countless oceans and archipelagos...

But today, Fanning believes that he has found the deep-seated reason for the "vast territory and sparse population".

"I swear, we still have normal shops here!"

Luna is very worried that Mr. Scheele will leave some preconceived stereotypes.

"These vendors are highly mobile, and toads that secrete hallucinogenic toxins are everywhere, and mushrooms grow in piles after a rain. It is really difficult to define their capture or collection as illegal, so these strange stalls always appear in the market. The church and the government can only try to remind and drive them away with the purpose of reducing public security risks and casualties..."

"The best way is not to patronize mobile stalls. Even normal categories can easily buy fakes. Fixed stores will not have such a "wild" style! A small and famous piano shop is coming up..."

At six or seven in the afternoon, the hot momentum of the scorching sun has begun to ease. The little girl holding an umbrella and carrying a bag is clearing the way in front and chattering, just like a small sponsor who is paying for a meal.

"By the way, Mr. Scheele, do you prefer the retro lute or the more popular classical guitar now?"

"Classical guitar." Fanning said.

For the initial plan to play the role of a troubadour, he tends to carry and create some romantic art songs-mainly melancholy literary poems, or hazy and sad love poems.

This is the mainstream choice that conforms to the current trend.

The genre of "art song" originated from the folk songs of the medieval period, and was more influenced by the sangsong of the Western Continent - a four- to five-part secular a cappella chorus - which made it increasingly professional. After the development of the techniques of orthodoxy and the nourishment of romantic literature, it has long been a serious music rather than a market music category. Vocal music majors in the North Continent and the West Continent will receive a lot of art song training during their school years.

Since it is a "song", there are naturally elements such as lyrics, accompaniment, and paragraph structure, but there are three essential differences between art songs and folk songs:

In terms of lyrics, its text poems are mostly written by great writers, such as Bassani here, Hugo, Goethe, Heine or Shakespeare in the previous life - just by listing these well-known names, you can imagine that its literary threshold is extremely high, which is incomparable to the "lyricist" in the sense of folk songs.

In terms of accompaniment, piano or orchestral music plays an equally important role. Composers carefully create and design after reading poems, so that the harmony, texture, rhythm and rhythm of the lyrics are highly consistent, artistic conception and literary quality. No notes can be changed at will, and they must be played strictly in accordance with the techniques of serious music, otherwise it will destroy the process of "reproducing the artistic conception of poetry".

In terms of structure and expression, its dramatic effect is raised to an unprecedented height, aiming to express the emotional ups and downs of characters in a specific environment, reflecting the noble musical taste and artistic aspirations of poets and composers. … In order to achieve these unique temperaments, they often have elegant and timeless melodies, rigorous and varied forms, wonderful and complex modulations, and a tendency to create "vocal suites" that "large small works".

To master the important genre of art songs, noble inspiration, vocal talent, instrumental attainments, rich experience and literary accomplishment are indispensable.

In the southern continent, apart from serious musicians from outside, only genuine troubadours can master their creations, and only professional opera singers can truly present the artistic conception, making the human voice, instrumental music and poetry integrated.

Since Fanning was going to play a troubadour, he couldn't carry a piano around, so he initially chose to take a classical guitar with him to wander around.

As one of the "three major musical instruments in the world" along with the piano and violin, the classical guitar has a mellow sound quality, profound skills, and a variety of changes. It can be competent for a variety of serious music occasions such as accompaniment, solo, duet and concerto.

The most important point is that it has outstanding multi-part performance capabilities, which is not much inferior to the piano.

- This makes it easier to transplant the created art songs back to the piano and symphony in the future.

Various parasols extended forward, and the two walked through the flower garden potted plants, seafood stalls, berry baskets and cold water shops, and stepped into a large flat house.

Fanning walked to the rows of guitars hanging, his eyes wandering back and forth between their shapes and textures.

"All solid wood, made of Oxydanian spruce, with an ideal sound intensity and weight ratio, stable tone and easy to control... The great bard Senesino has repeatedly recommended this model to advanced people. You only need to pay 30 pounds to take it, and an extra set of strings will be given."

The short shopkeeper wearing sunglasses appeared behind the two of them at some point, facing the place where Fanning's eyes were, and began his endless introduction and quotation.

Because the difference in the clothes of the two people was too big, his attention was more on Luna, who was dressed expensively. Although she was a rare "faded person", those who paid money were guests.

"Mr. Scheele, you can pick whatever you want."

The little girl's face was full of the heroic look of "I'll buy you whatever you like".

In fact, she felt that 30 pounds was a little expensive, because it directly increased the gift by more than half, but how could a troubadour not have a guitar?

Fanning took the guitar in front of him, plucked the six open strings, and then plucked the strings at the 12th fret in turn.

"Good pitch and stability." He praised softly.

Many people simply play the open strings, but it should be noted that the neatness of the octave interval is also very important. The open string sound of the guitar is one octave different from the 12th fret sound. If this point is not carefully checked after tuning, the color of the chord will be more or less flawed.

"Of course, it is impeccable."

The boss agreed, grinning under the sunglasses. He felt that this ragged boy should not be a novice.

"Ding Dong~"

Fanning played a few more ethereal notes.

"It's just that the harmonics of the 5th fret are a bit strange." He put the guitar back on the wooden stand.

... This person is definitely not a novice! The boss was stunned and looked at Fanning again. …"It is recommended to adjust the string height if conditions permit." Fanning said this and continued forward.

"How to adjust?" The boss asked subconsciously.

"Press the string down from the height of the fingerboard. You need to spend a lot of effort to press the real sound now. If it is a big barre, and the volume needs to be played softly, the overall muscle state of inexperienced players will be awkward... Well, but if you lower the distance a little, you may hit the frets. You can try to adjust the neck again and grind the frets. I'm not sure if this will affect the texture of the overtones. The main problem is that some problems have been finalized during the instrument manufacturing stage..."

Fanning casually explained while strolling, and finally summed up with a sentence in a comforting way:

"The overall piano is not bad."

The expressions of the owner and Luna gradually became dull.

But only two minutes later, he resumed his eager salesmanship and continued to introduce the new target in Fanning's arms:

"All solid wood, imported Cedar cedar, high-purity silver frets, pearl shell edging, bright and warm tone, an extra set of strings and winders, this one costs 50 pounds, all you like are good stuff."

Wait, wait, why is it 50 pounds? What happened?

Thinking of the boast just made, Luna suddenly felt a little panic.

"Mr. Scheele must be a real troubadour, otherwise how could his vision and actions be so accurate and ruthless, but this guitar costs 50 pounds..."

"I was going to give 50 pounds, so wouldn't my small treasury only have..."

All kinds of thoughts flashed quietly in Luna's mind, but Fanning put it down after a brief embrace:

"Don't mind too much about the tight grip of the neck, it's a matter of personal preference."

He continued to walk to the more expensive front, and the boss hurried to catch up, with a more joyful look on his face.

"!! A 50-pound classical guitar is not acceptable!"

"But I invited him to the market myself..."

The little girl held the bag tightly, and her expression gradually became calm and tragic.

She decided to buy it even if she cried...

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