Old-time musicians

"Poem of Awakening", a single-movement symphonic poem used to realize the "Chant of Awakening".

But it's more than that.

Later, it was also the basis for Fan Ning’s exploration and metaphor of the upper and lower structures of the Huita and the self-created key to pass through the “Gate of Lights and Shadows” - the first movement of “Symphony No. 3 in D minor”.

Luna was still sitting upright under the altar of Qiming Church.

"The teacher seems to be composing music again, but just like those 'flower-touched people' in the church, he is using a very mystical method. What he said before, 'At least let's talk to a bishop,' may be true!"

"I can't understand it, but it's awesome!"

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She curiously watched the lightning bursting out of the altar, the pages flying, Fan Ning's long hair flying, his shirt fluttering, and her fingertips cutting through the mist and light in the air one after another.

"Although the work 'Giant' depicts a sound-flow picture of the integration of man and nature, in retrospect it is only superficial, and the core that Teacher Anton wants to express in the last movement has not been perfectly sublimated..."

"Fortunately, through the creative accumulation of 'Giant' and 'Resurrection', my techniques, my experiences, and my understanding of living in high places have become more mature. I will redefine the various aspects of nature in this symphony. A voice, first the appearance of the world, then the will of the world, and finally letting the whole world sing and sing for it!”

What he saw and thought during the more than ten days' journey to the South, all turned into endless sparks of inspiration in Fan Ning's dream.

"The appearance of the first movement "Poetry of Awakening" is 'good mountains and good waters', an ode to nature, a 'summer march'. People who have a superficial perception of music will think so. But in fact, the essence is violence. In opposition to pastoral poetry, the proposition "Love is a question" will be clearly stated. When this symphonic poem of love that is yet to rise and symbolizes the rough primitive state is played, it will surely trigger the response of the "Fanghui poet"."

"First the theme." A melody that had been brewing for a long time sounded in Fan Ning's inner hearing.

Faint traces of notes appear on the skin of the end in front of you. This melody uses the fourth ascending as the motivation for the development of each section. The rhythm is heavy and even, and the interval structure is solemn and simple.

It is a common folk song in the Southern Continent. Fan Ning has heard it many times. Whenever a living thing in the caravan is buried in the soil and starts to rot, the fellow travelers will sing it as a brief song. Funeral liturgy prayers.

But under Fan Ning's gaze and ethereal strokes, these notes were first transposed to D minor, and the pitch relationship between them was slightly shifted. The even rhythm pattern was also distributed twice with different lengths, and , most of the notes are marked with a "\u003e" fortissimo mark.

It suddenly transformed into a march-like rhythm.

It is the prototype of folk minor tunes and sad music, which gives it a slightly tragic and miserable musical character.

March-like mournful music, mournful march-like music, the opposition has already begun from here.

When they sounded a second time in Fanning's inner hearing, they became sounds blown by French horns.

The sorrowful music that awakens the sleeping "Fanghui Poet", the wake-up call of summer.

"Love in the southern summer is passionate and straightforward, and questions in a primitive and rough state do not need any foreshadowing. The foggy sound strips or string tremolos used in the introductions of my first two symphonies will be abandoned here. It is a completely different style. It does not require any accompaniment. The theme is played directly by 8 horns at the beginning! ...French horns have a special tone, are metallic yet gentle, and have a character most similar to that of woodwinds. They can be said to be the brass group. The transition zone between the woodwind section and the woodwind section is also an opposition, and this orchestration choice is also part of the opposition..."

Fan Ning made a few more strokes in the air. In the second half of the theme, bassoons, trombones, tubas, string instruments and percussion all sounded downward fifths, just like imitating the original The sound of drumming by the tribal crowd.

A short section of gloomy column chords connects the dull and slow unison ups and downs of the wind instruments, which is called the "mysterious motive", followed by the weak triplet of the timpani's continuous beating. All this makes people realize that there seems to be nothingness. Something mysterious and powerful is resurrecting.

Then, fragments of inspiration for each musical material in this introduction burst out and were imprinted on several pieces of paper hovering in the air:

"Hum: The bassoon and bassoon's ode to nature, with gentle ups and downs, with vibrato, like a thick bass hum... This is a pastoral poem!"

"Restless: The tuba and bass tuba use the D minor triad to add restless triplets of percussion, and at the same time, there is also a dark tremolo in the viola part... This is violence!"

"Dawn: A complete reproduction from the first movement of 'Giant', with double notes for the wind instruments, jumping to a higher octave, indicating a ray of morning light breaking through the clouds and piercing the sky... This is pastoral poetry!"

Suddenly a golden light flashed in Fan Ning's eyes, and the D minor major seventh chord in the gel membrane, which symbolized the divine pollution of "Miss Crimson's Son", was wrapped and wrapped by his thread of inspiration, and then added to the trumpet part score. In the line!

As soon as this set of chords came out, in the moving space outside Qiming Church, the divinity mixed with blood and joy began to condense into a group. But because the source is hidden in layers of cracks that are hard to see, these secret flavors can only aimlessly dissolve the irrelevant illusions in the dream.

The inspiration for "Miss Scarlet Girl" cannot be found directly, but knowledge can. Yiyong and Huita are originally composed of knowledge refracted by the glow. They are information that can be infinitely shared, flowed, read and written. Fan Ning discussed it, and there was always some divine pollution beginning to infect from the migration.

"Crack! Click!"

Luna saw cracks suddenly appearing in the church's colorful windows, and the light golden mist in the air took on a crimson color.

At this moment, in the symphony hall, the fourth movement of "Giant" under the baton of Walter, the "Psalm Motive" that also symbolizes divinity and carries the secret of purification, was blown by the horn player.

The blood color in the church quickly faded.

There are also some remaining "pool" pollutions that still stubbornly flow towards the altar, and then hit the invisible boundary of the altar, melting completely like snow meeting flames.

Fan Ning at the altar was unmoved at all. He continued to dismantle the inspiration for each part of the musical material in the introduction to "Poem of Awakening", and the knowledge involving "Miss Scarlet" was just a part of the confrontation.

"Desire: With a rough and restless sound, the trumpet blows out the four notes of re, fa, la, and #do on the gel membrane, and hovers over the most discordant and sensually exciting #do, joy and harmony The climax lasts for three full measures...it's violence!"

"Ascension: The cello and double bass, which have been silent for a long time, play a very fast upward scale with fff intensity, first a 7-tuplet, then an 8-tuplet, and finally a 10-tuplet, just like breathing from a completely still place. Welcome to the new life... This is an idyll!"

"Hammer: The treble brought by each ascension ends with a melody three degrees downward, accompanied by a cruel hammering sound of percussion, symbolizing that new life is ruthlessly killed, and the living body will eventually Rotting in the dirt...this is violence!”

As Fan Ning's clothes fluttered, these terminal skins that he had given different materials began to rotate at an accelerated speed, and filled in different parts and sections of the score in turn. Some were connected before and after, some were parallel at the same time, and some were alternately cycled. , some are staggered, some overlap, and form counterpoints... They explore, evolve, and advance with profound laws, just like holding a mysterious ceremony controlled by some primitive power.

In the presentation after the introduction, the theme of the "Elegiac March" was continued by Fan Ning using French horns and trumpets. The intervals jumped up and down, the rhythm was stiff, and there was even a cold and violent feeling.

The following subtitle of "Summer Dreams" seems to express the drowsy appearance of sleeping creatures under the reveille, still unwilling to wake up immediately. Fan Ning wrote the melody presented one after another with the oboe and violin, They have a delicate singing quality, similar to the sound of wind blowing through leaves, or the calls of birds or other animals...

More than half an hour later, Fan Ning slowly opened her eyes in the audience, followed by Luna, who was a little dazed by the switching back and forth between reality and dreams.

Inspired by Qiming Church, the speed of thinking and recording efficiency are extremely high. Although the time in the waking world is not very long, the main structure of the first movement "Poetry of Awakening" has been set up by Fan Ning.

Facts have proved that Qiong's suggestion is very sound, and her opportunity to seize it is also very appropriate. She explores art in the secret realm + the purifying effect of "Symphony No. 1" + the closed altar built by divine strings, allowing herself to use the ultimate high-level spirituality level, and has steadily withstood the contamination of dismantling half of the Enforcer-level hidden consciousness.

The next thing to wrap up "Poetry of Awakening" is even simpler.

At this time, the last movement of the "Giant" symphony was completed, and the audience burst into applause.

Luna also clapped along.

The response from the audience was pretty good, with many people even standing up and shouting "bravo".

But other than that nothing happened, no awakening.

Fan Ning asked Luna to take out a pen and paper from her bag, and the sound of rapid writing sounded.

"Please help me present it to Mr. Conductor." Amid applause and cheers, Fan Ning motioned to a female staff member standing at the door of the box to come over.

"Now?" The staff member politely accepted.

This kind of thing is not uncommon. A famous conductor has a considerable social status and is also the idol of many music fans. For such a public figure, some people will fawn over him, some will cooperate with him, some will learn from him, and some will express his admiration. It may also be to submit a work for advice, or simply to express gratitude and praise for art...

But this time she couldn't understand the content on the paper at all. It was neither a letter nor a sheet of music. There were some scattered labels and numbers on it, such as "I, 75-81", "III, 24-26", "IV, 225" -240" and the like, in addition to some symbols and terms that may be related to music, she is not sure.

The only thing that can be read is a gold coin with a face value of 1.

This is enough. This is the service responsibility in itself. Having it will only make your service more sincere and sincere.

"I will deliver it to you during the curtain call, but there is no guarantee that conductor Walter will respond."

The staff thanked him happily and exited from the passage next to him.

…

Around the same time, another important art center in Tia City, the Eleanor State Opera House.

The circular open-air theater is decorated with flowers and lights everywhere, and the seats are decorated with peach as the main tone. After being decorated with this passionate and gorgeous light and shadow, it is even more exciting.

Long stretches of ribbons divided the auditorium into two uneven concentric circles inside and outside. The inner rows were empty, except for the judges and staff sitting in the two rows in front of the raised orchestra pit. The 2,000-person auditorium was packed with people. Tourists and citizens paid 2 shillings to enter the venue and see the contestants of the famous singer selection competition.

This is undoubtedly a very affordable price, and it is a good place to spend time during the "Flower Ceremony" - pay at any time, enter at any time, no time limit, evacuate at any time, whether the seat is in the front, back or on the corridor steps depends on first come, first served And some luck, the only requirement is that the singer should remain quiet while performing, otherwise he may be kicked out by the citizens around him.

But at this time, Miss Nightingale in a certain cast and crew lounge behind the stage passage felt a little uncomfortable.

It’s been too long!

The celebrity singer selection competition started at three o'clock in the afternoon, and she had already waited until after eight o'clock in the evening! !

This year, a total of 60 singers received internal invitation letters from the "Flower Ceremony" and passed the preliminary screening.

This amount has increased a lot compared to last year. She had known it for a long time, but she originally thought it was not too much.

But today she realized that preparing two songs for one person, including the entrance and exit movements of a group of 5 people waiting for the venue, the introduction announcement, and the impromptu criticism or suggestions from the judges that some people received, on average, it cost nearly 10 yuan per person. minute……

More than five hours have passed, and now the group No. 35-40 has just entered the waiting room, and the one I drew is No. 46...

"Well, I was still thinking about going to the Festival Concert Hall to see my teacher for a concert..."

At this moment, An felt uncomfortable anywhere on her body. She usually liked to wear T-shirts, shorts and canvas shoes in the summer. Today, the trailing dress made people feel unable to stretch out, and her chest, shoulders and neck were covered The strangulation was uncomfortable, and the high heels made my ankles swell and hurt. Moreover, the powder on my face made me feel that my skin could not breathe at all. What was terrible was that I had already applied makeup three times...

Master Lucter, who was sitting in the middle of the judges' table, also felt uncomfortable.

This "New Moon Poet" who is more than seventy years old and highly respected in the Southern Continent has an angular, square and broad face. His mouth always likes to be pursed into a thin line, and his sparse light golden curly hair hangs naturally. On the sides, its stern temperament is slightly neutralized, but it still feels majestic and unapproachable.

Mainly because I feel very sad.

He felt like he was about to vomit.

Three piano accompanist assistants were replaced, but he could not get off the stage. At this moment, he regretted extremely why he had agreed to come over and be the chief judge during the selection stage.

"Have you relaxed your standards this year? Why did you choose so many internal channels?" The singer expressed his doubts during the performance.

"Master Lucter, this year the recommendation of the 'Blade Bearer' is still the threshold for entry." Prince Eleanor, the handsome head of the opera house wearing a church cloak on his right, explained.

"From now on, unless they are recommended by the 'Forged Lion', they will only be admitted. The recommendations of the 'Blade Bearer' will still have to be screened out, so that they can honestly start from the general election."

"Follow your wishes." Prince Eleanor responded with a very respectful attitude.

"Miss Kuci, bring me the remaining resume forms for the contestants." He thought for a while and then said.

"Okay, teacher." Ku Ci, a famous singer on the other judges' bench, stood up immediately.

Lucter's face was a little irritated at this time, and he sighed secretly in his heart.

In the field of art, the recommendation system has been around since ancient times, and there have indeed been many good talents in the art field. This is how my favorite student, Ms. Kuci, came into the field. She won the first competition ten years ago and became famous in one fell swoop.

However, in recent years, the quality of the recommended people has become worse and worse. He seriously doubted whether some artists, royal nobles or clergy signed contracts for money, or signed because they looked good.

While Lucter was looking down at the singer's information, Senesino, the great troubadour on his left and the music director of the Festival Concert Hall, also laughed and said:

"Master Lucter, my student, Princess Eleanor 'Miss Cuckoo' is about to come on stage. She is definitely a good seedling that will satisfy you."

Lucter didn't answer his words and was still looking through the singer's information.

Two minutes later, he was so dizzy with all the exaggerated recommendations and information that he completely gave up on the idea of ​​selecting people and waved his hand:

"Don't divide the remaining people into any groups. Call them all in."