Old-time musicians

"The Beautiful Miller?"

"It's not the Winter Journey from the album?... I was wondering why the impact of the premiere was not saved for the stage. It turns out that Scheler prepared a second set."

"No, he still doesn't understand strategy. Miss Nightingale will have no problem getting into the top 4. If she takes out her new poetry collection now, what if there is a third round? Miss Cuckoo's teacher has only performed an old piece so far."

Although Miss Cuckoo was the most popular at the moment, Miss Nightingale, who was followed closely by the response, still sparked heated discussions among fans once her second round of songs was announced.

"Never mind, this title finally lets us listen to love poems. The previous three are good, but they are different from the style of Scheler's rumored works."

"Will this work follow the love tone of "Skull Song"?"

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Many people speculated about the content of the music based on this title.

At this time, they saw An, who was wearing a blue dress, walked a few steps to the front of the stage and paced back and forth.

Many listeners became confused.

Mr. Walter, the poet laureate sitting in front of the piano, had already raised his wrists and placed them on the keys. Why didn't she stand still and enter the state of brewing emotions and adjusting her breath to sing?

"Dingdong, dingdong, dingdong, dingdong..."

The piano played a lively and brisk B flat major broken chord, like a cheerful stream flowing.

"Flowing water is a good example for us, flowing water is a good example for us,

They are running day and night, running non-stop to the distance..."

"Look at the waterwheel spinning, look at the waterwheel spinning,

They are spinning so fast and cheerfully, they are spinning tirelessly..."

Miss Nightingale paced without stopping, she untied her hairband, playfully put her hands behind her back, smiled lightly, and sang the melody passed down from generation to generation happily along with the piano.

"Beautiful Miller Girl", the sub-title of the first song "Wandering", was highlighted by a dense array of electric lights behind the stage.

The audience was instantly moved by this carefree and simple ballad, and the unrestrained singing style of the girl on the stage!

Yes! Yes!

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Such a lively and flying narrative and music, how can you stand in front of the piano in a rigid manner, pinch your nose and sing it pretentiously! ?

"...Ah, my pleasure is wandering, ah, my pleasure is wandering,

My girl is at the mill, let me wander freely, wander!"

The song ends with a gradual fading, which seems to imply that the protagonist's wandering life will have an unknown ending.

This is not an ideal secular life, but the cheerful and lively accompaniment texture and clear melody undoubtedly convey the protagonist's open-minded mentality. The audience feels that this must be a pleasant and wonderful love story.

The light array switches to the second song, "Where to Go", and the piano switches to G major without much pause in the previous song.

It is still bright in color and continuous in expression, but it is replaced by a group of six consecutive notes, as if it is the sound of a brook gurgling in the distance:

"I hear the brook singing, rushing over the hills,

It gurgles into the valley, so fresh and loud.

I don't know where I will go, where I should go,

I can only run to the distance with my beloved cane."

The audience found that there is a very obvious feature here. The starting note of each phrase sung by Miss Nightingale falls on the weak start bar, and the emotion expressed is closely related to the blurred and exploratory situation of "Where to Go".

"...Sing, buddy, sing to your heart's content, we wander happily,

I hear the sound of the water mill beside the clear brook!"

Each of her phrases, as well as the lines between phrases, starts weakly in the gurgling sound of the water, avoiding the sudden strong start note from being out of touch with the accompaniment, and the human voice and piano are seamlessly matched by nature.

At this time, Walter played a short unison with both hands, and then, in the C major semi-broken chord that the right hand continued, the left hand dropped the keys with a sudden and strong force, from the change note # F to the G note, and then turned into a small step-like jumping form.

The running protagonist suddenly stopped in a hurry.

The third song, "Stop".

"I saw a mill in the distance, surrounded by red Yang,

The waterwheel sang loudly.

'Hey, welcome, welcome' the waterwheel sang sweetly.

Look at how friendly the house is, look at how bright the window is..."

At this time, Miss Nightingale's sweet singing made most of the audience realize the narrative continuity of this work: from "wandering", to "where to go", and then "stopping" to look at the mill from afar, the protagonist finally reached his destination.

Wonderful arrangement, wonderful writing technique! ... Master Rückert admired repeatedly in his heart.

The word "vocal suite" is spelled in the ancient Janus language in a similar way to the German "Liederkranz", which literally means "wreath of songs" - brilliant composers have always had this tradition, and they are good at weaving together some art songs that are continuous in plot and relatively complete and independent in structure, just like the laurel wreath on the head of the ancient troubadour who sang long poems.

So following this plot, a wonderful encounter should begin, right?

The piano played a prelude with ups and downs and personified ornaments, the fourth song "Thank the Stream".

"Does your rap partner think so? Do you laugh and sing?

The creek is right, there is a good girl. How desirable that mill girl is..."

Miss Nightingale, who plays the protagonist, has eyes full of expectation and longing.

"...Maybe it is true, I think so, all my expectations are fulfilled.

I got this job, I got labor and love."

After a short rest, the piano turned into A minor. Walter played a soothing double note with his right hand, and his left hand played another counterpoint melody with a combination of dotted and octave notes, vividly simulating the sound of the alternating rotation of the waterwheel.

"I wish I had a thousand arms, I would make the waterwheel turn like crazy...

Every evening when everyone sat around the field and shared the rest after work,

the host would tell us: Everyone's work should be praised;

the lovely girl said: I hope we can always gather together like tonight."

The young man who was just beginning to fall in love met the girl. The girl on the stage sipped and sang the fifth song "Rest". She was imagining that she had thousands of arms and could win the girl's love through hard work.

"...I will blow all the jungles and make the millstone turn more happily,

Let the beautiful girl remember me in her heart. Let the good girl in the mill remember me in her heart."

Then the song returned to the major key. The protagonist was now deeply in love, experiencing "doubt" and "anxiety" in succession. The audience found that the rhythm of the piano returned to fast again, and there was a fierce change in tonality.

"I won't ask the flowers or the stars,

because they can't answer the doubts in my heart.

I'm not a gardener, but the stars are high in the sky.

I can only ask the creek, who makes my heart beat..." The singing Miss Nightingale continued to play the protagonist. He didn't dare to tell the people around him, but could only pour out his heart to his loyal friend, the creek.

"I often carve poems on tree trunks and often carve knife marks on stones.

I love to plant seeds in flower beds and express love with violets.

I write this on every piece of white paper:

Heart to heart, heart to heart, let us always be heart to heart..." He emotionally carved the name of his sweetheart in every place he could touch, fantasizing that he could be with her forever.

One morning, he ran into his sweetheart. Seeing her bowing her head and saying nothing, he dared not explore her worries and could only stand far away and peek. This is "Good Morning"; he planted flowers in front of the small window of his sweetheart's house, imagining that when the night was quiet, these flowers would express his feelings for him. This is "Grinder's Flowers".

Finally, a small number of listeners at the scene were pulled away from the love song that Miss Cuckoo had expressed before.

They recalled "court love", re-examined "elegant love", and recalled those heart-pounding moments in their youth, how pure and restrained, and how unswerving!

Thank God, in the tenth "Tears and Rain", the protagonist and his sweetheart dated.

Walter played a three-part polyphony with a weak start of pp, which is very uncommon in the piano part as an accompaniment, suggesting that this was a tense solitude and an unforgettable memory.

"She and I sat close together in the shade of the alder trees, and I gazed melancholy at the clear water in the stream.

The bright moon rose in the sky, and the stars blinked.

We silently watched the bright moon in the water, like silver light flickering in the bright world.

I didn't look at the bright moon in the sky, nor at the twinkling stars, but only at her beautiful figure and those charming eyes..."

After playing the polyphonic music nervously, uneasy and cautiously, Walter finally opened his arms and confidently played the refreshing eighth notes and quarter notes.

The eleventh song, "Belong to Me", is the happiest moment of the whole suite.

"Little stream, stop making noise, waterwheel, please be silent,

Happy little birds, stop singing, stop singing, stop singing."

The girl danced happily on the stage, seeming to be "angrily" scolding her former partner, but in fact, she was too proud to let the stream and birds calm down, and she had something important to share with them:

"The same song is echoing everywhere in the fields, the same song is echoing everywhere in the fields,

The lovely mill girl belongs to me, the lovely mill girl belongs to me!"

The difficult passage of 31-32 bars, the melody jumped across nine degrees when it flowed, and Miss Nightingale still maintained unparalleled coherence, with clear pronunciation, stable breath, and firm eyes, which appropriately expressed the protagonist's high spirits of "I am the only one", which made many church and royal judges who favored Renilla nod again and again.

It is sweet to be with your lover, but often within a few days, you will experience longing, suspicion and sadness.

The protagonist began to stare at the lyre hanging high on the wall in a daze, and stared at the token of love she left behind.

The erratic relationship between the two, the alternating love and suspicion, the anxiety and torture in his heart made him unable to extricate himself.

The 14th song, "Hunter", the music turns into a rare black C minor, the piano enters directly and strongly, playing continuous eighth notes with a compact breath, and the protagonist's rival hunter appears.

"The hunter is looking everywhere by the stream, why doesn't the arrogant hunter go to the forest?

There is no trace of wild animals here, only a fawn that belongs to me.

If you want to see my tame fawn, leave your hunting rifle in the forest,

and tie up your hunting dogs at home, and don't let the horn make a noise! ​​..."

The girl's tone changed from a forced calm recitative to a desperate plea to fate, and in the fifteenth "Jealousy and Pride", the piano kept running sixteenth notes, and the dotted rhythmic double notes kept splashing out. This emotion became a fickleness between celebrating luck and burning anger:

"Where are you rushing to, dear stream, are you going to find the hunter to reason?

Go back, go back!

For the love of the mill girl, I don't care about frivolous behavior, go back, go back!

She didn't stand in front of the door yesterday evening, nor did she look forward to find others,

when the hunter rushed past her door, her figure did not appear in the window! ”

Master Rückert, who had been silent in the middle of the jury, finally picked up the "bouquet of fragrant flowers" on the table with several of his students and followers.

Then, his movements were still suspended in mid-air, staring at the girl in blue skirt on the stage without blinking.

It had been too long since he had been deeply moved by such emotions in a work of art.

The beginning of Scheler's work was so lively and bright that the first ten songs only used one A minor, but here, the tragic trend made the emotions take a sharp turn, and the few C minor and G minor were laid out in two consecutive songs, creating an extremely shocking effect!

Long-lost shock and touching!

"Go, brook, go and tell her, go, brook, go to her.

It's better not to say it, you see I can't find the right words,

Just say: He made a reed flute for you, which can play charming dance music for you.

Go! Go! Go!

! ..."

Miss Nightingale clutched her dress and screamed on the stage, and the protagonist, who had suffered a huge trauma in love, began to become sensitive, melancholy, and more worried about gains and losses.

In the 16th "Lovely Colors", he was still pursuing the preferences of his sweetheart when he was in love with her, trying to make her change her mind, but it immediately turned into the 17th "Hateful Colors". The piano struck single notes with both hands. The B major melody jumped from the # D of the first clef to the # F of the second clef. The repeated ups and downs of the tenth interval vividly portrayed the psychology of love turning into hate, and also foreshadowed the tragedy of the whole song.

The 18th "Withered Flowers".

The tonality returned to the simple G major. Walter's hands were separated by rests, quietly playing the repetitive and regular chord prelude.

"She brought countless flowers and placed them on my grave.

She seemed to understand my sadness, letting tears flow down her face continuously.

Why did her flowers wither? Why did her flowers die?

Oh, tears cannot revive love, just like this withered branch..."

The audience sat there in a daze, watching Miss Nightingale sing sadly. The plot of the long poem has evolved to this point, and it has become a complete love tragedy, because the beautiful miller does not love the protagonist, but a handsome hunter.

A series of descending notes flowed from Walter's fingertips, an extremely sad melody, a heart-dead sadness.

Then the tonality turned to the same name G minor, the 19th "Millman and Stream", Walter's playing became slower and more sluggish, one note in the left hand, one note in the right hand, and the stream that used to flow lively seemed to freeze into ice.

"When the infatuated heart finally calmed down, the lilies in the garden had withered,

The bright moon in the sky hid in the clouds, in order to cover its tearful face,

The happy little angel also closed his eyes, using the elegy to calm his soul.

When there is no more happiness, sadness and sorrow in love, a new star will be born in the sky. "

In the first paragraph, the protagonist tells his former friend, the creek, and then the music returns to G major, and the thin accompaniment turns into flowing sixteenth notes again.

The creek seems to be comforting him, swaying calmly, clearly and softly.

"...Ah, creek, dear creek, what a beautiful thing to say." Ann smiled and shook her head, then responded softly,

"But creek, you know: this is my love."

Fanning, who had been sitting quietly in the corner, turned around as he watched her blue back, and walked towards the piano while singing softly:

"I would like to rest in your cool water waves,

Ah creek, dear creek, you keep singing,

Ah creek, dear creek, you never stop singing. ”

Then the audience found that the girl finally ended her performance and stood still beside the piano.

"The Beautiful Miller Girl"... Why can Mr. Scheler write such a sad and beautiful work with a major-based layout? Why does such a warm and song-like encounter end in such a tragedy!

Damn it, this Scheler wrote "Courtly Love" to this extent, he is simply heartless!

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Just like "Love is a Question" makes people unable to sleep all night!

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There should be another one, but the protagonist is dead, and the narrative poem has ended.

The 20th one, "Lullaby of the Brook".

Walter played the classical four-part harmony with both hands, the high and low parts are the gentle lines of half notes, and the middle is filled with soft and swaying dotted rhythms.

"Sleep well, sleep well, close your eyes, the weary wanderer will no longer travel far.

True love never fades, the sea swallows the creek into its arms, I wish your soul can be peaceful.

You will live in this blue crystal palace, sleep on a soft pillow and never wake up again.

Gently rippling, like the rocking of a cradle, so that the wandering child can safely enter the dreamland. "

The peculiar color of E major is outside the closed-loop G major, which shows that Miss Nightingale is finally singing the last song from the narrator's perspective of the creek.

"When the hunter's horn sounds, my waves will roar for you,

Forget me not, don't look around, lest you touch the shadow and become emotional, I hope you can let him have a good dream in his deep sleep.

Go away, leave this bridge path,

Girl, you are beautiful but ruthless,

Your presence will disturb his peace. "

The swaying four-part harmony fill-in will temporarily disappear at the last sentence of the verse repetition, and the piano part will become a weak but neat major chord accompaniment.

Not only does the protagonist's life return to peace, but his experiences, his labor, and his love will gradually be forgotten by his sweetheart.

"I wish you could keep your white handkerchief,

So that I can use it to cover his open eyes;

Good night, good night, when all things wake up, you will forget your joy and sorrow,

The bright moon rises, the night is foggy, but the sky looks extraordinarily vast and pure..."

In the last two measures of music after the vocals end, the dotted rhythm pattern of the piano resumes, and the stream continues to flow until it disappears into the distance.

Walter stood up and saluted with his wrist raised, and Luna, who was turning over the music, carefully imitated his movements.

Miss Nightingale looked towards the corner of the stage. She put on her lively and cheerful smile again and looked at the silhouette of the figure in the dark.

After the open-air opera house was quiet for more than ten seconds, restrained and deep applause poured in like a tide.