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"Senior Brother He, who is the Alice they are talking about, your so-called Alice?"

Zhao Zitong swallowed, looked around, tried not to focus on He Shen, and asked He Shen.

Ji Mengting stood aside, although she pretended not to care, she also looked at He Shen.

After all, if we go by some rumors about Beethoven's work, or the explanations spread by others.

So this piece may have something to do with them.

Because it is said that this piece of work was actually written by Beethoven to his student. He regarded his student Malfati's respect and love for him as love, and believed that this marriage was a sure thing, so he wrote this piece. After the work came out, I wanted to use this work to propose marriage.

As a result, he got drunk at a cocktail party hosted by his father-in-law. The title of the work that was originally intended to be used as a confession was accidentally written incorrectly, from Malfati to Teresa. Some people even thought it was because it was too sloppy. Alice.

Therefore, although Malfati got this piece of work, he did not get Beethoven's proposal in the end.

A misunderstanding is formed every second.

It was precisely because of this that Zhao Zitong and Ji Mengting could not help but feel their hearts beating rapidly. They looked at He Shen with red faces, waiting for He Shen's answer.

As a result, He Shen had no reaction at all.

There was no such thing as standing up, reaching out to point their chins, and then using a particularly handsome gesture to tell them that his Alice was actually them.

He Shen just sat on the sofa, looking at the two of them with incomprehensible eyes, frowning at them in confusion.

"What my Alice?"

"That's it, your "For Alice"..."

Zhao Zitong handed the mobile phone to He Shen, pointed at the words on it, and asked hesitantly.

"They said that in your song "For Alice", it is obvious that there really is an Alice. It is precisely because of the existence of this Alice that you can play it so beautifully, senior brother."

"I just want to ask, Teacher He, who is the Alice in your heart?"

He Shen looked at Zhao Zitong and Ji Mengting in front of him. He looked at Ji Mengting and his frown deepened.

He Shen asked Ji Mengting, "You...want to ask that too?"

"Eh? Me? I..."

Ji Mengting glanced at Zhao Zitong, then at He Shen, lowered her head and said sheepishly: "Well, I'm a little bit too..."

He Shen looked at the two of them and couldn't help but pinch his eyebrows, completely unable to understand their brain circuits.

Why do you think about who your own Alice is from an ordinary work?

Even though I have been abroad for so long, I have never met anyone named Alice.

Why do these two people seem so convinced that they know an Alice?

He got up, walked to the shelf he had placed in the small piano room, and flipped through it casually.

There is no sheet music for "For Alice."

After hesitating for a moment, He Shen returned to the sofa, used his mobile phone to find the music score on imslp, printed it out, and handed it to the two of them, unable to understand.

"Who is the Alice you just talked about?"

"Just, just..." Ji Mengting was embarrassed to say, Zhao Zitong took a step forward and said.

"That's what we want to know, Teacher He, when you are playing this piece, who is the person you are thinking of and the person you like?"

"..."

He Shen looked at the two extremely serious people and was speechless for a while, unable to understand and said:

"Why do you think that when I play such a simple piece, I need to fall in love if I want to play it more deeply?"

"Also, why do you think that I would be so emotionally involved in the encore at the end?"

"No, even if I am emotionally invested, very heavily involved, haven't you learned from me that there is a thing called emotional transfer? Have I never told you about this thing?"

"Don't you know the basic skill of transferring your own emotions towards a certain type of work to the same emotions?"

"Why do you think that when I perform a work, I need to bring my own emotions into the composer's own emotions?"

Zhao Zitong and Ji Mengting were stunned on the spot, tilting their heads: "Huh?"

He Shen looked at the dazed expressions of the two of them, and immediately stopped breathing, he reached out and tapped their heads, and clapped his hand hard on the music score.

"What are you talking about?"

"You two have studied music for so long, but you don't even know which works require emotional investment and which ones don't?"

"Also, you can't understand the music score. There is so much information on the music score. Why don't you even read it?"

"The first is the direction of the overall music flow. Beethoven's conception of this piece of music is actually not particularly clever. It can only be regarded as excellent."

"But just because of the musical fluidity of this piece and the constant repetition of a certain theme, the music becomes more brainwashing and more popular with the audience."

"This is the reason why this piece of Beethoven's work is loved and well-known by most people."

"This type of piano piece is also the most suitable piece for musical encores, because it has a wide audience. Even people who don't know much about classical music can understand the last piano piece."

"Therefore, during the piano encore, most pianists will play some very simple pieces as a foil for the final piano mood."

"For example, at the end of Lang Liangyue's concert, his favorite encore piece is Jasmine Flower. His Jasmine Flower has been adapted by him personally, only the original tune is retained, and everything else has completely become his personal creation."

"Secondly, Wang Jia, Lang Liangyue's junior sister, personally likes to show off her skills at the end of the concert. If I remember correctly, her personal repertoire is a Turkish March, and she also varies it, making it incomprehensible to everyone."

"You should have known these things a long time ago, why didn't you know them?"

He Shen looked at Zhao Zitong and Ji Mengting, and was furious.

According to normal logic, Zhao Zitong has been learning piano with me for so long and has been traveling around Europe with me. She should have learned a lot of things.

These things are the most basic. As a person who aims to be a pianist, these things are necessary. How could she not know?

As a result, she now comes to ask me whether playing a piece of Beethoven's "Für Elise" requires a particularly deep emotional investment, and whether it is necessary to really play a love story.

This is not a joke? After learning piano for so long, what have you learned?

And that Ji Mengting, I stopped talking about Ji Mengting before. It is said that Ji Mengting is a top player who has dominated the domestic higher music education competition for three years.

When He Shen saw Ji Mengting at that time, he felt relieved and had a big illusion that his daughter had grown up.

As a result, she was actually curious about this?

Curious about this entry-level knowledge point?

What are these two people kidding?

I have spent so much time teaching them, and it was all in vain?

What is this like?

You are there with your students trying to solve the Riemann hypothesis.

Then the students come to you and ask you a question.

Why do we need to calculate such a basic problem as one plus one equals two?

Why did the Goldbach conjecture only get to the point where one plus two equals three?

Anyone who has studied mathematics knows that this question is stupid.

The other one is proving one plus one and proving one plus two.

There is no equal sign at the end.

Therefore, He Shen looked at Ji Mengting and Zhao Zitong with disappointment in his eyes.

He really didn't expect that these two people might ask such a problematic question.

He Shen looked at the two of them, hesitant to speak, and finally sighed, stood up, walked to the piano, found a piece of music at random, and spoke to the two of them.

"Forget it, since you asked, let me explain the interpretation of emotions in music again."

Zhao Zitong and Ji Mengting looked at He Shen and seemed a little angry, but they didn't know what He Shen was angry about, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

But since He Shen didn't seem to ask, the two of them immediately breathed a sigh of relief and ran to He Shen's side.

He Shen looked at the two of them, without saying much, but just focused his eyes on the music score in front of him and spoke slowly.

"First of all, as we all know, the mood of music is not a fixed mood."

"Take Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata that I played before as an example."

"My personal expression of the emotions of this piece, what I think about should be the expression of the emotions between struggle and resistance, expressing the struggle between different emotions."

"Therefore, I clearly gave a musical emotional interpretation at the beginning, that is, light and darkness, two completely different musical emotions."

"When I determine the use of the two musical emotions in music, everything that follows will be continuously expanded based on these two as examples."

"It's still an example. When you interpret light, what do you think of?"

He Shen looked at the two of them. Ji Mengting thought for a while and said, "White?"

He Shen looked at Zhao Zitong, and Zhao Zitong immediately raised his hand: "Sun!"

"White, sun, and even other places, such as flames, heaven, hymns, bright, beautiful, bright, daytime..."

He Shen nodded, and did not give everyone a particularly clear answer.

He just put his hand on the piano and slowly pressed it down.

The sound of music instantly burst out from the piano.

Zhao Zitong and Ji Mengting immediately heard the feeling they wanted to hear.

Pure white.

The scorching sun!

He Shen did not give them time to think and reflect, he continued to speak.

"There are countless Hamlets in countless people. I play the same note, and you may feel a variety of emotions."

"These emotions are all what I think, not necessarily exactly the same, but they must be close and close!"

"Therefore, this place is the space we can control."

"This place is the position where the pianist controls various emotions!"

"Through your own understanding, you can find a closer timbre and use it to replace your emotions."

He Shen closed his eyes, leaned back slightly, raised his fingers, put them in the air, and slowly pressed them on the piano as his body leaned forward.

Buzz…

This voice!

Zhao Zitong and Ji Mengting's eyes suddenly lit up.

The work He Shen is playing now is a very famous piano work by Liszt.

"Love Dream No. 3"

This piece is the most famous piece among Liszt's "Dream of Love" works.

This piece of classical music is as popular as Chopin's Nocturne.

Perhaps it is not as famous as Chopin's Nocturne.

but!

The singing level of this piece can definitely rival Chopin's Nocturne.

It's the kind of song that you may not have heard of, but as soon as the beginning of the piece is played, you can immediately know the level of this piece of music.

Therefore, when He Shen pressed this piece of music, Zhao Zitong and Ji Mengting instantly understood the piece He Shen was playing.

Moreover, they could clearly feel He Shen's control over the music.

Incredibly sweet.

The two looked at each other and then at He Shen, their faces blushing slightly.

The two of them might want to get together.

Dream of Love, Dream of Love, this piece clearly gives the theme of the work.

Love dream.

When the two of them heard this piece of work, they could clearly feel the love.

However, what Zhao Zitong felt may be youthful love.

What Ji Mengting felt was the love between the two in the smoke.

He Shen played this piece, only played the beginning, and then stopped his fingers.

He Shen looked at the two of them and continued to speak slowly.

"Tell me, what did you hear?"

Zhao Zitong immediately said: "Youth love! The most innocent and beautiful love in youth!"

Ji Mengting looked at Zhao Zitong, hesitating to speak, and finally lowered her head and whispered: "I feel a little smoky, the kind of thing where after returning home at night, the two of you eat together and lie on the sofa, um... That kind of love."

He Shen didn't raise any objections to the two people's answers. He just nodded and said casually.

"Perhaps, both of you are right."

"It's just that, in order to give you a particularly clear feeling, I didn't use a particularly obvious musical interpretation in this place. I didn't think about love. What I thought about was just a little bit..."

"sweet!"

He Shen turned around and looked at the piano in front of him. He raised his fingers and the sound floated in the air.

He Shen felt the music floating around him and continued.

"In this piece of music, there is only one thing I want to create, and that is sweetness, the kind of sweetness that is so sweet that it makes people panic!"

"Many, many times sweeter than a lollipop, a sweetness that even I can't eat!"

"What I think about and what my hands construct is this kind of sweetness!"

"And this kind of sweetness, after being infected by music, you can quickly feel the music you want to feel."

"This is the replacement of emotions in the control of musical emotional interpretation."

"You... can you understand?"

He Shen looked at Zhao Zitong and Ji Mengting in front of him, raised his body slightly towards the back, reached out and took out a lollipop and put it in his mouth.

Look at them with extremely calm eyes.

At this time, the two of them looked at each other and were too embarrassed to say anything.

Probably because I was fooled by netizens, I thought too much and ended up forgetting this.

They have also learned about emotional substitution and conversion before, and have experienced many similar examples.

The simplest example is that Lang Liangyue told that when he took the entrance exam for the Curtis Institute of Music in the United States, he also needed to perform works similar to love.

As a single person who has never been in love, Lang Liangyue naturally has no idea what love is.

What's the use of this thing?

Therefore, he directly replaced this emotion.

Use patriotism, or dependence on the mother and other emotions to blend with each other.

Together they form a new, extremely strange love.

And this love did not disappoint anyone.

All the teachers at the Curtis Institute of Music applauded Lang Liangyue's interpretation of love, and even praised him for playing love very well!

Lang Liangyue has said this many times, using this emotional substitution method to deceive the audience and judges.

These are very normal times.

In fact, He Shen’s previous experience can be used as an example.

He Shen heard a lot of subtle sounds from Chopin's nocturne, and he could even feel a lot of the feeling of seeking pleasure.

It's like being the king of artillery in Paris.

However, He Shen never even held a girl's hand, and Chopin's memory never let He Shen touch his woman.

Therefore, He Shen directly replaced the emotion of seeking pleasure and looked for other similar emotions to simulate.

In the end, with an extremely serious and gentle gesture, the beauty of Chopin's nocturne was interpreted...

Um……

This is definitely not because He Shen has no experience in this kind of special activities!

This is actually the case for some other pianists.

There are various kinds of works, with various kinds of emotions.

For example, the pain of losing a country.

The pain of losing a son.

The pain of losing money.

Even their own strange feelings.

For example, in the work mark of a certain piano, it needs to be played like a cover.

Well, it is the cover between men and men.

This kind of thing must not be played according to the composer's ideas, really find a man to fall in love with or something.

The best way is to replace emotions by replacing them.

In this way, the purpose of the same emotions can be achieved.

It is also in this way that music has infinite possibilities.

Let those performers not be restricted by specific emotions.

He Shen did not pay attention to the two students behind him. He just felt that his previous piano education seemed to have failed a little.

He really did not expect that his two students would think that when playing each piece, they should play it directly according to the idea of ​​that piece.

Could it be that playing a piece of music about the loss of parents, and really holding a knife to show filial piety?

Are you kidding?

He Shen shook his head, too lazy to pay attention to the two of them, so he just explained to them some substitutions for musical emotions, and then walked directly to the bookshelf.

In the bookshelf, he slowly moved his fingers and stopped at the top.

That position is all the composers starting with B.

The 3B composers of Germany, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, are all prevented here.

He Shen reached out and pulled out the work with the word Beethoven printed on it and put it in front of him.

This is a work, a piano work that doesn't look special.

There is a line of words printed on it.

If translated, it is Beethoven Piano Sonata.

Among Beethoven's piano works, the most pinnacle is his 32 piano sonatas.

The second is Beethoven's piano concerto.

He Shen is currently planning to move towards Beethoven, and his first mountain is the one in front of him.

Beethoven, Piano Sonata!

If Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier is called the "Old Testament" of the piano, then Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas must be called the "New Testament" of the piano!

And the one that He Shen has currently drawn, open the cover, and there is another line of words written on the first page of the formal page of the score.

Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13.

This sonata belongs to Beethoven's middle-aged sonata, and the individual has gradually emerged.

Full of romanticism.

It can even be said that this work is Beethoven's first attempt to enter the romantic period.

Let the self-personality emerge from the music, and no longer let the music be filled with decadent stubbornness.

Therefore, this work is particularly important in Beethoven's works.

It is also very important for He Shen's career.

After all, He Shen's opening concert was planned to end after two more performances.

The opening concert had no meaning, it was just to announce his return to everyone.

The most important thing for him in the opening concert was actually to announce one thing to everyone.

That is, he was about to start a series of actions.

Actions centered on Beethoven.

And the first piece was the one he had in his hands.

He Shen looked at the piano score in front of him with an extremely heavy face. He was going to face the new work head-on, a work that he had to conquer completely by himself.

After the top pianist laid a good foundation for He Shen, he truly studied and understood music.

He Shen sat on the piano bench, opened the score in front of him, put it in front of him, and ignored the two students behind him. He raised his hand directly and prepared to press the first note of this piece.

This was the Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor.

If it was called by a name that everyone knew.

Then this piece was...

"Pathetique!"