""The Beautiful Mill Girl"?"
"It's not "Winterreise" from that set of records?...I was still thinking why not save the impact of the first performance on the stage. It turned out that Scherer also prepared a second set."
"No, he still doesn't know much about strategy. Miss Nightingale will have no problem with 8 going into 4. Just take out the new poetry collection now. If there is a third round later, wouldn't it mean that you open high and go low? Miss Cuckoo's
The teacher has only performed an old work so far."
Although Miss Cuckoo was unparalleled in the limelight for a while, Miss Nightingale followed closely behind her, and her second round of songs still sparked heated discussions among music fans once she was announced.
"Whatever, this title is finally a love poem. The previous three are good, but they are different from Scheler's rumored style."
"Will this work follow the joyful tone of "Skeleton Song"?"
Many people speculated on the music content based on this title.
At this time, they saw An, who was wearing a blue dress, taking a few steps to the front of the stage and pacing back and forth.
Many listeners became confused.
Mr. Walter, the poet laureate sitting in front of the piano, has already placed his wrists on the keys. Why doesn't she stand still and enter the state of preparing her emotions and adjusting her breath to sing?
"Dick-dong-did-dong-did-dong-did-dong..."
The piano played lively and brisk B-flat major broken chords, like a cheerful stream flowing.
"Flowing water is our good example, flowing water is our good example,
They are running day and night, constantly running towards the distance..."
"Look at the waterwheel spinning busy, look at the waterwheel spinning busy, 虙
They spin so fast and happily, they spin so hard and never tire..."
Miss Nightingale didn't stop pacing, she untied her hairband, playfully put her hands behind her back, smiled lightly, and happily sang the ancient melody along with the sound of the piano.
"Beautiful Mill Girl", the subtitle 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 sincere song and the unrestrained singing style of the girl on stage!
Yes! Yes!!!
With such lively narrative and music, how can one stand rigidly in front of the piano and sing in an artificial manner while pinching his nose!?
"...Ah, my pleasure is wandering, ah, my pleasure is wandering, 虙
My girl she's in the mill, leave me free to wander, to wander!"
The song ends with a fade-out, which seems to hint at the ending of the wandering life of the protagonist.
This is not an ideal worldly life, but the cheerful accompaniment texture and clear melody undoubtedly convey the protagonist's open-minded mentality. The audience feels that this must be a happy and wonderful love story.
The electric light array switches, the second song, "Where Toward", the piano switches to G major without much pause in the previous song.
It’s still a bright color, it’s still a continuous expression, but it’s replaced by a 6-tuplet group, as if it’s the sound of a gurgling stream in the distance:
"I heard the brook singing and rushing over the hills,
It gurgling into the deep valley, so fresh and loud.
I don't know where I'm going, where I should go,
I can only run to the distance, taking my beloved cane with me."
The audience found an obvious feature here. The beginning of every phrase sung by Miss Nightingale falls on the weak bar, and the emotions expressed are closely related to the confusing and searching situation of "Where Toward".
"...You sing, my friend, sing to your heart's content, and we will wander happily,
I heard the sound of a water mill beside a clear stream!"
Each of her phrases, as well as the lines between phrases, are softened by the sound of gurgling water, preventing the sudden strong starting sound from being disconnected from the accompaniment, and the vocals and piano cooperate seamlessly.
At this time, Walter made a short unison with both hands, and then, while the right hand continued to play a half-broken chord in C major, the left hand dropped the key with sudden strength, from the change sound #F to the G sound, and then turned into small steps.
jumping form.
The running protagonist suddenly stopped in his tracks.
The third song, "Stop".
"I saw a mill in the distance, surrounded by red flowers,
The sound of the waterwheel is singing, and the singing is so loud.
'Hey, welcome, welcome,' the waterwheel sang sweetly.
Look how friendly the house is, look how bright the windows are..."
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 in the distance, the protagonist finally arrived
His destination.虙
Wonderful arrangement, wonderful writing techniques!... Master Lucter was amazed in his heart.
The word "vocal suite" is spelled in the ancient Janus language similarly to the German "Liederkranz". The literal translation should be "garland of songs" - clever composers have always had this tradition, and they are good at combining some
Art songs that are continuous in plot and relatively complete in structure are woven together, just like the laurel leaf crowns on the heads of ancient bards who sang long poems.
So following this plot, a wonderful encounter should begin, right?
The piano played an ups and downs prelude with anthropomorphic decorative sounds, the fourth song "Thanks to the Brook".
"Does your rap partner feel the same way? You laugh, you sing, do you feel the same way?
Xiaoxi is right, there is a good girl. That mill girl is so desirable..."
Miss Nightingale, who plays the protagonist, has eyes full of anticipation and longing.
"...Maybe this is true, I am thinking this way, all the expectations in my heart have come true.
I got what I wanted when I found this job, and when I got labor and love, I got what I wanted."
After the piano rested for a while, it switched to the key of A minor. Walter's right hand played a soothing double tone, and his left hand played another counterpoint melody using a combination of dotted and octagonal notes, vividly simulating the sound of the alternate rotation of a waterwheel.
"I wish I had a thousand arms, I would make the waterwheel spin like crazy...
Every evening, everyone sits around the field and shares the rest after work.
The master will tell us: everyone deserves praise for their work;
The lovely girl said: I hope that we can always gather together like tonight."
The young man who was in love for the first time met the girl. The girl on the stage was drinking and singing the fifth song "Have a Rest". She was imagining that she had thousands of arms and could earn the girl's love through hard work.
“…I will blow all the woods and make the millstones turn more joyfully,
Let the beautiful girl keep me in her heart. Let the good mill girl keep me in her heart."
Then the song returned to the major key, and the protagonist was now deeply in love, experiencing "Doubt" and "Anxiety" one after another. The audience found that the piano rhythm returned to a fast pace, and there were drastic tonal changes.
"I won't ask the flowers, nor the stars,
Because none of them can answer the many doubts in my heart.
I am not a gardener, but the stars are high in the sky.
I can only ask Xiaoxi who made my heart move..." The singing Miss Nightingale continued to play the protagonist. He did not dare to tell the people around him, but could only confide his heart to his loyal friends in Xiaoxi.
“I often carve poems on tree trunks and carve knife marks on stones.
I love to sow seeds in flower beds and use violets to express my love,
On every piece of white paper I wrote this:
Heart to heart, heart to heart, let us be heart to heart forever..." He emotionally engraved the name of his sweetheart on every place he could touch, imagining that he could be with her forever.
One morning, he bumped into the figure of his sweetheart and saw her bowing her head and saying nothing, but he did not dare to explore the worries in his heart. He could only stand and spy from a distance. This is "Good Morning"; he planted flowers in front of the small window of his sweetheart's house.
I imagine that in the dead of night, when everyone is quiet and everything is silent, these flowers will express my feelings for me. This is "Grinder's Flower".
Finally, a small number of the audience present were separated from the sensual and erotic song of love expressed by Miss Cuckoo.
They recalled "courtly love", re-examined "elegant love", and recalled those heart-pounding moments in their youth, how pure and restrained they were, and how they had no hesitation!
Thank God, in the tenth song "Rain of Tears", the protagonist goes on a date with his sweetheart.
Walter played a three-part polyphony with pp pianissimo, which is very unusual for piano accompaniment, implying that this was a tense solitude and an unforgettable memory.
"I was intimate with her and sat in the shade of the alder trees, gazing melancholy at the clear water of the stream.
The bright moon rises in the sky, and the stars blink,
We silently stared at the bright moon in the water, like silver light shining in the bright realm.
I don't look at the bright moon in the sky, nor the twinkling stars, I only look at her beautiful figure and her charming eyes..."
After playing nervously, uneasily, and carefully playing polyphony, Walter finally opened his arms wide and confidently played the smooth eighth notes and quarter notes.
The eleventh song, "Belong to Me", is the happiest moment in the entire suite.
"Xiaoxi, please stop making noise, waterwheel, please be silent.
Sing no more, happy birds, no more singing, no more singing to you.”
The girl danced happily in circles on the stage, seeming to be "angry" scolding her former partner, but in fact she was getting carried away and asked the stream and birds to quiet down. She had something important to share with them:
"The same song echoes everywhere in the fields, the same song echoes everywhere in the fields,
To be continued...