The piano offset the gauze of the dress, and the black and cold texture penetrated the back muscles. An and Luna, who were holding their knees and waiting, sometimes closed their eyes slightly, and sometimes looked up at the ceiling of the hall.
This waiting is very special, aimless, not related to emotions, and without asking for anything. They just want to stay here, even if they know it will be a long time, there is no impatient part.
But opposite to the long and tranquil night, there is always a trace of unexplained confusion about the future.
An watched the icy blue starlight falling gracefully from the holes in the ceiling of the hall, intertwining with the faint orange light in the light box to create a slow and flowing shape.
She felt that she was using her appreciation to resolve something.
Instead of appreciating the dancer's lifelike body, we admire the fantasy phantom originating from her own body, just like looking forward to the unseen but endlessly pulsating heartbeat and longing.
Fanning, one meter away, recalled the "sluggish and painful lowing of cattle at night in the countryside" as Miss Nightingale recalled on the deck of the Paragodos Line.
What she recalled then was animals.
So, what about people?
Restlessness eventually breeds fear.
If one day, human beings are awakened by mysterious and strange sounds in their sleep, and find that everything around them is completely silent, the world is as dark as ink and the night is as cold as water, or the world is already in a time when one cannot sleep, then in the heart
How to express the deepest restlessness and fear?
Fan Ning felt that the scent of a girl who was both close at hand and yet distant and unfamiliar was floating around her.
"AlsoprachZarathustra"
His thoughts rose to pure heights, and he took a gentle sniff without any unspeakable thoughts.
"Perhaps I still need a soprano with a clear and resonant texture, but she must sing a melody with a range close to that of an alto in this movement."
"Having a soprano sing an alto song with depression is in line with the artistic conception I want to present."
"I need this kind of longing voice with deep contemplation." Fan Ning delineated the range of the human voice and confirmed that the previously set D major tuning area was generally suitable.
"Thus Spake Zarathustra" is Nietzsche's landmark collection of poems, a comprehensive work of all philosophical thoughts. "Zarathustra" is pronounced in Greek and can be translated as "Zoroastrian". This is a past life.
Historical figure, the founder of Zoroastrianism or Zoroastrianism.
In this work, Nietzsche uses the mouth of the "Superman" Zarathustra to preach the revelation of the future world. The whole book is written in a wild and unrestrained poetic style. The sobriety of the sun god and the intoxication of the god of wine are melted into one furnace.
It occupies a unique and immortal position in the history of previous philosophy and poetry.
The text Fanning finally selected was already very far behind, ranking second to last in the order. It was the 12th section of the 79th "Song of Drunkness" in Part 4, which shows Zarathustra's drunkenness during a drunken incident.
The impromptu singing round afterwards.
Since it is a "Drunken Song", it means that it is similar to "Poet's Love". It is also not a "plot-oriented" narrative vocabulary, but conveys the strong meaning behind it through the overlapping and progressive progression of a few images and adjectives.
Emotions and philosophy.
Fan Ning followed the past reading experience in his mind, recalled and translated it, and wrote it silently in ancient Janus on another blank page:
"Oh, man! You have to listen!
What is the deep midnight saying?
I slept, I slept -
I woke up from a deep dream;
This world is deep,
It's deeper than I thought in the daytime.
Depth is the pain of the world;
Pleasure is deeper and deeper than pain;
Pain is saying: "Let's go!"
It’s a pity that pleasure requires eternity——
Asking for deep, deep eternity.”
Taking into account the translation of poetry in different languages, it is necessary to ensure at least the unity of rhymes and the rough correspondence of syllable lengths. This process took Fan Ning a considerable amount of time, and it was based on the fact that as a knowledgeable person in this life, his language skills are quite erudite and solid.
basically.
The structure of the original poem was 11 lines in total. After considering the requirements of "singability", he tried to recite part of the poem repeatedly, expanded it and divided it into two parts, forming two parts with a parallel symmetrical structure of 7 lines each.
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"In this way, the corresponding musical form structure is the two-part form." Fan Ning stretched out his pen to make punctuation, addition, deletion or shift marks in the translated poem, "but there is no need to split it into two parts in the traditional sense musically.
Instead of contrasting completely independent parts, contradictions can be juxtaposed with each other and wrapped up to form a unity of opposites..."
"In this way, through my correction, the meaning of the poem has also been tilted. The two ends of the stanza mainly describe the degree of pain, while the middle focuses on expressing 'spiritual transformation'..."
"In this way, from sleep to awakening, from restlessness to fear, from pain to pleasure, and then to the attempt to make a leap toward divinity, the result is not yet known, but each process is the victory of a great transformation in the consciousness of 'Superman'...
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At this point, Fan Ning feels that this "Third Symphony" has finally begun to break away from the "Dionysian" violence and indulgence delineated in "Poem of Awakening", and has begun to bring about the "Apollinian" restraint, depth and introspection.
It also realizes the metaphor of the divine beginning of the fourth door.
This does not mean that the "Apollinian spirit" must be higher than the "Dionysian spirit". Perhaps people in the Western Continent and the Southern Continent will argue over this, but for Fan Ning, they are just materials or techniques, and their order is different.
The arrangement serves the theme of the work.
Since the source of inspiration is located in the South, and since it involves fighting against the pollution of the "Red Pond", the formula is "Bacchus begins first, and Apollo conquers last", and that's it.
As time passed late at night, amidst the rustling of writing and the intermittent sound of the piano, the two little girls leaning on the piano yawned continuously, and their eyelids began to fight.
I don't know how long it took, but at a dazed moment, Luna suddenly felt that she "saw" a certain facility not far away, as if the shadows were slightly swaying in the firelight.
She opened her eyes suddenly.
This is the front row corner seat where the teacher used to sit as an audience member.
"Is there a fire there?"
After her sleepiness disappeared, she stood up, and An also stood up and followed her a few seconds later.
"Fragrant flower bouquets" were scattered everywhere on the ground and underground in the auditorium.
The unfading nectar they originally contained was bent and given away, and the second rekindled light condensed and dissipated under Fan Ning's command. At this time, nature was in a state of extinguishing, because everyone went to the streets to celebrate, and there was no work for the time being.
People came to clean it up.
"Is this...is this the bundle that the teacher used?" Luna picked up the strange object in the small wooden tube on the corner seat.
"It's where he used to sit, but why did it become like this?" An was still rubbing her eyes gently. She had consumed too much energy today and had just dozed off earlier than Luna, but now she had no trace of it.
No trace of sleepiness left.
On the whole, it is still a bunch of narrow and slender flowers, and the size has not changed significantly, but it is no longer the "most ordinary flower" shape that has no characteristics before...
The petals are rolled back, and the edges of the petals bloom in a wavy shape, resembling a burning flame.
This is a bouquet of fox lilies!
Moreover, it is still emitting light. Although the brightness is not strong, the translucent texture is extremely strange. The outer petals are as red as blood, and the inner parts are as red as crimson jade. With just a light touch, you can feel the infinite vitality and sweetness contained in it.
greasy.
The two little girls were stunned for a few seconds, and then An called out softly:
"Hey, Luna, what's wrong with your bracelet..."
Luna heard this and stretched out her arms. With the red light, she saw that the blood-colored jade bracelet she was carrying seemed to have faded!
She stretched out her other arm, and considering that it might be interference from the red light, she ran under a light orange wall lamp near the sound-absorbing wall.
Confirmed, they all turned milky white.
"It's weird..." the little girl muttered in a low voice.
"Is there any connection between this?" Miss Nightingale was also very puzzled. "By the way, after I followed the teacher to perform "The Devil" and took the curtain call, did you feel that anything strange happened?"
"Yes, after your tail and wings disappeared, I felt like the whole world was spinning..." Luna recalled, "No, it's not that serious. It felt like stepping on a board on the water or mud.
, and then slipped and almost fell..."
"I saw you glance at me, but you didn't say anything more. The audience didn't look like something happened, so they thought it was just their own problem. After all, my eyes and head are really tired. It's been too long, and I
I’m so afraid of reading the wrong score…”
To be continued...