The music and dance troupe of the Princess Mansion was convinced by Yu Xiaoxiao and Su Nuan. Their carriage and horses arrived at the entrance of the pipa parlor. Cheng Ji marveled at the pipa hanging on the screen wall.
Such a unique door is an excellent signboard. It seems that this Su family is not only a master of music, but also a genius in business.
The crowd of onlookers who followed the group to the Pipa Hall saw such a unique gate and had the idea to go in and have a seat.
Su Nuan bowed her hands in front of everyone and said:
"Our bank will open in about three days. Drinks will be free then, and all the neighbors are invited to support us!"
The onlookers applauded one after another, saying that they would definitely come to support it on the opening day.
Jiang Gui directed the servants to move the belongings of everyone in the music and dance troupe inside. After they were placed, the little yellow doorman raised his hands to Su Nuan and said:
"Master Su, we are going back to the Princess Mansion first. If there is any inconvenience, you can come to the Princess Mansion to see us at any time."
The Tang Dynasty attached great importance to the Scholarship Review, and a pipa master who was destined to become famous throughout Chang'an could determine the existence of the Scholarship Review.
Not to mention an outstanding dancer like Yu Xiaoxiao, the two swords combined can definitely dominate the entire Chang'an folk art world.
Therefore, Jiang Gui spoke with a lot of respect. When the emperor returns to Luan Chang'an in the future, maybe these two will also be guests of the princess's mansion.
Su Nuan was polite to Jiang Gui and stuffed another silver cake into Jiang Gui's arms.
Seeing that the other party was so polite, Jiang Gui's words became even more polite.
At this time, Cheng Ji stood in the crowd and covered her face with her sleeves. She originally wanted to kill the opponent's majesty, but she didn't expect that she had become a clown.
After entering Pipa Hall, many dancers and musicians exclaimed that the accommodation conditions here are also very good.
Pipa Hall is originally a place that integrates pipa sales, training, performance management and theater functions. Naturally, there is a dormitory for girls studying pipa.
Originally, these dormitories were very narrow and dark, and there were even large dormitories where several people shared the dormitory.
Even if this music and dance troupe is the music and dance troupe of the Princess Mansion, their accommodation conditions when they were in the Princess Mansion were not very good.
There is nothing that can be done about it. No matter how glamorous these dancers and musicians are outside, they are still "servants" in a lowly profession, and naturally they are not qualified to live in a good house.
However, at Su Nuan's strong request, these dormitories were converted into single suites.
Although the room is not big, it has its own bed, table, and a box for storage, so it can be considered a private space.
The bedding and flyers in the room are all made of cotton shipped from Longyou, which is soft, comfortable and warm.
The room was also illuminated by oil lamps, and these musicians and dancers became excited when they saw the environment of their accommodation.
Cheng Ji touched the soft and comfortable quilt cover and marveled at Su Nuan and Yu Xiaoxiao's generosity.
She walked over in shame and said to Su Nuan, "The Su family is just doing their own thing."
Su Nuan helped Cheng Ji up and said, "Ms. Cheng, you are serious. You will still be the lead dancer of the music and dance troupe from now on, but everyone must rehearse well."
Cheng Ji's heart warmed up when she heard Su Nuan say again: "From now on in Pipa, it's enough for us to be sisters, slave family, concubine, it's better not to use these words anymore."
"We support ourselves and we are not inferior to anyone else."
Su Nuan's words flashed through Cheng Ji's heart. It turned out that she was ashamed of being a dancer, but when Su Nuan said this, it seemed to be the same thing.
I am an artist rather than a prostitute, and I earn the money I want, so there is nothing inferior to others.
This was the first time someone treated her with such respect. Cheng Ji felt warm and almost shed tears.
After setting up the music and dance troupe, Yu Xiaoxiao and Su Nuan gathered together to discuss the dance music to be rehearsed.
Yu Xiaoxiao said: "When the emperor returns to Luan Chang'an, it seems inappropriate to dance with a sword, right?"
Su Nuan also nodded and said: "This business blog will always give people problems. Of course it is better to use palace music in this kind of situation."
Yu Xiaoxiao grabbed her hair and said: "Gong Music, I have found a few palace musicians in the past few days, and also collected some music scores of palace music, but those palace music need too many musicians, who can do this
?"
Su Nuan said: "We'd better finalize the music score first. If it doesn't work, we can still adapt it. Let's finalize the music first and then talk about it."
Yu Xiaoxiao thought for a while and said: "There are only a few popular palace music in the Tang Dynasty. How about "The Song of Colorful Feather Clothes"?"
Su Nuan shook his head and said: "No, no, it's said that this song was composed by Li Longji for Yang Yuhuan. I'm afraid the emperor doesn't like this dance music."
Yu Xiaoxiao also said: "It seems to be the case. I saw those dancers perform. This song of colorful feathers is really too colorful and not suitable for performance on such a solemn occasion."
Yu Xiaoxiao added: "How about "The Music of King Qin Breaking the Formation"!?"
Su Nuan immediately echoed: "Okay! This is the music and dance performed by Emperor Taizong. It was originally a military song of the Tang Dynasty. It should be good to perform when returning to Luan Chang'an!"
Yu Xiaoxiao is also an activist. The next day she found a former palace musician and bought the music and dance scores of "The Music of King Qin Breaking the Formation" from him.
But when Su Nuan saw the music score, Su Nuan immediately became obsessed with it.
We must know that the actual score of King Qin's Formation Breaking Music has been lost long ago, and we don't know how this "game" restored this score.
Only the pipa music score and part of the guzheng and guqin music scores have been handed down, but what Yu Xiaoxiao found turned out to be the entire music score of King Qin's Breaking Formation Music.
After studying obsessively for two days, Su Nuan closed the score with exhaustion and said:
"It's difficult, it's too difficult!"
Yu Xiaoxiao couldn't read the score, but when she saw Su Nuan's appearance, she knew that the score was extremely complicated.
"Can I perform?"
Su Nuan held her forehead and said, "It's difficult. This Qin King's Formation Breaking Music was originally military music. Later, after several generations of musicians, it has been enriched and turned into a huge set of royal ritual music."
"I read the information and found that even during the Emperor's period, it was difficult to gather the musicians and dancers to play King Qin's breaking music, so the emperor changed it to a smaller and simpler set of "Little Breaking Music", but
We still need hundreds of performers."
"Hundred people? So many people? Then wouldn't King Qin's Po Zhenle require thousands of people?"
Su Nuan sighed and said: "For palace music, this number is normal. The genuine King of Qin's Formation Breaking Music requires a full two hundred musicians to play."
Yu Xiaoxiao took a breath and said, "But we only have thirty musicians."
Su Nuan said: "The number of people is second, the most difficult thing is that this music also requires chime and qin to play."
Yu Xiaoxiao fell silent now. There were quite a few court musicians living outside. As long as they were willing to pay, they might be able to gather a hundred of them.
But chimes and chimes are different. They are both proper royal rituals.
Even if there were some in Chang'an City, these things were all in the Yuefu of the imperial palace and would never be loaned out to a pipa player for use.
Yu Xiaoxiao said: "If that doesn't work, then change it?"
Unexpectedly, Su Nuan got angry and said, "No! I'm going to play this!"
"Xiaoxiao, do you know how powerful this piece is? How majestic it is when played?"
"As long as we can perform well, our video will definitely become a hit!"
"Besides talking about these things, if I can play this piece, it will definitely be the highest peak of my artistic career! I finally got this opportunity, and I don't want to give it up!"
This time, I was invited by the princess to give a gift to the emperor who returned to Luan Chang'an.
That's why they had the opportunity to perform this kind of royal repertoire. Normally Su Nuan and Yu Xiaoxiao would not be qualified to rehearse such repertoire in Chang'an.
So for Su Nuan and Yu Xiaoxiao, this is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Seeing Su Nuan's determination, Yu Xiaoxiao said, "How about we ask Eunuch Jiang to see if we can borrow the palace chimes?"
Su Nuan shook his head and said: "It's too late. A chime requires an orchestra, and Chang'an will definitely not be able to get it together now."
Yu Xiaoxiao asked anxiously: "What should we do?"
Su Nuan said: "I am going to adapt it and change the chimes and chimes into other musical instruments."
"Change it to another instrument? Change it to what?"
Su Nuan said: "Piano."
"What?"
Su Nuan said: "The piano is also a fixed-music instrument, and one person can play complex melodies, which saves the manpower of a chime music class."
Yu Xiaoxiao asked: "Where is this piano? We can't build it ourselves, right?"
Su Nuan smiled slightly and said: "You don't know yet, Longyou has made a piano a long time ago. I ordered a piano before I came to Chang'an, and it will be delivered to Chang'an City at the end of the month. We can rehearse other instruments first
For the part, wait until the piano arrives and then we can play together.”
"Will this work?"
Su Nuan said: "The piano is definitely not as majestic as the chimes, but the piano also has the advantages of the piano. It can definitely be used for this kind of large ensemble."
"It's better to save the chimes for use when King Jianning ascends the throne."
"As for whether it works, you have to try it before you know, but you have to adapt the dance part."
Yu Xiaoxiao looked at the dance shop and felt dizzy for a while.
This "Qin King Breaking the Formation Music" was originally a military song sung in the army. It is said that there were three thousand armored warriors when it was first performed.
These are all warriors who actually go into battle to kill the enemy, and the dance at this time is also a military dance.
Later, Li Shimin adapted it and reduced it to a dance troupe of 200 people.
But anyone who has a little experience in organizing cultural performances knows how terrifying it is to arrange a group dance for 200 people.
Yu Xiaoxiao must find a way to change it into a dance that their dance troupe can perform, and also see the shadow of Qin Wang's breaking music.
Yu Xiaoxiao almost fainted when she thought about this workload.
But when she thought about the effect of the performance, Yu Xiaoxiao was full of expectations.