Movement 4: Humanity Tells Me (12): Finally Love (2-in-1)
""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,
That lovely mill girl already belongs to me, that lovely mill girl already belongs to me!"
In the difficult section of bars 31-32, the melody jumps across nine degrees while flowing, but Miss Nightingale still maintains incomparable coherence, with clear enunciation, steady breath, and firm eyes, perfectly expressing the protagonist.
The high-spirited mood of "I am the only one" made many church and royal judges who were inclined towards Renela nod their heads.
Getting along with your lover is sweet, but often within a few days, you will experience longing, suspicion and sadness.
The protagonist began to look at the lyre hanging high on the wall in a daze, and looked at the token of love she left behind.
The volatility of their relationship, the alternating ups and downs of love and suspicion, and the uneasiness and torture in his heart made it difficult for him to extricate himself.
In the 14th piece, "Hunter", the music shifts to the rare black C minor key, and the piano enters directly with strong force, playing continuous eighth notes with a tight breath, and the protagonist's love rival, the hunter, appears.
"Then the hunter is searching everywhere by the stream. Why doesn't the arrogant hunter go into the forest?
There are no traces of wild beasts here, only a small deer belongs to me.
If you want to see my docile deer, put your shotgun in the forest,
Tie up your hunting dogs at home and don’t let the horn make noise!..."
The girl's tone changed from a forced and calm recital to a pleading to her fate. In the fifteenth song "Jealousy and Pride", the piano kept running sixteenth notes, with dotted rhythmic doubles.
The sound continued to splash out, and the mood turned into a flurry between celebrating luck and being angry:
"Where are you running in such a hurry, dear creek, are you going to find that hunter and reason with him?
Go back, go back!
Because of my love for the mill girl, I don’t care about the frivolous behavior. Go back, go back!
She didn't stand in front of the door last night, nor did she look around to find anyone.
When the hunter galloped past her door, he didn't see her figure in the window!"
Master Lucter, who had been silent in the middle of the judges' table, finally picked up the "bouquet of flowers" beside the table with several of his students and followers.
Then, his movements still stopped in mid-air, and he stared at the girl in blue dress on the stage without blinking.
It had been a long time since he had been deeply moved by such emotions in a work of art.
The beginning of Scheler's work is so lively and lively that only one song in A minor is used in the first ten songs. But here, the tragic trend makes the emotion take a turn for the worse. Two songs in C minor and G minor are arranged in succession, causing
An extremely shocking effect!
Long-lost shock and emotion!
"Go, Xiaoxi, go and tell her quickly. Go, Xiaoxi, go to her place quickly.
It's okay not to say it, you see I can't find the right words,
He said: He made a reed flute for you, which can play charming dance music for you.
Go quickly! Go quickly! Go quickly!!!..."
Miss Nightingale clutched her dress and screamed on the stage, while the protagonist, who suffered huge love trauma, began to become sensitive and melancholy, and became more concerned about gains and losses.
In the sixteenth song "Lovely Color", he was still pursuing the preferences of his sweetheart when he fell in love, trying to make her change her mind, but it immediately changed to the seventeenth song "Hateful Color", and the piano was played with both hands.
Hitting a single note, the B major melody spans from #D in the first group of small characters to #F in the second group of small characters. The repeated rise and fall of the tenth interval vividly depicts the psychology of love turning into hate, and also foreshadows the tragedy of the whole song.
happened.
Song 18 "Withered Flowers".
The key returned to the concise G major, and Walter quietly struck the repetitive and regular chord prelude with his hands separated by rests.
"She brought countless flowers and placed them on my grave,
She also seemed to understand my sadness, letting tears keep flowing down her face,
Why do all her flowers wither? Why do all her flowers die?
Oh, tears cannot revive love, just like this withered branch..."
The audience stood blankly, watching Miss Nightingale sing in loneliness. At this point, the plot of the long poem has evolved into a complete love tragedy, because the beautiful mill girl loves not the protagonist, but a handsome hunter.
A series of descending notes flowed out from under Walter's fingertips, an extremely sad melody, a sadness that felt like death.
Then the key shifted to the G minor of the same name, No. 19 "The Grinder and the Stream". Walter's playing became even more sluggish, with one note on his left hand and one on his right hand. The once lively and flowing stream seemed to freeze into ice.
Yes.
"When the infatuated heart finally calms down and the lilies in the garden have withered,
The bright moon in the sky hides in the clouds, in order to cover its sad face full of tears,
The happy little angel also closed his eyes and sang his condolences to calm his soul.
When there is no more luck, sorrow and sadness in love, a new star will be born in the sky."
In the first section, the protagonist talks to his former partner Xiaoxi, and then the music returns to the key of G major, and the thin accompaniment becomes flowing sixteenth notes again.
The stream seemed to comfort him, swaying calmly, clearly and softly.
"...Ah, Xiaoxi, dear Xiaoxi, these words are so beautiful." An Zai smiled and shook his head, then responded softly,
"But Xiaoxi, do you know: this is my love."
Fan Ning, who had been sitting silently in the corner, watched her blue back turn around, walked towards the piano and sang in a low voice:
"I would like to rest in your cool waves,
Ah Xiaoxi, dear Xiaoxi, you keep singing,
O brook, dear brook, never ceases to sing.”
Then the audience discovered that the girl finally ended her performance and returned to the piano to stand calmly.
"The Beautiful Mill Girl"... Why can Mr. Scheler write such a poignant work using a major-key layout technique? Why does such a warm and songful encounter end in such a tragedy! 虙
Damn it, this Scheler wrote "Palace Love" to such an extent, he has no heart at all!!!
Just like "Love is a question", it keeps people awake all night!!!
There should be another one, but the protagonist is dead and the long narrative poem has ended.
No. 20, "Lullaby of the Creek".
Walter played a classical four-part harmony progression with both hands. The high and low parts are gentle lines of half notes, and the middle is filled with tender and swaying dotted rhythms.
"Sleep, sleep, close your eyes, the tired wanderer will no longer travel far.
True love never fades, the sea swallows the creek into my arms, may your soul be peaceful. 虙
You will live in this blue crystal palace, sleep on a soft pillow and never wake up again.
It ripples gently, like the rocking of a cradle, so that the wandering child can safely fall into dreamland."
The peculiar color of E major is outside the closed G major key, 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, although you are beautiful, you are cruel and ruthless.
Your presence will disturb his peace."
Every time the last sentence of the verse song is repeated, the swaying four-part harmony filling will temporarily disappear, and the piano part will become a weak and 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 ended, the dotted rhythm of the piano resumed, and the stream continued to flow until it disappeared into the distance.
Walter raised his wrists and stood up to salute, while 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.