Movement 5: The Angel Tells Me (3): Vast Starlight (2-in-1)
At this time, Fan Ning glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw An Zai gently touching his face with his sleeve.
He stopped playing for a while and raised his head with a questioning expression.
The girl with the same cheerful smile was nodding and blinking at herself.
"winter!--"
So Fan Ning lowered his left hand, which was already on the E key of the octave in the bass range.
Summer (6), "Holy River".
The slow bass progression of whole notes and half notes is like the heavy striking of church bells again and again.
Then his right hand played an alternating long and short dotted rhythm melody, first from top to bottom, and then swirling up again, like waves on a river.
"In the sparkling waves of the holy river,
Reflecting the towering towers of the cathedral.
There is a portrait in the church,
Painted on golden cloth,
In the desert of my life,
Its brilliance always illuminates me."
It is also the confession of one's heart in summer, but the emotion is no longer as intoxicating and hot as before.
The tone of this song is solemn and admiring.
The melody An sings has a moderate range, restrained ups and downs, and almost no temporary rising or falling sounds.
But for some reason, just eight bars before, Fan Ning heard her voice shake a few times imperceptibly.
This has never happened before in such a long period of tug-of-war.
Later, it slowly returned to its previous stable and clear texture.
The piano's low octave accompaniment renders a majestic and majestic city, and pictures emerge from the audience's mind one after another. As the singing progresses, the music gradually turns into a major key, and the sacred worship also turns into delicate murmurs and admiration.
"Beside the icon I admire,
Flowers bloom, angels fly;
And those eyebrows, lips and cheeks,
Just like the one I love!"
The dotted melody is guided by the legato lines of Fan Ning's fingers, making the slightly undulating yet more tranquil image of the river gradually fade away.
"Did you notice that the songs in this set are all very short?"
"Indeed, the first song is just over one minute, which is already very short, and there are only dozens of seconds after that! This two-minute song is already the longest..."
After hearing the sixth song, some judges began to realize this.
"But have you noticed that his piano suffix is very important. After singing, the accompaniment is no longer an accompaniment but a solo... The piano continues to render the background of the work, as a complement to the form of the music, and even the entire
It is a summary of the first work, which makes up for the problem that the audience feels that there is still something left to be desired..."
"So the time is short, but the amount of information is not small. This Scheler does not repeat meaningless melodies or lyrics at all. There is new musical material or new emotional changes every second!"
They took advantage of the long free extension at the end of the sixth song to communicate softly with the people around them.
"I feel like many songs written by others can no longer be listened to..."
"This suite is completely different from "The Beautiful Mill Girl". It is not connected by narrative logic, but by emotional logic!"
"Yes, its text is completely in service of emotions. I have never been overwhelmed by such strong emotions!"
The audience also commented and expressed their feelings.
The text of "Poet's Love" comes from Heine's collection of poems "Lyric Interlude". It can be seen from the word "Interlude" that each poem is very short, and it is not to state the actual plot, but to symbolize it.
, line drawing or lyrical techniques to achieve huge emotional appeal.
Everything serves emotions.
Schumann obviously grasped this feature accurately. He chose the full spectrum style and the single section style in the musical form structure. He rarely used repeated melodies with the same lyrics, and did not distinguish between "theme" and "chorus".
Song".
In other words, after the material has been presented and the emotions have been released, it will end when it is time to end, just tens of seconds! It is definitely not like some crappy composers and lyricists who continue to repeat or insert interludes needlessly to make up for it.
Three or four minutes!
This extremely free and easy yet extremely condensed emotional expression undoubtedly deeply touched the aesthetic heart of these southern people.
Fan Ning's right hand began to strike continuous C major column chords.
The bass area enters a deep octave with two beats and one note. Against this background, the right hand keeps tapping out a continuous "bang bang bang bang" sound.
"Even though my heart is broken, I don't hold a grudge!
Even though my heart is broken, I don't hold a grudge!
Love disappears forever, I don’t hold a grudge!
Although the jewels shine and bestow glory, no ray of light can penetrate your night-like heart..."
Summer (7), "I Will Not Hate You Even If My Heart Is Broken".
In the simple key of C major, Miss Nightingale sang it with a sad but not sad feeling.
Especially on the prolonged "Herz——" (heart) syllable, the melody appeared special, with a slightly depressing temporary A flat sound. When she sang this, she smiled freely on her face, but her eyelashes were shining brightly, and she felt bitter.
It's those listeners who are heartbroken.
"Even though my heart is broken, I don't hold a grudge!
I have really dreamed of you, I have seen the dark night in your heart, I have seen the poisonous snake biting your heart;
I've seen how sad it is,
But I don’t hold a grudge!”
The texture of this piece is very special, and the whole piece is performed with the percussion of the right hand.
There are pillar chords with ">" accent marks under Fan Ning's fingers, as if a hammer is beating constantly, trying to break the poet's heart before it stops!
This kind of music processing method makes some listeners who are sensitive to sadness or have a feeling of compassion want to lift Scheler up from the piano and ask why he is so decisive and ruthless!
Fortunately, this song also ended quickly. Fan Ning used a shaking technique to press up the pedal, and then played a very light and fast thirty-second tone group with repeated unison sounds with both hands.
The last song of summer, "If That Little Flower Knew".
The smooth and crisp tremolo under his fingertips was like stars in the sky, twinkling and emitting a faint light.
Then the girl followed the hidden legato lines and sang a delicate, weak and beautiful ballad:
"If Xiaohua knew how much my heart was hurt,
They will cry with me and relieve my pain.
If only the nightingale knew how sad I am,
They cheer me up and make me sing happily.
If the golden stars knew my pain,
They will come down from heaven and speak words of comfort to me—"
Flowers, nightingales, stars, these ordinary things have all become "small and fragile" things in the eyes of the poet, which shows how fragile and sensitive his state is at this time.
But when the vocal melody was about to end, under Fan Ning's running fingertips, five special strong marks (SF) were suddenly played without any warning, as if the protagonist's grief and anger were erupting like a volcano at this moment.
!
"Too bad they don't know!
Only one person understands my sadness,
It was she who took my heart,
Tear it in half!
!”
Listening to Miss Nightingale singing the last verse, many listeners could not help but close their eyes and look up, lean back in their seats, open their mouths slightly, and breathe in the air while gasping.
Scheler's ability to mobilize emotions really made people uncomfortable...
No matter what happens with the previous "Beautiful Mill Girl", at least the 11th song "Belong to Me" in the middle, the music and poetry content is still very happy and joyful.
We've only reached the 8th song "Summer" and it's like this. Who knows what he can do next!?
In fact, "The Poet's Love" was very subtle during Schumann's creative period. 1840 was the year of love when he and Clara entered into marriage, and it was a fruitful year for music creation, so many people took it for granted that this work was
"A crystallization of inspiration filled with happiness and joy"...
But in fact, the two got married in September, and this work was completed in May. It was the time when Schumann was separated from his lover, their reunion was uncertain, there was a lot of resistance from the outside world, and he was in the most torment and pain in his heart!
It is completely conceivable that a pessimistic, melancholic and sensitive artist would worry about gains and losses when creating this work, and would put himself into a rough and poignant situation.
Autumn is coming, the ninth song is, "The flute is playing and the piano is melodious."
"Winter—dongdongdong—" "Winter—dongdongdong—"
It sounds like a "solo version" of a waltz work. As soon as the music in 3/8 time begins, Fan Ning's right hand plays an ups and downs sixteenth tone group in the high register, while his left hand plays a rich
Column chords create a distinct dance rhythm.
"The flute is playing, the violin is melodious,
The trumpets are all sounding;
At the wedding dance she danced,
She is all the love in my heart."
This is a dance music depicting a wedding scene. The smooth running single-note melody lines at the top are like the music played by flutes and violins, while the lower parts seem to make people hear the drum sound of "Dong Dong Dong".
But the key is D minor with a dark color.
Unlike the accompaniment melody that flows up and down, Miss Nightingale's voice rises and falls but is not active, and the rhythm and range are always within a restrained range.
The flames danced in the air, and the musical instruments were intertwined. It was so lively and joyful.
However, the human voice never blends into this accompaniment, and is in a state of being separated from the excitement.
"The bells are ringing, the trumpets are roaring,
The double yellow pipes are blowing and the drums are beating,
The cute little angel in the noise...
But quietly wept and shed tears."
Miss Nightingale was still smiling, but there were two shallow traces on her cheeks, which were clear and clear under the reflection of the stage lights.
In the music written by the teacher, is the poet who sings the ballad and the poet who attends the ball really the host of the wedding?
The flute is playing, the piano is melodious, and the trumpets and drums are ringing. The audience feels that their thoughts are rising from the banquet.
They seemed to smell the perfume of the event and the smell of burning fire, heard the bells ringing on New Year's Eve, and saw the beautiful fireworks blooming in the night sky and the people running and dancing pulling colorful ribbons.
But this has nothing to do with you.
The cute little angel is sobbing...
"What should I do? She seems to be really crying!"
"It's just a competition. You can come again next year. Miss Nightingale is still so young."
Music fans were really stunned when they saw the tears on the girl's face.
Many people re-grabbed the extinguished bouquets that they had broken off long ago, shaking them in vain with pity and regret.
There are even many judges who are doing this action.
At the end, the exhausted vocals melted away in the music, but Fan Ning's hands still played the cheerful waltz, which gradually turned into a descending sweet chromatic whirlwind.
"You have never participated in it, how do you know how important it is to her?"
"What did Scheler write about? I'm really convinced..."
"I want you to vote with me. Why are you pretending to regret it when you listen to the peach songs with so much enthusiasm? It's almost over!"
"It's all your fault for making the lovely Miss Nightingale cry!
!”
The giant open-air opera hall, which had always been lively but not disrespectful, started to hear discussions and quarrels after the ninth poignant song "The Flute is Playing and the Piano Sounds Melodious".
Of course the music didn't stop there.
Fan Ning's accompaniment changed from the previous warm and smooth accompaniment to becoming scattered, tangled, slow and weak. Miss Nightingale was still singing. Although the tears were still wet, she still had an indifferent and cheerful smile on her face, earnestly expressing the teacher's performance in the music score.
Every instruction given.
In the song "When I Hear a Lover's Song", the poet heard a ballad that his lover once sung, and his love for him suddenly burst like a dam, and his sadness turned into rolling tears. And in "A Boy in Love"
In "A Girl", the poet narrates a folk tale with a sarcastic attitude to express that lovers will regret missing such a good self, but this kind of irony is precisely proof that the poet's heart is fragile and riddled with holes.
So here comes the last song of autumn, "On a Sunny Garden Morning".
Fan Ning continued to play falling sixteenth notes in the upper part, and then continued with long-duration dotted quarter notes, just like the morning dew condensed and swirled on the leaves, and then finally fell at a certain moment.
It fell to the ground and turned into a pool of crystal clear water.
"One fine morning I was walking in the garden,
The flowers cooed with vigor, but I was still walking quietly,
The flowers cooed with vigor and looked at me with sympathy:
‘Don’t be angry with our sisters, you pale, melancholy boy’!”
This piece depicts the poet walking in the garden in the early morning, trying to forget his former lover.
The last autumn day.
Miss Nightingale's voice is as small and soft as a low self-reflection, and the combination of intensity gradually increases and decreases alternately, as if the colorful flowers are whispering, pitying the poet's tragic love that cannot be responded to.
Since the ninth song, intermittent sighs and quarrels have been heard from the audience.
The contents are all very similar.
Master Lucter has not looked up for a long time.
The hand holding the pen was holding his forehead and staring at the table. With a complicated and regretful mood, he felt that his whole body was being pulled by an invisible and heavy net, unable to lift his neck.
Until the exclamations scattered in several places in the distance interrupted everyone's murmurings and complaints, and suddenly penetrated into the sound of piano and singing.
"Why did it start to light up again?"
"Me too! What's going on!?"
"Everything is lit, everything is lit!
!”
Before the singing stopped, Lucter suddenly stood up.
A total of forty-eight judges all stood up.
Miss Renilla, who had been bored, yawning and waiting for the end, also stood up with her body covered in flames, and looked down the stage with a shocked face.
It was originally dark, and you could only occasionally see clearly the corners of the audience's bright clothes. The bouquets that everyone had abandoned or held on the seats or on the ground all glowed with dull light again!
It wasn't the red that was distributed initially, it was just a bright white at first.
But then it gradually took on a very slight light yellow color.
At a glance, it looks like a vast gleam of light in the dark night sky!