Fan Ning's eyes were filled with sadness as he recalled the past, and he shook his head and smiled.
The classicism period in the previous life was similar to the authentic period in this life. At that time, Roy thought that the Mozart 330 she played was a Tararkani piano sonata that she had never heard.
Fan Ning said that this "can be regarded as imitation" and admitted that "it is difficult for me to write such a pure temperament due to my temperament."
In fact, this is not just his personal problem.
More importantly, times have changed.
All pastoral, courtly, and artistic narratives in line with feudal patriarchal principles and knightly enthusiasm are now tending to collapse amidst the roar of machines. The possibilities of 24 major and minor keys and classical music forms have been developed to the extreme, the last touch of late romanticism.
The afterglow is about to dissipate in the sky, where the grotesque crescent moon of modernism is already looming.
However, it is still possible to try, and it is also an opportunity.
Maybe you can find a way to make your creations in this life compatible with the Blue Star classical music in your previous life?
"How can I abandon long musical forms, complex orchestrations and grand narratives, pay homage to Mozart's legacy, and still incorporate my own personal imprint? In the funeral of a giant, the resurrection of the spirit and the heights of radiant creation
After "Love Tell Me," let innocent children tell me things they have known since birth?"
"Actually, the 'epic feeling' is also a very tiring thing, right?"
"I really should take a break, take a break at some intermediate stage in my mental wandering history."
Fan Ning first opened the title page of a blank score book, which was on the second page.
In his personal habit of writing the first draft, he likes to record some orchestration ideas, the framework of musical form and the shaping principles of musical temperament on this page, and record the related poetic text (if any) and the main text on the third page.
It usually starts on the fourth page.
He first set some principles for himself in composing this symphony——
Adopting a conventional four-movement structure;
Put aside the grand narrative, the length should not be too long, and the whole movement should be controlled within one hour;
Reduce the orchestration and return to the three pipes of early Romanticism;
Even more "classically", the trombone and tuba parts are deleted, and the entire brass section has enough horns and trumpets, trying to remind the audience of the chamber music legacy of the old palace;
You can still try more types of percussion, under the premise of "not noisy"
"Then you need to determine the tone of the work that you like."
"Most of Mozart's or Haydn's works are in major keys, and the sharps and flats are relatively simple. The most common ones are C major without a flat, F major with a flat, and G major with a sharp."
"Perhaps, it would be better to set the range at a generally moderate but slightly higher position. Just like the center note of Bach's "Goldberg Variations", if it is as low as starting from the F or C notes, I always feel that there is something wrong with the color.
But if it were C, an octave higher, it would be too sharp.”
"G major is a good straightforward and childlike key."
After making the decision, Fanning closed the manuscript to the cover page and wrote a title similar to this in a succession of italic Janus letters with a bit of scrawling:
"4inGMajor"
He finally began to write the abbreviations and key signatures of each orchestration group in the "main part".
Since it is created under such principles, the themes should not be too numerous. Each movement should have one or two themes and melodies, combined with several short and distinctive motives, to be fully developed and to seek a unified and varied formal logic.
In this case, the musical idea of the opening theme of the first movement is extremely important. It not only sets the emotional tone of the entire symphony, but also preferably lays the foundation for it to be consistent with some kind of summary and sublimation of the last movement.
response.
"In the prelude, these uninhabited areas are far away from the world. Rich colors bloom like a palette in the mountains, rivers and forests. However, during the refreshing journey, there is also a trace of unknown strangeness and coolness, including a series of events that make people unclear.
"The strange changes"
"Woodwind timbre is a good choice, with flute and clarinet playing a simple G tone repeat with half-tone decoration, at a leisurely and leisurely beat speed"
"But based on the feeling of the atmosphere above, the optimal solution of the harmony here may not be G major. If my later understanding is really damaged, listening to this movement, I will easily come to the conclusion that I was deceived and think that this place is peaceful.
Warm and cozy”
"The chromatic decorative relationship between #F and G not only exists in G major, but also in the V-VI level of B minor!"
"The key is set to B minor! The melody line is dotted with an ethereal third B note as a depiction of this tendency."
The tip of the pen rubs against the paper, making a rustling sound. Fan Ning controls the relationship between inspiration and rationality just right.
At the beginning of "Symphony No. 4 in G major", he wrote a woodwind overture in a minor key with a very special color and an inexplicable coldness.
Even if it is a tribute, he will always put his own style in the most distinctive and prominent position.
The inspiration for melodic writing hits a pause midway through.
"This is because the 'coolness' of this music has come out, but the phantom-like 'trance' is not quite there."
Fan Ning quickly found the reason and stopped to think about it. At the same time, he imagined and deduced some sound effects in his mind.
You may have to rely on some percussion, such as triangle, celesta, or bells like the "First Light" movement in "Symphony No. 2".
But in the end, Fan Ning in the small workshop picked up another "percussion" on the shelf.
A pair of sleigh bells!
Its timbre is thin, cold, and silvery, just like the sound of brittle ice and snow being crushed by a wooden sled.
"This piece of percussion fits the mood of the opening very well, but"
Fan Ning has long known that people from the Divine Advent Society like to shake this kind of thing to sing hymns.
But he has never shied away from such similar situations. On the contrary, he has the experience of dismantling the contamination of the other party's knowledge and heightening the cognitive impact in his artistic creation, just like the D-augmented triad in "The Poetry of Awakening"
The application is the same!
And what's very interesting is that when Fan Ning checked some geographical information before, he discovered that the meaning of "sleigh bells" has a long history in the cultural context of people in some areas.
For example, in the Nileru area on the southwest border of Tiolain and the Ihrao area on the southeastern border of Janus, these people living on the snow-capped mountain plateau would tie bells like this around the necks of their cattle and sheep when grazing on the mountainside.
, so many poets and travelers believe that "the sound of snow bells is the last sound from the world that people hear before climbing the mountain."
To eulogize the "Kingdom of Heaven" in this way is not the unique insight of the Divine Advent Society.
After all, it is just an ordinary and ordinary thing, and the Divine Advent Society has only used and misinterpreted its symbolic meaning.
"Use it."
"Dismantling what the Esoteric believers believe is a mystery into a musical vocabulary that can be understood by the world."
"Haha, this is my specialty."
Under Fanning's writing, this B minor overture became the beginning of flute, clarinet and sleigh bells.
After the music shifts to the key of G major, the violin, cello, double bass, French horn, oboe and clarinet continue to write a long and winding phrase. The sun shines on the traveler, but the air is still cold, and the scenery is magnificent and strange, but
With a sense of unknown strangeness and fantasy.
There are still colorful soap bubbles swimming in the peripheral vision. Under Fan Ning's pen tip, the theme of the first movement is gently thrown up by the French horn. The light phrases of a few measures glide with the wind and are quickly caught by the string instruments.
Sliding into the arms of the cello
Time passed by, the sun was setting in the west, and the few evening stars were shining brightly.
Even though the place where he was writing was a bit cramped and the noise from the vehicles continued to ring in his ears, the whole process still made Fan Ning feel comfortable and calm.
There is still no weird thing attacking everyone.
However, a real problem finally began to appear in front of everyone.
After entering the abnormal zone for more than 36 hours, someone in the team became sleepy.