Recently, Fan Ning has thought of Wagner on the Blue Star in his previous life far more frequently than usual.
After the investiture ceremony on the evening of April 19th and the interview with the Special Patrol Office, nothing seemed to have changed. He returned to Ufranser, calm and calm, and promoted all aspects of his work in an orderly manner.
Plan, and did not tell anyone around me any unnecessary details about that night.
However, Fan Ning had to admit, whether he was "happy" to admit it or not, this interview had a lasting impact on him.
And it is mainly ideological.
One of the most important influences was that a certain trend of thought or values was stimulated from his heart overnight in a "rebellious" way, or even an "overcorrecting" way. Then, it was closely related to his artistic personality.
The part of me that already possessed the concept of "martyr" merged and produced some kind of irreversible chemical reaction, crossing over to a new boundary.
""Siegfried", an opera in three acts, the third couplet in the musical "The Ring of the Nibelung" by the German music master Wagner."
Fanning was lying on the sunny floor in the outermost room of the living room of Turner Art Hall, propped up with pillows, stretching his body, and looking through the opera lyrics that he had memorized while composing music.
Looking up one meter away, you will see the tall and pure black "Boethius" seven-foot grand piano.
Recently, he often plays the preludes, interludes or certain arias of Wagner operas on it.
"Among Wagner's "The Ring of the Nibelungs", "Siegfried" should be regarded as the most heroic one. Well, if you want to use art terms to evaluate it, the orchestral technique here should be "natural light"
: Bright, radiant, with flowing vitality, a rustic pastoral flavor, and an open and positive development. Of course, the opera involves dramatic scenes and the protagonist’s painful psychological struggle, especially the awakening process of the Valkyrie Brünnhilde.
The description is still full of depression, suspense and tension."
"The technique and atmosphere are all suitable for reference for my third movement."
Fan Ning's mind wandered, and he thought that the period when Wagner's artistic creation set off a craze in the music world might be similar to the old industrial era he was currently living in. There was even a "Vienna Conservatory of Music" established at the time.
Wagner Society".
Fans believe that "since Orpheus (a Greek mythological figure), no musician's music has had such a significant impact on the lives and art of several generations."
Of course, Fanning was not like those fanatics at the time who worshiped Wagner himself.
He paid more attention to Wagner's works and thoughts.
"There is something special about Wagner that is completely different from all previous opera singers."
"In his operas, orchestral music, or the so-called 'pure music' or 'pure instrumental music' parts, are elevated to an unusually high status, even higher than the epic text itself!"
“In Schopenhauer, music is ‘the direct objectification and copy of the will that makes up the whole world itself’; in Nietzsche, the birth of tragedy represents the awakening of the human spirit, and ‘music occupies a dominant position in tragedy’;
Finally, with Wagner, music became everything, the soul of the overall art!"
"It was in order to declare this relationship between 'ruling' and 'being ruled' that he ambitiously created the genre of 'musical drama'. In the musical drama "The Ring of the Nibelung", which consists of four operas
, in the total performance time of 15-16 hours, the orchestra ruled the whole play according to the absolute, perfect logic of music itself, and each 'leading motive' penetrated and dominated the behavior of all characters."
"Well, since the status of pure music is so transcendent in all forms of truth, then if people like Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Wagner were asked to answer questions like 'Do you think they believe in the mysterious art of leadership?'
It seems too lighthearted and ridiculous.”
Fan Ning recalled Mr. Wax's inexplicable expression at that time.
Moreover, he later realized that in this life and the previous life, Anton and Wagner were the two people who had the most profound influence on his symphony creation concept (although Bach was equally influential, there were no symphonies in that era.
).
The former taught Fan Ning about the orchestration of brass pipes, organ-like sound thinking, the technique of tonal wandering, the writing of wide intervals, how to create long-lasting tension, and how to highlight the importance of the finale in the overall structure.
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The latter's enlightenment to Fan Ning was the idea that "a symphony should be all-inclusive", the harmonic language of the changing sound system, the huge structural ambition, and the preference for grand narratives.
Of course, there is also a more important view on "pure music".
This neutralized Fan Ning's attachment to "epics, legends and folk songs" and prevented him from falling into the other extreme of "playing with titles".
You can also resolutely try to temporarily withdraw from the "chorus" when your reputation is at its peak.
"What a pity, I can't find anyone here who can talk to me about Wagner."
"Sheeran is willing to listen to anything I say and can understand it, but there is more unconditional admiration and recognition, and less questioning, analysis and collision. Miss Roy prefers to use the latter method of communication.
It is a shared experience worth cherishing, but where should I start to explain clearly what kind of person Wagner was? Should I start with the history of the development of opera and philosophy in the previous life?"
Fan Ning, who was lying by the floor-to-ceiling window, smiled helplessly, picked up the music book beside him, and raised it above his head.
In the scherzo movement, after the lively horn theme in D major, there is a salon-like waltz melody in B flat major, connected by a transitional sentence of 5 bars.
In the following development, Fan Ning used an extremely new counterpoint technique, and the orchestration of the modulation part focused on the melancholy tone of the horn, and the deep and dull woodwind and string groups responded.
Everything is very inspired by Wagner's "Siegfried".
However, Fan Ning is willing to write the music with a more layered feel. Each part is clearly separated through changes in materials and short pauses.
"Caron, it's 12 o'clock noon, you want me to remind you to go down for dinner."
"Why are you lying on the floor writing again? You will wear glasses after doing this!"
First there was a knock on the door, and Sheeran's voice sounded from outside the door. When she stretched out her feet to this side, she immediately started to scold helplessly.
"Miss Secretary, the ground is really cool, I suggest you give it a try."
Fan Ning finally got up and explained: "Well, I still sit at the piano or desk most of the time."
Xilan rolled her eyes at him and reminded:
"Don't forget your schedule today. There will be four groups of guests who need to be interviewed."