musicians of old

Chapter 104 The Essence of Light

Woodpecker Consulting Office.

"The "Unfalling Fire" is the master of the origin of the "candle" phase, the master of the sacred flame, the god of hope for enlightenment, and the true shadow of the glow..."

""Endless Fugue" guides climbing to the top of art. He holds the aspect of "candle", so he is the master of inspiration and the god of polyphony. He also holds the aspect of "key", so he is also the master of reason and the god of command. A certain high-ranking secret ceremony exists in history, reproduces his words, and triggers his intervention. The ritual vessel used to increase the sense of ritual is called "Old Days"..."

Fan Ning looked at the open notebook, on the carriage when he arrived, he had already recorded the new higher-rank hidden knowledge here.

"Ritual utensils generally have all kinds of strange and mysterious properties left over, but this baton named "Old Days" is made of unknown materials. After repeated attempts after it was brought out from the shift, it seems that it is really just a baton... I have to say that it has characteristics, I just think it has a cool shape, the feel is very suitable for my command preference, and it even fits just right when placed on the chest..."

Fanning put it away and looked at the two glasses of normal temperature water on the table.

The thread of inspiration is wrapped around it, and after demarcating the space, another one-way pulling method that has never been tried is adopted...
In a few seconds, the change gradually started, one of the glasses was frozen into solid ice, emitting white smoke, and the other was completely boiling, with hot air surging.

When he was promoted to a knowledgeable person, the "light of first knowledge" obtained by Fan Ning was "exchange of temperature", and after the middle rank, his "light of first knowledge" was sublimated, not only the distance and range of temperature exchange were greatly enhanced , there is another control method - direct control of the one-way flow of the two temperatures!

The speed is not nearly instantaneous, much slower than temperature exchange.

Fan Ning has always been able to understand why it is "temperature" before, because temperature and flame belong to the invisible force of "candle", but he does not understand why it is "exchange", nor does he understand that this is related to the "endless fugue" of the Lord of Witnesses What does it matter.

And after several inspirations and enlightenment, after mastering more mysteries about "Endless Fugue", he put forward a conjecture:
The essence of "Light of First Awareness" may come from some polyphonic creation techniques inspired by him!
So Fan Ning held the pen and tried to make further additions to the existing records.

"Polyphonic music writing techniques: transposition, retrograde, expansion and contraction, reflection, close connection and response..."

……and many more.

…Speaking of which, people in this world create music mostly driven by inspiration. Although some concepts and techniques have been summed up, the composition theory has not formed four independent pieces at all: "Harmony", "Counterpoint" and "Musical Form Analysis" "Orchestration Method", but "Composing" is consistent.

In other words, the theory is not systematic.

The Lord of Witness "Endless Fugue" is in charge of both the "candle" and "key" phases at the same time. His mysteries include not only inspiration, but also rationality!If you want to live by His rules...

Fan Ning thought about it, closed the notebook, then turned around and took a new one from the bookcase.

He wrote "Counterpoint" in big characters on the title page, then turned to the second page and wrote:

"A theoretical technique to make two or more independent melodies sound simultaneously and harmoniously in music creation. It is the main writing technique of polyphonic music."

Considering that the current inspiration fragments belong to advanced techniques, in order to leave room for sorting and step-by-step progress, Fan Ning directly turned to the middle page number for the second time and continued to write:

"If there are two melodies in parallel to form polyphonic music, and they can still coexist harmoniously after being inverted and interchanged according to a certain interval relationship, it can be called "double counterpoint."

"The technique of transposing two melodies up and down mentioned here is called "transposition". "

"When the interval relationship of the "transposition" is an octave, it is called "octave double counterpoint", which means that the nature of the two melodies has not changed, and only the positions of the voices have been exchanged.For example, the violin plays the melody 1, the cello plays the melody 2, and then the violin plays the melody 2, and the cello plays the melody 1. "

……

"Therefore, the essence of the 'temperature exchange' revealed by the Lord of Witnesses' 'Endless Fugue' is a special case of 'transposition'. "Fan Ning wrote at this time, his heart is already clear.

He continued to think about the second control method he had obtained so far, and turned the page and picked up the pen to continue:

"There is a melody, reverse its order and write it in reverse, such as writing "do, mi, fa, sol" as "sol, fa, mi, do", then the latter can be called the "retrograde" of the former. "

"If the same two melodies are parallel to form polyphonic music, and they can still coexist harmoniously after being processed "retrograde", it can be called "retrograde double counterpoint". "

……

"Inspiration pulls one-way between the two cups, the lower temperature is lower, and the higher temperature is higher, creating a temperature difference that does not exist in the first place... Therefore, the second control method bestowed by the Lord of Witness 'Endless Fugue', Its essence is a form of "retrograde""

Fanning tightened the cap of the pen and closed his eyes. In the next moment, the solid ice changed from melting to boiling, and the boiling water changed from still to frozen, just like the position of the water cup was switched instantly.

After a few seconds, they returned to normal temperature, but there were water stains on the outside of the cup and on the table.

After sorting out the relationship between the mystery of the Lord of Witness and invisible power, he felt that his spirituality was extremely transparent.

"Mr. Fan Ning, I have brought you the "Tiolan Culture Weekly", Issue 913 of 4 in the new calendar."

"Thank you."

Fanning opened the stylishly well-decorated publication.

""Divergence and Bridging——From "Death and the Maiden" to See the Art of the Future"?" Fan Ning read out the somewhat long title of the first edition.

Don Yettus, the editor-in-chief of the music column I met at the music salon, finally published his important music review on the second day after the special concert and the last week of the re-examination.

The music score is divided into three parts. First, it analyzes a large number of previous works and reviews, abstracts the debate between "title music" and "pure music" into two categories of "content" and "form", and then points out Fanning's string music The bridging and convergence of the quartet "Death and the Maiden" in the category of "content" is described as "romantic philosophy emerges from the body of classical and orderly music, like a healthy and elastic blood vessel flowing with passion." blood".

In the last part, he objectively mentioned that the bigger difference between the debate between "title music" and "pure music" lies in "form".

"Is this Yettus also a mystic?" Fanning read here the allusion to the mystical element.

"If art is equally divided into presentation and will, what is the highest form? If the highest common art form is opera (drama), then music, together with fine arts, dance, and poetry, is only the realization of its presentation; but if music itself is the highest Art enlightenment, then it is the concentrated expression of the will, while other arts are only indirect reflections of the will.”

"Death and the Maiden is a small perturbation in this interrogation, and though its power is not yet conclusive, we see a silhouette that the composer has outlined for a future work of art."

"If the law of transmission of hidden knowledge written in the ancient Chaniz language is completely true, and the third type of transmission law mentioned by Du Pont is empirically valid, then at least in this world, I agree with the second point of view." Fanning took a deep breath, Closed the weekly newspaper.

"When Wagner in his previous life promoted the idea of ​​'musical drama', he held to the first point of view, but later he was still subdued by Schopenhauer's 'Musical Will Theory', which is the second type explained here by Yettus: that music Noumenon is the highest form of art. Speaking of it, Nietzsche called Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" "a symphony", which really hit the nail on the head."

"Morning, Carlone."

Joan knocked on the half-hidden door, then pushed it open with a cheery hello.

The girl's sweet voice interrupted Fan Ning's thoughts: "Joan, it's only Friday, freshman year just started, don't you have class?"

"I'm on leave. I have something important to discuss with you."

"Huh? You sit down first."

She sat down across from Fanning's desk, with a serious expression on her face: "Sylvia's next party, should we attend it or not?"

(End of this chapter)