musicians of old

Chapter 274 Light and Blood in Life (Today's 4800)

"do/mi/sol————"

The voices of the boys and girls are like the sound of nature, and the bright C major chord is still echoing in the classroom.

Something blossomed from my heart.

More and more people began to tremble slightly in their shoulders or arms.

They were still singing, but they closed their eyes one after another, and raised their faces slightly.

It’s been a long time since I looked at the blue sky. Although it’s hard to find a blue sky in this city, and there is no sky above this classroom, they feel that they are facing the sun.

No, as a voice, I am part of the sunshine.

"Boys and girls, your breath is surprisingly long and steady." Fanning said loudly, motioning for everyone to stop and catch their breath.

They close their mouths and open their eyes, you look at me, I look at you.

what kind of feeling is this
Is this the chorus?
Carrying a bag of luggage, I came to this strange and noble place, facing an unknown life, an unknown fate, and even quite a few people had only a few years left in their lives.

Moreover, there are people I don't know all around here. They are anxious, inferior, alienated from each other and wary.

But now, many of them laughed at each other.

Frank, relaxed, friendly and warm smile.

Because of a cooperating C major triad.

They are reminiscing about the feeling just now, and everyone still has more to say.

"The game continues." Fanning smiled, "Do you mind increasing the difficulty a little bit? A little bit."

The children showed eager expressions and nodded subconsciously, but they clenched their fists secretly when they heard Fanning say that the difficulty should be increased.

"Listen to me." Fanning pointed to the left area again, "do, do, xi, do."

Well, the change is too simple, just add a note, only half a degree lower.

They breathed a sigh of relief and repeated.

"It's still going to be long, but don't make it so long, look at my signal—" Fanning demonstrated again and waved his hand, dragging each note for four beats, "do, two, three, four; do, two, three, four; xi, two, three, four; do, two, three, four."

The children spoke again: "do-do-xi-do-"

Easy imitation, but a little monotonous.

"Hey, you guys." Fanning waved towards the middle area, "mi, mi, re, mi."

"mi-mi-re-mi-"

"It's yours." Fanning looked to the right, "sol, la, sol, sol, remember, your change is in the second."

"sol—la—sol—sol—"

"Great." Fan Ning laughed happily, "Now, the old rules, I will give you a little time to strengthen your memory and prevent interference from others. With so few changes, I don't think there is any need for extra time? It's still ten seconds."

The children nodded with anticipation. The feeling just now was so wonderful, what kind of voice will come out this time?

"Three, two, one, zero!"

"do/mi/sol--" "do/mi/la--" "xi/re/sol--" "do/mi/sol--"

一个简单的1-4-5-1（主-下属-属-主）进行框架。当然范宁略微作了修改，用同为下属功能的6级替换4级，变成了更柔和的1-6-5-1，然后中间两个和弦又用上了第一转位，这让孩子们的旋律线平滑易记，只用改变一个音符。

Under the traction of Fanning's thread of inspiration, bright colors began to flow, and light and shadow slowly rotated, returning to the original point after a short and simple dislocation.

The fluctuations of the children's emotional bodies and astral bodies can be clearly seen under Fanning's spiritual perception.

Overall, it is a warm and long-lost touch, but each level is slightly different: those who sing the bass do and xi feel their own depth and generosity, because they contribute the foundation of color; the voices of the middle mi and re What I experience is comfort and peace, just like a newborn child lying in the warm arms of the mother; while the teenagers and girls singing the melody of sol and la above open the window lattice with their own hands in a lifted high sky, for Bring the sun and the breeze with you.

With 4 chords, 4 measures and 16 beats, the chorus conductor Clark and the piano accompanist Elizabeth couldn't help squinting their eyes in this comfortable sound field.

Chorus is really a magical thing. When these voices sound, even the cold desks and benches in the classroom become wonderful.

When they finished this round of chorus, they felt that their hearts were beating deeply and powerfully, and the hesitation and sadness in their eyes disappeared. They smiled more sincerely and happily, smiling at Fanning and the people around them.

"The last round of the game." Fan Ning frowned deliberately, "Well, it may take a little longer, mainly depends on whether you cooperate with each other tacitly."

tacit understanding?The boys and girls looked at each other.

Of course we are great, aren't those wonderful voices just made by our cooperation?
There is an encouraging meaning of "come on" in their eyes.

"Hmm-hmm" Fanning hummed a common melody, "Students who can hum at least a part, please raise your hand."

This is a soothing, gentle folk song that is widely sung in the northern part of Tiolein.

At first, only one or two people raised their hands, and the rest showed habitual submissiveness and hesitation, but they thought of the wonderful feeling and mutual recognition just now, and finally raised their hands one after another.

"Then the first ten people who raised their hands." Fanning said, "Please change seats with them and let them sit in the first few rows in the middle."

Under Fan Ning's signal, they hummed in unison with the vowel a. The intonation and rhythm were generally satisfactory, with an octave difference between men and women.

"Now, everyone will sing the scales with me, but there is one more requirement: please look at my gestures and learn from me."

"Do." Fanning said, and at the same time stretched out his right hand, making a fist gesture.

"Do——" the children imitated.

"re." Fan Ning opened his right fist, with five fingers together, fingertips pointing diagonally upwards.

"re--"

"mi—" fingers together, palms facing down. "fa——" He clenched his fist with four fingers, with his thumb pointing down. "Sol—" five fingers together, palm left. "La——" He held his five fingers empty. "xi—" The index finger stretched out diagonally upwards. "Do——" returned to making a fist.

Fan Ning led everyone to go up and down the scale four or five times until the set of sound names and gestures were fully memorized.

Clark, the student chorus conductor, looked thoughtful, while Elizabeth, a girl in a green dress in front of the piano, tilted her head in confusion.

Why doesn't Professor Fanning teach them the piano or the staff?
"Very good." Fan Ning nodded approvingly, "Then, students who are humming folk songs in the front row, please try to see if you can sing along with your gestures."

"As for everyone in the left, middle and right areas, each of them will follow me to memorize a set of notes, but this time there are 8, please cooperate with gestures"

Under the inspiration of Fanning, three five minutes later, as Fanning's hands fell, a four-part chorus segment with a length of only 8 bars and a soothing and square rhythm sounded in the classroom.

"do/mi/sol--" "xi/re/sol--" "la/do/mi--" "sol/xi/mi--" "fa/la/do--" "mi/sol/ do--" "re/sol/xi--" "do/mi/do--"

A series of practical harmonies (15634145) called "Canon Progression" in the previous life, but it brings a sense of sacred solemnity to the vocal singing.Fan Ning still made inversion processing, so that the lines of each voice can be graded more smoothly and easy to remember. On the pillar chords composed of such three voices, it is a nostalgic ballad swaying with warmth and warmth.

Two excellent majors saw more things. When someone in each voice group could hardly remember what the next note was, the gestures of the people around him allowed him to remember and follow up, and the fragment he clearly remembered , and used gestures to remind others that there are more dangerous accidents, but Fanning on the stage still has two hands.

"It took only half an hour from the beginning, without any theoretical basis, more than 50 people who only had a bit of talent in singing, the coordinated interpretation of the four parts, the first chorus, went straight down?" Clark was stunned.

You should know that chorus and solo singing are not the same thing. There are many people who have good voice conditions and good sense of pitch, and those who usually sing brilliantly will be led astray when they sing at different pitches or rhythms at the same time as others.

Chorus is also different from singing in unison. Unison means that everyone sings the same melody, sometimes with an octave difference between men and women. The music material is essentially the same as solo singing.

And here are four voices.

Clark naturally heard a lot of flaws, and there were many sounds that came in belatedly when switching chords, but there was no chaos, no interruption, and it went smoothly without any danger.

"You are so cute." At the end of the 8th measure, Fan Ning praised sincerely.

cute?Several teenagers and girls were stunned after hearing this sentence of encouragement and praise.

From the time when they were a little older, their lives were full of stereotyped labor, fatigue, sleepiness, scolding and threats from factory owners and foremen, heavy housework and farming, debts and diseases, calculations about food and clothing, brothers and sisters. The death of a sister and the tears, complaints and scolding of parents.

Living in this world, can you still be called cute?
Aren't people the fuel for machines or the nourishment for soil?
The music reverberating in my mind infiltrated the withered spiritual garden, and there seemed to be a place to confide in the grievances, the corners of the eyes were moist, and the tip of the nose was sore.The light soaked the air, dripped on the face, and flowed on the skin. The gray and white world filter was removed, and everything returned to its proper colorful colors.

"I just started. From now on, you will teach them according to the content above, and there will be two or three music school students to help you. The above eight units, about one a week, until New Year's Eve , I will come to check and accept the results every time a unit is completed, and I will come here often."

Fanning handed two textbooks to Clark and Elizabeth.

It is a printed matter, but it comes from Fanning's own handwriting, and it is thicker than the previous "Introduction to Harmony" lecture notes.

This textbook, which Fan Ning devoted a lot of energy to, comes from the "Kodaly teaching method" system in his previous life.

Clark and Elizabeth flipped through the conversation together, feeling more and more surprised the more they read.

In this chorus textbook edited by Professor Fan Ning, more than half of the front has no staves or piano accompaniment!

This completely subverts the common sense of academic education!

The stave did not appear until the sixth unit, the piano accompaniment did not appear until the seventh unit, and the eighth unit was directly a work, which seemed to be a new work they had never seen before. A trio of male voices, a trio of female voices and a large choir are used.

Is it a work prepared for the New Year's concert?

"Professor Fanning, why don't you let them learn from the staff?" Elizabeth finally asked her doubts.

Fan Ning glanced at his pocket watch, then asked her with a light smile: "33 minutes have passed since I entered the door. If you want to learn notation, think about it."

"They definitely can't achieve the chorus effect just now." Elizabeth suddenly realized.

"This is not the most important reason." Fan Ning shook his head and lowered his voice. "As a result, they will have difficulty walking, will be discouraged, will not feel happy, and will freeze their already low self-esteem even more."

"Children are the most easily moved. They are better able to understand every great artist than us. Even if they are children who have gone to the stage of rebellion due to the influence of bad life or family environment, art can guide them out of the predicament. the most promising means of rescue”

"But Elizabeth, they are different from you. They have grown up in a withered spiritual garden since childhood, where it is dry all day long and there is no sunlight. Only a residual spark of spirituality is lingering on."

"They have no persuasive teachers, only rough parents and eye-catching production line supervisors. They have never studied art, logic, and theology, and have never traveled every inch of the empire's territory, growing up in the influence of history and humanity."

"During my contact with them, I found that many people have problems with their thinking and language. They can't express slightly complicated feelings, and they don't know how to express long-form opinions. Many girls can only speak, listen, read and write in daily life. And simple arithmetic, unfortunately, they are too late, they should have been exposed to these beautiful things."

Elizabeth nodded obediently: "So you compiled this unique teaching method. First let them study their sense of hearing, pick up their confidence, and reap simple happiness. Putting the staves to learn later is to reduce the difficulty."

With good cultivation and moral education, she can understand these principles.

But she underestimated the power of the "Kodaly education method".

I also don't understand the real principle behind this teaching method.

As a famous Hungarian music educator, the set of methods he created has a very important position in the music education system of many European countries, although its popularity in Fanning countries is limited.

In the early stage, it stimulates the love and singing instincts of all people through scientific and humanistic methods, and builds a solid listening-recording-singing practice basic skills in the joyful experience
Yes, it uses human instinct, the musical instinct hidden in no matter how poorly educated.

Once the time is right, and then push back to the staves and other music theory knowledge, at this time, the learner's music level will suddenly show a blowout growth!

Even those who have enough energy or conditions to learn a musical instrument will also achieve great results! !

Correspondingly, it requires careful investment, and it also puts forward higher and more special requirements for the teacher's level. However, it does not need to use the piano or staves in the early stage. It only needs a tuning fork, and you can learn from school age Beginning with pre-children and teaching until the professional path.

The only "disadvantage" may be that it is useless for grading.

Of course, more people affected by the "Kodaly teaching method" did not take the professional path, but these children grew up slowly in listening and singing, and the lower grades of elementary school have been able to perform a cappella one-on-one. In the upper grades, they can start simple two- and three-part a cappella. In the middle school stage, they can start four-part chorus by picking up the music score. Music has become the cultivation and wealth that accompany them throughout their lives.

"You have to know—" Fan Ning's eyes drifted away, and his speech became slow and forceful.

"Music is the birthright of everyone, not the privilege of some musical geniuses or high society. This includes both the right to 'learn music' and the right to feel joy from 'real music'."

"But there are different classes in this world. Some people are doomed not to have a piano of their own throughout their lives, nor can they understand what it feels like to be taught by musicians. Such a simple C major chord chorus is obviously for everyone. The baptism that every child should have, but many people have never experienced it in their whole life, and they don’t even know how wonderful it is.”

His eyes moved away from the faces of the two music academy students, and he looked at the eager young girls in the audience: "Unfortunately, musical instruments are a commodity, and musical instruments have a price, but fortunately, the best musical instruments are always available." It is your voice, it is free, naturally approachable, and directly reaches the soul. It can allow you to withdraw from the muddy work or the roar of machinery day after day, and find a moment of comfort in the resonance and movement of the notes, It can also let you who work harder, walk into those golden halls that were once considered 'noble' or 'unworthy'"

"The music you listen to here, the knowledge you learn, every song you sing together, and every touch you gain will be forever etched in your hearts, no matter whether you are poor or rich, whether you have a long life, Time is running out."

"They will be the light and blood of your life."

　Thanks to Shoumeng [moved with a smile] and played a second league, and I wrote seven or eight hundred characters more in both chapters.

　　I'm about to fall asleep Zzz
　　
　
(End of this chapter)