musicians of old

Chapter 296 Why Know Music? (4K [-]-in-[-])

While the audience was either deep in thought or eagerly looking forward to it, the conductor Lausanne on the stage set down the beat of the overture to "The Bat".

The passionate sound flow of the ensemble instantly made the air in the entire symphony hall cheer with joy.

"Professor Fan Ning is really a melody master. As long as it is his work, the theme will always have a taste that has the potential to be handed down..."

"Also, these 'guided tours' written by him, although the language is easy to understand and the length is short, how do you feel that they have everything?"

Several college students from music majors waved their palms leisurely to the beat. After enjoying the "Bat" overture halfway through, they gradually realized that although the passages were only two or three hundred words long, the structure of the whole piece, the music Image, rhythm changes, main orchestration, important modulation, emotional atmosphere... all kinds of analysis and explanations are included!
Many gentlemen and ladies who are sitting in a hurry also find that although they are considered regulars who love to listen to concerts, without these "guided tours", there are still many key elements that they may not notice.

They are very meaningful, and the process of gradually confirming music while listening to them is also very interesting!

When the four parts of the prelude to "Bat" were reproduced in turn, and the music was lifted up in the passionate prelude theme, the first round of warm applause broke out from the auditorium.

"The most important pitch and uniformity of the string group are already [-]% satisfactory. The timbres of several chief woodwind and brass instruments are stable and long-breathed, which well support the harmony and passages. The chief trumpet The performance was particularly brilliant…”

After the end of the first piece, many music critics or academic teachers began to follow professional habits to judge and think.

"If you look at this orchestra alone, it is a relatively high level among amateurs, but if you also include Ms. Lausanne's solid commanding skills, accurate and passionate terminology instructions, a fascinating and unique typhoon, and Mr. Fanning's famous song 'Creative quality bonus... Well, this already has the performance characteristics of a third-rate professional orchestra, and the premium ticket is eligible to be set in the range of 6-8 pounds, which can be even higher under Mr. Fanning's special halo, and now , 2 shillings? I'm afraid the difference is close to a hundred times!"

Instrumental music and vocal music are not logical at all in terms of basic skill training.

Considering the background and training time of these young musicians, these professionals feel that the performance of the youth symphony orchestra is more surprising and admirable than the choir.

Professionals are doing professional thinking, but other conservative scholars and media reporters are waiting for another moment worthy of attention.

— When these rude people applaud indiscriminately between the movements, be sure to stare at them mockingly and make their crimes against musical and emotional integrity in the press afterward!

The familiar "Symphony No. 15 in G minor" by the master Tarakani sounded, the restless background of the woodwind group, and the beautiful and sentimental theme of the cello...

About 15 seconds before the end of the first movement.

A little gentleman in a suit pushed a small trolley with a banner from under the stage from left to right. Its height was very suitable, and it stopped almost at the calf of the musicians and the conductor, without blocking the stage. Sight.

On the banner, it was written very conspicuously: No applause between movements.

After the timpani ended with the last chord, there were still a few laborers applauding loudly in their hearts and subconsciously clapped their hands a few times.

There were a few sparse applause on the stage, but these people were immediately stopped softly by other workers around them.

"Hey buddy! Even if you weren't paying attention to the cart, it's on the playlist!"

Fortunately, with the warmer and cheerful ending of the first movement, these few sounds did not cause too much sense of discord, because the suppressed coughing of the audience also came out at that time.

Before the end of the second movement, the little gentleman repeated his tricks and pushed the cart past.

This time the Andante movement, the atmosphere after the end is relatively quiet and beautiful.

However, no one raised their hands to applaud.

"Applause between movements is such a trivial matter. Those people seem to be 'maintaining art', but in fact they have a condescending sense of superiority. It should be noted that in previous opera performances, the audience frequently applauded the actors who were singing. Respect for the embodiment of affirmation, this practice is slowly formed from romanticism..."

"Nowadays, we can slowly guide and cultivate the habits and tacit understanding of new audiences. If a concert hall or theater has been open for a while, and there is still applause between movements, at least [-]% of the blame should be attributed to the management of the theater. , and this problem is not difficult to solve, why don't they solve it? In the final analysis, it is a lack of ideological understanding..."

——Fan Ning said to the staff of the Turner Art Hall when he assigned this work before.

Today, this kind of ceremonial ending has made many people feel the wonderful tacit understanding and moving.

It wasn't until seven or eight seconds later that the aftertaste of emotion was almost released, and the suppressed coughing sound began to resound in the symphony hall.

The third movement...the fourth movement...finally the loud cheers.

The first-line media, music critics and scholars were surprised, while the editor-in-chief of "Hustle" Macaulay, the mustache reporter of "Event" and other critics were very disappointed.

It's true that tendentious negative reports can attract attention, but you can't just say it's heavy rain when you see a little wind, or make something out of nothing, right?

The concert has been going on smoothly in a warm and orderly state.

At the end of the show, the mustache reporter of "Event" finally started his interview.

"Sir, may I ask which piece you like the most?" He caught a middle-aged man in a gray-brown coarse cotton coat with rough and dark skin.

This is a suburban farmer who set off two hours earlier, and it still takes two hours to go back, which made him a little hurried, but when he suddenly heard someone asking, he stood still instinctively.

"Polka, I like all the songs called Polka."

"Then do you think you understand these symphonies?" the mustache reporter asked.

"I'm a farmer, why can't I understand?" The middle-aged man rubbed the back of his head with a simple but puzzled expression.

""Lightning and Thunder Polka" is when we caught up with the heavy rain when we celebrated the harvest and dancing, "Calling Fast Polka" is the wife and daughter chatting with the aunts in the courtyard, and there is another song..." He looked down at the playlist, "Oh, "Peasant Polka", the one where the musicians sang 'Come, come, come, come, come, come' during the performance...Sir, why don't I hurry home first, I am a farmer, so there is no need to explain this... "

"..." Seeing the farmer leave first with some embarrassment, the bearded reporter of "Events" felt choked on his saliva.

There must be something wrong, is my way of asking the question wrong?
At the end of the show, the audience passed by him one after another, and suddenly, Mustache's eyes lit up.

"A wonderful opportunity, what a coincidence!!"

He walked quickly towards an exit in the next area.

Two young girls with pretty faces, wrapped in high-necked dark capes and leather boots, came into his vision.

Although these two women were only wearing moderate makeup today, and their clothes were relatively modest, but with sharp eyes, he recognized them at once. They were the women who appeared in the long queue for buying tickets that day, and were suspected to be dressed as Liu Ying. !
"Two... ladies." After a few breaths, Mustache jumped up to them, followed by the two assistants carrying equipment.

"We are a newspaper with a column for audience appreciation experience. Can you interview the two of you and hear anything in Master Tarakani's "Symphony No. 15 in G Minor"?"

This way of asking can be said to have learned from the past, and it is not "open-ended" at all.

And he avoided the premiere of all Fanning's new works with titles, and directly chose the only master work!This early and mid-benji work has almost no title at all.

The assistants are on standby.

The two girls looked at each other.

"Classic and balanced beauty." The girl in black cloak on the left smiled politely.

The mustache reporter was taken aback for a moment.

"Can you expand a bit? Our music appreciation column needs a little... space for each experience collection! Yes, a little bit longer space!"

The girl paused for a few seconds, as if she was organizing or recalling something, and then quickly spoke again, her words were slightly stuck and circled, but the meaning was basically clear.

"For example, in the first movement, there is a woodwind accompaniment at the beginning. Well, the background in a minor key is a little sad and uneasy, but very restrained. Then the cello plays a sad theme, and the French horn and oboe exchange a warm subtitle. Their tones are different. Here is a Contrast and conflict...The middle part is very complicated, the color, tone, intensity, etc. have changed many times, just like a very tangled struggle...The subtitle of the theme is reproduced later, and their tones are unified, as if the conflict has been resolved, this is Very harmonious, very balanced and rigorous, um, very classical beauty..."

Mustache and the two assistants next to him were stunned.

The point is not her answer, because the content is actually similar to the "guide tour" written by Fanning on the track list.

The main reason is that I am sure that when this girl is speaking, she holds the playlist in her hand!
She didn't follow suit! !
"You... You memorized the information on the playlist, right?" Mustache laughed dryly, trying to point this out.

"Yes." The other party nodded calmly, "I didn't buy the cheapest ticket, it cost me 1 shilling, I watched Mr. Fanning's 'guided tour' many times in advance in the past ten days, I think It was fun, and it was even more fun today when I heard real music."

"Can't this kind of sharing be included in your column?" The girl wearing a blue and black cloak on the right confirmed doubtfully, "We learned it from the materials, but music majors also learn from various materials. ?”

"Uh... I didn't say that..." Mustache's smile froze, but he began to mutter in his heart.

A pair of street whores share the sonata-like structure of a symphony after a concert?hell! !
Isn't this report written in the face of "Event" before?

"By the way, the subtopic or something, the dialogue between the French horn and the oboe, do you know where they are?" He found another angle unwillingly.

If this person's "guiding tour" memorizes clearly and logically, in the end, he can't even tell who is the musical instrument, which is really laughable.

"Ah, this thing is so hard to remember, and it's so easy to get confused." The girl sighed.

"What are you talking about?"

"French horns are in the row in front of the timpani at the back, to the left of the trumpet in the middle, oboes are in the front row of wind instruments, and flutes are in the same row, it is on the right, and the flute is on the left."

When the reporter heard this, his eyes widened.

Seeing the other party's expression, the girl on the right became even more confused: "Mr. Fan Ning drew a map of the musical instruments of the symphony orchestra on the repertoire, please put it away, take it out and read it twice when you are free, and you will be familiar with it... "

Mustache reporter: "..."

At the end of the concert on April 4, all the "citizen interviews" that were included in the "Event News" in the early stage were completely wiped out in the live "following report".

The wave of voices that criticized more violently disappeared overnight.

In the last three "Born to Love Music" concerts at the end of April, mid-May, and the end of May, the audience found that not only the guided tour and the distribution map of the symphony orchestra were still attached to the repertoire, but also more "little knowledge" was added. universal"!
For example, tell the audience what is the difference between the common Allegro, Allegro, Andante, Cantonese and Adagio, what is the tempo, and how are they distributed in multi-movement works;
Tell the audience to start with the theme and then the subtopic, and then the connecting sentence to end the sentence. This is called the presentation part;This common structure is called sonata form.

and the timbre character of common musical instruments;

The sense of hearing and origin time and place of common dance music genres, etc...

These labor audiences have accumulated more and more common sense, and they find the symphony more interesting as they listen to it, and they can analyze a few sentences logically when exchanging their feelings.

Even the authoritative media began to feel that there seemed to be something wrong with their previous "rational analysis" articles.

This is not the feudal age, this is the industrial age, the value of the empire is to pay attention to the inviolability of "freedom" and "private property"!Regarding the matter of "labourers, hawkers, prostitutes and gentlemen and ladies enjoying the entertainment at the same time", people are legally free to buy tickets to watch the show, and you can't criticize it from this perspective.

Therefore, most of the propositions they discussed before were "is it blasphemy to listen to serious music for people who don't understand music / do not speak etiquette?"

But now, it's true that people are not very respectable, but there is no lack of etiquette!Previous issues involving dress, cleanliness, and applause between movements simply did not arise, and the so-called "not understanding music"...

What is understanding music?What do you mean you don't understand music?

It’s true that it’s a song with a lower threshold for appreciation, but it’s also true that it’s serious music.

He listened with gusto at the concert, and he could say a thing or two when communicating with him. Does this mean that he doesn't understand music?

A basic common sense is: "Ask if first, then why"!
"Is it blasphemy to listen to serious music for people who don't understand music / don't know etiquette", this topic has been discussed for so long, and it turns out that it is untenable from the source!
(End of this chapter)