musicians of old

Usually, at 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds, people will welcome the rebirth of time in their next breath, and then the following period of sleepless hours should be called "0 hour", and the previous period is "the 24th hour". Hour".

So now Fan Ning encounters a situation that he cannot understand.

After the breath just now, Fan Ning didn't know where the world was going. He couldn't understand whether he had entered a new day, stayed in the past day, or fallen into some incomprehensible and lost world. gap.

The 25th hour of the night.

Moreover, the "people" outside the room are singing, to the accompaniment of Scriabin's "White Mass".

On weekdays, it is the most correct choice to have a dream test immediately.

But the abnormal zone is the clear waking world. After swallowing the elixir refined from the "Sneaky Water", and after experiencing sparse, thin, and difficult-to-remember dreams, I have regained my energy and am awake.

Perhaps, there is another simple action that may help everyone understand part of the current situation——

He opened the black curtain at the door of the barracks and looked outside.

Or, take a few steps outside to take a closer look at your surroundings.

However, the "mysterious side-action principle" that is generally imprinted in the depths of consciousness is still at work. Every team member who approached the black curtain and listened carefully finally returned to his resting position one after another. Fan Ning stood still. The reaction also acquiesced to this processing method.

Don't pry, don't peep, just pretend nothing happened. Maybe it will return to normal after a while?
Time is still ticking by, obeying the rhythm distribution similar to drum beats as usual, and conforming to human perception of speed as usual, at 60 beats per minute.

60 is a number that can be divisible by either 3 or 4. Fan Ning, who stood there calmly, could easily regard it as the most common three-time or four-time beat and substitute it into his own spiritual rhythm.

He felt that from the perspective of musical terms, this speed was close to the upper limit of Adagio and slightly lower than Andante. However, his keen intuition told him that the passing unit of time still seemed to be unevenly chaotic, with each second The duration of the clock is pulsating and shrinking, just like the turbulence of liquid after the layers are destroyed, and also like the actual music performance. Due to different artistic understandings and various accidental factors, a work does not actually have a constant speed in the strict sense.

If this continued, Fan Ning wanted to wait for an hour.

After a long silence, the songs and poems from the outside world changed, and the team members' clocks reached the 26th hour of the night.

Time is still flowing, but the abandoned barracks behind the black curtain seems to be stationary.

Fan Ning felt very ridiculous, but at the same time he calmed down and sat back in front of the wooden desk.

This kind of "lost time" that exceeds normal cognition and is in the middle of unknown concepts does not seem to be an accidental error in the evolution of time and space. It is actually "more than just a moment"?
A secret dead end that extends infinitely forward and goes against the outside world?
As the most authentic record of what he encountered, and the confrontation with music from unknown sources outside, Fanning continued to write the second movement of his "Fourth Symphony", and easily picked up the music he had just beaten. Smooth inspiration.

"do/re/mi——mi——fa——mi——" "do/re/mi——mi——fa——mi——"

This movement was conceived as a scherzo. At a leisurely and moderate tempo, neither fast nor slow, he wrote a set of signal-like solos in C major for the horn at the beginning. The chords play a dance rhythm pattern with a "leanderle", which leads to the scherzo theme with a demure yet slightly weird violin temperament.

"Almost mean."

"In the final analysis, it's still not 'strange' enough." Fan Ning's writing stopped at the 15th measure.

He felt that there was no problem with the introduction method and tone matching at the beginning, and the violin theme melody was completely coherent, but it was still far from what he really wanted to record and the emotions he wanted to express.
Starting from the chilling and magnificent scenery of the first movement, the so-called "abnormality" and "chaos" in the abnormal chaotic zone are a kind of collapse that subverts the ordinary concept from the very beginning.

The music image I have created is already moving forward, and I am already working hard to dismantle and raise awareness, but my imitation, expression and deconstruction of it are still not enough.

Fan Ning glanced at the shadow on the right side behind him, and suddenly he had an idea that completely broke the common sense.

——The violin instrument used to play the theme is also transformed into a strange and unconventional appearance!

For example, if the open strings of the four strings are set at a fixed height, all of them are turned up a whole tone!
Never before has a stringed instrument adopted such a bizarre pitch setting.

As soon as he opened his mind, a completely different inner hearing began to brew in Fan Ning's consciousness: an ancient violin with rough workmanship and lack of exquisite details, accompanied by the band's dreamy weak background, played strange, sharp, and harsh sounds. The melody is like a skeleton dancing strangely in another world.

After that, Fan Ning wrote a pastoral melody in the second part, which turned out to be the most important "wilderness theme" in the first movement of "Giant".

It developed with vibrato, bringing a leisurely and leisurely meaning to the music, but the nostalgic color soon became unfamiliar and out of shape, with the addition of muted brass, violins with bows striking strings, the use of augmented fourths and subtracted fifths, Frequent out-of-tune semitones, etc., once again drag the listener into the mysterious, weird and terrifying dynamic picture.

The 27th, 28th, and 29th hours of the night.
At a time of unknown, a time of loss, it was still like entering the abnormal zone for the first time. Nothing worthy of praise had broken in, and the singing of the "White Mass" outside the camp had no intention of intersecting with him.

Only the more Fan Ning wrote, the smoother and more satisfied he became. He didn't even stop writing in the middle to play and try out the sound effects.

It wasn't until he had finished writing the main structure of this scherzo with two middle sections, leaving only the orchestration and counterpoint details to be filled in, that he decided to listen to it.

Of course, start with the most critical violin part.

Fan Ning raised his hand behind him, and the violin that had been used to play "Chaconne" under the banyan tree flew out of the shadows with the bow and fell into his hand.

"Boom, boom, boom-"

After Fan Ning grabbed the neck of the piano with his left hand, he immediately raised his little finger out of habit and quickly plucked the four strings G, D, A, and E, then clamped them under his chin, twisted the tuning pin, and prepared to raise the strings. high.

But the next moment, his movement of reaching out stopped in mid-air.

The four notes produced by plucking the strings are A, E, B, and #F!

"Why has this piano been tuned up a whole tone?"

"When was it adjusted?"

"Who adjusted it!?"