musicians of old

Chapter 7 "Improvisation"

Fanning stood up, moved out of the seat sideways, and passed Muric who had just stepped off the stage.

During the time when he saluted and walked to the piano, he only felt that the eyes around him were like sticky syrup wrapped around him, dragging along with the movement of his steps.

Puzzled, curious, scrutinized, waiting to see a joke, "thinking this is a ruthless person"...

He opened the envelope and looked at the score on the note paper, standard 4/4 time, scattered 6 notes.

Immediately knocked out on the piano for demonstration.

C-sharp and G-sharp in the bass area, then C-sharp and E-sharp octaves, and G-sharp and A-sharp octaves.

（注：音名的记法里，1-do、2-re、3-mi、4-fa、5-sol、6-la、7-xi对应C、D、E、F、G、A、B）

"It spans a very wide range, and it's basically definitely a C-sharp minor, but there's an extra sixth-grade A." Murray thought thoughtfully.

"There's quite a bit of room for improvisation, but it's hard to be brilliant." Someone else commented.

Fan Ning looked at the black and white keys of the piano in front of him. They exude warm and delicate colors. On the central C key, the "Boethius" trademark carved in ancient Hoffman language is full of dynamic beauty. Under the concentrated illumination of the crystal chandelier, the audience in the corner of the eye crowded into a dense mass, and the vision in front of them was too bright, and they even became dizzy.

"Why hasn't he started playing?" asked Cecil's companion.

"You don't know what it's like to be frightened until you're on stage." Cecil smiled and shook his head again and again, "Musicology majors don't know what to do, just write a few research papers honestly."

"I am him and I will regret it. This scene is terrible."

"Improvisation is so insecure." Cecil's tone was superior, "For your performance department, it's like a piece of music that you haven't practiced at all is suddenly caught and performed. Only us composition professionals can control it. Stay in the scene."

Several music professors holding pens, including Dean Gould, also stared at Fanning in front of the piano.

No musical detail can escape their sensitive ears.

Taking a deep breath, Fan Ning finally raised his left hand and hit a G-sharp octave double tone in the bass area of ​​the piano. A deep and metallic voice sounded in the auditorium:
"Boom-!!!"

"As expected of the largest auditorium in our Conservatory of Music, the sound-absorbing and echoing effect is awesome, so what?" Murich, who had already scored a high score, rested his hands on the back of his neck and looked leisurely at the potholes on the surrounding walls.

"That's it?"

"Is this his so-called impromptu inspiration?" Cecil and several composition students raised their hands and scratched their heads. "Your octave stopped for four or five seconds, right?"

After maintaining this octave double tone for a full two bars, Fanning raised his left hand again, and played a quick C-sharp minor decomposed chord in the bass area, forming piece after piece of sextuplets.

Dean Gould stared intently at Fanning with narrowed eyes.

Starting from the fifth bar, the right hand joins in, playing a melody at full speed, and the grainy notes sparkle and splash out.

It is the handed down work of Friedrich Chopin, the great Polish romantic music master in the previous life:

Fantastic Impromptu in C sharp minor!
Chopin created a total of 4 fantasies during his lifetime. This one was written in 1834 when Chopin was 24 years old.The author himself thinks that the main theme of this song is somewhat similar to the theme of another work by the French composer Mocheres. In order to avoid criticism, it became the only one that was not published, and was only discovered by posterity after his death.

In fact, it has richer content and more elaborate structure than that of Moselles.In Fanning's previous life, it was one of Chopin's most widely circulated and most popular works. It is full of poetic fantasy and rigorous logic, enough to arouse strong emotional resonance from the audience.

On the stage, in front of the piano, the right hand of the young man in black dress continued to run at high speed, forming a complex interlaced rhythm with the changing sextuplets of the left hand, which was like a waterfall full of fiery passion, and seemed to be overflowing with countless colorful colors. The illusion world of light, shadow and color blocks!

Fanning's expression was actually a little nervous, staring intently at his running hands on the piano keyboard.

He didn't come from a major in his previous life, and the original owner Carlon was only a music major. He was often ridiculed by Mr. Anton for his basic skills. After the memory fusion of the two, he was still not as good as those professional piano players.

But he knows too well how to use 5% of finger skills to bring out 90% of the effect.

This piece was played by Fan Ning when he was a child in his previous life. It is not difficult for professionals in terms of the technical difficulties of simply "playing it down".

But judging by Fanning’s critical ears, which has studied countless records and the scene, there are not many professionals around him who can play well.

The weak rise of the right hand at the beginning, the way of shaking the pedal, the breathing between the clauses, the stress lines that need to be highlighted, the strength contrast section starting from the 13th measure, the first notes of the three semitones need to be continuously strengthened to bring a sense of compactness Ning felt that this was his best performance.

"This, this..." These professors with good gentlemanly cultivation couldn't help but say out.

What was even more exaggerated was that, including the dean, there were three judges with their hands on the table, and they left the table, shaking slightly, and their excitement was beyond words.

"It's impossible. He improvised such a romantic, charming, poetic and mysteriously inspired music? Impossible, I can't even write it, even if I'm given a month, no, a year!" Piano Department The old Murridge sat in the front row of the side auditorium, put his hands on his knees, and leaned forward long.

"Abstruse and imaginative music ideas are one aspect, and there is also... speed!!" The deputy director Xu Ci, who was sitting on Gould's right hand, thought inwardly, "Improvisers must constantly give their brains time to express while conceiving Leave room, even for a few tenths of a second, so the speed of selection is mostly not fast."

"And now, creating such a gorgeous fast sound flow, as well as the application of a large number of double-dominant and sub-dominant high-rise chords, the proficient detuning is enough to show that Carolne Van Ning's music techniques are so familiar, tending to Instinct, inspiration has reached its peak!" He stared at the nib of the pen in his hand for a long time.
"This is a master-level improvisation! I have no reason to deduct points. No, even if this is a written composition, I can't find a reason to deduct points. I have to give 20." An associate professor only heard about 40 seconds , I drew the pen without hesitation.

"There are some immature handling of the pedals, and there are dirty sounds that are wrongly hit, indicating that the basic skills are not stable, but he has grasped the key emotional points just right, which is due to his talent." Dean Gould's eyes flashed, "No Ah! This is not the evaluation standard of performance exams, it is his own inspiration."

"Why did I subconsciously take this as a piano performance test for the master's classic works?" The dean shook his head and wrote down the score he thought should be awarded.

In the hands of the boy in the black dress on the stage, a string of crystal-clear colorful sounds galloped down from the high-pitched area, swept across almost the entire keyboard, and finally turned into a few thumps in the low-pitched area. The high-speed running stopped, and Fanning's The left hand gently stroked the keyboard, bringing out a series of soothing arpeggios in D-flat major, and then, a beautiful new melody like a song was played by the right hand.

Under the three-to-two rhythm, the harmony of the left hand is sparkling, and the bright and warm major-key melody of the right hand is accompanied by elegant embellishments, like a butterfly in a flower, playing throughout.

"Switched to the tune of the same name? There is even a comparison section!" The audience was stunned.

Several professors who had already given the scores were stunned again, and crossed out the scores they had given with a pen.

Cecil was commenting leisurely just now, but now he is staring at Fan Ning, with gloomy eyes that are about to drip water.

He is the group leader of the three groups and a leader in the composition department. He was bound to get the chance to premiere a large-scale work in this graduation concert, but there was a Murrich from the piano department in front of him, who he regarded as a strong competitors.

As for Fanning?He didn't take it to heart at all!
who knows.
The number Cecil drew was a few digits behind Fanning. The longer he waited, the more complex emotions filled his heart, such as irritability, anxiety, and disbelief. The hand holding his chin clenched more and more. tighter.

"Carolne Van Ning, he brought too many surprises today!" Dean Gould spoke in a low voice, but was very excited. He turned his head and asked the left-hand side, "Professor Brownie, you know Who is Fanning's piano teacher? Where is the professional teacher?"

The person who was asked was the first deputy dean of the Saint Lania Conservatory of Music, Professor Lorraine Brownie, Cecil's composition teacher. Pick up the pen in hand.

"He probably doesn't have a dedicated piano teacher." The answer was the vice president of Gould's right hand, Schütz, "I only saw him in the piano courses prescribed by the college. He and his professional teacher Anton Cole Professor Nall came very close."

"Professor Conor who committed suicide yesterday?" The dean frowned.

The soothing Andante in the middle section came to an end, and the music under Fanning's fingertips returned to the grotesque and whirling fantasy world of the first section.

"Basically it's the first part, but it doesn't sound boring. I even want to listen to it a few more times. This allegro is so wonderful."

"This shows that when he improvised in the first paragraph, he had already planned it carefully!"

This is basically the reaction of most of the audience. So far, the whispered discussions on the stage have disappeared. Everyone is firmly attracted by the magic of music, listening quietly, as if enjoying a delicious but small portion of food.

At the end, Fan Ning's right hand appeared a cool fixed tone, and the color changed rapidly.

On this basis, a lyrical slow tune sounded from the left-hand part, and the audience listened carefully and found that it came from the singing theme in the middle.

"It's wonderful! The material in the middle section is reproduced, the right hand is switched to the left hand, and the speed is doubled, which not only shows the lyricism and singing to the audience again, but also makes the material of the whole song unified and the logical structure more concise. People have endless aftertaste!"

"Sublimation, the one word I can think of is sublimation, it's the absolute finishing touch!"

With two sets of quiet arpeggios as the end, the auditorium was filled with the warm sound of sunshine, as if the dream had ended and returned to reality.

Once again he felt the strange connection he had made with his audience, and this time there were hundreds of them!And the feeling of "resonance" is stronger!

+1, +1, +0.5, +0.5, +0.3, +0.3...

A large number of numbers flowed into the pale gold subtitles from all directions, like water droplets forming a stream.

The subtitles of [3/100] rose at an extremely fast speed, and it reached [100/100] in an instant, and a small key-shaped symbol appeared on the right, blinking.

The numbers continued to rise, but at a slower and slower rate, until they stopped at [135/100].

Fanning felt that something was going up and something was going down.

I don't know if it's "spirit" or "inspiration" or "soul", the intensity has directly reached the bottleneck, and there may even be more after breaking.

It's just that there is a lack of a suitable activation method to make it produce this essential change.

"So what is the means of activation? A key... a key?"

Fan Ning was puzzled for a moment, but then his body and mind were completely immersed in unprecedented comfort and relaxation. The key in his chest became hot again, and all kinds of negative feelings after time travel disappeared at this moment.

Afterwards, he slowly lifted his hands from the keyboard, released the pedal, and ended the piano reverberation in the auditorium.

deathly silence
The auditorium was silent for more than half a minute.

"Papa. Papa." Dean Gould and Vice President Xu Ci stood up directly from their seats, and the slow and powerful clapping finally broke the silence of the auditorium.

(End of this chapter)