musicians of old

Chapter 84 About Turungalia

After asking Sheeran this question, Fan Ning first talked about some general information he knew:
"I just know from popular popular history books that the early period of the third history belongs to the short-lived reign of the Noah dynasty, and then the Turangalia period, which lasted for more than 3 years. This is a feudal dynasty. At that time, it once ruled almost all the territories in the world except the southern continent, and was overthrown by its vassal state in the northern continent, the Hoffman Empire, and the third history also ended with its end."

Sheeran clenched her small fist and looked at Fan Ning with her chin pressed against her chin for a while, her eyes seemed to be puzzled: "Aren't I talking to you about the lack of adjectives and the beauty brought by metaphors?"

However, she still said: "Actually, what you said has already covered the basic information. A professional history book only has more information on the politics, economy, humanities, and some historical events clearly recorded in the Turangalian Dynasty. Detailed and more rigorous research is just..."

"I guess what you care about may be something that is biased toward secret history?"

"Of course." Fan Ning nodded, "Now we need to find the instigator behind Teacher Anton's death, and we need to decipher the document related to the 'Illusory Man Secret Art' as soon as possible, so naturally we need to focus on things on the mysterious side .”

"Speaking of which, I didn't pay attention to it before." Sheeran pursed her lips and thought, "But Joan exchanged a lot of fragments of information about the secret history of the Turangalian Dynasty with me. Later, my father and I were in the When studying ancient languages, many unusual things have been verified based on this."

Fan Ning's eyes lit up: "Tell me about it?"

"The first is the name Turangalia. Its pronunciation can be traced back to the source. In fact, it is very similar to the pronunciation of a high-level vocabulary in Noah..."

"Ok?"

This is normal. Turangalian and ancient Hoffmann are two branches of Noah evolution. The former more fully retains the inflectional nature of Noah, while the latter is gradually influenced by multimodal synthesis. influence of language.

"The meaning of this word is: love."

"Love?" This statement made Fan Ning a little confused for a while.

Maybe this can be called the "Nation of Love" or "Dynasty of Love"?Isn’t the dissonance of this painting style too strong?
"By the way, why do you say it is an advanced vocabulary in Noah language?" Fan Ning grasped another detail of the question, "The word love should be the simplest and most basic in all languages, and it is the most basic word for children when they learn language." One of the first batch of words to master..."

He thought for a while and then added: "Well, the pronunciation of 'love' is usually simple and concise, but the pronunciation of the word 'Turangalia' is relatively long and complicated. Is the pronunciation of the two similar? Just a coincidence?"

"Your question is the same as our question at that time."

"However, we did a trial study," Sheeran explained.

"We sorted out all the words in the Noah language that have similar meanings to 'love' within our ability, and found more than [-]! I even doubt that the word 'love' in the Noah language is actually The number of words has broken through a hundred."

"Their subdivisions focus on meanings including liking, goodwill, fascination, admiration, admiration, belief, attachment, nostalgia, belonging, and longing. Many complex inflected words are expressions for a certain type of context, such as great art Admiration of personality, long-term affection for the opposite sex, love for nature, nostalgia that has not been seen for many years, strong erotic attraction, sense of belonging to the world of life, longing for behind the veil, deep leap Faith in life and death, etc."

"The word 'Turangalia' is the most serious, the most transcendent, the highest level, and cannot be abused among all the words about 'love' in the Noah language. What it describes is divine love. , ecstatic love, supreme love, revelation love, angelic love, it is forbidden to be used as a verb in the phrase 'I love you'."

When Xilan said this, his expression was a little strange: "If it is explained in this way, it is easy to understand that the Turangalia Dynasty is named so."

Fanning nodded when he heard this.

It is equivalent to the named people claiming to be a "holy dynasty", and then their language becomes a "sacred language".

"However, our in-depth research later turned out to be a bit confusing..." Sheeran changed the subject at this time, "The word Turangalia has multiple meanings in the Noah language, except for 'love', It also has two other meanings."

"Oh? What else do you mean?"

Fan Ning was not surprised at this point. In this language that uses words as units, the phenomenon of polysemy is too common. He was just a little curious.

"Horror." "And giants." Sheeran said.

Fan Ning frowned deeply: "To be honest, I was discussing rhetoric and 'love' all the way just now. When you popped out these two words for me, I suddenly felt a little horrified."

"I agree." The little girl nodded approvingly, "However, the latter two meanings are extremely remote, and they rarely appear in the documents of Noah's period."

"I can roughly understand 'horror'." Fanning said, "If it is an emotion that reflects a transcendent category, the difference between 'love' and 'horror' is not so clear-cut. In many lyrics of church music, similar words can often be seen. Parallel usage."

And the same is true of the hidden knowledge I received when I was promoted: "...he separates your name from his servants, and the spirit that praises one of you is a burning candle...all are terrible One who is loved, one who is favored, one who meditates, one who is supremely chosen, one who receives secret transmissions..."

"But the other..." Fan Ning's eyes flickered, "Giant. Giant, this seems to be an ancient creature that exists in legends. By the way, I thought of it—"

"The teacher's (father's) last symphony!" He and Sheeran suddenly spoke in unison.

Mr. Anton's work was conceived as his next symphony at that time. In fact, only one movement was basically completed before his death, and according to the plan, it was going to be placed in the last movement.

As for the previous movement, it is only at the stage of discussing musical ideas with Fanning and Sheeran.

Sheeran opened the drawer, took out Professor Anton's notebook, got up, and sat side by side with Fanning on the sofa.

After Fan Ning took it, he turned to the manuscript score, and opened his mouth as if recalling and explaining: "In the only finished last movement, Mr. Anton conceived three main musical motives——"

"Human motivation, F minor, the first half of the melody is a horn-style third + fifth interval, and the second half jumps to a higher octave after a detour, presenting a rebellious effect, symbolizing heroes or humanity."

"Devil's motivation, vague tonality, weird chromatic fragments, appearing in a triplet rhythm pattern, descending three times in a row, symbolizing fate or evil thoughts."

"Motive of the chant, D major, with the fourth interval as the core, continuous downward progression, square rhythm, brilliant colors, symbolizing purification or divinity."

After Fan Ning explained the three musical images constructed by Mr. Anton in turn, he said slowly: "The first 'human motive' here, according to the teacher's assumption at the time, is a metaphor for the legendary ancient creatures: giants!"

(End of this chapter)