The condolence event began. Bishop Mill, the person in charge of St. James the Sun Church and dressed simply and solemnly, came to the stage to deliver a speech.
He expressed his honor to be the host and presided over the condolence event, and welcomed the arrival of the seven members of the "Boethius Artist" nomination delegation.
In his brief speech, he particularly emphasized that the form of today's event was something Bassani was happy to see. This great poet hoped to complete the last journey of his life in the collision and comfort of artistic inspiration.
This was not a funeral filled with monotonous mourning like ordinary people.
The second item on the agenda of the condolence event is to display the creative themes used in today's preparation for the nomination of "Boethius Artist".
Bishop Mill's solemn and old voice echoed in the church: "The initial scope of the creative theme was delineated by the discussion group, but after the final selection, the discussion group entrusted Bassani to select from 11 themes... a 'Poël'
The artist "Sius" passed away, and a new nomination was born, starting from the path that the former thought of. This is the inheritance of art and civilization by future generations..."
...It seems that Vasius was right. He really used the fragments of music as the theme of his creation? Fan Ning thought to himself.
The Special Inspection Agency is really still working tirelessly to find artists who can interpret the fragments of the sound series, or who can have stronger inspiration and resonance with the fragments of the sound series.
After attending the Lianmeng meeting in the Special Patrol Office, Fan Ning also learned about some of Pogorelic's attitudes towards "Boethius artists" or people with high-level "characters".
Using materials to create works does not reveal a mysterious side, but it means that if you want to enter the world's top art circles or find out about the Harvest Art Festival, you must take this path - since time travel
The initial guidance received on "reproducing classical music" is also in line with the current direction.
There are several acquaintances sitting below, which is good for reputation, right?
Fan Ning, who was sitting in the back row of the reception hall, couldn't help but wonder which fragment Bassani had chosen.
With my current inspiration and improvisational abilities, even if I randomly specify a series of four-part harmony progressions, I can still improvise something meaningful. However, using the fragments of the sound series as the title... no matter how much I improvise, it will naturally not be as good as the points behind them.
's original work.
You won't wait until you get up there and play the piano abbreviation of the "Violin Concerto in E minor" again in advance, right?
It's not impossible... no audience has heard the whole song yet. Orchestral works can be played on the piano themselves, but it will inevitably be accompanied by the breaking of the parts into parts, especially the hasty momentary adjustment is not as good as a carefully designed adaptation.
, whether it is the exquisite polyphonic texture or the composer's orchestration ingenuity, it is difficult to reflect it, and the effect will be compromised.
What Fan Ning hopes most is that the material that Bassani loved during his lifetime was a piano piece.
“That person will hesitate, tremble, be frightened, shrink back, and eventually faint.” Bishop Mir, the host of the survey, took a few steps back and stood at the edge of the sacrament altar. “But Saint Sebastian will support him.
He and the sixty-three archbishops will support him... all of them who are light-dwellers will support him and chant to him with one voice..."
Bishop Mill raised his hand toward the back of the coffin flower bush, where there were long steps for the choir to stand, and beyond that were the stone walls carved with continuous reliefs used to divide the corridors of different heights.
In the low but strange rhythm of the secret chanting, Fan Ning felt the inspiration of "Candle" coming like a tide. The light projected from the church dome changed, and the interweaving of light and dark began to be broken up and reorganized.
"...Therefore one should not be suspicious, one should not be afraid, for he is the favored one, the baptized one, and the secret is within him... Let him enter and see the beauty and splendor that abides in him.
Your Majesty...He has not been destroyed, nor has he been burned.”
On the stone wall row reliefs, a large number of bright lines dimmed, and details that were originally in shadow began to be visible. After several changes, the originally exquisite and complicated patterns turned into a row of concise symbols.
Bass clef, five horizontal lines, the notes start from the G sound in the fourth small group, first the descending progression of F sharp, E, D, then the ascending progression of B, C, D, and finally drop to the low eighth
The capital letter of degree has a G sound.
"There are at least two times in a person's life that he is closer to the radiance." When everyone's eyes were focused on these eight notes, a look of reminiscence appeared on Bishop Mir's old face, "This sequence of notes is Bassani's dying breath.
It is considered the closest to divinity among the eleven themes, and the transcendent revelation born by the poet in this situation is undoubtedly the revelation closest to the truth."
Fragment No. 3, the first eight bass bars of the theme of Bach's "Gothenburg Variations" (work number BWV.988)? Fan Ning thought to himself. If we want to say that Bach's works are closest to "divinity", they are really among them.
nearest.
When the theme was announced, Luo Yin, who was sitting behind Marquis MacAdam in the second row, turned his head.
Her eyes passed through more than ten rows of mourners, briefly intersecting with Fan Ning, and smiled and blinked, as if asking herself if she had any good ideas.
The girl's touching glance back made many mourners around her look at her. Fan Ning responded with a helpless look, then lowered his head and closed his eyes.
It's a good thing that Bassani chose the material for a piano piece, but what Fanning originally hoped for most was that he could choose the two Beethoven sonatas - for many reasons: moderate length, rich stage experience in his previous life, and outstanding dramatic expression
, I also practiced alone after traveling...
"Gothenburg Variations"... If you can play it well, you will definitely be able to kill the whole audience, but the problem lies in "if you can play it well"... This piece is really too difficult, and I have been neglecting it for a while.
It is a late keyboard work of Bach. It was not taken seriously for a long time. However, hundreds of years later, it was regarded by later generations as one of Bach's most important keyboard works and is recognized as the largest in the history of music.
, the most magnificent structure, the most noble and the greatest variation.
It consists of a beautiful aria theme at the beginning and end, plus thirty superb variations in the middle. It covers almost all difficult polyphonic performance techniques in its huge space.
Fan Ning had practiced it, but in his previous life, he had never played it completely in the presence of appreciators - from the perspective of psychological pressure, he would rather play a dozen etudes by Chopin or Liszt.
In some private music gatherings, Fan Ningxing would only pick a few variations that he liked and play them to his friends.
This is no different from those virtuoso works. When you encounter any flaws, you can get over them by moving your fingers faster, stepping on the pedals, or hitting them louder.
When playing Bach's music, as long as you play one or two wrong notes, or even just a difference in the duration of a long note, or a wrong fingering on a certain note, the muscle memory of the counterpoint relationship will be completely destroyed.
, and then the brain also went bad.
What’s even more frightening is that when playing Liszt, people who know a little bit about piano may not be able to hear it, but when playing Bach, there are mistakes?… I’m sorry, if there are no mistakes when playing Bach, it will either end smoothly or be a big car accident, and even a layman will hear something goes wrong.
Gotta come out.
A student who had been taught by Fan Ning in his previous life was playing a certain piece of Equal Temperament on the stage. He made a wrong note and then stopped at the same place. He had no choice but to start over. Unexpectedly, due to psychological suggestion, the music stopped at the same place again.
The audience was shocked... Fan Ning was unable to cure the psychological shadow caused by it for a year.
To maintain a full performance on stage with such a huge polyphonic work is a dangerous challenge to the pianist's mental, physical and psychological quality, and may even require a bit of luck.
Come on, Fan Ning put his hands on his knees, flicked his fingers gently, and began to recall the sound effects of the "Goldberg Variations".
If it really doesn't work, just play some of the variations.
In the process of recalling, Fan Ning gradually discovered the magic.
Although I always feel that the muscle memory of a certain section will be broken soon, but when the fingertip movements actually get there, I can always continue naturally.
The revelation of "endless fugue" in spirituality is like a searchlight, constantly illuminating the missing blind spots in memory, allowing all the dim polyphonic textures to reappear in the mind.
Fan Ning, who felt a little confident, finally took the time to look around a few times. He was also very curious about how the famous musicians present would interpret the different effects of these eight notes.
Similar to Fan Ning's expressions and movements, many musicians present also showed expressions of conceiving ideas, and many of them began to move their fingers or sing quietly secretly.
After the presentation of the creative theme, the condolence activity entered the third agenda, in which the church's narrator narrated the life of the poet Bassani, and then some representatives present read the sacrificial rites.
The time of the third agenda item also plays a role in conducive to the presenter's conception.
Although everyone is full of inspiration and profound musicians, if you give them some time, you will definitely come up with something better than improvising directly. You will have more leeway to plan the overall structure of your next music and ensure logic.
and ideological.
However, most people's attention is now immersed in the narrator's narration and the following memorial essays.
People in this world attach great importance to death, their own or that of others.
People have an almost instinctive listening and respect for the life story of the deceased at a funeral, even if it is a homeless man's funeral. Life is short, but it doesn't hurt to spend more time understanding the life history of each deceased person, and wait until he lies in the coffin.
When you are with the flowers, why don't you hope that more people can remember you, or just recall it for a moment.
The narrative perspectives of different mourners were combined with each other, and some glimpses of Bassani's life gradually became clear in Fan Ning's mind, and he also learned more about the past that he had never known.
This great mystic, poet, and cellist was born in the year 825 of the New Calendar, one year earlier than the old organist Vienne. This comparison is because they knew each other.
——They have worked together. In the last few years when Vienne served as the full-time organist of the Royal Academy of Music, Bassani worked as a choral conductor of the academy choir for a period of time in order to explore the connection between poetry creation and vocal performance. When Vienne
After Vienne resigned and settled in Uvranser, the two rarely saw each other until Vienne's death.
However, two of Bassani's students, Viadlin and the Marquise Macadam, both mentioned the artistic discussion letters between Bassani and Vienne in their speeches.
Therefore, it is not difficult for Fan Ning to know why Viadlin and Teacher Anton are old friends, because one is a student of the poet Bassani and the other is a student of the organist Vienne. The two seniors must have made some introductions.
Bassani was not an intellectual at first, but he was a talented poet. At the age of 16, he openly declared that "poetry is a rebellion against language." This sentence ran through his life and has become an epitaph today.
The style of his early works had a strong romantic flavor and he was good at creating a dreamy and confusing atmosphere. However, in his middle age, he gradually became influenced by mysticism and symbolism. After being promoted to a knowledgeable person at the age of 40, it only took him nine months.
Within a short period of time, he broke through to the realm of the Knower, and his 41st birthday had not yet arrived when he was promoted.
This shocked Fan Ning and seemed to go against his understanding of the rules of promotion on the mysterious side.
And he gradually understood why the discussion group paid such a grand tribute to Bassani this time.
When the Special Patrol Office begins to recover the key, and the mysterious side interests involved in the "Boethius Artist" become more direct, today's event is indeed a discussion group to coordinate the conflicts between the Special Patrol Office and the other three forces of Diolain.
A tentative change was made. If the conflict is not cooled down now, and the scope of key recovery is further expanded in the future, and the forces from the Western and Southern Continents are also involved, the situation will only become more and more difficult to handle.
tomato
——Basani is undoubtedly a suitable person who can ease the conflicts between all parties.
He was born in a traditional small aristocratic family in St. Taranburg. His ancestors all believed in the "Unfallen Fire". Due to the business acumen of several generations of family members, they happened to catch up with the industrialization trend of the empire and completed the accumulation of wealth and details.
After a class transformation, he became widely famous in the art and literary circles and taught a group of younger generations.
So first of all, he is religious.
Secondly, he has a noble bloodline in the traditional sense, and the size of his title is not an issue.
Thirdly, the descendants of his family are industrial aristocrats whose interests are aligned with the authorities.
Finally, he was the teacher of two senior members of the Bologna School and the Guidance School.
When his official title of "Boethius Artist" became vacant, the discussion group added three more nominations for musicians based on an approximate proportion, and invited all parties to form an inspection team to jointly select those with potential...
Although today is only the first stop of the inspection activity and the results cannot be determined immediately, it undoubtedly sends a signal that "the official organizations are still in the stage of relations where things are easy to discuss."
The third item on the agenda is quite long. After it ends, the most critical part of today has arrived.
The four wise men and three music masters sitting in the front row of the ceremonial table have been introduced, and now the host, Bishop Mill, read out a list of famous artists present and their corresponding titles.
Although no more specific explanation was given, the mourners present were either knowledgeable people or upper-class people who were inextricably connected with extraordinary organizations. Everyone understood that this was the first step in the nomination investigation that was about to begin.
The person who competes in the round.
There are ten people in total, including the three music directors (chief conductors) of the "Big Three" conservatoire symphony orchestras that are about to perform - the "Royal Conservatory of Music", the "Tioline National Conservatory of Music" and the "University of St. Alant"
), also includes seven soloists who performed concertos with several symphony orchestras.
The supporting forces behind them must include the four major knowledgeable organizations present.
This does not include Fan Ning, because Fan Ning is in the category of "young musicians" rather than "famous musicians" in terms of his status in the art world and in the perception of the general public.
The proposal promised by Lord MacAdam to express his gratitude to Fanning for everything he had done had to wait until the end.
After reading the list of contestants, Bishop Mill smiled calmly: "Before the famous artists' presentations, we are honored to invite two of the seven inspection groups to use this theme for creative presentations."
The eyes of everyone at the ceremony brightened.
Among the previous masters, will anyone give a presentation first? This is undoubtedly a rare thing in such a public place, which is very helpful to stimulate your own inspiration.
"The two of them are——"
“‘Boethius Nominated Artist’, the great pianist Lee Viadlin.”
"'The Boethius Artist', the great composer and conductor Colin Nyman."