Chapter 172 The Four Ensembles of Potter and Bach [Part 1]
"So, Sister Lin Jun left quietly again?"
Two young people and one old man were sitting around the dining table on the first floor. Three boxes of takeaway dumplings were about to be divided up by the three hungry people.
According to visual inspection, Duan Ran can eat one in three mouthfuls, and Qin Jian can eat one in two mouthfuls.
Uncle Porter is amazing. Not only does he speak one word at a time, but he can also maintain standard Chinese pronunciation. "Lin has arrived in Tokyo. You can just follow me for the rest of the trip."
"Then I'm going to trouble you again."
Qin Jian put down his chopsticks, took the napkin handed over by Duan Ran, wiped his mouth, and then said, "Where have you been living recently?"
Old Porter pointed to the opposite side of the road outside the window, "Eight Days Inn."
After a simple lunch.
The three of them returned to the second floor again.
"Do you still need a break? Lin told me that you still have one legato that you haven't solved yet."
Qin Jian looked at Duan Ran, who shook his head.
"No problem, sir, let's get started."
With that said, Qin Jian and Qin Jian sat in front of the piano again, but this time Qin Jian was responsible for playing the bass part, and Duan Ran came to play the high part.
After adjusting his sitting position, Duan Ran gently started playing with his left hand.
A clean single melody theme appeared first, and soon after, Qin Jian's right hand also entered. His melody seemed to be replicating Duan Ran's melody, like two opposite parallel lines appearing in one space, just like
At this time, the third parallel line also appeared, Duan Ran added the right hand, and with Qin Jian finally adding the left back, all four counterpoint relationships of a theme appeared.
For a time, different voices, different tunes, and occasionally bumpy marching performances slowly moved forward in a contradictory and balanced way among the intricate four melody lines.
The sense of religious music in the church gradually emerged.
On the keyboard, the four hands are completing their work independently.
During the entire practice stage, Qin Jian and his colleagues designed many playing methods in order to clearly express the four counterpoints, including highlighting the motivation of phrasing, changes in intensity between breaths, and even some slight changes in fingering.
change.
At this time, the music score on the piano music stand had been changed beyond recognition by pencil drawings.
As the music enters a chromatic syncopated rhythm section, phrases that were originally difficult to play with one hand become extremely difficult with the synchronization of two hands and four hands.
In order to make the four lines clear and clear, Qin Jian, as the bass part, had to reduce the power transmission of his left hand to ensure that Duan Ran's two treble lines would not be affected by the natural buzz of the bass. At the same time, he needed
Change the angle of touching the keys and touch the keys with the belly of your finger, trying to make every note of the left hand sound clearly even if there is a lack of strength.
Old Porter noticed the change in the music, looked at Qin Jian's left hand, nodded thoughtfully, and wrote down quickly in English on the paper.
The main feature of fugue music is that the voices that imitate each other enter one after another at different pitches and times, and the composer organizes them together according to a certain counterpoint.
Therefore, the fugue genre of music has rigorous mathematics, and fugues are usually named according to the number of parts. On the basis of two-part fugue, every time one more part is added to the music, the overall complexity of the music will increase.
Add a few points.
The four-part Bach fugue ensemble played by the two at this time is naturally extremely difficult among many ensemble works.
...
As the music ended, both Qin Jian and Qin Jian looked nervously at Old Porter beside the piano.
After a while, the old man stopped the pen in his hand, looked up at the two people in front of the piano, couldn't help but smile, and kept gesticulating with his hands: "Please relax, your performance just now was very good, I heard it, you were talking to each other
Listening to each other's voice, adjusting the intensity, and the body coordination is very pleasing to the eye. Of course, this is more due to your outstanding appearance, and I have to say that Asian bodies are more suitable for this form of performance, at least
Your bodies can't fight."
This praise did not relax Qin Jian's mood, because he did not hear the most important question, and he knew that this piece of work was not that simple.
Then, Old Porter's voice changed, "Okay, now I want to talk about my other feelings."
really.
Qin Jian secretly thought, the main course is here.
"This is a work from the early Baroque period. We all know this, but your performance makes me think that we are in the late Classical period?"
Old Porter's tone was very gentle, "So, can any of you tell me how many years have passed between them?"
Qin Jian thought for a while and said firmly: "One hundred and fifty years."
Old Porter nodded, "Very good, it's one hundred and eighty-seven years, and you just missed a section of Mozart."
"Uh..." Qin Jian smiled reluctantly
"You've all been practicing Mozart lately, right?"
The two of them nodded.
"From your detailed handling of the notes, I can tell that Mozart is indeed the greatest parodist "imitator", but his works written in the Baroque style are not perfect as the style of the times."
Old Porter paused and continued: "For example, the "Symphony in E flat major" and some early sonatas have a strong shadow of Baroque, but the squareness and clarity of his musical vocabulary are spiritually
It’s the most un-Baroque.”
"Similarly, it's hard for me to imagine that Bach would agree with Mozart's reputation - the fugue must be played slowly so that the entry of the theme is always heard first, so."
"Speed is your first problem. Your performance is too slow. This is not the speed of Baroque time. Maybe you think that such processing will make the appearance of each part orderly and clear. Naturally, you will appear.
second question."
"In Bach's fugue, the entry of many parts needs to be done in secret, and a skilled performer even hopes to make the audience realize that the theme has passed after the fact."
"Of course, Mozart's mastery of the old style remains unquestioned, and he preserved what was still alive in Bach's legacy until it became important to both Chopin and Schumann, of which the Requiem is his greatest witness,
Well, I’ll leave these to your university teachers, so I won’t mention them here.”
"Now let me demonstrate to you. Pay attention and feel the Baroque timeline."
"despair."
Old Porter snapped his fingers, turned around and sat casually in front of a piano.
Without any fancy preparations, he just raised his hands and started playing.
At this moment, Qin Jian's brain was frantically digesting the content just now. When he heard the three words "Requiem", his mind started to move and he didn't have time to react.
The sound of piano has already sounded in my ears.
Two clear melody lines were intertwined without knowing when.
Until the moment when Qin Jian really reacted, the music passages were full of splendor and majesty.
Qin Jian stared at the old man in front of the piano with his mouth open.
"The playing sounds better than the words..."
....
"Qin Jian...Is Uncle Potter really just a bartender?"