() "So, Sister Lin Jun is quietly leaving again?"

Two young and one old sat around the dining table on the first floor, and the three boxes of takeaway dumplings were almost divided by the hungry three.

According to visual observation, Duan Ran can eat one in three bites, and Qin Jian can eat one in about two bites.

And Uncle Potter is powerful, not only one bite at a time, but also to ensure the standard Chinese pronunciation, "Lin has already arrived in Tokyo, you can follow me for the next trip." ”

"Then I'm going to trouble you again. ”

Qin Jian put down his chopsticks, took the napkin handed over by Duan Ran and wiped his mouth, and then said, "Then where have you lived recently?"

Old Porter pointed across the road outside the window, "Eight Days Inn." ”

After a light lunch.

The three of them returned to the second floor again.

"Do you still need a break?" Lin told me you still have a legato to work out. ”

Qin Jian looked at Duan Ran, and Duan Ran shook his head.

"No problem, uncle, then let's get started. ”

Saying that, Qin Jian and the others sat down 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.

Adjusting his sitting position, Duan Ran's left hand gently began to play.

A clean single melody theme appeared first, and soon after, Qin Jian's right hand also entered it, his melody seemed to be replicating Duan Ran's melody, like two parallel lines of counterparts appeared in a space, and at this moment, the third parallel line also appeared, Duan Ran joined the right hand, and with Qin Jian's last addition to the left, the four counterpoints of a theme appeared.

For a while, different voices, different tunes, and occasional bumpy marches are played in a contradictory balance between the four intricate melodic lines.

The religious music of the church slowly appeared.

On the keyboard, four hands are working independently on their own work.

Throughout the practice stage, in order to clearly express the four counterpoints, Qin Jian and the others designed many ways to play, including the highlighting of the phrase motive, the change of dynamics between the breath and mouth, and even some slight changes in fingering.

At this point, the sheet music on the piano staff has been drawn in pencil.

As the music moves into a chromatic syncopated rhythmic passage, phrases that are barely difficult with one hand become more 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 hum of the bass, and at the same time, he needed to change the angle of the touch key, and try to make every note of his left hand clear even if he lacked strength.

Old Potter noticed the change in the music, and at the same time looked at Qin Jian's left hand, nodded thoughtfully, and at the same time quickly recorded it on the paper in English.

The main feature of fugue music is that the parts that imitate each other enter one after the other at different pitches and times, and the composer organizes them together according to a certain counterpoint.

Therefore, the music of the fugue genre has a strict mathematical nature, and usually the fugue is named according to the number of voices, and on the basis of the two-part fugue, each additional part in the music increases the overall complexity of the music.

At this time, the four-part Bach fugue ensemble played by the two of them is naturally extremely difficult among many ensemble works.

......

As the music ended completely, Qin Jian and the others looked at Old Potter next to the piano a little nervously.

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 gesturing with both hands: "Please relax, your performance just now is very good, I heard it, you are listening to each other's voices, adjusting the strength, and the physical cooperation is very pleasing to the eye, of course, this is more due to your outstanding appearance, and I have to say that the Asian body is more suitable for this form of performance, at least your body will not fight." ”

This praise did not relax Qin Jian's emotions, because he didn't hear the most important question, and he knew that this work was not so simple.

Then, Old Porter's voice changed, "Okay, I'm going to talk about my other feelings. ”

Really.

Qin Jian secretly thought in his heart, the main dish is here.

"It's a pre-Baroque work, we all know that, but your performance makes me think it's late classicism?"

Old Potter's tone was gentle, "So, who of you will tell me how many years there is in between?"

Qin Jian thought for a moment and said affirmatively: "One hundred and fifty years." ”

Old Potter nodded, "Very well, it's one hundred and eighty-seven years, and you just missed a passage of Mozart." ”

"Uh...."Qin Jian smiled reluctantly

"You've been practicing Mozart lately, haven't you?"

The two nodded.

"From your treatment of the minutiae of notes, I can tell that Mozart was indeed the greatest parodist imitator, but his works written in the Baroque style were not perfect for the era. ”

Potter Sr. paused and continued: "The Symphony in E flat major, for example, and some of the early sonatas have a strong Baroque undertone, but the squareness and clarity of his musical vocabulary are the most non-Baroque in spirit. ”

"In the same way, it is hard for me to imagine that Bach would agree with Mozart's claim that the fugue must be played at a slow tempo so that the entry of the theme is always heard first, so. ”

"Tempo is your first problem, your playing is too slow, it's not the speed of Baroque time, maybe you think that this treatment will make every part appear in an orderly and clear way, and naturally, you have a second problem. ”

In Bach's fugue, many of the parts are introduced in secrecy, and the clever virtuoso even wants the listener to realize that the theme has passed only after the fact. ”

"Of course, Mozart's mastery of the old style is still unquestionable, and he preserved what was still alive in Bach's legacy, until it became important to both Chopin and Schumann, and the Requiem is his greatest testimony, well, these are left to your university teachers to tell, so I won't mention them here. ”

"Now I'm going to show you how to get a feel for the Baroque timeline. ”

"Click. ”

Old Potter snapped his fingers, turned and sat down casually at a piano.

Without any bells and whistles, he raised his hand and began to play.

At this moment, Qin Jian's brain was frantically digesting the content just now, and when he heard the three words of Requiem, his brain moved, and he didn't have time to react.

The sound of the piano in my ears was already ringing.

Two clear melodic lines, I don't know when they have been intertwined.

Until the moment when Qin Jian really reacted, the passages of the music were full of glory and magnificence, and they were majestic.

Qin Jian looked at the old man in front of the piano dumbfounded.

"It's better to play than to say..."

....

"Qin Jian.... Is Uncle Potter really just a bartender?"

"Probably..."