Tonight there will be a special performance by the String Department, which will be held in the Old Concert Hall. Every semester, the major performance departments of the Conservatory of Music will have special performances, which is the highlight, and every department attaches great importance to it, and students are willing to be in the audience, especially freshmen. It's the piano department's turn next week, so An Xin and Yu Xinting have been preparing recently, and they will also go to observe tonight. Yang Jingxing also went to join in the fun, because Liu Siman and they would also appear. Qi Qingnuo also came, and several people sat together.

The concert lasted more than two hours, and not only the students took the stage, but also the teachers. They are all elites, and the quality of the performances has nothing to say. The quintet is wonderful, and the solo has a lot of highlights.

It was almost ten o'clock to end, and Yang Jingxing went to 402 to struggle again. After twelve o'clock, I went home and went to Fu's barbecue to take a look, but Fu Feirong hadn't come back yet. Yang Jingxing called to ask, Fu Feirong said that she had gotten off work, she was helping to clean up, and her brother would pick her up later.

On Tuesday morning, Yang Jingxing was called to the office by He Hongchui and asked him why he did not participate in the composition competition organized by the Puhai Music Association, and many freshmen enthusiastically signed up.

Yang Jingxing said that he was not mature enough. He Hongchui said that it was not Yang Jingxing's decision to be immature, and he also ordered: "You just sort out "The Sun in the Rain" and give it to me, and I will make it up for you." ”

Yang Jingxing was honored: "You have heard it. ”

He Hongchui was disdainful: "I don't know what you do in a day!"

Yang Jingxing had no choice but to obey his fate, and in the afternoon he gave the score to He Hongchui. He Hongchui was very satisfied after reading it, praised it for a while, and then seemed to have inadvertently said more: "You are very lively in the North Building? ”

If you don't know what to say, Yang Jingxing also agreed again and again.

He added: "The Conservatory is a romantic place, but it is also a serious place. I hope you can be more serious in life and romantic in your professional studies. ”

Yang Jingxing did not refute.

It was Saturday in a blink of an eye, and Yang Jingxing went to pick up Tao Meng early in the morning as agreed, and he didn't even have time to deliver Yu Xinting. Tao Meng still came downstairs so beautifully, full of spring breeze, and said that he wanted to listen to "Xiaguang" after getting in the car.

Yang Jingxing said that he didn't bring the CD, and Tao Meng blamed him very much. She brought her own MP3, but Yang Jingxing's car didn't support it. Tao Meng said that the whole family had heard the song she wrote lyrics, and seeing her happy appearance, she must have received a lot of praise.

Yang Jingxing pointed to the score paper rolled into a cylinder on the instrument panel: "Let's preview first." ”

Tao Meng picked it up and blamed again: "It's broken here, why are you so careless!" she carefully spread it out and looked at it, her name said "Wind and Rain on the Same Road", glanced at Yang Jingxing, and smiled.

Tao Meng doesn't have such a strong sense of musicality, and she doesn't know the quality of the music just by looking at the score, but she can see that it is an ensemble of two instruments, and one part is relatively simple.

Yang Jingxing explained that the complicated thing is the piano, a simple trumpet. A trumpet mouthpiece is certainly not as rich as eighty-eight keys.

Tao Meng was dissatisfied: "You are partial to yourself!"

Yang Jingxing said: "We can change. ”

Tao Meng disdainfully: "Hmph, you can't trouble me, you should be ...... Has Yu Xinting ever played it?"

Yang Jingxing shook his head: "You are the first to see this score." ”

Tao Meng didn't care, and said, "What if I don't like it?"

Yang Jingxing is not afraid: "Change until you like it." ”

Tao Meng was picky again: "It's all dirty here, you have to rewrite! This is the same as writing homework, if you get dirty, the first impression will not be good." ”

Yang Jingxing complained: "Thousands of notes, you think it's easy to draw." ”

Tao Meng looked at it and wondered: "Is this eight minutes?"

Yang Jingxing said: "If you want to play for a long time, you can finish playing in 80 minutes." ”

"That doesn't count!"

Yang Jingxing said again: "You just have to be fast, you can finish playing in eight minutes, you are amazing." ”

Tao Meng hurriedly stepped up the preview.

After arriving at school, Tao Meng took three steps and two steps, just wanting to get to 402 early. Before nine o'clock, there was no one in the building, and there was no one in 402.

Yang Jingxing plugged in the electric piano for Tao Meng, and the music stand was erected. Tao Meng said, "I'll take another look...... You don't have fingering. ”

Yang Jingxing smiled: "That's too underestimating you." ”

Tao Meng snorted: "I know how to play the road...... It's a little bit hard here. ”

After Tao Meng had seen enough, he put the score away, and there were more than 20 sheets, and complained: "It's not easy to translate." ”

Yang Jingxing said: "I'll turn it over for you." ”

Tao Meng asked, "Aren't you together?"

Yang Jingxing said: "You get familiar with it first. ”

Tao Meng refused: "Don't, you want to be together." ”

Okay, Yang Jingxing picked up the trumpet.

It starts with a short piano prelude, and then the trumpet follows. This is a less rigorous two-part polyphonic work, where the piano and trumpet follow each other, and all kinds of counterpoints are basically used. The melody of the two instruments has a lot of ups and downs, and the chords of the piano are not very complicated, which is also considered for Tao Meng.

Tao Meng began to play, the rhythm was barely right, but unfortunately it was the first time, and it was not smooth. This is difficult for Yang Jingxing, and the trumpet is also dragged.

Fortunately, the general sense of the melody has been calculated, and it is beautiful and beautiful. Especially for the piano, the melody and chords are refined, and even if you take it alone, it is a masterpiece.

Tao Meng originally wanted to finish playing quickly, but unfortunately he couldn't bear to spoil the beautiful rhythm of playing. She wanted to listen to Yang Jingxing's trumpet with two hearts, which was very attractive...... In short, she was busy.

After only two minutes of playing, Tao Meng suddenly stopped and praised Yang Jingxing: "This paragraph is good...... You play it for me first. ”

Yang Jingxing hasn't played it a few times himself, but he must be many times stronger than Tao Meng. He sat down in front of the keyboard and explained to Tao Meng while playing: "The prelude should be very light...... It's a little heavier here, and the chords are a little lighter...... Here, the two voices are progressing in parallel, and you pay attention to the trumpet...... Here, you're the main character, and you've just played a little slower......"

Tao Meng's eyes widened and he listened so seriously. Yang Jingxing played intermittently, and after spending a quarter of an hour explaining it, Tao Meng asked him to play it completely, no need to talk about it.

Yang Jingxing played it completely, Tao Meng sat on his right, looking at his fingers at first, and slowly saw his face.

What a beautiful melody, that beautiful theme is always interspersed, appearing and disappearing, but unfortunately it feels like sometimes it disappears too quickly, or appears too suddenly, and there is a little sense of dissonance.

The whole melody of the piano is eight minutes long, and the structure before and after is relatively complex, in addition to the soft prelude, there are various expressions at the back, variations, canon, molding, and more modern atonal sensuality.

Of course, when Yang Jingxing wrote this work, he didn't write it to train his composition skills, all his starting points were to sound good, and it was to make Tao Meng feel good and play it relatively easily.

After Yang Jingxing finished playing, he looked at Tao Meng and asked, "Are you satisfied?"

Tao Meng was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "I haven't decided yet." ”

Yang Jingxing said: "Your smile betrays you. ”

Tao Meng pursed her lips and tried not to laugh: "I'll play first, and you can tell me if there is anything unfamiliar." ”

There are too many unfamiliar places for Tao Meng, Yang Jingxing told them one by one, fortunately, Tao Meng showed a good patience, looked at the score, looked at the keyboard, looked at Yang Jingxing, and nodded.

After studying for half an hour, Tao Meng could barely play it smoothly, and asked Yang Jingxing to pick up the trumpet again.

A new ensemble began, although the performance was still not qualified in this conservatory, but the smile on Tao Meng's face showed that her requirements for herself seemed to be suddenly not so high.

The two parts of the piano and the trumpet follow each other, sometimes going hand in hand, sometimes complementing each other, sometimes sudden, sometimes chasing after me. The whole piece can be divided into three parts, and the two minutes are each highlighted, contrasting with each other, and using variations and modulations to highlight the theme. The middle three minutes are mainly imitation of each other, sometimes near and sometimes far, fade in and fade out, and polyphony is the mainstay. In the last three minutes, it fused and became a canon. The first part is more beautiful and refined than the piano, and the trumpet is bright and generous. In the second part, the piano and trumpet are brighter and more cheerful, but a few variations are slightly melancholy. The last part is the most beautiful, the pleasant tactfulness of the piano part, the fresh and high-spirited trumpet, gradually getting closer and closer to the melody, and returning to the synthesis of the two subjects in the half-minute finale, merging into one.

After playing, Tao Meng looked at Yang Jingxing. She may not be able to analyze the structure and connotation of the piece sentence by sentence, nor can she describe her feelings in detail, but Menuhin said that the unimaginable sensitivity of the human ear plays a huge role in the complex interaction between our hearing and emotion.

The effect of "Wind and Rain on the Same Road" to Tao Meng is obviously pleasant, her smile at this time is much brighter and more real than Yang Jingxing's boring joke, forgetting the lady's rule of smiling without leaking teeth, and she didn't frown, let alone annoyed. It was as if the feeling from the bottom of her heart stretched out on her face, eyebrows, nose, cheeks, lips, eyes...... There are countless details that are imperceptible, yet pleasing to the eye.

Yang Jingxing also smiled, and the two looked at each other and smiled for a while. Yang Jingxing asked, "Are you satisfied?"

Tao Meng nodded, sorted out the scores that were scattered just now because they were turned too fast, looked at Yang Jingxing again, and asked, "Have you shown it to others?"

Yang Jingxing said: "Not yet. ”

Tao Meng said: "I have never seen a piano and trumpet ensemble before...... Do you think I can play well?"

Yang Jingxing nodded: "Okay!"

Tao Meng was modest: "It's definitely not as good as a professional." ”

Yang Jingxing said: "It's better for me than anything else. ”

Tao Meng seemed shy, looked at the score in his hand for a while, looked up, and asked, "Then when will you show it to others?"

Yang Jingxing said: "It's already yours, at your disposal." ”

Tao Meng asked again: "Do you want to go to the molecular restaurant at noon?"

Yang Jingxing said: "I didn't think much about it. ”

Tao Meng decided: "Then we won't go, practice for a while." ”

This practice was all morning, the trumpet was not a piano, and Yang Jingxing's mouth was almost swollen. Fortunately, the piano is not difficult, Tao Meng has improved every time, and she is still complacent.

After resting for a while, Tao Meng asked Yang Jingxing: "With such a long tune, why did you write it so quickly?"

Yang Jingxing said: "Good luck, inspiration bursts, plus hard work. ”

Tao Meng didn't believe it: "Didn't you say that you don't rely on inspiration!"

Yang Jingxing said: "You proved me wrong. ”

Tao Meng smiled and asked, "How many songs are you working on?"

Yang Jingxing said: "According to the starting time, it is the first song, and the completion time is the third song. ”

Tao Meng was dissatisfied: "How many songs do you write at the same time?"

Yang Jingxing said: "It's like learning several homework at the same time, there is no conflict. ”

Tao Meng raised his voice reasonably: "That's not the first song to start!"

Yang Jingxing said: "The idea was very early, it was originally a piano and violin, and then it was changed to a trumpet, it was originally a pure fugue, but now there are more elements, and the intervals and chord counterpoints are more complicated. ”

Tao Meng's right heel slammed on the ground rhythmically: "That's not it!"

Yang Jingxing was annoyed: "Is it that I don't know the Tao myself!"

Tao Meng asked again: "Then do you think the one you wrote the best?"

Yang Jingxing said: "Of course it's this one. ”

Tao Meng nodded: "I think so...... Let's go have lunch again. ”

Tao Meng seems to be out of a state of rest, and after the last time, the spirituality is coming, and there is no need to read the score many times, the neat and crisp play is very crisp, the tactful is very gentle, and I look at Yang Jingxing from time to time.

After playing it again, Tao Meng praised herself: "It's so good, if only it could be recorded." ”

Yang Jingxing asked: "Now I regret that no one else is here." ”

Tao Meng raised his head: "I don't!"

The two went to eat, opened the door and came out, and found that there were four people in the corridor outside, three men and one woman were lying on the wall writing and drawing. Seeing Tao Meng and Yang Jingxing, these people looked a little embarrassed, and stood there looking at each other.

Tao Meng nodded enthusiastically: "Hello." ”

The four of them nodded in response, and a tall boy greeted Yang Jingxing: "Hi, Yang Jingxing." ”

Yang Jingxing nodded: "See you again." "This guy is also a student of Li Yingzhen, a sophomore, and I have met Lu in a small classroom before.

The boy glanced at Tao Meng again, and smiled dryly at Yang Jingxing: "We are bored, we are remembering your tunes." ”

Looking at the few pieces of music paper in the hands of these people, Yang Jingxing was very depressed: "If you are bored, you don't need to make fun of me!"

Tao Meng blamed Yang Jingxing, and then said, "If you want it, you can ask him directly...... That's a lot of trouble. ”

A few people laughed dryly, but the tall boy explained: "Practice listening, I'm afraid of disturbing you." ”

The girl spoke and looked at Tao Meng: "You played the piano just now, right?"

Tao Meng nodded, embarrassed: "It's ugly." ”

"No......! I've seen you a few times, but I didn't expect to be able to play the piano. The girl looked at Yang Jingxing again.

This girl is not ugly, Tao Meng instructed Yang Jingxing: "You can introduce it!"

Yang Jingxing complied: "Hello, my name is Yang Jingxing, freshman composition department, this is my high school classmate Tao Meng, Fudan University. ”

The embarrassed few people laughed and introduced themselves, and then the girl from the brass department asked Tao Meng: "Can we make a copy of the score?"

Tao Meng was a little embarrassed: "We're going to eat now, can you make another appointment." ”

Yang Jingxing said to the tall boy, "I'll give it to you on Monday, okay?"

"Okay, okay, thank you. The other party nodded repeatedly.

Tao Meng may be hungry after playing all morning, so he is in a hurry to leave: "Then see you again, please worship." ”

"See you again. ”

Seeing Yang Jingxing and Tao Meng go downstairs, a few people here complained for a while, feeling really embarrassed, and scolded the tall boy who called them. The brass girl questioned: "It's not as exaggerated as they say, both of them are not bad." ”