Chapter 796: Moonlight

Qin Fang's singer fingers caressed the piano keys, very gently, as if caressing the skin of a lover. Wen Xiao?Said ?? Many of my classical music colleagues immediately realized that this might be a different style of music, and the more they looked forward to it.

And pianists with particularly rich experience such as Yoko Nishimura, Sergey, Sasnovsky, and Deng Hongmei immediately judged it after the slow and expressive notes of his first D-flat major were played. It's not classical or romantic, it's more like, "Impressionist music!"

The boundaries in one of them are not too obvious, especially now, when Qin Fangge is composing, many times he blurs such and such isms, he prefers to blend the ancient and the modern, and concentrate all kinds of music forms together. Everything is in the service of thematic music, and he doesn't care too much if it's romantic or impressionistic.

But Deng Hongmei and Sergei are different, Yoko Nishimura is more like the new big 6, "He actually composed serious music of impressionism! I have never seen ...... before"

More classical music peers, in their hearts, like thousands of grass and mud horses galloping by, "Is there anything else this guy wouldn't do?"

For example, Yoko Nishimura is best at the piano music of the talented musician Fred, but she does not dare to say that she is proficient in Fred's musical works. As a representative of classical music, Fred composed more than 700 musical works in his lifetime, in addition to various forms of piano music, there are many symphonies, operas, chamber music, violin, cello, viola, clarinet and other solo and concertos.

To spend her entire life playing Fred's piano works well is something that can only be hoped for. It also made her realize where the gap between herself and those great musicians was!

Sergei is best at the works of their great Russian musician Mikhail, and Sasnovsky is good at the works of Christopher, but no one dares to boast that they are completely proficient in the works of these great musicians, understand their thoughts, and play the music of these great musicians in everyone's mind.

No matter how pessimistic their attitude is, even they admit that music is regressing, and musicians are not as good as one generation after another, and it is difficult to have the situation where there are many amazing and brilliant great musicians in the past, and serious music is contending with a hundred schools of thought.

Qin Fangge is a good guy, calmly moving between classical music and modern music, and even this impressionist music is also at his fingertips.

Generally speaking, classical Romantic musicians are keen to express social themes of great transformative significance, and have a lot of philosophical thinking. Classical musicians such as Christopher, after participating in the revolution himself, had a spirit of revolutionary optimism. His musical works such as "Revolution", "Ideal", "War", "Ruins", "Storm" and "Dawn" are the best embodiment of this spirit.

Romantic music focuses on the expression of personal passion and contemplation, such as Goethe's nocturnes, fantasias, etc., although Strong's works are known for their virtuosity, he is also one of the typical representatives of romantic music.

Impressionist music, on the other hand, emphasizes hazy impressions and a variety of color atmospheres. Suppress the emotional catharsis of romanticism, pursue quiet and suggestive expressions, avoid the clarity of artistic images and contents, and arouse various associations with the help of titles and rich color changes.

"Music is for what can't be expressed, and I want it to feel as if it comes from the obscurity and goes out of the obscurity. Debussy, the main exponent of Impressionist music, said this, and this is the main characteristic of his musical expression.

Qin Fangge's work is one of Debussy's most famous music, "Moonlight".

In the perception of the masses, it is an indisputable fact that it is as famous as Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata", regardless of whether the origin is controversial or not, both works are particularly loved.

In terms of the way of thinking and structure of creation, Debussy believed that the ultimate purpose of music is to give people auditory enjoyment with sound and timbre, and should find great beauty in the deliberate pursuit of household and pleasure. The effect of musical unity is not achieved through the organic organization of structure, but through the similar properties and chromatic functions of the different parts. And using the inspiration of the title and the artistic conception of the symbolism, it replaces the institutional form of traditional rational logic with a free and inspired outpouring.

Therefore, it is extremely free and arbitrary in terms of structural processing. At the same time, in order to achieve the pursuit of color and atmosphere in timbre and sound, he made a bold innovation in the traditional expression methods in harmony and tonality, rhythm and beat, and formed his own unique functional system.

In terms of harmony, he abandoned the traditional way of resolving harmony from tension to relaxation, from dissonance to consonance, and at the same time he changed the function of dissonance. Treat harmony and disharmony equally. His unique approach not only increases the expressive effect of the music, but also brings the traditional harmonic system to the brink of collapse.

In terms of tonality, it does not deviate from the major and minor key system. But after further excavation, he divided the twelve semitones into six equal parts, and became six whole tones. In almost all of Debussy's mature works, this method is used. This tonal music cancels the attachment between semitones and has a floating artistic conception. At the same time, he mixed a large number of chromatic scales, pentatonic scales and a large number of tritones, and added the harmonies composed of these scales, so that the tonality became very blurred, and the music was more floating and trance-like.

In terms of melody, it is composed of fragments, fragmented new tunes, and phrases and vocabulary of cell groups. In his collection of piano pieces "Imagery", there are many asymmetrical expressions of fragmentary phrases.

The use of regular rhythmic beats, complex rhythms, and compound beats in the rhythm of the rhythm weakens the impetus of the work and makes the music appear to be fluid and loose.

?? These new means of expression of Debussy, like the Impressionist paintings, which only focused on color and light, and did not pay attention to the outline, became the illusion of various atmospheres. An important means of expression of artistic conception. Although the functionality of harmony and debugging is reduced, the complete singing of the melody and the rigor of the structure of the syllables are reduced, a unique clear, elegant, simple and natural musical style has been formed.

In this world, there are also corresponding Impressionist musicians such as Morris and Marat. These common senses are not only clear to top music peers, but also almost all music students can memorize them backwards. Even if many people didn't hear it too clearly, after they reacted, they suddenly realized, "It turns out that this is impressionist music!"

In fact, not to mention Sergei Lilia and Yoko Nishimura, even Deng Hongmei and Xiao Yuran and Wu Hongqin, the most familiar people around him, were also a little surprised!

Because Qin Fangge rarely plays impressionist music, it seems that impressionism is not his style.

But when I think about it, I am actually relieved, Huang Jing even joked that Qin Fangge's biggest style is that there is no style! Of course, this is a joke, Qin Fangge's style is that all kinds of styles are his style, not only Western music style, Chinese style, pop style, everything.

And irrefutably, this kind of music is really beautiful, although there is no exact theme that tells you that you want to express this or that thought.

This music, to everyone's general feeling, is to depict the impression of the quiet scenery on a moonlit night.

Such a musical image is actually not uncommon in Qin Fangge's musical works, there are a lot of them tonight alone, the first is reminiscent of Moonlight's "Sonata in C sharp minor", nocturne or something is specially composed for the silent night, and the piano and flute ensemble "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night" named after the moonlit night, which also depicts the beautiful scenery of the moonlit night.

And this music, the broken chords played by his left hand, are like a gentle breeze, gently shaking the branches, and the sparse leaves rustle.

At the beginning of the piece, the music is gentle and quiet. A group of ascending arpeggios seem to be short and small brushstrokes on the canvas little by little, stretching and extending, the moonlight is like broken white gold sprinkled all over the canvas, and the arpeggios set off the floating main melody, this euphemistic melody, gently fluctuating and slowly undulating, depicts the unique poetic mood of a moonlit night. Then, under the shaking of a string of chords. The moonlight began to flutter in the mixed night. As the arpeggio accelerates,

The overlapping of the pedals, the mixing of the sound became more and more blurred, forming a "piece of color, confusing artistic conception and sound", and the upper voice gently played a singing "moonlight song", and then the degree was slightly accelerated. The flowing arpeggios ripple like moonlight, smooth and stretched. Under the background of the arpeggios, the melody of the upper voice becomes more and more clear, deliberately depicting the dissolving moonlight. Finally, the opening of the music, quiet tunes and broken chords are reproduced, and the ethereal dreamlike mood under the moonlight is depicted more poetically.

He uses harmonic techniques and musical forms to guide everyone's bizarre imagination and create a rich and beautiful musical image.

Sasnovsky felt that it was Qin Fangge's simple and concise fragment melody, changeable performance techniques, and special harmonic combinations that made the whole piece shrouded in an erratic and flickering atmosphere, and achieved a very beautiful and highly graphic music.

Deng Hongmei likes the reproduction of this piece the most, "The light ascending arpeggio, like a spring gushing into the sky, then restores its calm in the alternation of major and subordinate notes, and the theme extends and expands in this background, wide and expressive." ”

The delicate, romantic and delicate harmonic depictions of the work, with its unpredictable rhythmic patterns, are unique, showing the charming artistic conception brought by the moonlight to the fullest.

When Qin Fangge plays, he perfectly expresses the characteristics of the work itself, using a soft and pure harmonic rich piano texture to depict the dark moonlight through the gently floating clouds, and the shadows sprinkled on the calm water, showing the ice-like silver glow of the bright moonlight to the fullest.

The pianists are sensitive, and Lilia even feels like she smells a different scent in the moonlight. And the beautiful picture of the moonlight appeared in her mind, and the scene of "sound in the painting, painting in the sound" could not satisfy her musical perception.

Eugena also felt the same way, and the romantic and beautiful atmosphere had already penetrated her heart after listening to the moonlight. She has always been resolute and resolute, and she made up her mind to overcome all difficulties, and had an in-depth exchange with Qin Fangge on the stage, telling her feelings in her heart.

She felt that she knew him a little, at least, from the music, she could understand the rich musical world of his heart. The Moonlight Sonata, the moonlit part of the first movement, is mainly still, and is also the main feature of this piece. It feels like a hero after daylight, after achieving fame, looking directly into the depths of his soul through the hazy moonlight. There is a dreamy side, there is also poetry, of course, there is also a desire to pursue, as well as the seven emotions and six desires of human nature, and finally return to calm, the "quiet" of the moonlight is like the pursuit of peace of mind. But these contemplations and perceptions only paved the way for the explosion that followed, and in the third movement of the sonata it gradually heats up, bursting out with a very terrible force "a fiery protest and throwing itself into concrete action and struggle".

She felt that it was more like Christopher's musical style, a shift from lyrical philosophical contemplation to action. The inner ideological struggle of the composer is more intense, which Eugena knows best, and it is precisely because of such fierce contradictions and struggles that a large number of excellent musical works have been born and have been passed down to this day.

If the moonlight sonata is a story flowing under the moonlight, then the last moonlight, Eugena thinks that it is the moonlight itself, which has no special meaning, but the moonlight itself is beautiful enough, and the city will fall overnight!

Thinking about this picture made Eugena feel intoxicated.

The moon is clear, the snow is as clear as silver, the whole world is as clear as crystal, the night sky is stretched like black velvet, sparsely falling with diamond-like stars, and the fields under the moon are peaceful and comfortable, the wild wind is gusting, and the leaves are rustling. The creative ability of the music and the wonderful performance can not only make people "see" the beautiful scenery of the moonlit night he wants to depict, but also enter into this beautiful contemplation with him.

Here, the moonlight is not like the "Moonlight Sonata", which brings people a sad and gloomy feeling, but more of a kind of tranquility and open-mindedness. Although she didn't want to admit it, it was more like the artistic conception in the piano and flute ensemble "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night" performed by him and the beautiful lady.

The thought of this made Eugena suddenly feel a little sad.