According to the competition rules jointly agreed by the Music Producers Association and the Zhouguang Blog, from the deadline for publishing the work, that is, from 8 o'clock that night, users who have the right to vote can start voting, and the voting time will end at 12 o'clock at noon the next day.

Each user has three votes, and can choose three different songs from a total of six works by Fang Tianwu and Ren Fei to vote.

In the end, between Fang Tianwu and Ren Fei, whoever gets the highest total number of votes is the winning party.

As a result, from 8 o'clock in the evening, many of the more than 10 million users began to use their votes.

Ren Fei's side, with the high-level "Night Rain" and "Will Enter the Wine", won a lot of votes at once, and "Soaring Thousands of Miles" also attracted his fans to support because of Sun Mudong's blessing.

But the situation began to change soon after the release of Fang Tianyu's "Serenade", "I Wish People Were Long" and "Years Like a Song".

Especially after nine o'clock, most people have already heard all the songs of Fang Tianyu and Ren Fei, and many celebrities have begun to express their opinions on blogs.

Only the 10 million users of the Zhouguang blog can vote, but these six works are open to everyone, even if they don't have the right to vote, they can enjoy these songs and express their opinions.

The first thing that makes the most noise is the group of people who play pure music, and most of these people are very famous musicians.

The pianist Lang Xiaoyue, who had posted on the blog before, updated again and expressed her opinions on "Night Rain" and "Serenade" respectively:

When I first heard this song "Night Rain", I was pleasantly surprised. Including a few friends around us, we didn't expect Ren Fei, a pop songwriter, to write piano music of this level.

"Night Rain" is a piano piece in a romantic style, and the overall emotional tone is biased towards sadness. And it is well-structured and well-layered, making it a rare work.

In addition, several of our friends have heard that it is Mr. Du Weipeng, a famous pianist in China, who played this "Night Rain". Mr. Du Weipeng's attainments in piano performance are needless to say, and with his interpretation, the performance of "Night Rain" is becoming more and more exciting.

Therefore, we all felt that Ren Fei had already won the competition on the piano music question alone, and we were even obsessed with discussing the structure of "Night Rain" and Mr. Du Weipeng's playing technique, and it was only after a long time that we remembered that Fang Tianyu had not released his piano music.

Then, we heard Serenade.

Really, it may be difficult to understand how we feel after listening to Serenade for the first time. If "Night Rain" brought us surprises, then the impact of "Serenade" on us is earth-shattering!

We have been studying the piano for most of our lives, and in the face of the late masters who have been praised on the altar in Europe, and in the face of their masterpieces that have been handed down for centuries, we are in awe and admiration, and at the same time, we are looking forward to when will we be able to produce such a master in China? When will we be able to produce such a masterpiece?

I know that the piano is not our traditional musical instrument, and we need more time to settle and accumulate. However, we hope that there will be a piece of work in China that is enough to shock the world!

We've tried it, but it's easy to get started, but it's too hard to climb to the top.

I never thought that the work we were waiting for would be in a contest between two pop songwriters.

That's right, I'm talking about Serenade!

Serenade itself is a musical genre, a song used to express affection to a loved one.

The same is true of Mr. Fang Tianhu's "Serenade", but in our opinion, this "Serenade" is not only a piano piece, but also a poem. We can even find some traces of the structure of the poem in it, which is completely a fusion of poetry and piano music!

I have to mention that the player of this "Serenade" is completely inferior to Mr. Du Weipeng in terms of playing level, and I guess that the person who plays this "Serenade" should be Mr. Fang Tianhu himself.

Although it is inferior in terms of playing skills, "Serenade" itself is not a work that is too difficult to play, and it does not necessarily require too advanced playing techniques. Moreover, Mr. Fang Tianyu's playing style gives us the feeling of being romantic and casual, and it is easy to infect the audience when expressing feelings, so the effect of this "Serenade" is not affected by the level of playing, but is a little more frank!

As for the level of composition of "Serenade", I can say that with this work alone, Mr. Fang Tianyu can be among the international piano composers!

We later called our teacher, Tan Wendao from the Central Conservatory of Music, and asked him to listen to this "Serenade" as well.

The teacher agrees with us, and he agrees that this "Serenade" is high enough to be included in the world's masterpieces. The teacher is also very happy that there is finally such a work in China, which can be side by side with the masterpieces in Europe!

So, is "Night Rain" good?

"Night Rain" is very good, but its level can only be described as a masterpiece.

But "Serenade", I can only say that Ren Fei is not ashamed of losing at all. Teacher Tan Wendao said that from the aspect of composition alone, even if he was compared with Mr. Fang Tianyu, he would also lose!

Who let him come across this kind of work that will last for generations?

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Lang Xiaoyue's article quickly caused a huge response, for ordinary people, it is not easy to distinguish who is superior and inferior in "Serenade" and "Night Rain", and to many people, these two piano songs are very pleasant to the ear.

Only a musician with a deep appreciation in this regard, or a musician like Lang Xiaoyue, can easily hear the level of these two piano pieces and tell why.

And this group of musicians is unusually unanimous, one-sided in favor of "Serenade"!

Because in their opinion, the difference between "Night Rain" and "Serenade" is too obvious, just like the contrast between the stars and the bright moon.

This plays a great leading role for ordinary people who lack sufficient appreciation, especially Lang Xiaoyue himself is a well-known pianist in China, and his teacher, Tan Wendao, is a highly senior piano master, who has been famous for decades and has held concerts abroad many times. Now more than half of the young generation of pianists in China are his protégés.

Even the famous pianist Du Weipeng, who was told by Lang Xiaoyue to help Ren Fei play "Night Rain", posted on his blog that "Serenade" is a masterpiece that has not been encountered for many years.

As a result, the vast majority of people voted for "Serenade", and even those who don't understand piano music can't wait to choose to support "Serenade", as if they are half a step behind and will be ridiculed by others for their lack of musical literacy.

Then there are the two songs "Will Enter the Wine" and "I Wish People Were Long".

sang for "Will Enter the Wine" is the national first-class singer Hong Qingyang, who has many fans in China. And the arrangement of "Will Enter the Wine" is not bad at all, it can be said to be an excellent work.

However, except for Hong Qingyang's fans, or people who like this quaint and atmospheric style, younger people don't like "Will Enter Wine" very much, but prefer "I Wish People Were Long".

Because the arrangement of "I Wish People Were Long" is more understandable, and the singer's mellow and delicate voice is also more touching.

However, even Hong Qingyang's fans, many voted for "I Wish People Were Long". Although Hong Qingyang sings well, they still prefer "I Wish People Were Long".

A composer on the blog explains why:

Since I was a child, I have been fond of poetry and songs, so much so that after entering the composition industry, my personal style has been more classical.

Re-arranging classical poems, a title from the Music Producers Guild, won my heart. Over the years, I've tried this and written a few pieces. But these works seem very immature, so I never dare to show them ugly.

Is this attempt to rearrange classical poetry difficult?

Difficult!

As a colleague once said, the difficulty is that the melody fits the mood of the poem itself.

Is Ren Fei's arrangement of "Will Enter the Wine" good?

Good!

If it weren't for Fang Tianyu's "I Wish People Were Long", I would be an absolute supporter of this song "Will Enter the Wine".

It's a pity, how can you be born bright?

With "I Wish People Were Long" as a comparison, the shortcomings of the arrangement of "Will Enter the Wine" are infinitely magnified.

What are the shortcomings of the arrangement of "Will Enter the Wine"?

is that this song can't control the poem of "Will Enter the Wine"!

That's right, this song sounds majestic, but it is still much worse than the artistic conception of "Will Enter the Wine".

Who is Li Bai? That is a poet immortal who has single-handedly supported half of the prosperous Tang Dynasty Wenfeng! This poem "Will Enter the Wine" is one of the most accomplished works among his many poems!

So I think Ren Fei's selection of materials this time is a bit irrational, this song "Will Enter the Wine" felt very good when I first heard it, but after listening to it a few more times, you will find that the arrangement and the poem itself have a sense of stiffness, as if the two were reluctantly pulled together, as the saying goes, the twisted melon is not sweet, and the truth is here.

However, Ren Fei's performance this time can be regarded as a super-level performance, but he was unlucky to meet a genius like Fang Tianyu, who can be called a demon.

So isn't Su Dongpo's "Water Tune Song Head" a masterpiece that has been passed down through the ages? Then why doesn't Fang Tianyu's arrangement have the problem of "Will Enter the Wine"?

I have to praise here that Fang Tianyu's selection of materials is very ingenious, and the emotional tone of "Water Tune Song Head" is more restrained and subtle than that of "Will Enter the Wine", and it is also a little softer.

"Will Enter the Wine" is written about melancholy and wildness, and "Water Tune Song Head" is joys and sorrows.

Fang Tianyu's arrangement is very compatible with "Water Tune Song Head", everyone knows that in ancient times, those lyricists and quyi artists had a special tune to match each word, and those ancient words were not pronounced, but sung by famous prostitutes. It's just that these lyrics and tunes have been lost to this day.

And Fang Tianyu's song "I Wish People Were Long" made me think that the tune of "Water Tune Song Head" in ancient times should be like "I Wish People Were Long".

In my opinion, Fang Tianyu's arrangement and "Water Tune Song Head" are love and scenery, environment and thought.

This leads to the fact that "I Wish People Were Long" becomes more and more beautiful the more you listen to it, and the more you listen to it, the more evocative it becomes.

Another point, I can't recognize the female singer who sang this song.

I also wonder where Fang Tianwu found such a woman with an ancient rhyme, sang this song "I Wish People Were Long" for him, and spit out a mouth full of fragrance.

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After the publication of this blog post, everyone understood why even the elderly listeners, and even Hong Qingyang's fans, voted for "I Wish People Were Long".

Later, the only people who voted for "Will Enter the Wine" were Hong Qingyang's die-hard fans who didn't ask about right and wrong, but only talked about intimacy.