When Liu Wu flew in, Yan Ruhua was reprimanding the little disciple: "This little song, using a business tune, not a palace tune, your tone is low, you have to raise it as a whole, and there is one of them, your beat is wrong, do it again!" ”

The little disciple was frightened and taught, and took the music sheet and played it again.

Yan Ruhua turned her head to look at Liu Wufei who appeared at the door of the piano room: "Come in, what's the matter with you?" "The Yan family, who had a cold temperament during the performance, was even more strict in private, and all the disciples did not dare to penetrate the atmosphere in front of her.

Finally, Liu Xufei was accustomed to the master's temper, and he really felt that the matter was important, so he did not retreat, but greeted him and gave the master a salute first: "Xu Fei has seen the master." ”

Yan Ruhua nodded and frowned: "If you have something to say, say it quickly." ”

"Master, disciple here, I just got a new way of notation." Liu Xufei hurriedly took out a page of simple score that he got from Fu Xuechen and handed it over with both hands.

Yan Ruhua took the brief score and glanced at it, and at first felt that it was all like ghost drawings, and she couldn't understand it at all.

Liu Wufei stepped forward, starting with the seven basic note symbols, and then to the bass mark, treble mark, beat mark, legato mark, etc., and explained the meaning of all the symbols used in this sheet music.

In fact, there are not many musical symbols involved in the simple score, just a few, it has been able to cover all, no matter how complex the tune, can be fully expressed with these few symbols, except for a few Chinese characters that express transposition, it does not use other Chinese characters, just the concise and labor-saving writing, it is ten times stronger than the original notation.

Yan Ruhua's expression changed from casual at the beginning, and unconsciously turned into surprise, she raised the simple score in her hand, and looked at the apprentice seriously: "This is not like something you can come up with, where did you get it?" ”

"Master, didn't you recommend me the day before yesterday to go to the Mansion of the Marquis Fu of Jingbei to teach the Fu family's daughter-in-law Guzheng?" Liu Xufei said that there was still a little shock in this matter: "That Fu girl's talent in music and rhythm is simply unique in a hundred years!" In just half an hour, she learned and mastered all the knowledge of music theory. ”

"Huh?" Yan Ruhua frowned, why didn't she find out before, Liu Xufei was such an exaggerated person?

Liu Xufei hadn't noticed that his reputation in the eyes of his master was falling, and his tone was still full of admiration for Fu Xuechen: "This set of notation methods was improvised by her in order to facilitate her own learning and memorization!" ”

Yan Ruhua carefully observed the apprentice's expression, and was puzzled to find that although the other party's performance was a little exaggerated, it didn't look like she was lying, but she was very sincere, she sincerely felt that people were amazing.

But as far as she knows, the little daughter of the Fu family who is studying guzheng is only thirteen years old at most, and the people of the Fu family even said that their daughter's daughter has not learned any music and rhythm knowledge before.

Now you tell me, that's a genius? Not only did you learn all the music theory knowledge in a single class, but you also created a new type of music notation that is more simple and straightforward and allows people to grasp the rhythm faster? Why did she not believe it so much!

"Master, do you think we should give it a try and use this method to record music instead?" Liu Xufei finally proposed that she really wanted to rewrite all the music scores she had at hand with this new method.

"As long as the daughter of the Fu family doesn't object, you can use it if you want." Yan Ruhua glanced at her, and said lightly: "Tomorrow and tomorrow, you will continue to teach that little daughter according to your plan, don't be too arbitrary, just one lesson and you will determine that people are geniuses, observe more, so as not to lose your eyes!" ”

Liu Xufei didn't think that he would look away, so let's just say, people are dignified and the daughters of the Houfu, learning guzheng is just a plin, cultivating sentiment, and she doesn't rely on this thing to eat at all, what's the point of lying to her?

But Liu Wufei didn't dare to disobey the master, and only obediently responded "yes".

Yan Ruhua saw her listening, so she nodded and said, "You go back!" Leave this sheet with me for now, and remember not to pass on this unproven private notation method lightly. ”

Liu Xufei agreed, as long as the master is willing to leave the score for study, it means that the master also thinks this new score is good, and she believes that it will not be long before the master can't help but agree to use this simple score to replace the previous Chinese character score.

After being busy with various affairs throughout the day, Yan Ruhua, who has no performance tasks, is rarely able to stay at home and enjoy a moment of tranquility that belongs to her.

Leaning on the comfortable and soft chaise longue, picking up the script that had not been read for many days, Yan Ruhua planned to read the rest of the script before going to bed, but when she turned the page where the script was located, a casual glance made her suddenly sit up straight and seriously turn over the script.

Nothing else, that is, at the foot of each page of this book, there is a symbol that expresses the page number, she didn't pay special attention to these symbols before, just as the bookstore made a sign for her own convenience, but just now she recognized it, some of these symbols are exactly the same as the simple notation symbols left to her by Liu Wufei!

Seven new style of musical name symbols, 1234567, Liu Xufei sang them as "Dolai Mi Fa Laxi", and there was a symbol 0 indicating rest, plus 8 and 9 that were in the script but not in the score, Yan Ruhua suddenly realized that she actually understood what these symbols on the footer of the script meant!

If she's not mistaken, 1 is the number one, and 012345678910, which clearly means the number zero to ten! Then 11 is eleven, and 12 is twelve...... 20 is twenty, absolutely!

It turns out that the inspiration for the new music score recording method came from here!

After understanding the page number number symbols on the script, Yan Ruhua couldn't help but flip through the book, and specially identified these number symbols two or three times, the more she looked, the more wonderful she felt!

Compared with the original way of writing numbers, the new number symbols in this book are too easy to recognize, remember and master! I'm afraid that even a five- or six-year-old child can easily learn these numbers.

Yan Ruhua thought of the simple notation notes made by the little daughter of the Fu family again 1234567.

If that little daughter had already learned and mastered these number symbols in the script, then it would not be completely unimaginable for her to create a new style of music notation symbols based on this at a young age.

People may be smart geniuses, not what they think, stolen from someone.

Wait a minute! It is impossible to say that only the little daughter of the Fu family and her Yan Ruhua found that the page symbol of the script corresponds to the number zero to nine, and there must be many people who have also understood these new digital symbols.

In that case, when more and more people are familiar with these number symbols and use them, she wants to promote the new music score recording method based on number symbols, wouldn't it be twice the result with half the effort?

Yan Ruhua gradually felt excited, she didn't know that Emperor Yuan An had ordered the Ministry of Rites to make preliminary preparations to promote the use of simplified characters, and that set of simplified characters contained 012645789 new set of number symbols.

But she has her own judgment, such a simple and easy-to-use number symbol can naturally be easily recognized and loved by people, and sooner or later it can be popularized and adopted by more people through the release of the script.

"Ying'er! Ying'er! Yan Ruhua called out to her personal maid.

"Miss, I'm here." Ying'er soon appeared outside her bedroom door: "What does Miss command?" ”

"Call the little girl I took in last month and call her the one who was in the evening."

Yan Ruhua ordered, Ying'er was slightly surprised, but she didn't ask much, just answered, and soon brought a thin girl with a vegetable face, only seven or eight years old, from the next wing.

The little girl's father, Yan Ruhua, doesn't know who it is, but the little girl's mother is a friend of Yan Ruhua's friend who met in the Teaching Workshop Division when she was young, and the friend was married back as a concubine, originally thought it was a good ending, but I didn't expect that the man's family would soon decline, and he didn't have the ability to revive the family business, and finally threw the friend mother and daughter away and slipped back to his hometown.

At the beginning of the year, the friend died of illness, the little girl did not have the ability to go all the way to her biological father, so she had to follow her mother's instructions before her death, and asked for Yan Ruhua's door.

"Xiaowan has seen Aunt Yan!" Although the little girl is small, she knows how to be polite, but she is a little timid.

"Don't be afraid, Xiaowan, my aunt is just looking for you to ask about something." Yan Ruhua tried her best not to be so cold, showing a kind smile to the child.

Xiaowan nodded seriously: "Auntie, you ask." ”

"Have you ever learned to read music? Did your mother teach you to sing? Yan Ruhua asked.

Xiaowan's expression collapsed and shook her head: "No, my mother only hummed a song for me, but never taught me to sing." ”

"It's okay!" Yan Ruhua asked softly, "Is it good for your aunt to teach you?" ”

Xiao Wan raised her head, her eyes lit up, and she hurriedly nodded: "Okay!" Okay! Thank you, Auntie! ”

"Okay, then my aunt will teach you the seven phonetic symbols first!" Yan Ruhua brought Xiaowan to the table, wrote 1234567 seven number symbols on the paper, and began to teach......

Two quarters of an hour passed quickly, and Yan Ruhua was surprised to find that Xiao Wan had quickly learned and mastered the seven note name symbols in this very short period of time, and with the help of Dolai Mi Fa Laxi's seven different pronunciations, she could still sing the corresponding tune accurately after Yan Ruhua casually shuffled the order of the seven note name symbols.

Even though they are all very short and simple pieces, there are no changes in pitch and no change in tempo, and Xiao Wan still learns them too quickly! It's surprisingly fast!

Yan Ruhua then taught the treble with a small black dot at the top, the bass with a small black dot at the bottom, and the bar line representing the beat, and Xiao Wan also mastered it smoothly after a while.

And at this moment, Xiao Wan has just been enlightened, and she doesn't know a few words, if she follows her past experience, Xiao Wan should learn a lot of Chinese characters first, and without Chinese characters as a foundation, she can't learn music at all.

"Auntie, it's so easy to learn tunes? Why didn't my mother teach me? Xiaowan was happy and confused.

"......" Yan Ruhua was speechless, what should she say? Tell Xiaowan, in fact, the musical symbols of this set of scores are also what she just met today? If Xiaowan's mother wants to teach, she must first teach her to know the words "gong ruler and other words"?

"Maybe your mother hasn't had time yet, right?"

Yan Ruhua finally had to prevaricate casually for other reasons, and on the grounds that it was too late and the child had to go to bed early, she drove Xiaowan back to her own house to rest.

Although Xiao Wan can learn it so quickly, it is because she is likely to have a very good talent for music, which is an example, it does not mean that others can learn it so quickly, and she still needs to find other children to try it out, but it does not prevent Yan Ruhua from recognizing the power of this set of simple scores.

Xiaowan's success also made her realize many things that she didn't realize before.

If nothing else, let's just say that among all the many people in the country who are engaged in music-related professions, how many of them can be literate and can read music? The vast majority of people have no chance of literacy at all, and many of them can sing tunes or operas, and they really rely on their memories year after year!

There is an idiom called "word of mouth", which was originally derived from the teaching and inheritance of quyi, the older generation of qu artists taught their disciples the tunes they mastered, and both parties were literate and musical, if one party knew one side and one did not know, or both parties did not know, it was really only one sentence by sentence to teach, and one sentence by rote.

But if there is a new simple notation that has been released now, even the unliterate Mengtong can easily learn it, do those old people still need to be afraid that the disciples are illiterate and forgetful, and lose their inheritance? No need!

The mere fact that there is no need to read and write makes the merits of the new style of music great!

The more Yan Ruhua thought about it, the more she couldn't sit still, and thought that her little disciple's memory was not firm during the day, and she recognized the wrong score of playing the wrong zither song, so she simply returned to the table, took a new pen and paper, and slowly, little by little, tried to transcribe all the Zheng music scores that she taught her little disciples during the day into a new style of music score.

For those who have already learned Chinese character notation, whether they can adapt well and quickly master the new style of music notation is also an aspect that needs to be investigated.

The time soon came to the morning of the next day, and Yan Ruhua's two disciples who were studying in the future were all called to him, and it took half an hour to teach the two of them the notation of the simple score.

In fact, it was a bit unexpected, the two disciples who had already had a foundation in music and rhythm learned the new score very smoothly, and after being familiar with and mastering the seven numeric musical name symbols, they understood the other musical notes more quickly, and it only took a quarter of an hour before and after, and both of them knew it.

Yan Ruhua then took out the Zheng music score that she had transcribed last night, and asked the two disciples to try to play it while recognizing the score.

Although it was a little jerky, it was far from beautiful, but the two disciples played it accurately without exception! This made both of them particularly surprised, and they praised the new score for being easy to recognize.

Yan Ruhua nodded secretly, it seems that the new score should be vigorously promoted.

On the other hand, Fu Xuechen didn't know what kind of shock the musicians would be caused by the simple score she took out, and she was still taking Zhu Jiuniang's painting class! I received news from the Xie family: the concubine invited the Xie family to the palace to enjoy the flowers, and by the way, she also invited her and Fu Rushuang, two sisters, and she had to tell the gentlemen about tomorrow's leave!

(End of chapter)