musicians of old

Chapter 340 The first movement: Awakening Poem (17): Violence and Idyll
...My good fellow, there is really no one who understands chivalry better than you.

Fan Ning's eyes blinked one after another when he heard the "life goal" of Marseille Negu.

Compared with the rigid gentlemen and ladies of Tiolein, the people from the Southern Continent immediately opened up the situation.

Ann, who was sitting on the other side of Fan Ning, put her long legs together and leaned forward to look at Marseilles: "If 'court love' is a false concept, then is this kind of possessiveness without love elements also true? Woolen cloth?"

"No, I will definitely have a strong love for that noble woman in the future." Masai Negu changed his lazy demeanor and seriously corrected him, "In fact, when the external objective conditions tend to be idealized, The threshold of love is very low, very low..."

The threshold for love is low?Ann was slightly taken aback.

Marseille Negu gestured with his hands: "If this is a bit difficult to understand, you might as well imagine a man who is handsome, outstanding, and talented, and then imagine yourself from a famous family, elegant and charming, and evenly matched with him, and finally imagine that you have experienced a a romantic encounter, and being alone in some intentional or unintentional circumstances..."

"So, do you think that the arrival of love does not require a little threshold and luck, it is almost inevitable?"

"It seems... there is such a thing..." An first closed his eyes and imagined, and then nodded.

"So, in the face of a noble and beautiful lady or daughter, it is natural and common to have love. Whether the other party favors me also depends on the conditions in her perspective. The reason why a noble woman can be realized in the end is that there are no two people who are born unmatched, it is nothing more than your assets are not enough, you can't buy a higher title, or you are not enough to fight."

"However, the real history is not like that."

The serious musical works of "Love in the Court" in the current Romantic period-especially in the "title music"-are inspirations everywhere and one of the most popular story cores.

"I may know what you want to express." Fanning said, "In the turbulent social trend of the steam age, both the knight class and the troubadours were facing decline, but the latter did a clever thing, which made them The slippage is not so obvious: they have always stayed away from 'court romance' itself, and developed it in an idealized and literary direction."

Fan Ning, who is well versed in the history of music, did not change his expression, and continued to listen to Marseille Necoud's narration with a light smile.

Of course, he was trying to figure out what was the intention of the other party's meaningful eyes just now.

"Moreover, people in the social sense have multiple identities, and their functions often overlap. Many troubadours themselves are knights, nobles, priests, and even the monarch's messengers, liaison officers, or public relations spokespersons. The entire royal family and even They are also responsible for the artistic education of the people of the principality. They are not only singers, but also composers, performers, musicologists, and music educators... In this sense, today's troubadours and knights are similar. At this point, the definition has been expanded, the threshold has been lowered, and the gold content is not as high as it was then.”

...what does this have to do with me?After hearing what he said, Feili looked up blankly.

"Yes, you see, this is interesting." Marseilles said with a smile, "The knight is the person who has experienced the 'court love', and he will never forget it. The troubadour of "Love" continues to harvest flowers, honors and beauties... Once something distances the distance and simply extracts the beauty, it fades away the gloomy side of the witnesses and becomes a kind of Touched, a kind of artistic enjoyment..."

Fanning nodded slightly when he heard this.

He threw a bunch of eaten wooden sticks into the bonfire: "As long as it is a girl I want to attract, no matter how high or low her background is, I can make her fall in love with me just by music."

The three are things that people often put together to talk about. They have left a deep imprint on the humanistic soil of each continent. The gentleman culture in the steam age is inherited from the knight system.

...Mr. Massainecourt seems to have many stories.Luna has been secretly listening to the lecture.

...Why does it feel like he is targeting Mr. Scheler.Ann and Luna couldn't help but look at Fanning at the same time.

"I have a slight objection." Fan Ning shook his head at this time, "The 'force' or 'financial power' you mentioned may be a supporting factor in matters such as love, but it is not necessarily a decisive factor."

"Mr. Scheler, this is exactly what I want to discuss." Masseinecourt seemed to feel very calm about Fanning's words, "Speaking of which, I was able to have the later realization because I learned valuable things from troubadours. Experience, in the course of hundreds of years of historical change, you have done smarter than the knight class."

……it's not true?The girls opened their eyes wide.

Marseille Negu continued to look at Fan Ning very meaningfully:
"The troubadours in history are always covered with a veil of mystery, and people nowadays are willing to understand their meaning in their own way. For example, in their imagination, they always hold a musical instrument, wear ragged clothes, and wander around. Living a freewheeling and romantic life, they always carry a trace of 'wanderers' or 'travellers', who are respected for their artistic personality rather than their secular class status... "

...Mr. Scheler seems to have a lot of stories.Luna is getting more and more energetic.

Not only has it not become old-fashioned, but it has become more fashionable.

Speaking of this, the knight's expression was tinged with sadness: "It's a pity, if I could understand this truth earlier, I wouldn't have to go through those unnecessary heartbreaks. The goal of avenging the shame of the ancestors is not a smooth path, but There is a tendency to firmly overcome the nihilism of "court love", and firmly regard the promotion of force and earning money as the only way to realize it."

Ann was amazed at what Fanning had said. Wasn't he a vagabond with a plywood guitar playing a troubadour?

"The ancient troubadours were actually high-ranking members of society. Even the knights at their peak had a lower status than them. After the troubadours wrote their works, they didn't always sing them in person, but More to those descendants of famous singers, touring performers, jugglers, or country musicians, to disseminate their music...”

As the moral code of the upper class in the Middle Ages, "Court Love" is directly related to two groups: one is the "knights and nobles" who practice them as "reality", and the other is "materials" to compose them. troubadour".

They still have real talents, but usually only in one or two areas, not as "all-around" as they used to be.

And today's serious academic musicians are the descendants of those outstanding troubadours who held important positions in the court, but now they are no longer called that in various places, only the Southern Continent retains a more authentic flavor. cultural customs.

Fan Ning nodded approvingly, "That's why you think the bard is smarter?"

"That's right, so the past relationship experience you mentioned is also reasonable. Indulging in "court love" itself is bound to be a dead end, but in the world, force and money are not the only way to break the situation. 'Fanghui Poet' is actually Two ways are taught to the desirer, depending on whether the gift He has given you is about the giving of desire, or about the inspiration of art."

Marseille Negu touched himself first with a wine glass, and then pointed to Fanning:

"The two paths to love are called 'violence' to me, and 'idyllic' to you."

(End of this chapter)