musicians of old

Chapter 512 On Atonal Music (5K [-]-in-[-])

Roy, who was holding this "cracking field" moving signpost, felt that things were completely beyond his expectations.

It is impossible for the "Hidden Guide" left by Bishop Lavoisier after he left. The advice to himself is to enter this unknown and weird secret place of migration to "avoid danger", right?

"No, Mr. Priest has told me to stay in San Porto."

It was already past midnight, and there was a repetitive monotonous steam noise next to my ears, and every occupant in the airship was taking a nap or dozing off.

Roy saved the folded road sign and walked away attentively, suddenly felt something, and opened it again.

Flip over.

On the back of the road sign there is a text left by Bishop Lavoisier!

She bit her lip and read every word. As her eyes moved, the handwriting that glowed with a faint white light gradually disappeared.

"If that's true."

Looking at Bishop Lavoisier's speculation in the letter, Roy suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

She still had a nonchalant look on the surface, and refolded the Yiyong road sign that had become empty on the back of the paper, and put it inside her underwear for safekeeping.

For the next few hours, she kept resting in her seat with her chest closed and her eyes closed in a very nervous and suspicious state, until the next day brought dawn.

Judging from the travel time, perhaps the airship entered the border villages and towns of San Porto around this time.

She suddenly felt two beams of almost physical light swept over her spiritual body.

The divine energy contained in it is like a magnificent, pure and hot ocean. Personally, she feels like a flat boat on the ocean, but she doesn't feel threatened or malicious.

"The gaze of the saint from the height of Huita?"

Roy felt that the two beams of light just glanced at him and "knew" for a while, and he could no longer notice it.

At least that is what Bishop Lavoisier said to be true.

He really sent a request to the saint to look after himself while he was living in San Porto.

"When did I need to be taken care of like this? What a risk it is."

Although Roy had a wry smile on his face, the tension in his heart had been eliminated.

She stretched out her hand and pressed the part of the skirt next to her body where the moving road sign was placed. She felt a relatively stronger sense of steadfastness in her heart for what Bishop Lavoisier ordered her to do next.

After returning to San Porto, the municipal government arranged for Roy to live in a small villa with the most distinguished guest courtesy.

It has a quiet courtyard with a rich and deep layout, and a hundred steps from the main entrance is a bustling street full of flower shops and cafes.Standing at this intersection, you can see that the stone pillars and arches of the Walstein Museum are opposite to their oblique angles. Walking one kilometer to the left, you will find the "Infernal Fire" Festival Grand Opera House, and behind it is the Church of the Holy Sun Church Headquarters Church. Its straight-line distance is no more than two kilometers.

In the next three days, Roy completely followed the instructions of Bishop Lavoisier, suspended part of the inspection work, and assigned the other part to his subordinates. He himself lived a standard "Missy's foreign affairs visit life", visiting museums , watching art exhibitions, listening to operas, listening to concerts, attending salons, meeting visitors, and eating local dishes.
San Porto is a place of brilliance in art and humanities, but there are no people around who want to share and discuss. Thinking that this kind of life may last for a long time, and there may be some problems with his own school, Roy still I feel cloudy in my heart.

On this day, February 2, she met her father, President McAdam.

The other party naturally came to the "secret seminar". Moreover, since Fanning "accidentally" pointed out this matter and let Roy know about it, Aunt Hermosa made a proposal for Roy to participate, and got Marquis McAdam's consent.

When the father and daughter met, they had meals and conversations as usual. Roy expressed his willingness to participate in this new itinerary.

In his letter to himself, Bishop Lavoisier designated the seminar as "low risk" and said that in the core area of ​​the holy city, there are saints and the pope present, even if there are hidden factors involved, it will not presents a direct threat.

So that night, in the opera house closed to the public, she participated in the first round of seminars composed of two extraordinary organizations and dozens of representative musicians.

Facts have proved that perhaps Bishop Lavoisier's "low risk" judgment was too cautious, and this is just a purely artistic discussion.

In the first round of discussion, the musicians initially exchanged their atonal works, techniques and ideas.

However, among the modern music techniques involved, there are indeed a lot of "mysterious chords" that Fanning once warned about, as well as some radical, weird or disturbing sounds from the perspective of human traditional hearing, such as "Twelve-tone system", "Expressionism", "Limited shift mode", "Differential tone", etc.
For Roy, under all kinds of influences in the past, she is already very familiar with Fanning's late romantic harmony writing style, and the "impressionist trend of thought" has also opened up a new vision ahead, which can be regarded as "a high cognitive foundation". The avant-garde works and concepts discussed tonight are well received by her.

However, she always felt that there was an atmosphere of excessive anxiety throughout the seminar.

"Father, if you say that, will we still teach the music theories compiled by Mr. Fanning in the major music academies in Olaine?"

At the end of the show, Roy walked to the side of Marquis McAdam and asked.

"Those are the basics, and they are compulsory courses for the students." The other party's nod made her seem relieved, "But my daughter, you have to understand that for a professional 'musician', the traditional 24 The major and minor melody and harmony systems have almost been played to the end by our predecessors.”

McAdam, dressed in a suit and leather shoes, looked at the backlit silhouettes of the staff who were picking up musical instruments in the opera hall, and seemed to sigh with emotion, "Sometimes it is difficult to evaluate whether people living in such an era of the peak of romanticism are lucky or unlucky. It is a feeling for the 'walkers' who are nourished by rich humanistic achievements, but for those 'path-breakers', I am afraid it is another feeling."

"You have seen a lot of original works by masters in the art gallery these days, how do you feel?" he asked his daughter.

"Ok?"

McAdam has always been strict with the study and training of family members. When Roy saw him asking questions, he subconsciously thought quickly.

"I think the original works have a stronger sense of history. The content and style of each work belong to a specific era." She just answered some directional things carefully.

"You're right about that later point," McAdam said.

"If you go back 400 years, a painter with accurate perspective, balanced composition, and good grasp of lines and colors is very likely to be among the 'great' and even 'masters', but today, this is just a student. It’s just the basic skills to get the stepping stone of the Academy of Fine Arts”

"In the age of photography and Impressionism, what can an artist who merely 'paint like' do? Where is his place in art history? He is just a merchant who orders from him, I’m willing to pay a few more banknotes.”

"However, Dad, the first is that now we should look at composers and musicologists separately from performers and conductors. The second is that the 'torch bearer' of this era has not yet been determined, and has become a master Or those who are most likely to become masters are still romantic composers." Roy knew that her father was using art as an analogy, but she still pointed it out.

McAdam raised his hand: "I understand."

"Either they are well-established and respected people, such as Schillings, Dominique, Viadrin, or the just-born Bishop Lavoisier. Or young and rare all-rounders like Fanning, Or troubadours like Scheler. They are still the top contenders for the next Harvest Art Festival, and they are the group of leading figures that the Special Patrol Office pays the most attention to."

"However, do you know what kind of state the vast majority of other seekers and young people who have just embarked on the road of music are in?"

"If you analyze the development trend of modern music from the perspective of steering the future development of the entire academic school, the things you pay attention to will be quite different from those of individuals."

"In today's situation where the traditional major and minor harmony systems have been fully developed, as time goes by year after year, most of the young musicians will exhaust their inspiration at a certain point and become mediocre, becoming a stable 'school' Professor' or 'old seniority'."

"A small number of better results will become 'excellent imitators' of Kashunich, Gilles or Swellinck. Yes, they have thoroughly understood the musical styles of the Middle Ages, Benedictism and Romanticism. Will write one after another "sweet" music, this is a relatively good type, it is no problem to hit the "quality" of a "blade bearer", but what about higher achievements? Of course, um According to the will of their leader, the Special Inspection Office will select a few "obedient guys" among these musicians, and promote them to a higher reputation."

Roy basically understood what his father meant when he heard this.

Indeed, the monuments in front have been erected, not just one or two.

Not everyone is like Mr. Fanning, who not only breaks through new things all the time, but even his works in the past style period also have refreshing ideas, as if found in another world inspiration.
"But the point is, what kind of art do the people in the special inspection hall know?" McAdam smiled lightly, "The academic school is the one who holds the right to speak about art evaluation. The romantic style is very great, and it is still our core competitiveness today. But it has reached the highest inflection point from prosperity to decline, just look at the impressionism trend that is blowing up now."

"Among the winners of this year's Harvest Art Festival, the romantic ones belong to the romantic ones, and the modern ones belong to the modern ones. This is the pattern that should be formed. The aesthetics of the art world and the general public will gradually shift towards 'atonality'. "

"However, can they really have such a high degree of acceptance of less pleasant sounds?" Roy frowned and asked, "Although I know that avant-garde music has its own logical beauty, but the human ear Naturally chasing melodies with memorable features and harmonic progressions with clear tendencies”

"What is pleasing to the ear?" the president asked back.

Roy was taken aback.

"In the period of ancient music, any change of sound outside the prescribed mode was a blasphemous heresy;"

"In the early days of medieval music, only chant composed on parallel octaves or fifths was considered harmonious;"

"In Gregory's time, augmented fourths and chromatic scales were considered 'the devil's sound'; in the mature period of polyphonic music, the dominant seventh chord was systematically applied, and the major second became a common conflict interval, But the second degree is still an absolute taboo;”

"During the period of Benicism, composers who dared to use too much brass in their symphonies, or to write too long developments, were criticized."

"So, what is pleasant ear?"

"The future must belong to the world of atonal music. After the last masters of Romanticism and Impressionism have passed away, the new masters will be like this. Everyone who comes from an academic school will only see Romanticism as It is a compulsory course based on the basics, but atonal music is the field that can bring achievements and honors to it. Hehe. The Special Inspection Office still holds that set of evaluation system, it is because they are old-fashioned and do not understand, academic The content of the research must be forward-looking, and when we completely leave it behind, the seating order of the discussion group should be reshuffled.”

"Well, I hope so." Roy did not choose to argue deeply with his father.

She is not a conservative. In fact, she thinks that her father's initial series of analysis, prediction and demonstration process are correct, but the final conclusion, or "methodology", always feels a bit too extreme.

Although the other party's tone sounds confident that "everything is under control", the anxiety and eagerness for success cannot be concealed.

I remember very clearly that when I asked for advice on avant-garde music before, what was Mr. Fanning’s opinion? She wrote down those few words and wrote them on the front of the notebook that she took to participate in the seminar today— —

“Modern music in the near future—let’s collectively refer to various genres after Impressionism as modern music—will show a growth spurt, because there is indeed another vast area beyond the 24 major and major harmony systems. world."

"But it should be noted that the history of art development has always been a process of "back and forth correction". Some people mention "atonality", and some people will mention "limited shift mode", and some people will mention "expressionism", and some people will mention it. "Neoclassicism", some people claim to raise the "professional aesthetic threshold", some people will claim that "the people like it is the best", they will continue to add things to the balance, add a little to the right when it is left, and add a little to the right when it is right. Add a little to the left."

"Back to avant-garde music, after a long period of ups and downs, there are probably three types of modern works that can be remembered by future generations and have real artistic value: the first type is "for reading", although listening The feeling is obscure and difficult to understand, but it broadens the boundaries of music in a certain direction. There are many mysteries in the score, which have profound academic research value; Atmospheric music, scene music, movie soundtrack or game soundtrack (Roy wrote with a note: what does this mean?), modern music techniques will play unexpected value in these applications; the third category is really 'worth listening ', an excellent work that combines atonal and tonal factors, modern and ethnic factors, and profoundly expresses emotions or scenes."

"As for the measure of the latter, it is very simple. After the work is written, it is shelved after the first performance, or it has the opportunity to be repeated. It is to see if there is a recording of this work in the world. Do you listen to it once with a curiosity-seeking mentality and throw it away, or will you find it on a later occasion and listen to it a second time or a third time, and find some kind of resonance in it, or "pure emotional venting" is also good."

"In general, the field of modern music has great potential, but it must be seen that some people are trying to sever the connection between it and the aesthetics of music fans, and turn it into a closed door that "no one can understand" that the academics themselves play. Games. People always like to name the new things floating in the air as various "isms". Only when they settle down with a little weight in the middle can they examine whether this is a satisfactory creative tool with a peaceful mind ——Just like the "precipitated tools" in the past."

"If you don't come back, it will be more than my loss alone."

Roy, who returned to the residence, sighed inwardly. She just read the contents of the notebook again.

That's what she appreciates, progressive, rational, and insightful answers, and it's so cool to have someone with that insight.

And he also said that he would have the opportunity to demonstrate to those people what "avant-garde music" is, and he didn't know what kind of song he would write.

"Forget it, there may be more troublesome problems now"

So far, the several nodes explained in Father Lavoisier's letter have not deviated from his expectations.

And the next step, what Mr. Priest explained is
The morning after the first round of secret seminars.

Marquis McAdam naturally had a full schedule, and went out early in the morning to meet important guests.

After Roy got up in the morning, he washed, combed his hair, ate, changed his clothes, strolled around the garden leisurely as in the previous few days, and then went back to his room in the villa to practice the cello.

The sound of the unaccompanied suite was melodious until eleven o'clock, when the music stopped, and then there was a burst of footsteps on the stairs.

"Aunt!" Roy ran down the stairs to Ms. Hermosa's room, "What do you think this is!?"

The other party sat calmly at the desk and looked back following the sound.

But when she saw what Roy was holding, her expression changed immediately.

"The movement guidepost of the 'cracking field'? Where did you get this thing!?"

(End of this chapter)