musicians of old

Chapter 842 Hammer Strike! Promotion!
The cello and bassoon played march-style cleaved thirds, and this enthusiastic infectiousness quickly spread upwards. The viola, violin, and woodwind sections joined the torrent. On this basis, the exposition theme was presented with a powerful and resounding force, which surprised everyone. From measures 114 to 138, the entire music suddenly burst into a very excited fighting spirit and developed in an unstoppable forward momentum!

Even in the following connecting section, "Dark Hymn" gained considerable momentum as a result!

In measure 191, the utopian secondary theme, carrying all the ideals, is played out in its entirety, as if played out as a heroic figure.

Everything about the starry sky, moral principles, and compassion for suffering.

It underwent a certain degree of modulation and a shift in the subdominant direction, especially in the section leading to the cadence, where the harmony was reduced to only the dominant A in the lower register. However, it quickly regained its spirit and solidified itself in D major.

The "banner of hope" was clearly raised.

Just a dozen or so bars later, the music falls back into the illusion of a minor key, and the lowered sixth degree played by the brass changes direction, leading the hero astray in the development section.

Here, everything seems no different from the symphony before.

An ideal ending always requires some setbacks and struggles, doesn't it?
The first part of the development section is in D minor.

Fanning elaborates on the ghostly elements in the introduction, which is somewhat gloomy, but soon, the "illusionary passage" arrives.

Time and heartbeats slowed down for a moment, the orchestral background stretched out infinitely, the sounds of cowbells and celesta drifted from afar, a calling melody, the rural sunlight, the wind blowing through the mountains, the lazy bellows of livestock.
It was too blurry. Fan Ning felt there was a white fog ahead. He could vaguely make out the features of various things, but he couldn't piece them together into a scene.

After a period of this dazed state, around measure 288, an ominous atmosphere gradually emerged from the ascending arpeggio motif.

The second part of the development section expands on the theme of "Utopia" in the secondary theme, in D major, representing ideals and hopes.

The atmosphere of the "illusionary section" has not yet dissipated. Fanning marked the beginning with "Immer dasselbe Tempo" (maintaining the same tempo throughout), which keeps its momentum weak. Although there are some large fluctuations in the high register in the second half, the music continues to convey the ethereal afterglow of the mountains and fields at a non-urgent tempo.
But in the third part of the development section, Fanning suddenly opened his eyes.

struggle!

The white fog dissipated, and the modulated chords, superimposed chords, Neapolitan chords, and a series of altered notes reappeared ghostly. The trumpets and French horns emitted piercing sounds in the stepwise motion, gradually pushing the music towards a state of boundless hope, even one that was close to victory!
It's now!

“I am Fanning, and Scheler, and Lavoisier. I am the first, and I am the last. I am the beginning, and I am the end. I am the fugitive, and I am the returning. I am the murdered, and I am the resurrected.”

At the acceptance speech of the Harvest Arts Festival, the maxim about the "Trinity" tribute program once again echoed in this chaotic world!

"Belonging to the sustained note A, the false target of D major, the stability of the mind and the deception of the spirit, the 'candle' represents the fourth gate, the 'Gate of Summoning the Moon.' What I hold today is not the key to open it, but the '-1' time key, or the 'Key to Shatter the Gate'!!"

Fanning gave the double bass part a sustained dominant A, so that although the music was exciting, it always stayed within the D major system, as a prayer to stabilize his mind when he was promoted to the Order!
This is the artistic understanding of a "torchbearer".

Others might need to design a complex material, but Fanning only needed to write a continuous single A!

In section 336, the melody, filled with the hope of struggle, reaches its climax.

Fan Ning's spirit instantly rose to a height even higher than the "Gate of Whirlwind Fire." At the same time, in the world of awakening, the music progressed to a note in the percussion section, and the giant hardwood hammer that he had personally designed was suspended high above the blood-red six-pointed star!
The first blow of evil!
"boom--"

The dull thud of the sledgehammer almost shattered the knotted spacetime and crushed the senses of listeners worldwide! A somber "warning chord" then burst forth, mercilessly pulling the music from D major to D minor, seemingly making one realize in an instant that everything remained the same—the triumphant cadence, the absolutely ideal "utopian" sub-theme, or the hero's struggle—all had suffered a devastating blow!

"Crack."

The divine gate high in the Tower of Light, the gate leading to the path of the Ordered Ones, was instantly covered with cracks!

The point where the hammer struck in the world of awakening was none other than the remnant of the Source God, located at the center of the six-pointed star!
"Crack!!!"

A crisp cracking sound was heard.

The entire auction hall fell silent instantly.

Just now? Just now?
Spotlights, like pillars of judgment, enveloped Fanning, while twelve thick crystal shields isolated him and his collection from the outside world. Outside the shields was a sudden, deathly silence, followed by a tremendous uproar in the auction hall.

The guests rose in surprise from their velvet seats, staring incredulously at the unfamiliar young man wielding a hammer in the center of the stage.

Fanning didn't give the guests any time to react with "Why isn't it Nancy?" He didn't waste any time or say a single pointless word.

As soon as the platform was raised, everyone noticed that inside these transparent protective covers, for some reason, there were sheets of paper and files of various sizes pasted on them.

Then he unveiled the red cloth on the circular display stand and began smashing the artifacts with a hammer!

The first artifact to suffer this undeserved misfortune was the Gothic Confession Chair. On the back of the chair, the largest amethyst crystal was instantly smashed inward, as if it were not a crystal but a piece of solidified black sludge.

Immediately afterwards, all the other amethysts of varying sizes simultaneously burst into a pale white light, which gradually transformed into a cold, eerie blue flame, burning silently yet intensely!

The entire chair twisted and deformed in the smoke, and the pyre and charred human figures carved on it seemed to come alive, dancing wildly and howling. A stench of burnt corpses permeated the air, and even through the protective shield, the guests in the front row covered their noses and backed away in horror!

“I have imagined this scene: perhaps one night, the children in the workhouse are repeatedly wrapping themselves up in the cold, while Lord Lord’s staff are writing an editorial for the Humanist Observer under the warm light, ‘Rational charity requires restraint from unnecessary empathy.’”

At the same time, from the highest pneumatic microphone platform, Nancy's tired but firm declaration still resonated throughout the walls of the Van der Schaaf Collection!

“Ha, ‘rational charity’! Mr. Voltaire once satirized that ‘the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.’ I think this kind of ‘rational charity’ is its modern variant—using gold-leaf-covered rotten wood to support the treasure caves of rentiers!”

Both on stage and "above" something unexpected happened. The curator, Leicy, suddenly leaned forward and gripped the gilded railing of the second-floor VIP box tightly with both hands.

"Stop him! Damn it!"

"Break that cover! Grab him!"

Lelic's knuckles turned white from the force, and his light gray eyes almost spit fire.

"And the noise from up there! What are you all doing! You haven't even found your seats yet!"