Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 1341, Section 561: The Final Chapter of Reunion: Codename Hunter [Part 2]

"What a precious treasure!"

"Mozart left behind an unfinished miniature piece during his creative career."

Those in the audience who were paying attention had already quietly perked up their ears.

"It incorporates the essence of classicism."

"It has a clear structure and a melodious tune."

"And perfect balance."

As he described it, a longing smile appeared on Haitao's face.

"The manuscript fragments of this work are scattered in the dust of history, leaving only some fragments of clues."

"tonight!"

"You six teams, named after great musicians, will become detectives of history and hunters of music."

"You must first piece together the fragmented musical score."

"Then decipher the code of the classics."

"Your ultimate goal is—"

Hai Tao raised his voice, drawing out the last syllable, which stirred the hearts of every child present, "Yes!"

Pointing to the piano beside him, Haitao looked around and spoke passionately again: "Let's be the first to play this hidden aria on this piano!"

"Who will be the first hunter to awaken this slumbering melody? Let's wait and see!"

"The portal to the time tunnel will open in five minutes!"

As Haitao finished speaking, the stage lights gradually brightened a little.

The children in the audience were both excited and nervous, as if a gloomy journey was about to begin.

Just then, Ang Lee reappeared in the beam of light, microphone in hand.

"Are you ready?" he asked softly to the entire audience.

Audience: "Ready!!!"

Ang Lee laughed: "Don't rush, let me emphasize the rules of the game again."

"This round of the game is divided into three stages."

"Phase One: Summoning the Fragments"

"See those six workbenches over there?"

"In the first phase, it is believed that each team needs to complete the task at their own workbench, piecing together the musical score fragments in the box into complete melody segments."

puzzle?!
Is there a problem with this step?

A boy in the audience raised his hand: "Teacher Li! Is this melody fragment a part of the final work?"

Ang Lee: Maybe.

Audience: "That's way too easy!"

Ang Lee: "Maybe not."

Audience: "Ah!"

Ang Lee: "After completing the puzzle, raise your hand to signal the judges. Those who complete it perfectly will receive an open letter and a clue to enter the second stage."

"Correctly, there are two points: first, the puzzle is complete; second, the piece number in the puzzle is identified."

"Please note that the first team to complete the puzzle will receive an extra clue, while the last team to complete the puzzle will lose the chance to receive a clue and will proceed directly to the second round."

The commotion at the scene reignited.

"what!"

"So nervous!"

"Don't be last!"

Ang Lee: "The second phase: unlocking the works."

"Based on the scores and clues obtained in the first round, each team, in conjunction with the open letter, deduced the specific name and number of the hidden work."

Do we need to number it?!
"After reaching a conclusion, raise your hand to signal the referee."

"The team that is told the correct answer by the referee will proceed to the third stage."

"The third stage: the birth of arias."

"The team that successfully locates the hidden work will obtain the score from the Herrscher of Time and Space, and then send a representative to perform the piece."

"Performance requirements: the melody and rhythm must be correct and able to reflect the style of the work."

"Style includes the requirement for performers to take into account the breath, dynamics, and structure of musical phrases."

"The judging panel will take this into consideration, but the primary criterion will be the first to play the correct piece."

"Please note that once a team begins playing, other teams can continue to interpret the submitted works."

"The first team to clearly state the title and number of the piece, and to correctly and completely perform a passage from the piece, will be the champion!"

After saying that, Li An paused.

"If there are no problems, we can begin immediately."

A student in the audience said, "Teacher Li, if our group completes the second stage first, and we send someone up to play it, wouldn't the other teams know what the piece is?"

Ang Lee hummed a melody and said, "Tell me what work this is."

Immediately, a child in the audience identified the melody as that of a symphony by Haydn.

Ang Lee then asked, "Can anyone tell me the number?"

After a long while, a child tentatively whispered, "It sounds like the First Symphony."

Ang Lee: "Speak louder."

The boy repeated loudly, "Haydn's First Symphony."

Ang Lee: "I asked about the number. You understand what the number means, right?"

There was a sudden silence at the scene.

Ang Lee: "Uncle Tang!"

All the children looked toward the teachers' area.

Grandpa Tang smiled and said, "Hob.l, 1."

Upon hearing this, Wang Xiaohu secretly regretted speaking so loudly!

Tang Xiaoxing whispered, "As expected of the captain."

Wang Xiaohu sighed.

Ang Lee: "So just knowing which film it is is useless. The number, kids, the number, okay, I can't say any more."

"anymore question?"

Audience: "Who is the Herald of Time and Space?"

Upon hearing this, Haitao raised his hand and gave another elegant bow.

Hahahaha!

Ang Lee: "If there are no problems, we will embark on a journey through time. Before the journey begins, the six teams, as the first team of the previous movement, will receive an extra clue."

A chorus of wails erupted from the audience!
It was only then that everyone realized how valuable this extra clue was.

Senior Sister Ji stepped forward and, at Haitao's instruction, randomly selected an envelope from the piano's soundboard.

Then, amidst the eager gazes of the crowd below the stage, he opened the letter.

Taking out the slip of paper, Senior Sister Ji loudly read aloud the words on it, "The number is right in front of you!"

After a pause, he said, "These are the clues I got. Don't accuse us of bullying the weak!"

The situation in Taiwan was in an uproar!
As expected, you are my senior sister!
Senior sister kept her promise!

"Thanks!!!!"

Haitao shouted, "Let's give a round of applause to our selfless sister Ji Yang! She's done you all a huge favor!"

"Wow!!!!"

Amid applause, the entire hall lit up again.

Haitao: "Game begins!!!"
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The first phase has officially begun.

The members of the six groups rushed to the tables labeled with their respective team names.

The tables between each team are about two meters apart.

There was a wooden box on each table.

Almost simultaneously, all six boxes were opened.

Immediately afterwards, stacks of sheet music fragments appeared on the table.

The first stage of the game involves puzzles.

Every child present was familiar with jigsaw puzzles, but working with sheet music was something none of them had ever experienced before.

However, many hands make light work, and soon the little geniuses in each group grasped the key to solving the musical score.

"First, find the first measure that contains the time signature and key signature!"

Finding the first section means you have a starting point. "Wow! I found four sharps!"

"Here, here! Four-four beat!"

"Why are we in 4/3 time?"

"Are we in C major?"

That's when everyone realized something: the sheet music fragments that the six groups received were all different!

Ang Lee walked around the six tables several times, stopping every now and then to smile.

Ten minutes passed in the blink of an eye, and the fastest group had only completed half of the task.

difficult!
This is really hard!
Group Two.

Marco, as the conductor for this round, had done his best to arrange the work, first setting the clefs and then classifying them, but unfortunately the notes in their piece were too sparse, making it impossible to take shortcuts using sight-reading skills.

At first, he thought Liu Ziqian was highly skilled and knew a lot of sheet music, but Liu Ziqian said he had never heard of this piece before.

Three groups.

The same problem occurred in groups three, four, and six.

Ah Liu: "What kind of music is this?!"

Car: "Hmm, there should be a line connecting here, right?"

Cloud: "I'm going crazy, this must be a work from the Romantic period, right?"

Only five groups of Tang Xiaoxing were able to identify the work based on the four short sections pieced together at the beginning.

Tang Xiaoxing: "The Emperor's Quartet"

The problem is that the Emperor Quartet has four parts, but the score they have only has a single melody. This single melody seems to contain not only the melody of the first violin but also the bass part.

This undoubtedly rendered her guess about the title of the work meaningless.

Five groups could not speed up the puzzle completion process by using known artwork titles.

Wang Xiaohu: "Don't panic, everyone. We're having a hard time, and everyone is definitely having a hard time. Let's give up on approaching this from a musical perspective and just treat this part as a jigsaw puzzle, or as a little bit of music reading."

Having read several complete scores, Wang Xiaohu knew very well that there was never a shortcut to learning to read music.

Tang Xiaoxing's eyes lit up when he heard Wang Xiaohu's words.

Yes.

The fourth group next door.

Just after the five groups found the key to the puzzle, the little car gradually realized that there was no shortcut to reading music.

The teacher may have included this activity to make them realize that reading music is something that needs to be learned step by step.

Thinking of this, the car suddenly spoke up: "Everyone wait a minute. Now spread out all the pieces and arrange them neatly. We were wrong from the very beginning."

Upon hearing this, Fu Yu frowned slightly. Half a minute later, when he saw all the fragments neatly arranged together, he suddenly seemed to see something.

"I see!"

The car nodded. "Let's bring out all the fragments with dotted rhythms and start deducing from the theme."

The four groups of children immediately threw themselves into a new round of activities.

The three groups next door.

Xiao Jingchen: "The first theme is out. Everyone, find the fragments with quarter rests. Zhizhi and Muyan, you two sort them."

Qiao Zhizhi: "Received."

Ah Liu: "Our teacher told us that we should read the music one measure at a time."

Xiao Jingchen: "This is what we need to do now."

The second group next door.

Marco: "Captain, you're in charge of checking. DouDou, you and Wang Qingfeng, reclassify them according to my initial approach."

Group Two: "Roger!"

Liu Ziqian: "Our approach was wrong from the very beginning."

The group next door.

While other groups were readjusting their strategies, one group of children, led by Xiao Bei, had already completed two-thirds of the task and were moving faster and faster.

Miao Hengrui stared at the completed puzzle piece on the table. "A half note!"

Chen Yuhang: "There are no more half notes!"

Xiao Bei: "Don't rush, let's see if there's a half rest?"

Lu Hanwen: "Here! There's another little dot!"

Miao Hengrui: "It matches! This is the one! Xiao Bei is so smart!"

Xiao Bei chuckled and continued categorizing the music as she said, "No, I'm not very smart. At first, I was very slow at reading music. It would take me twenty minutes to read a score that others could finish in ten minutes. Later, my teacher told me that reading music is not about speed, but about whether you can get useful information from the score."

"So later I developed the habit of slowly learning to read music."

Lu Hanwen: "Old Miao was right to let you command this round!"

Miao Hengrui: "Who's confused! Xiao Bei is a top student! Unlike you!"

Lu Hanwen: "Oh right, right, I'm a terrible student. Here, I'll give you two sets of eight. That's all I have."

Zhang Yuzhou: "I've lost mine too!"

Ang Lee stopped near a group of children for a while, listened to their conversation, and then left with a smile.

To be honest, having Xiao Bei lead this round of the game was the best decision we could make.

There are no shortcuts to reading sheet music.

Xiao Bei was the class representative who gritted her teeth and climbed forward note by note.

Keep it up, kids! If you're looking for shortcuts even in reading sheet music, you might as well give up on music altogether.

The judging panel, composed of teachers, observed the competition.

Several teachers took turns passing around the six-part sheet music that Ang Lee had prepared for the sixth group of members.

From these six works, they can see Ang Lee's intention.

Boss X: "You can't be clever in this step."

Huang Chuxian nodded in agreement: "The more convenient the method, the slower the assembly process."

Sun Liwen: "Reading music is something that cannot be rushed."

Grandpa Tang smiled as he watched Ang Lee's retreating figure, his admiration growing stronger.

This is what an excellent educator should be like.

Thank you for your trouble.

"Didn't you manage to spell it out?"

Ang Lee walked up to the table in Group Six and joked, "I can't find the number."

Ba Jian complained somewhat: "Boss, teacher, we're going crazy."

Ang Lee smiled without saying a word, then turned around and continued spinning.

moment.

Senior Sister Ji murmured again, "The number is right in front of you."

At this moment, Mu Xin also released the six-piece puzzle sheet in the live broadcast room, and enthusiastic netizens began to look for clues on the sheet music.

Of course, some people want to identify a work directly from the sheet music, but apart from those who already know the work number, the rest don't even know how to search on Baidu.

Five minutes later, all teams had completed the puzzle.

However, none of the teams were able to identify the number on their sheet music.

'The number is right in front of you.'

Following this clue, everyone noticed some special features on the score.

For example, one set of scores has a clock face in the lower left corner, while the second set of scores has a simple moon drawing in the upper right corner.

The work's numbering system inevitably has these special features, because these things shouldn't appear on the score in the first place.

Just as the groups were having a heated discussion about the special features of the score, Zhang Ya Hui suddenly pointed softly to the small guitar on the score.

"Have you noticed the three little red dots on this guitar?"

After Zhang Ya Hui mentioned it, everyone noticed this small detail.

Even someone who doesn't know anything about guitar can see the three little red dots that Zhang Ya-hui pointed out.

Ah Liu asked doubtfully, "Does this have any special meaning? Does anyone here know how to play the guitar?"

No one answered.

Zhang Ya Hui spoke softly again: "I do. The first two dots are at the fourth rank, and the last dots are at the eighth rank. I don't know if this is hinting at anything."

Xiao Jingchen and Qiao Zhizhi's eyes lit up at the same time.

The two exclaimed in unison, "448!"

Zhou Muyan: "Captain, raise your hand quickly!"
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Two minutes later, the voice of the time traveler echoed through the hall.

"The three Schubert teams are the first to complete the score and successfully identify the work number! You are rewarded with an extra clue! Please come forward to collect the concert's press release."

In an instant, the three workbenches erupted in cheers!
The members of Groups Two and Four were extremely envious!
Just then, a shout came from the fifth group of areas!
"Op. 76! No. 3!"