Golden Greenery

"Sir, I still can't feel the inspiration for creation. Is there something wrong with the direction of my efforts?" Zhuo Yang asked Professor Carl Norman.

Zhuo Yang’s undergraduate degree is in piano performance, and his study direction is to become a pianist. But in Professor Norman's view, with Zhuo Yang's outstanding musical talent, it would be a bit of a waste to pursue only performance. Zhuo Yang has delicate emotions, unique creative thinking and the ability to integrate and shape music, which has given him the ability to become a Prerequisites for a piano composer.

From the moment Zhuoyang decided to continue his studies, it was clear that he would embark on the path of both performance and creation. Since then, Zhuoyang has intensified his study and research on classical music theory and comprehensive orchestral performance, which were originally outside his curriculum. In other words, Zhuo Yang has actually started studying at the master's level.

In fact, from a certain perspective, Zhuo Yang has been able to compose piano music independently, and he has actually produced many works.

The stacking of various musical elements, combined with various complex performance techniques, and many obscure rhythms and key changes, make it awkward no matter what. Composing such etudes is not very difficult for Zhuo Yang at present. As long as he ponders for a period of time and works together bit by bit, he can still complete it. Moreover, this creative style of piano major is highly respected in many music universities around the world, including professional music schools in China.

Of course, although this type of style is popular, it is also controversial, because what such music pursues is transcendence and leadership, which can also be said to be self-righteous transcendence and leadership. We must transcend this era and be ahead of this era. To put it another way, that is to say, why can’t you understand how it comes from, and why you can’t understand how the melody comes from. This category is temporarily called the avant-garde.

For those who advocate this type of music, if the music created is understood and understood by current people, it means failure.

In fact, even the creator of this style of music was reluctant to play it. It was too unpleasant to listen to, so it was handed over to the department and then shelved and left to fend for itself.

As a leader in the field of music in the world, Hannover University of Music is naturally not immune to vulgarity, and this type of creative style is also very popular. However, the biggest advantage of the piano department headed by professors Al Wadi and Carl Norman is that it is compatible. While the Piano Department allows this avant-garde style to exist, it also has its own persistence.

Many people in the industry, including the Hannover University of Music, believe that music creation must contain emotion, and this emotion must withstand the precipitation and test of time. This kind of movement is the real music, just like the many classics passed down by the predecessors.

The avant-garde believes that many of the music of Beethoven and other masters were not understood by the industry at that time, and many people at the time could not understand their music. The emotions in the movement are given by later generations after time. In other words, it is precisely because they cannot understand that they can fully interpret it and freely give the movement a soul.

Just like the famous Eiffel Tower,

When it was first built, its grotesque and rough steel shape was completely incompatible with the romantic and classical urban atmosphere of Paris. However, as time went by, it was perfectly integrated into the feelings of Paris, seamlessly, and even became a symbol of Paris. symbol.

This is what the avant-garde wanted.

The emotional school believes that the created music is like mountains and seas. It is itself a part of the universe and can withstand the telling and touch of time. From the moment it appears, it becomes the emotional essence of the artistic universe, and it lasts longer. new.

The two schools are indistinguishable, but for Zhuo Yang of Hannover University of Music, he naturally admires the emotional school more. Zhuo Yang, like his teachers, believes that a successful piano piece comes into being after the expression and accumulation of emotions. It is the rendering and sublimation of emotions, and it is also the perception of the universe and life.

This kind of movement can resonate with the audience from the day it is born, allowing the audience to touch the emotional atmosphere in it, and it will become more intense and contagious as time goes by. The music of Beethoven and other sages was not incomprehensible in their time, but the unique and complex emotional expressions in it were quite targeted, special love for special you.

This is Zhuo Yang’s pursuit on the road of music.

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"I still can't put all the pieces together. Should I abandon them and start integrating them again?"

Zhuo Yang has already had many self-composed music fragments more than a year ago, which are derived from his improvisational insights in study and life. At that time, he was optimistic that he would soon have a complete piece of music, and he just needed to find some way to connect these emotions organically.

But more than a year has passed, and Zhuo Yang has made no progress in this. More and more musical fragments are accumulating, but they still cannot accumulate into a pile. No matter how many fragments there are, they are still fragments.

Grandpa Al Wadi always told him: take your time, take your time.

Professor Carl Norman also comforted him: Don't be anxious, don't be anxious.

Okay, don't rush, take your time, just wait. But I have been waiting for more than a year and still have no clue. I don’t even know where to put my efforts. I don’t know whether the learning method is correct. This is very troublesome.

When spring came, Zhuo Yang discussed this issue with Professor Norman many times, trying to find the crux of the problem with the help of his tutor, or perhaps find the door. When I came to school today, it was still the same thing.

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"Zhuoyang, in fact, it is normal for you to not find creative inspiration at your age. Normally, it is considered fast to be able to compose your first song before the age of thirty."

"The first song is a hurdle. With the first song, you will find a way, and the inspiration will continue to come later. Don't be anxious." Professor Norman taught Dundun. "Actually, the etudes you composed before are already very good, and I think there are a few that may become classics."

"Haha, it depends on how others will interpret it many years later. Anyway, I don't know the meaning." Zhuoyang knows that the kind of repertoire that is composed of depth and skill depends on how future generations forcefully give it something. , as time goes by, it will become worse.

——This sentence of Lu Xun expresses the author's bitter smile and helplessness towards the dark society at that time. The author intends to convey a positive and optimistic mood to readers, warning the people that they must wake up and break through the shackles of the old system. The author's use of interjections is superb, fully and strongly expressing his idea of ​​ending the old system.

——Lu Xun Quanxia Youzhi: Damn it, I don’t even know how to say ‘Hahaha! 'It actually has such profound connotations?

"Zhuoyang, your real problem is that you are too young. You have too little experience, both in terms of emotion and experience, and you have too little accumulation."

"Your current age is the biggest threshold for your music creation."

Professor Norman woke up the dreamer with one word, but what he said next really disturbed Zhuo Yang's heart.

"Zhuoyang, it's time for you to leave, it's time for you to leave Hanover!"