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Mo Yusheng, who was awakened by Tao Tian, ​​was still a little dazed, but then remembered what Grandpa Mo said was "not suitable", and followed Tao Tian downstairs to watch live TV together.

The moment the music started, Mo Yusheng laughed and collapsed on the sofa exaggeratedly.Qin Fangchen and Tao Tian on the side looked at him inexplicably, and then turned to look at the live TV screen. There was a symphony orchestra in the screen, but their positions were a bit off...

Still, isn't this normal?According to the process, the content of the afternoon should be operas from various countries.The first one to go up was Germany. From Tao Tian's point of view, they were all foreigners with blond hair and blue eyes. For the time being, he couldn't tell the difference between the Germans and the British.

Seeing Qin Fangchen and Tao Tian looking at him inexplicably, Mo Yusheng also realized that they still don't know the allusion.Mo Yusheng gradually stopped laughing before sitting up with difficulty.Tao Tian next to him saw it, and immediately stepped forward to help Mo Yusheng up, and let Mo Yusheng sit next to him.Mo Yusheng didn't refuse, but Qin Fangchen on the other side looked at her with fire in his eyes.

Qin Fangchen knew her cousin's physical condition, so she naturally didn't want her cousin to have too much contact with outsiders, or such intimate contact.And Tao Tian was in the ranks of this outsider, Qin Fangchen knew that this Tao Tian was the early stage passerby and late stage villain in the "original book" who couldn't ask for it and turned into a maniac.If it wasn't for 1 people who were sure that Tao Tian didn't know her own background and was still a good young man with good roots, she would definitely separate Tao Tian from her cousin.

However, now it seems that Qin Fangchen has some regrets.Unexpectedly, Tao Tian's methods were so powerful that not only his uncles and others recognized him, but also his cousin got close to him.Qin Fangchen remembered very well that when she met her cousin last time, even her cousin was a little shy of her.

Tao Tian also glanced at Qin Fangchen indiscriminately. Mo Yusheng didn't know this indistinctly, but Qin Fangchen received it clearly.The anger in Qin Fangchen's eyes was even worse, mother, when she and her cousin fell in love with each other, your kid was not born yet!No, to a certain extent, isn't Tao Tian his son?

The corners of Tao Tian's mouth curled up, awesome!Let Qin Fangchen always hug Shengsheng at noon, he looks very angry too!

However, Tao Tian was still a little cautious.Seeing that Qin Fangchen was about to lose control, he straightened Mo Yusheng, and then rubbed Mo Yusheng under Qin Fangchen's gaze.

Tao Tian asked warmly, "Shengsheng, what are you laughing at?"

Mo Yusheng clutched his sore stomach, panting slightly: "This music...is the prelude to Meistersinger of Nuremberg."

Tao Tian: "..." I don't understand.

Qin Fangchen: "..." Cousin, I don't understand either.

Mo Yusheng further explained: "The author of Meistersinger of Nuremberg is Wagner."

Tao Tian: "..." Still don't understand.

Qin Fangchen: "..." Cousin, I still don't understand.

Mo Yusheng touched his nose, and then began to explain Wagner and... his opera characteristics to two laymen, Tao Tian and Qin Fangchen.

To say that Germany has always given people the impression that it is rigid to rigid, serious to harsh.It is even synonymous with fascism and Nazism, a butcher who kills without blinking an eye, but German music has also become famous at some point.There are many representatives, the most famous being the "three bs": Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms.Bach is generally regarded as one of the most important composers in the history of music, and is honored as "the father of Western 'modern music'; the master of Beethoven's classical style and the pioneer of Romantic style; Brahm He is a romantic composer who inherited and developed the essence of classicism. The famous German musicians include Mendelssohn, Schumann, Richard Strauss, Weber, Meyer Bell, etc. Wagner is also famous in Germany One of the most famous musicians in the world, but unlike other musicians, his achievements are in performance and composition. Wagner is famous because of his operas...

Like Berlioz and Liszt, Wagner is a musical artist striving to pursue "comprehensive art".Wagner also created a style of music called Wagnerian style music.

Most of the operas before Wagnerism were music and plot, and they were barely connected. Wagner's important idea for opera reform was to break this convention and not allow plot to become a slave to music.

For this reason, Wagner believes that the opera he wrote is not an opera, but a musical.Wagner's musical theater is a high degree of integration of drama, poetry, and music, and expresses the view that "music is only a means of expression, and drama is the purpose of expression" to the extreme.

Another obvious feature of Wagner's previous operas is that the music expressing drama is divided into distinct sections such as recitative, aria, duet, chorus, and ballet.This kind of drama cannot mobilize the audience's emotions to the highest point at all, and it is easy to interrupt and separate the plot of the opera and the emotional process of the characters.

In order to ensure that the plot of the musical and the emotions of the characters are not interrupted, resulting in a sense of rigidity, Wagner also developed something called "endless melody".Generally speaking, a piece of music ends in a whole tone, but Wagner doesn't!Wagnerian music ends with half-tone notes in order to create an endless lingering sound.

There is a little story in the music industry about someone practicing the piano in the middle of the night, playing the seven scales back and forth.Then his neighbor became uncomfortable. The neighbor with OCD got up in the middle of the night and pressed the "do" button before going back to sleep comfortably.This also involves Wagner's endless melody...

Wagner's opera style also advocates that music and plot are equally important, and Wagner has also put a lot of effort into musical accompaniment.There is one of the most famous examples, the pieces that are often played at weddings are two "Wedding Marches", one by Mendelssohn and the other by Wagner.However, Wagner's "Wedding March" is a piece of music in the opera "Lohengrin". Think about a piece of music in an opera that has become the universal "Wedding March" all over the world...

Ahem, returning to the main story, Wagner also applied endless melodies to opera music, which also made Wagner's opera successfully become the "longest opera in the world".

The world's longest opera, both in name and in reality.

We must know that an opera is at least two or three hours long, and Wagner's operas have another feature-long!

This "Meistersinger of Nuremberg" is 5 hours and 15 minutes long, and this length is enough to stand out from the crowd in operas.Although "Meistersinger" is under pressure by his father's other son "The Ring of the Nibelungen", there is no problem with "Meistersinger" being called "the longest opera in the world".Because of the huge scale of "The Ring of the Nibelungen", it takes four nights to complete the performance, and there must be a special super-large theater, which also greatly hinders the promotion of "The Ring of the Nibelungen".

Ordinary operas will have a short pause between acts and scenes, just like the advertisements in TV dramas today, to relieve your mood or let you go to the toilet.And Wagner's endless melody ... makes the whole opera coherent, and in this case, it is a very rude thing to leave halfway.If Mo Yusheng read it correctly, he just saw the leaders of China toasting the envoys of the United Kingdom and the United States...

Mo Yusheng seemed to be able to see the scene where foreigners turned blue and red from urinating. Thinking of this, Mo Yusheng couldn't help laughing again.After Mo Yusheng's explanation, Tao Tian and Qin Fangchen also understood what kind of joke would happen later, and they both laughed.Seeing that Mo Yusheng was tilted again, Tao Tian asked Mo Yusheng to lie in his arms and smile.

Qin Fangchen rubbed her belly and leaned on the sofa, and said, "Oh, I didn't expect those adults to be so cunning. Is this the legendary cuteness of contrast?"

Mo Yusheng laughed enough, so he straightened up and watched the live TV seriously.

Although the country tricked foreigners with Wagner's endless melodies, Wagner's music is still really charming.Many people are not used to Wagner's vocal melody, but they are very obsessed with Wagner's music, because the expressiveness of the symphony orchestra in Wagner's musicals is very rich and full of charm.

The instrumental part of Wagner's musicals is grand and magnificent, and the opera overtures after the 18th century all play the role of suggesting the plot, and the overture of "Meistersinger" is no exception.Several main themes of the prelude come from the main motives in the three-act opera, and it still adopts the sonata form commonly used in opera overtures. The tonal juxtaposition of C major and E major makes the theme of the main part and the theme of the sub part blend and advance, which is very prominent.

In contrast, the vocal difficulty of Wagner's operas is no less difficult than his instrumental parts.Wagner could indeed be more flexible by substituting a vocal line that is half aria and half recitative for the concerns of the traditional boundaries between aria and recitative in Italian opera.This reform also allowed many factors such as lyricism, narration, plot environment, and inner activities to be integrated into the "long aria-style phrase", so that the opera obtained an elegant, noble, continuous, and far-reaching vocal effect.And this is part of the endless melody...

In this way, the difficulty of Wagner's operas has gradually increased, and the requirements for singers are extremely strict in all aspects.Therefore, it is true that Germany uses this opera to showcase art and culture, although the intention is a bit sinister.Well, not a little...

Mo Yusheng looked at the leader who appeared on TV with a gentle smile and thought, do they know about Germany's abacus, or don't they?How did he feel a lot of pride when they looked at Germany, like a fox who stole a chicken...

No, no, how could he use this metaphor?