The God of Conducting Starting from Absolute Pitch

Chapter 75 Too, too big? No matter how much you think about it, you can’t get enough of it, right?

The coordination of the national competition is extremely cumbersome, and can even be considered complicated.

The first is the place where each band practices.

They need to go to other universities to practice. If there are not enough places in the university, they even have to be assigned to practice in certain theaters.

Then came the coordination work of various personnel.

After Chen Qiu came over, he followed Professor Li to handle various coordination tasks, running around the orchestra and the organizing committee.

The orchestra could only let Qin Xian lead the practice first.

Fortunately, everyone is relatively calm and will not take advantage of Chen Qiu's absence to play in an ensemble or play on autopilot.

Therefore, everything is still within the plan.

Every day during the day, the orchestra practiced their own music there. At night, Chen Qiu took them through it several times and corrected some details that were easy to make mistakes.

I am so busy every day that I feel dizzy.

Fortunately, all this did not last long, and the time finally came to the game day.

The gongs and drums were noisy, and the salutes were fired.

These are definitely not available.

However, decorations such as huge banners and red inflatable arch pillars were still posted all around the Huaguo Grand Theater.

Thousands of students from all corners of the city rushed to the concert hall for the last rehearsal before the competition and to check out the venue in advance.

The venues for the first round of the main competition are distributed in theater halls, concert halls, opera halls, small theaters and other venues.

Because the number of people in each orchestra is different, the number of people that each place can accommodate is also different, and the suitable venues are also different.

Therefore, in order to allow each school to exert its full strength as much as possible, the organizing committee allocates different territories to them according to their establishment.

For example, a small orchestra with a relatively small number of about twenty or thirty people will be directly assigned to the small concert hall. This is a chamber music hall, which is more suitable for the performance of such small orchestras.

As for the second orchestra, the orchestra with about forty people is assigned to the drama hall.

Only a very small number of three-wind ensembles with a total of sixty people or even more will be assigned to the largest opera hall, which can accommodate 2200 people, and the concert hall, which can accommodate 1900 people.

The Haiyin Second Troupe passed the lottery and they were assigned to the opera hall.

Facing such a huge opera hall, Chen Qiu couldn't help but frown.

The concert hall is too big.

They had never performed on such a big stage.

The concert hall in Haicheng Conservatory of Music is designed for six to seven hundred people, and the concert hall of Chen Qiu's family is also designed for six to seven hundred people.

All of them are just ordinary, not big concert halls.

Not to mention the extremely small chamber music hall arranged by the school before it was approved.

The sound of playing in a small concert hall is completely different from playing outside.

When Chen Qiu led everyone from the Haiyin Second Troupe to the Huaguo Grand Theater, they looked at the densely packed seats around them, and everyone was stunned.

Ai Gu took the lead and ran a few steps forward, stood at the front of the stage, and shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Oh~"

"Oh..."

The sound drifted, and a clearly visible sound collided back to Ai Gu.

Ai Gu looked at everything in front of him, his eyes couldn't help but light up, and he said loudly to Chen Qiu.

"Hey, hey, hey! Command Chen Qiu, shit! Did you hear that? This place, this place actually has an echo? Why is this place so big? Our words actually have echoes? Listen, listen, oh! "

"Hey Ou..."

Another echo sounded, and Ai Gu stood in front of the stage and winked crazily at Chen Qiu, wanting him to come and try out the feeling of this concert hall.

This concert hall feels really big.

Not only the sound of the ai drum, but also the sound of people carrying musical instruments.

All spread to the distance, echoed in the air, and then landed on everyone's ears.

Hearing such a voice, other people in the orchestra couldn't help but become curious and whispered.

"Hiss? The concert hall is so big, will our voices echo too much when played, causing the overall music effect to be too bad?"

"It feels like the piano has stepped on the sustain pedal and never let go, right?"

"By the way, this is my first time playing in such a big concert hall. It feels quite different."

"Who is not? Haicheng is too small. Even the concert hall we played in before is not the largest concert hall, but a medium-sized concert hall. Even if it is bigger than our school, it is not particularly crowded. a feeling of."

"Actually, it's because we weren't allowed to adapt to the venue in advance, right? If we had adapted to the venue in advance, maybe it would be the same as now?"

"Probably not? After all, Haicheng Symphony Hall is only more than twice as big as Haicheng Concert Hall, so it's not much bigger?"

"not sure……"

To Chen Qiu, the voices of people whispering were no different than talking in his ears.

But he didn't care.

He just stood at the front of the concert hall, slowly closed his eyes, listened to the sound of the sound in his ears hitting the walls of the concert hall, and felt the reverberation of the music in this concert hall.

Qin Xian seemed to be affected by the others around him. He ran to Chen Qiu's side hesitantly, looked around, and only spoke when he found that no one noticed them.

"Chen Qiu, command! I..."

"Well, you want to ask if the structure of this concert hall will have an impact on your performance, right?"

Chen Qiu looked at Qin Xian beside him and asked him.

Qin Xian was stunned for a moment, then nodded slowly.

"Well, yes, I felt there might be a problem, so I..."

"Have you never performed in a venue this big before?"

"No, the biggest venue was when we competed in Haicheng before. We played in that concert hall in Haicheng. It was the biggest venue I have ever played in. However, we were not given a chance to rehearse in advance at that time, so I didn't Know"

"Well, actually it's normal for you to have such doubts."

Chen Qiu smiled and nodded, then looked at the many people behind him who had the same confused faces, and asked them all together.

"Are you all feeling weird?"

"Yes, conductor Chen Qiu, I feel like I didn't understand clearly. Isn't the sound in this concert hall too loud and the echo too serious?"

"That's right, Commander Chen Qiu, I also feel a bit strange. This place is too spacious."

"That's it!"

"..."

Everyone chattered.

Chen Qiu was not surprised at all. He just smiled at everyone and asked.

"By the way, do you remember the first lesson when you just started learning music theory?"

Everyone was stunned and began to recall seriously, but there was some uncertainty in their eyes.

They didn't know what Chen Qiu was talking about.

What is the first lesson in music theory?

Rui Jia, who had been hiding behind the orchestra, seemed to have thought of something, raised her hand and asked Chen Qiu.

"Well, the first lesson of music theory is about "Music"?"

"sound?"

The others had doubts in their eyes when they heard this answer.

It seems that just as Rui Jia said, their first lesson in music theory really seems to start with music?

The beginning of music is to understand the essence of sound.

In fact, this is also described in physics.

The essence of sound, that is, what is the essence of acoustics.

Sound is a mechanical wave that is generated by the vibration of an object. It is a wave phenomenon that propagates through a medium and can be felt by the human auditory organs.

This is the essence of sound.

It's very simple, anyone who has been to junior high school should know.

However, after understanding the essence of sound, the direction of musicology is to begin to characterize the sound.

For example, what are the durations of sounds and what are the pitches of sounds? Standardize them and then learn them.

In physics, it is divided into frequency and wavelength.

One goes to theory and the other goes to practice.

Everyone now knows that the first music class is about music, but they don't know what Chen Qiu means by this. Chen Qiu glanced at Rui Jia, smiled and nodded.

"Well, yes, Rui Jia is right, it's sound, but what I want to say is actually sound in physics, not music."

In their sight, Chen Qiu walked up to them and raised a finger at them.

"In fact, the most critical point, which is the key that many people here have made mistakes, is that the venue we are going to play is not actually what it is now. It will change."

"Change?"

Everyone was stunned and began to think.

Soon, Rui Jia's eyes lit up and she raised her hands.

"I know, it's a human! Someone is coming later!"

"Yes, but don't talk about people, talk about the audience."

Chen Qiu nodded. He turned to look at the concert hall, looking at the densely packed and almost countless positions under the stage. He clasped his hands behind him and spoke slowly.

"There is loss in the propagation of sound. This loss is not only in the air propagation process, but also in the densely packed audience who will be sitting in the concert hall later. At the same time, it will also appear in that group of audiences. On the clothes on the body.

The audience is sound-absorbing, and their clothes are also sound-absorbing. When the audience in the concert hall is full, or even only about 50% of the seats are full, the dense echo phenomenon we hear now will completely disappear. You won’t hear any echoes and a feeling of emptiness! "

After Chen Qiu finished speaking, Ai Gu asked curiously.

"Well, conductor Chen Qiu, it's not me, it's just that I'm a little curious about that. So since the performance effect now is different from the performance effect we will feel later, why should we come here to perform now? Can't Can you go on stage directly later?”

"The reason is very simple. Although the effect we want to play will be different later, it is not different everywhere. We can still hear many, many, the same things at the scene, such as tension!"

Chen Qiu walked to the true center of the stage, where the conductor was.

He spoke to everyone.

"You all go to the corner now to move your chairs and sit down to check the sound! You should understand what I mean."

Without any hesitation, everyone quickly ran to the side under Chen Qiu's command, picked up a chair and walked towards Chen Qiu.

According to their previous positions during rehearsal, their chairs were distributed around Chen Qiu.

After everyone was seated, Chen Qiu's eyes only crossed the oboe for a moment before he played it hard.

Chen Qiu didn't need to remind him at all.

hum!
The sound of the oboe echoed in the concert hall.

However, before Chen Qiu could open his mouth to make his voice louder, the oboe's eyes couldn't help but straighten.

He looked at Chen Qiu, then at the oboe in his hand, and immediately began to exert force on his cheeks, making the sound louder.

He found out.

If I had just played with the same strength as before, I would not be able to hear my own voice at all.

No, to be precise, there should be no echo from the oboe.

Although the speed of sound traveled very fast, he could still clearly hear the time difference between when the music was blown out of his mouth and when it fell into his ears for the second time.

This time difference is so small that it is almost negligible.

But he could still feel it.

Not just him, but everyone else around him too.

At first, everyone didn't understand why the oboe's voice suddenly became louder.

But when they started tuning the oboe, they also discovered the same thing.

They followed the others tentatively and raised their voices.

Then suddenly I discovered it.

The space for music has become larger.

The scope of what they can do has expanded.

This feeling is amazing.

When I was in the band before, I was very careful when making those subtle sounds.

But now, when making subtle sound changes, it is obvious that there is no need to do that. As long as they play normally, or even just a little bit softer, the sound will be much smaller.

This feeling made them particularly novel. Even simple tuning made them curious about what it would be like if their orchestra played in a place like this.

Therefore, they looked at Chen Qiu and waited for Chen Qiu's command.

Chen Qiu also laughed when he looked at everyone.

He raised his eyebrows slightly at everyone and asked.

"How is it? Do you feel different? Do you understand what I just said?"

“You can feel the difference!”

Everyone said immediately.

But someone on the side still asked.

"But conductor Chen Qiu, the sound we are playing now is just enough to hit what we can hear. If there are more people turning around, won't the sound be able to hit us? And conductor Chen Qiu, What’s that tension about?”

"Well, there is indeed no way to hit us, but such a stage will be designed to stop just at the auditorium."

Chen Qiu nodded.

He spoke easily.

"The music we play is for the audience, not for us. The first feeling you need to remember now is the breadth of the music! You should have also discovered that you can control the details in the music. It is rougher to make and easier to make delicate. It is difficult to carve beautiful buildings on a grain of rice of one millimeter, so what if it is on a piece of A4 paper?"

Everyone immediately understood what Chen Qiu meant.

Now this huge concert hall is equivalent to a magnifying glass.

Not just amplifying their music, but giving them more space to work on the details of their music.

They don't need to be as uncomfortable as practicing in a small concert hall before.

Therefore, when they were preparing, they suddenly thought of many completely different ways to play, and their eyes gradually became filled with excitement.

Qin Xian also felt the excitement of everyone.

He sighed, looked at Chen Qiu, and said to Chen Qiu: "Why don't Chen Qiu lead us to run through the competition's works? Or run through something else?"

"What do you want to run for?" Chen Qiu asked everyone with a very relaxed expression. "After all, this place gives us time to adapt to the venue, so you can play how you want."

"Why don't we come and have five drinks together?"

"I feel like I'm surrounded by a professional team. Wouldn't it be a little too vulgar to come to Beiwu? How about we go directly to our first-round piece, Mendelssohn's Concerto in E minor?"

"Then why not just enter the final piece, Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony."

"I think we should play Brahms' Fourth Symphony again? It was just played recently and everyone is familiar with it."

"..."

Everyone had different opinions. Chen Qiu just watched them quarreling with a smile in his eyes without raising any opinions.

In the end, all the opinions were gathered to Qin Xian. After looking around, Qin Xian said to Chen Qiu.

"The one with the highest votes here seems to be Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony? Conductor Chen Qiu, look..."

Chen Qiu glanced around the crowd, looked at their expectant eyes, nodded slightly, and said with a smile.

"Okay, since you want to play this one, let's play it."

Chen Qiu took out a pen from his pocket and spoke to everyone.

"Then, everyone, get ready, pay attention, look at me!"

……

……

At this moment, outside the house.

There were not only students preparing to practice outside the room, but also some school leaders and members of the organizing committee came here.

They casually glanced at the people who were entering the concert hall to rehearse at a loss, without any change in their expressions.

"It seems that many students are not used to such a large competition venue, right?"

A teacher from an unknown school next to him smiled and said, "It's a pity that not many people paid attention to him."

Only one person who seemed to be the leader nodded and said casually.

"After all, they are still students, don't worry, let's see."

After that, he walked directly through the door of the concert hall and walked towards the largest opera house.

However, before reaching the door of the opera house, I heard the resonance of the orchestra's tune.

The resonance of this school is very bright, and it feels completely different from all other schools!

(End of this chapter)