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Chapter 169 The song "Blessings of Love" amazes everyone!

"Hello judges, I'm Li Zhifan from the Huaxia Capital Division!"

After stepping onto the stage, Li Zhifan said to the judges, "Today's repertoire is a piano solo repertoire "Butterfly Lovers" adapted from the famous Chinese folk opera "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" and related theme music!"

After he finished speaking, everyone in the audience couldn't help but think about it, and even caused several judges to whisper.

The poignant and beautiful love story between Liang and Zhu is well known to everyone, even foreigners know that it is the Chinese version of "Romeo and Juliet" in their hearts.

Although Li Zhifan did not create his own repertoire this time, the adaptation is a second creation, which also aroused their interest.

There were also some people who were simply interested in Chinese opera and folk music, and wanted to see what Li Zhifan's piano music would look like.

Of course, there are also people who are not optimistic!

The folk theme "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" has been played to the brim in China, and there are countless film and television works based on it, and the soundtracks, episodes, and theme songs are countless.

Just in the first half of this year, another film with the same theme was released. This remake conforms to the film technology of the new era and has a 3D effect. In the end, it still couldn't escape the fiasco at the box office.

Under the gaze of everyone, Li Zhifan turned around and walked to the piano to sit down, groping for the keys with both hands, ready to start playing.

The original version of "The Butterfly Lovers" Violin Concerto is 26 minutes long, and there are several versions of piano pieces based on it. However, in Master Lang's "100 Piano Pieces", there are only the original version and a relatively simple 3-minute piano arrangement.

Li Zhifan played the 3-minute version today. All the elements of folk music related to "Blessed Lovers" are concentrated in these 3 minutes. There is basically no self-created content, which is also suitable for display on today's stage.

In the blink of an eye, Li Zhifan lowered his fingers gently and leisurely.

The right hand played a few descending notes in the middle range, and the left hand immediately imitated the answer in the low range, and the two passages continued in the same way.

The opening paragraph "0532/1——2/765-/..." is a very common interlude in Yue opera, and the quotation of this intermediary, at the same time, the bass range of the piano follows the alto region, which is the Canon round singing in the music The method, with its beautiful melody and answer style, sets off the love between Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai.

After a simple crossover, the notes pause for a few beats.

When the first part of the main melody fell, Li Zhifan spoke suddenly, whispering:
"The moon is white, the wind is clear and the flowers are blowing, the screen window is blue and the lights are shining through the double shadows. In the night, everything is silent, and I can still hear the sound of reading in the west building."

"Accompany each other through wind and rain, help each other and encourage fellow travelers. The childhood sweethearts have no guesses, and the heart-to-heart is a bosom friend."

Li Zhifan's voice was not loud, only the judges and some contestants in the first row or two could hear it.

But this chant is not obtrusive at all, just like playing Chinese music on the piano, but it makes the music more ethnic.

In the first row, a Huaxia judge sat up straight, staring at Li Zhifan with wide eyes.

He has listened to countless ancient Chinese songs, and his current main research direction is also to adapt this music into repertoires suitable for western instruments and send them abroad for performances and dissemination.

Most of these ancient Chinese songs have technology and connotation, but they lack communication. They can be adapted and sent to elegant halls, but they are difficult to be accepted by modern ordinary people.

The reason is that there is still a problem with the pleasantness of the melody. In other words, the music is not close enough to the people.

The ancient Chinese songs that are currently being respected in the circle actually came from the upper class in ancient times, because the ancient piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and the six arts of gentlemen were all played by nobles, so how can they be grounded among ordinary people.

But the common people also have their own favorite entertainment, that is opera. For a long time, these musicians have not paid much attention to local opera and minor tunes, nor have they considered the choice of adaptation.

But today, Li Zhifan told them a truth with practical actions, the popular music that people like can also become tall.

On the stage, Li Zhifan was still chanting in a low voice:

"Accompanied day and night for several springs, Mo Zhiyingtai's daughter is born. When the flower comes out of the water, Fang Wu is the most bitter lovesickness."

"The handsome Confucian scholar is a romantic species, and the slender jasper is also passionate. We often meet before the flowers and under the moon, and the soil is the Fragrant Mountain and Sea Alliance."

The popular melody, the operation of traditional Chinese tones, combined with this seven-rhythm ancient style poem, immersed the entire venue in intoxication.

"Isn't this the music from Kunqu opera? Li Zhifan has been transplanted here!" An audience member from the southern Jiangsu area was surprised. As a kind of opera in his hometown, he shouldn't listen to it too much. It's familiar. When the melody came out, I couldn't suppress the excitement and joy in my chest.

The music then changed, and an audience from Shanghai stock market was stunned, and said strangely: "Huh? This passage...isn't it from "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai"? Why does it sound like the one from "The Legend of the White Snake"?" Broken bridge?"

The audience in southern Jiangsu explained: "Many small climaxes in operas are common. Some melodies are very close, and it is normal to transplant and apply them."

"I see!"

Many people have an illusion because of this, they are listening to the piano music, but for some reason, the picture of the theater popped up in their minds, and the intoxication is deeper, and they even feel that they really saw the picture of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai playing together.

The music suddenly turned, although the melody was slow, but the rhythm and chords of the left hand became complicated, outlining a picture of contradictions and conflicts.

This is called "Strike hard and sing slowly" in opera, and it was completely transplanted into the "Liang Zhu" violin concerto. When adapting the piano version, the most exciting part of this section was kept, shaping the final ending of Liang Zhu.

"Jade people are intentional and unintentional, how many successes are good marriages? The matchmaker's words are the fate of the parents, and they will beat the couple."

Accompanied by the sound of the zither, Li Zhifan's chanting also became sad and not angry, yet faintly revealing a trace of helplessness.

The judges also heard more things. It was a chance encounter in the vast sea of ​​people, or a hasty search for life and death over the years. They thought that lovers would eventually get married, but they didn't expect that they had no chance to get married in this life.

"Laughing and asking what love is in the world, there is no hatred in life and death. There is no fate in this life to be the same as the white head, and we will recount the old love in the next life."

In the last part of the butterfly transformation, the music is more contagious and brings a psychedelic color. Everyone seems to see Liang and Zhu's tears staining their wings, turning into colorful butterflies, dancing among the flowers.

"In life and death, stay with each other, and walk together on the road to Huangquan. Both of them turn into butterflies and dance, loving and loving."

(End of this chapter)