Miss Bach's Crab Canon

Gao Yiyu understood the deep meaning of these words - if she did something that could be written into history, then she would formally integrate into it and become a person who can be seen normally...

something like that...

As music lovers, as musicians, there is only one thing they know and can do.

music.

After shopping in Walmart for about ten minutes, Gao Yiyu gathered all kinds of snacks, chai rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar tea, fresh vegetables and fruits, and threw them into the shopping cart together—Joannis couldn't even stretch her arms and legs.

Thanks to the girl's thin and small body, she can still compromise a bit when she competes with the food.

"Do you have anything to eat?"

"coffee."

"Food, the coffee has already bought Nescafe instant for you... Forgive me, I only know this kind of thing, and the Walmart here can only buy this"

"The bread, if it doesn't cost you too much..."

Gao Yiyu walked around without saying a word. The pastry-style bread was full of sugar and butter, which might not suit the appetite of the ancients. Fortunately, Wal-Mart has its own brand of whole-wheat bread—Joannis opened it while others were not paying attention. After sniffing, he immediately gave a thumbs up to express his admiration.

"It's called Wal-Mart, right? Human beings are so great that they created such a place."

"Fortunately, there are such things all over the world."

"……worldwide?!"

"Well, there are more advanced Wal-Mart supermarkets in that kind of big city, and you can even apply for a membership card...it can save a lot of money..."

Gao Yiyu's casual remark turned out to be an unimaginable magnificence in Joannis's heart.

Although people in small places can enjoy the convenience of Wal-Mart, are they still not as good as those in big cities... and the so-called membership status, I am afraid that you have to pay a huge price and have a decent status to have it...

What kind of assessment is required?

She substituted it according to the music world she knew——

First of all, you have to accumulate spending in low-level Wal-Marts in small cities and show unique qualifications to stand out before you can be invited by big cities, right?Then, together with the invited Wal-Mart geniuses from small cities all over the world, they will compete for consumption in high-end Wal-Mart... The final winner will be eligible to become a member...

Joannis noticed that when Gao Yiyu mentioned "members", he showed a heartbroken expression, probably because he had challenged but failed.

The modern social structure is really incredible and unimaginable...

Today, Wal-Mart is in charge of the lives and needs of human beings all over the world. Has it already dominated the world?And Gao Yiyu just said that the Holy Roman Empire and the emperor have been eliminated by the times... I am afraid that they lost to Wal-Mart.

……

Back home with big bags and small bags, Gao Yiyu lamented that the girl's small arms were really weak. Fortunately, Anis was asked to help mention it on the way—I don't know what it looks like in the eyes of passers-by?

"Parents, so many things, do we have to eat them in two days?"

"No... Hyundai has a refrigerator. Would you like some coffee first, or bread first?"

"Huh? Of course together. Hehe, I can help with this. I'm good at cooking and making coffee. I'll take care of these housework!"

It sounds good, but if it really makes her tired, then wait for the kitchen to explode... Gao Yiyu shook his head.

As a modern person, the first thing to do when you get home is to check your electronic equipment to see if anyone is looking for it—and what is different from modern people is that someone is actually looking for it...

is the principal.

She sent dozens of messages one after another, bombarding Gao Yiyu's QQ with high density.

With an ominous premonition, Gao Yiyu opened them——

"Hi, I'm Wang Yuehai, the founder of Yuehai Piano Education, maybe you've heard my name, haha."

"...What is this? What's the situation?" She immediately continued to look down, she couldn't be the client punishing herself, right?

"Your method of teaching Miss Patriotism is very practical, and the Bach-style fugue is also very brilliant. In the video, the person who plays this fugue should be your student? I want to know who you are in the industry What about the old man? Maybe I can communicate with you more."

Next, the client explained the ins and outs of the matter from her own point of view: it was nothing more than talking big and being scolded by her mother, and then invited a pianist to teach, and then heard the fugue Just followed the vine and came over.

Although Gao Yiyu was a little surprised, but after thinking about it, if he heard that kind of fugue, he would also be curious about the composer.However, there is an overly magical story hidden behind this...Gao Yiyu dares to explain truthfully, but he also needs the other party to believe it.

"Since we have Teacher Wang Yuehai's help, then we will not get involved in this troublesome matter. Let her pay as much as she wants in terms of remuneration." Gao Yiyu didn't respond directly to the other party, but prepared to withdraw from it—it's a pity that those remunerations ...

"No, no, no, I will pay you as promised!" The client must not be practicing the piano, because the reply was in seconds, "Please wait, Teacher Wang still has something to ask you."

"—Parents, what the hell is going on with these coffee beans... have they been ground?"

"Instant, not coffee beans."

"No... can't understand..."

Gao Yiyu was about to drop what he was doing and go to eat to satisfy his hunger. By the way, he would popularize the situation of instant coffee for the ancients, but before that—the client used QQ to send a few pictures.

Yellowed, thick-fibered paper, hand-painted with ink and thus five lines with tails.

It's sheet music.

"Teacher Wang Yuehai wants you to transfer these to the person who is familiar with Bach. I want to ask if you know these things. If you know them, please tell them. If you don't know, please keep them secret. Don't spread them at will. Trust the old man and his students. I understand all of this."

After the client finished speaking, he conveyed a few more polite words, and then went to practice the piano under the urging.

But Gao Yiyu didn't even read half a word, just stared at the few sheet music of ancient origin.

They are not scanned pictures, but taken with a camera, but the details are still clear enough.Gao Yiyu frowned more and more, because something was wrong...

"Deli Dolly." Gao Yiyu took out a gold coin and smashed it on the table, because the thing in front of her was so strange that she forgot to adjust the strength.

"I'm watching." Among the gold coins, Deli Duoli made the same distressed voice.

What is this?It's sheet music—you don't have to ask.They are staves. It can be seen that the notation of Newham notation and connection has been completely faded away, and the rules of modern staves have been thoroughly followed. Gao Yiyu can fully understand——

But do not understand.

Gao Yiyu turned on the synthesizer keyboard, rubbed his fingers to warm it up, and tried to reproduce the score on the picture.But after playing a few notes, I realized it wasn't something to play.

Countless notes are squeezed into the too narrow stave, frantically like a typhoon passing through.

If a composer composes with the idea of ​​leaving no gaps in the staves, he will have a score full of ink, and there will be thirds of those scores.but

Oddly enough, although its staff is crowded with musical notes, the ink used to write the musical notes is separated from each other, and the layers can barely be recognized one by one-but it also creates a huge mess.

"It's like stacking [-] sheet music..." Deridoli described it.

"Besides, the titles of the songs are stacked together." Gao Yiyu folded his hands, very confused.

What the hell is this?Who does such a thing with nothing to do?How could such a thing be done before then?Gao Yiyu opened Google and searched for pictures, but of course he couldn't find them.She wrote a few more keywords to describe, trying to find the source - but the result was zero.

This inexplicable score made Gao Yiyu feel very uncomfortable.

even--

"Give you."

Even being poked in the face by a half-cut bread, he was so scared that he almost flew up.

Joannis was taken aback, she always felt that she had done something wrong, she was just here to deliver the bread... But she glanced at the screen from the corner of her eye and frowned.

"Ioannis, do you know this thing? And thank you for the bread."

"It's a strange score, wait a minute... lend me the piano."

Gao Yiyu knew very well that he was just an ordinary fan, so he immediately gave up his chair and adjusted the position of the screen to suit her.Joannis chewed a few mouthfuls of bread before she sat down contentedly and put her hands on the keyboard.

"Do you have a clue?"

"No, but I have something I am very concerned about...can you feed me?"

Joannis stared at the music score intently, and moved her hands on the keyboard, but she didn't press it once, and never made a sound.Instead of a musical instrument, her lips and tongue were not idle, and her slurred voice formed a concerto with the sound of chewing bread.

"Before my death, the children of Frederick II liked to play with fancy things. The French who took refuge in Switzerland were very good at playing with these small things. They also stole the glass-making technology of the Venetians, which is very useful. What's the matter?"

"……Uh?"

"They have made many clocks, six and 10 minutes into a clock, and even accurately divided 60 seconds into 1 minute."

Speaking of this, Joannis opened her mouth, and Gao Yiyu had to feed a piece of bread.After she took a small bite and finished chewing satisfactorily, she continued.

"Yesterday, I was in your music collection and listened to a very interesting piece of music played on headphones... It has a lot to do with the second and minute hands, but it is not a piece of music."

"Huh? Which one? Does it have anything to do with this strange score?"

"Yes—the score we saw before us, although it contains about 9854 different pieces of music, they are squeezed together wrongly... But have you noticed that the prompts, the speed of the music, and the number of bars are all The original . . . was not overwritten by the other."

"...Indeed, then we can judge a lot of information."

"Yes." Asked for another bite of bread—Joannis's hand in the air finally dropped.

But it's not pressing on the keys - it's "End Recording".

Unknowingly, she even quietly learned how to use this function from Gao Yiyu's recording yesterday.

"Although I don't know if it's related, but when I looked at it, I judged the theoretical playing time of this score, and I remembered the piece I heard yesterday... I just tried to compare it with the recording function, and the result was just right. .”

Gao Yiyu immediately looked at what Annis had recorded just now - his eyes widened.

Of course she knows this.

Its length is - ""4 minutes and 33 seconds".

030. A [-]-year-old boy

"4 minutes and 33 seconds" is a very well-known work, even, this thing can be called a piano piece...

This piece of music was composed by John Cage, Schoenberg's apprentice, the famous avant-garde.

Like most of John Cage's other works, "4'33" is certainly an experimental piece of music.

In a full 4 minutes and 33 seconds, he used long rests to fill the entire time.

During these 4 minutes and 33 seconds, he himself did not press even a single key on the piano, but just let the rests continue, continue, continue... until the rests finished for 4 minutes and 33 seconds, the performer would stand up and tell the audience Take a bow.

Of course, this caused a huge reaction.

People call it performance art and regard it as a kind of sensationalism and opportunism.

But it has to be said that it is still a kind of music.

Like John Cage's other experimental styles - he experimented with a style called the music of chance: letting the natural workings of the world dictate where the notes go.

For example, he flips a coin and decides which note to use based on the result of the fall.Or in the process of recording and performance, let the audience speak freely and become part of the notes.

He has also learned gossip fortune-telling, using the gossip to figure out which notes to use.

"It is said that the duration of "4 minutes and 33 seconds" was calculated by him using gossip...Although I think it is nonsense...he used some oriental mysticism to deceive fools...but I like Chance music itself very much."

After roughly introducing "4 minutes and 33" to Joannis, Gao Yiyu couldn't help adding his own opinion after all.

As she said herself, she doesn't hate this kind of thing.

In fact, no matter whether it is John Cage or other avant-garde musicians, the reason why they are forced to engage in this kind of music creation is nothing more than because they were born too late...

Gao Yiyu glanced at Joannis. A genius like her has never stopped being born in the history of human music, and she has eaten up all the food for future generations...

Fortunately, with the advancement of science and technology, after human beings have mastered the thunder and lightning, they have created countless new musical instruments, which can be eaten by the predecessors.But when it comes to this, Gao Yiyu still has a lot to say.

In Gao Yiyu's view, the relationship between modern music and classical music is like cooking——

The latter is due to the scarcity of ingredients and seasonings, and every possibility is exhausted in craftsmanship to explore the taste.

As for the former, with the two powerful seasonings of "new musical instrument" and "post-processing", you don't have to explore the cooking methods of the ingredients, and you can easily make something delicious at first taste-for everyone For most people, this is enough.

"However, just as John Cage mentioned just now, these experimental musicians are actually people who explore the cooking method of ingredients in modern times. For example, chance music is a new cooking method they explored. In essence, it is the same as You classical musicians are a kind of people."

Gao Yiyu's head was dizzy and his saliva was dry. He finally finished explaining this small part of modern music to Ioannis.

pity--

"Haha, I didn't understand at all." She laughed with a guilty conscience.

"Well, I think so too..."

Joannis immediately tried to make amends: "But I want to stay at your house for a long, long time in this era, our... tell me slowly in the future."

"Ok."

At first, I thought it was a bit uncomfortable to say so much in vain, but seeing her expression at the moment, Gao Yiyu felt like he was earning money?Forget it--

She looked back at the monitor, and it seemed that she should explore this thing more now.

"In a word, the first person who proposed this kind of performance art-like gimmick is actually quite valuable, and it represents a new possibility. But the imitators later will look very stupid... But... this score ..."

This score looks very old, according to Gao Yiyu's experience from frequent visits to music museums, at least it is no younger than Joannis.