.”
Leo is a night owl.
This time period happens to be the most energetic time.
After opening it a little and listening.
Leo suddenly jumped up from the sofa.
Turn off the TV, open a bottle of beer from the refrigerator, take a sip, and turn on the computer.
After putting on the high-end headphones, I adjusted the volume and balance and listened carefully.
Leo found the bass sound very interesting at the beginning.
Kind of like a male voice.
The sound of horns and war cries that followed made me feel the Viking warriors floating in the world of ice and snow.
"Oh this is amazing."
Leo's eyes widened, he glanced at the message from Li Jinglin again, and confirmed the text.
【Not refined yet】
You call this not yet refined?
Do you have any misunderstandings about casual works?
Leo felt that Li Jinglin said so, but this music was completely enough to appear in the game.
Moreover, it can also be used directly as the soundtrack for a promotional video!
"Is this Li Jinglin? What a terrifying speed."
Even though Leo had heard some rumors about Li Jinglin, when he actually saw him, he still felt it was a bit outrageous.
As early as when Li Jinglin collaborated with "The Witcher 3" on the Blood and Wine DLC, I heard some people in the industry talking about it.
【plum? He is super fast, the quantity is large, and the quality is high. He works for two months and fishes for fifty days, but he can get it all done for you. 】
And, not just fast.
It was hard for Leo to imagine why an Oriental could be so familiar with the style of Western folk music.
It felt like Li Jinglin had returned to his own home.
Everything is done with ease.
[Mr. Li, this is great, but the specific selection still depends on your discussion with the game production]
After replying.
Leo couldn't help but listen to it a few more times.
After this song is refined, it will definitely become more addictive.
At this time, Leo had already made up his mind.
At that time, even if it is not used in games, such good music must not be wasted.
The next day.
Li Jinglin came to Paris National University.
At the beginning, as requested by the school, I also gave several major classes to the composition department.
The content of the big class is about Eastern music.
For composition majors, this musical style and composition ideas from the mysterious East are very attractive.
Even professors in their own major happily came over to follow the class with their pens and notebooks in hand.
"As for the emphasis on Eastern and Western music, we can explain it differently."
"What exactly are the form of Western music and the meaning and spirit of Eastern music?"
Li Jinglin was talking about strange things in class.
The students in the audience were even more confused.
These contents are actually quite beyond the scope for these students.
If you are a Chinese student, you can understand it very well, but Western students really don't know what kind of strange things you are talking about about "meaning" and "spirit".
just like.
"The sword's intent is soaring to the sky, extremely sharp!"
Students of Huaxia can immediately imagine this abstract, intangible temperament.
What are you sending me, my soaring energy and sharp sword intent?
If I ask the Chinese students to describe what this thing looks like, the Chinese students will also think that you are trying to embarrass me.
How can I send it? Do you know what these things look like?
well! But I can understand what this "sword intent" is.
Even if you can't imagine the specific appearance, you can still imagine the feeling this thing brings to people.
This is [can only be understood, not expressed in words].
The main focus is a "Tao".
But what about Western students?
Le, has no idea what this is, and may even misunderstand it and classify it as magic like "wizard".
Let’s still describe “sword”.
China can say "a flash of sword light" and the artistic conception of playing with ancient dragons.
Ximen Chuixue got up in a flash, and was killed by the opponent in a flash. If you ask others, no one knows, but it is fast.
Too fast to react, too fast to the extreme, too fast to defend.
This is the "perfect state of swordsmanship".
But when Western readers see this description, most of them will be confused.
A question arises.
So how fast is this? Speed of sound? Speed of light? Oh buy karma ten
However, Chinese readers generally do not care about how fast or what the speed is, but focus their cognition on the concept of "fast" itself.
This is actually a barrier created by thinking, cognition, culture and other aspects.
Whether it is to allow these students to learn Eastern music, or to allow more people to have Eastern thinking and promote Eastern culture, then we must try to break such barriers from one aspect.
"Let me put it another way so that everyone can understand."
Faced with such barriers.
Li Jinglin chose to use the explanation of Western music theory to show the completely different Eastern music to the students.
"It wasn't until the Romantic period in the 19th century that title music really became popular in Western music. Before that, music was just music, and most of it was untitled music."
Li Jinglin’s words.
The majority of classmates nodded.
This is easy to understand.
Most of Western classical music is untitled.
Generally, the work number is described under the summary of instrument, tonality and musical form.
Most of them have names like this.
for example
Piano Sonata in A major, D.8, No.5.
At first glance, I was confused.
But if you break it down and look at the format, it’s easy to understand.
A major (key) Piano (instrument) Sonata (form) D.8 (written by the composer named D, collection No. 8) No.5 (work No. 5 in the collection.)
This seems to make no sense at all, because there is no "title", so there is no main story content expressed.
It's just music.
This is Untitled Music.
For example, Beethoven's "Symphony of Destiny" itself is untitled music. The name "Destiny" is just a title given to this "untitled" music by later generations based on the power of expression in the music.
Beethoven himself was the link between classicism and romanticism, and his works gradually began to possess the characteristics of the title music of the romantic period.
Western music.
Title music has become increasingly popular since the Romantic period.
For example, the title of Tchaikovsky's Fantasy Overture is "Romeo and Juliet". From this look, everyone can understand, oh, this is a love story about Romeo and Juliet.
And this.
China is completely different.
"In China, we rarely see title music. This is due to the extremely prosperous development of Chinese literature and culture. In the development of music, even in the ancient period two thousand years ago, music was closely related to the title The inherent literary properties are firmly bound.”
Li Jinglin wrote a few Chinese characters on the blackboard.
Also wrote down its translated French name.
"For example, "The Book of Songs: Plucking Wei"."
"The peacock flies southeast and lingers for five miles. This is the Yuefu poem "Peacock Flying Southeast."
"More on, such as "High Mountains and Flowing Waters", "Autumn Moon in the Han Palace" and "White Snow in Spring"."
Speaking of which.
Li Jinglin smiled slightly.
"Almost the vast majority of Chinese classical music has been title music since its development, and has quite distinct and strong literary attributes throughout it."
"call!!"
The students in the audience stared wide-eyed.
The interest is even more intense.
It sounds like the mysterious Eastern music is completely different from Western music from the very beginning.
At this time, these composition major students came into contact with another music system.
My heart is undoubtedly excited and even more curious.
"And what impact did this have on the development of the two music systems?"
Li Jinglin wrote two words on the blackboard.
[Imagination] and [Form]
"I believe that music can be a natural and harmonious alternative expression of mathematics. Therefore, it must be logical and have scientific and rigorous structures and rules. This is the formal beauty of music."
"And music is a kind of art, and the artistic beauty based on imagination is even more important. It is based on form, but it develops the artistic beauty that belongs to human beings' unique emotions and thinking."
"Excellent music is actually about finding a harmonious position between formal beauty and artistic beauty."
"Balance, moderation, and excess are not enough. This is the conclusion drawn by the Chinese ancestors from their observations of all things in the universe."
Li Jinglin said these words.
The students suddenly felt that they seemed to understand something.
Dang even nodded thoughtfully, you look at me, I look at you.
It seems that I understand another explanation of this "meaning" and this "god".
This may be a spiritual state, a higher pursuit of beauty, and an experience that transcends the constraints of musical form.
"So, from my personal point of view, I believe that the development of music leads to the same goal through different paths. Whether it is the development situation of Western music or the completely different development route of Chinese music, it is nothing more than people gradually realizing the beauty of form in the pursuit of beauty. and the relationship between artistic beauty, and begins the different processes of seeking harmony therein.”
"Both of them have gone to extremes."
In order for students to understand better.
Li Jinglin cited two examples from the development of Eastern and Western music in different periods.
To elaborate on the practice and pursuit of "artistic beauty" and "formal beauty" by the ancients.
"For example, Zhuangzi's "Da Yin Xi Sheng" once denied the formal beauty of music, only pursued artistic conception, and rose to the level of philosophy. Music is no longer music, but becomes philosophy."
"Another example is the conservative faction in the history of Western music that has increasingly strict requirements for rules. They support the concept that "music must and can only serve the church". They excessively pursue formal rigor, develop slowly, and then polyphony. , and later added chants with fixed lyrics.”
"The structure of music shows the structure of poetry, which has a profound influence on modern secular music. It does play a unifying, leading, and decisive role, but it also denies the artistic beauty of the music itself and narrows the space for development."
Speaking of which.
Li Jinglin became very serious.
After glancing around at the students, he spoke seriously.
"We will not abandon the limitations of history and simply evaluate merits and demerits. The discussion of the sages is for the purpose of summarizing for future generations, rather than a struggle between each other to reduce dimensions again."
"No matter what path they take, we should respect and recognize the sages, thank them for their practice and exploration of human art, and inherit the precious legacy they left us."
Speaking of which.
The students immediately burst into enthusiastic applause.
Even the professors couldn't help but applaud him.
The academic spirit and meaning Li Jinglin wanted to express couldn't be more straightforward.
[Music is music, fair, impartial and objective, all for the progress of music. 】
[Don’t be limited to the East and the West, let alone who is good or bad. The truth is to be able to make progress. 】
This is an impartial statement of truth.
Even if there are people who think differently.
He will eventually respect Li Jinglin for this.
Wait for the applause to die down.
Li Jinglin continued to speak.
"The development of music actually develops from the integration and conflict of this dualistic and compatible model."
"So, when it comes to modern music, I believe that the current development of music must pursue the harmonious symbiosis of formal beauty and artistic beauty. In the musical logic of expressing formal beauty, the artistic conception of artistic beauty also exists."
"This is why I want to tell you about Chinese music and the Chinese music system."
It seems to be for the students.
It also seems to be for professors.
But whether it’s a student or a professor.
Regardless of pride or not, and regardless of the different views on Eastern and Western music.
At this time, everyone was gradually convinced by Li Jinglin.
Looking at it objectively, learning from each other's strengths is the future direction of music development.
Immediately afterwards.
Li Jinglin continued to tell these foreign students about the characteristics of Chinese music.
It's not the so-called pentatonic mode or pentatonic scale.
The pentatonic scale does not only have five tones, but a mode with five main tones, and whether it is neon, Eastern European, Indian, or African music, there are different pentatonic scales.
If you just look at the roll call of the notes or the pitches between the scales, there are not many that are similar to the Chinese mode.
The reason why the texture is completely different lies entirely in the usage of scales.
for example.
The 12356 scale and the 35612 scale seem to have the same order of notes, and the notes are all those notes.
But in fact, if the tonic at the beginning is different, there are still differences in the scale creation.
12356 is the palace mode, then 35612 is the angle mode.
This is the spin palace modulation in the Chinese music system.
And because the tuning of Western classical music is based on the equal temperament, Chinese classical music is based on the three-point profit and loss method.
Therefore, the definition of rules is also different.
A sound with the same pattern may not be similar in the two systems.
Under the modern music framework, although the Chinese music system also follows the equal temperament, in fact, some of the traditional Chinese musical instruments are tuned according to the equal temperament, but there are also instruments that follow the traditional three-point gain and loss tuning.
For example, some folk pipa and guqin.
If you want to improve your arranging skills, you need to understand these things.
The basis of modern music, this Western classical music, classical, should actually be translated as serious.
classic.
Classical does not mean how ancient it is, it should roughly start from before and after the Renaissance.
Because it was at this time that specific systems and "standardization" began to be formed.
As for why it is based on Western classical music, it is because Western music pays more attention to logic and norms. To simply describe it, it is sketching. It pays attention to form, and complex structures can be easily analyzed, which is very convenient for teaching.
Oriental music, led by China, pays more attention to spiritual similarity. It is very profound in terms of artistic conception and realm, but does not pay attention to form. This will lead to the fact that although the learning threshold is the same, it is quite difficult to advance to a certain depth.
As for saying who is superior, who is inferior, and who is advanced, there is no need to do so.
There is no need to belittle others, and there is no need to dwarf yourself.
Music is the art of time. It is simply different in the expression of time, but in fact it reaches the same goal through different paths. Today's music education also requires detailed study of the Chinese music system.
(End of chapter)
