Chapter 291
aShelf frowned when she heard the bald man's words and said, "We are recording a song and using the practice room."
There are many practice rooms in the music school, but this is the only one with professional recording equipment.
Normally, if someone is using the studio, the rest of the people will queue up first, but this rarely happens.
The bald man in front of him was named Wang, and he was the director of the piano department at the Conservatory of Music. Although Xie Erfu was nominally the dean, he had no authority over Director Wang, who was only half a level below him.
The reasons are quite complicated, but the most important point is that the piano department has the largest number of students in Mingzhu Conservatory of Music.
"Can you move another time?" Bald Director Wang frowned and said, "Today, a piano teacher from Birmingham is coming to exchange ideas. We need to use the classroom first. Now he and the students are outside the practice room." Lai Bu Lecai.
Sherfu frowned. She was well aware that there were academic exchanges between the Birmingham Conservatoire and the Pearl Conservatoire.
But now the recording is halfway through, how can I leave?
"Director Wang, can you guys go to the practice room next door first?" Xie Erfu asked. "Give me a little more time, it will be ready soon."
"The key is that the teachers in Birmingham can't wait. Do you know how rare this opportunity is?" Director Wang frowned and said, "Besides, it's just a guqin piece. Even if you record it, no one will listen to it. You just need to wait a little longer."
Before Xie Erfu could say anything, Lu Wanqi, who was sitting in the crowd, became very angry.
It was a rare opportunity for Teacher Manhattan to come here, so wouldn't it be easy to hire Tang Shuo? This discrimination was too obvious!
At this time, several foreign men in suits walked in. One of them, with slightly curly hair, looked at Director Wang and said, "Director Wang, how long do you need to wait? We have other things to do later."
"Wait a moment, this will be over soon." Director Wang put on a smile and turned to explain to the foreign men. Then he turned back to Xie Erfu and said, "Dean Xie. Please make way!"
Xie Erfu frowned and walked past Director Wang. She approached several Birmingham teachers and said, "Hello, I'm the vice president of the Pearl Conservatory of Music. We are recording a piece of Chinese classical music. Can you wait a moment?"
One of the red-haired foreign men sneered and said, "Chinese classical music? Does China have classical music?"
The red-haired man then pointed at the guqin in front of Tang Shuo and said, "Is this your instrument?"
In fact, the Birmingham Conservatoire in the UK is several times stronger than the Pearl Conservatoire in terms of both capability and influence. Although the two sides are nominally engaged in academic exchange, in reality it is the Birmingham Conservatoire that is helping the Pearl Conservatoire.
Therefore, it is inevitable that Pearl Conservatory of Music is somewhat lacking in confidence in its attitude towards Birmingham.
The professors from the Birmingham Conservatoire who came to participate in the exchange activities naturally had sufficient musical literacy. They must have listened to Chinese classical music, but due to the decline of Chinese classical music, they did not take it seriously at all.
"I've seen this," said another teacher from Birmingham. "It's also called a qin, but the Chinese call it a guqin. As for the sound, I think it's pretty average. Of course, that's just my personal opinion."
"I've heard it too. Although the guqin and the piano are different types of instruments, the expressive power of the guqin is vastly different from that of the piano."
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Hearing these teachers from Birmingham questioning the guqin, although Shelf wanted to refute them, she didn't have a suitable reason.
The other party was right. Regardless of the type, the guqin's expressiveness was far inferior to that of the piano.
After the director surnamed Wang came in, Tang Shuo, who was sitting in front of the piano thinking, didn't even raise his head, but he heard the other party's comments.
When he first came here, he was just trying it out, but later he felt the question was too strange, so he stopped being perfunctory and started thinking about it seriously. Now, these foreign words made him want to present this piece of music in its entirety.
Although he doesn't know how to play the piano, who says the guqin has poor expressiveness?
How could a musical instrument that has been passed down for more than three thousand years be as bad as the other party said?
When dealing with these people, verbal explanations are of no use at all. What is needed now is to respond to the past with a song!
Director Wang looked at Xie Erfu with a smile and said, "Dean Xie, please step aside for a moment. We're just going to record two piano pieces and then leave. There are still many students waiting outside."
Just as Xie Erfu was about to answer, Tang Shuo, who had been sitting in front of the qin without moving, suddenly said to the girl holding the xiao standing beside her, "Accompany me in the second part!"
The girl nodded, then put the xiao to her lips and got ready.
As a student of classical music, although Tang Shuo failed to perform this piece of music several times, she still saw his ability.
In her opinion, compared with Tang Shuo, the teachers who taught them guqin before were all complete charlatans!
Then Tang Shuo placed his hands on the strings, plucking them lightly with his fingertips, and began to play again!
It was clearly the same instrument and the same technique, but the few people in the room who had heard Tang Shuo play still sensed some difference.
There seemed to be something added to the playing this time, but no one was sure what these things were.
When the notes sounded, several teachers from the Birmingham Conservatoire who had previously ridiculed the guqin were stunned.
Music has no borders, so they naturally understood the meaning expressed in Tang Shuo's tune.
The piano students waiting outside the door heard the sound of the guqin coming from the practice room and looked at each other in confusion. Wasn't it supposed to be piano instruction? Why did it suddenly become guqin?
Led by one of the braver students, everyone unconsciously stepped into the classroom.
So sad!
When the vibrato representing the sound of rushing water in the first section sounded, Xie Erfu was the first to hear what Tang Shuo had added to the end of the song, and the sense of pause in the whole song became more obvious.
She really didn't understand how Tang Shuo had managed to do this.
To everyone's astonishment, the song finally reached the second part of the beauty and mistakes before Tang Shuo.
The xiao-wielding girl who's been keeping an eye on things is here. This part will be revised tomorrow. I'm running out of time, so I'm posting it now. Sorry! "This movie is a pure action film, so I plan to make the theme song reflect the actual fighting scenes in the film," Xie Erfu explained to Tang Shuo. "The transitions in the melody describe the beauty of the mountains and rivers. You need to control the gentleness and speed yourself."
Tang Shuo nodded. What Xie Erfu said could actually be seen from the abbreviated notation.
According to the other party's meaning, the prelude and the transition part in the middle should be paved with a slow-paced piece of music like "Ogai Shan Liu Shui Ka", while the description of the fighting scene should suddenly become fast, forming a relatively clear gap.
These may seem simple, but in fact, the span is quite large, and this piece of music is not like the last time when Xiao Ran was accompanied by a classical band, with only the xiao adding some embellishments, so it is still a test of Tang Shuo's ability.
"This film is a pure action film, so I planned to make the theme song reflect the actual fighting scenes in the film," Xie Erfu explained to Tang Shuo. "The transitions in the melody describe the beauty of the mountains and rivers. You need to control the gentleness and speed of the melody yourself."
Tang Shuo nodded. What Xie Erfu said could actually be seen from the abbreviated notation.
According to the other party's meaning, the prelude and the transition part in the middle should be paved with a slow-paced piece of music like "Ogai Shan Liu Shui Ka", while the description of the fighting scene should suddenly become fast, forming a relatively clear gap.
These may seem simple, but in fact it is because the span is quite large and the song is not obvious.
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