Gentle President: Doting on Xiao Qingmei with Facial Paralysis

Chapter 174 "Tayes"

【172】Tayes

The album "Meditation" belongs to is "Tayes".

"Thais" is an opera.

Meditation is an interlude in the opera "Thais" by French composer Massigner in the [-]th century.

The opera "Thais" was composed in 1894. The plot is a religious story, which took place in Egypt in the fourth century AD.

The whole play takes the famous ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria as the background and tells the story of a holy monk who practiced in the desert to save the female ghost Taiyes.

He ventured into the city to bring out Taiyes, a gold-pink girl who was indulging in a luxurious life.He tried hard to persuade her to leave the social circle of red wine and greenery and convert to religion.

Taiyisi was finally moved and decided to enter the monastery as a nun.But the holy monk was moved by Taiyes' youthful beauty and fell in love with Taiyes.

Tortured between the Lord of God and love to whom he had decided to devote his life, the saint escaped from the monastery and wandered.

But in the end he couldn't get rid of the yearning for Taiyes and returned to Taiyes' side.

At this time, Taiyisi was already dying of illness.The saint prostrates at the feet of love, the saint becomes a sinner, but the soul of the sinner ascends to heaven.The story is poignant and moving.

However, Shan Yi likes this poignant and moving story, and likewise, Xi Moqing also likes this poignant and moving story.

But relatively speaking, Shan Yi not only likes the story behind "Thais", but also the violin piece "Meditation".

"Contemplation" is an intermezzo played between the first scene and the second scene of the second act of Masnier's opera "Thais", so it is also called "Thais Meditation". It is often played alone and becomes The enduring masterpiece of violin solos is also the representative work of Massigner.

The scene is like this: When Athanar saw that his advice didn't work, he didn't feel relieved. In the middle of the night, he stood quietly at the door of Tais, waiting for her to change her mind.

This intermezzo shows the state of mind of Tais when he is tired of the secular world and seeks relief through religious belief.This beautiful melody, in addition to being used as an interlude, also often appears in the play to improve the atmosphere in the play.

The structure of the music is simple, and it is a pious Andante, in D major, in 4/4 time.

The first section of the music is quiet and peaceful, and the lead violin plays the famous lyrical theme, as if a girl is devoutly opening her heart to the Lord of God, begging for forgiveness from the Lord of God.In the second section of the piece, several key changes and changing sounds are used, which makes the mood of the music very unstable.

It shows the inner contradictions and struggles of Dayis' thoughts
The third piece of music returned to calm, the original melody reappeared, and the devout prayer was fulfilled.

At the end, the violin is pushed to the high-pitched range, gradually weakens the sound on the G string, and ends with the faint sound of overtones slowly disappearing.

It seems that the purified soul flies to the upper world, and the reverie of the beautiful heaven brought by the Lord has been spiritually satisfied.

However, all of this was played on the stage with the single Yi of "Meditation" with emotion, and it was performed vividly, without any mistakes, smooth and beautiful, poignant and moving.

Massenet's "Meditation" has always been regarded as one of the most beautiful violin pieces, and its melodious and lyrical tune has also become a classic among violin works.

The sound of the piano gradually faded, and the song ended. After the audience was silent for three seconds, there were bursts of overwhelming applause, which was deafening and resounded through the audience.

Everyone in the audience was shocked, applauding Shan Yi on stage.

Including Xi Moqing, who also applauded calmly, looking at Shan Yi on the stage with a smile in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)