Crown Tang emperor

He coaxed Xue Huaiyi to join in by compiling a new song, so the old song of Wendu Xielu was excluded first, and a large and gorgeous new song had to be presented.

Although this new song didn't even have a prototype, Li Tong had already set a tone and decided on the name of the song "Vientiane".

This name was drafted and picked to be the official name of Mingtang's "Vientiane Shrine". From this, it can be confirmed that his intention is to connect himself with Mingtang to a certain extent through such a big song "Vientiane", and play it in Mingtang "Vientiane".

This Daqu must have the dual attributes of ritual music and banquet music.At the same time, taking into account the political significance it should have, it is also necessary to add a part of the elements of Buddhist rituals and Dharma songs.

Li Tong knew that he didn't have many opportunities, so if he seized an opportunity, he must make the most of it.

Although there is still more than a year before the first year of Tianshou in the Wuzhou Revolution, Qiu Shenji, who is eyeing him outside the palace wall, will not give him too much time, and similar opportunities may not be available. Fish, he must win enough chances in this Mingtang feast.

The main issues had been identified, and what remained was implementation.

Compiling a Daqu in such a short period of time, and at the same time having so much content, to achieve the effect Li Tong wanted was a difficult task for those who had been immersed in vocal music for a long time. Considering his half-baked level, it was even more difficult. An almost impossible task.

But after confirming this idea, Li Tong no longer considered success or failure. The only thing he needed to do was to try.

After the repertoire of "Vientiane" was drafted, Li Tong split the task into different task groups such as composition, dance, voice, speech, and utensils, and different professionals led them to complete.

Qu Yun is the foundation of a Daqu, no matter how conceited Li Tong is, he knows that it is impossible for him to complete it.Right now, although he has a preliminary understanding of the rhyme, palace merchants, etc., he is still only appreciative and incompetent.

Therefore, the task of collecting and compiling music, Li Tong still handed it over to professionals such as Tai Le Cheng Bai Fen, and stipulated that these music officials must compile and intercept five to ten pieces of music every day, and teach the sound person to play, and he will audition and select .

In terms of dance, Li Tong determined a basic idea, which is to boldly use wire dance to present the stage effect of Dunhuang Flying Apsaras.There was no need to take risks before, but now he wants to seize an opportunity to maximize the benefits, so why should he have these scruples.

In fact, regarding the combination of dance and music, Li Tong also has a relatively definite reference image, that is Bai Juyi's "Neon Clothes and Feather Clothes Dance Song".Although in his mind, the content of "Vientiane" is far richer than that of "Neon Clothes", but there are still some dance rhythms and expressions in it that can be used for reference.

In terms of vocals, Li Tong does not intend to use the more popular solo or chorus singing of actors, but a more grand multiple chorus.

At present, the song is not completed, the words are difficult to write, and people have no way to practice their voices, but multiple choruses are a new form of artistic expression.Therefore, Li Tong ordered to directly use the old Yanle lyrics with rich and euphemistic lyrics, such as "Touhu Le" and "The Immortal Staying Guest", so that the actors can get acquainted with the layering and atmosphere in the multi-singing method.

The phrase group is naturally led by Li Tong himself, which is also his greatest advantage, and he regards it as the link with the strongest sense of presence in the whole Daqu.

Of course, there is no need to think too much, since Li Tong himself gave the speech, naturally he also needs to retain his biggest feature, that is, writing out of tune.Write out the lyrics first, if the tune doesn't match, then change it, if it doesn't work, then change it.The voices cooperate with me, not I cooperate with the voices.

After all, in terms of music and music, there are so many talents around, you can brainstorm.But in terms of copying, although Li Tong has countless Chinese articles, he has only one brain, which is really difficult to accommodate.If there is a limit, follow the limitless, it is almost over!

Chapter 0070

When it comes to compiling the lyrics, Li Tong also has his own considerations.

Although right now, from this point of view alone, he is an absolute great master, if the reserves in his mind are fully utilized, it will not be difficult to beat the whole Tang.But one premise that needs to be considered is that what he needs to write right now is a Yanyue Daqu with a theme song eulogizing, not just his own poetry show.

After substituting such a restriction, those with strong style, prominent emotion, satirizing the past and slandering the present all need to be excluded.The first criterion for poetry selection is political correctness, the second criterion is praise, the third criterion is elegance and style, and there is a more implicit requirement, that is, the need for style convergence.

If it is only the first three requirements, it is actually very easy to meet, that is, Yingzhi poems throughout the Tang Dynasty.To put it simply, Yingzhi poems are flattering poems, with very similar formats and tastes, and there are also many excellent works among them.After all, even if it is flattery, different people will have different effects.

Let’s not talk about Shangguanyi, who was a great master of poetry in the early Tang Dynasty. His granddaughter Shangguan Wan’er weighed the world. Shen Quanqi also attended the meeting. The last couplet of Song poems "don't worry about the end of the moon, and the night pearls will come", and the last couplet of Shen's poems is "the humble minister carves the decayed quality, and I am ashamed to see the materials of Yuzhang", which is said to be the vitality of Song poetry.

It can be seen that even if they are flattering, the style and mood are very different.Are masters like Wang Wei and Li Bai comparable to ordinary people?

Although Li Tong is full of gorgeous articles, now that he has an opportunity to copy a lot, he still needs to maintain a relatively uniform style, at least not to change too obviously.

So is there a genre of poetry that can satisfy these four requirements at the same time?There really are!

"Hua Lin's fragrant scenery is everywhere in Yangchun, auspicious day tours watch life and close ministers. Kites fly to Qiao Ke to sing the delicate birds, butterflies dance to the low branches to reflect the beauties. The emerald green contains the mist beside the willow bridge, and the clear water is full of hibiscus. The garden is full of calla lilies, golden The urn jade plate bestows eight treasures."

In March of Yangchun, the imperial garden is beautiful, and I choose an auspicious day to order my ministers to follow the garden.Among the flowers and trees, kites are flying and birds are singing, and beautiful butterflies are dancing, which makes the beauty more beautiful.The willows beside the bridge are as hazy as fog, and the hibiscus floating on the water looks like colorful clouds.The fruits in the garden and the seafood in the sea are all conceived by heaven and earth, and now they are stored in beautiful vessels and are rewarded by the king to the officials.

This poem has no name, because it is reprocessed by Li Tong after dismantling the bones and peeling the skin. It uses the five rhythms of Tang Taizong Li Shimin and the seven rhythms of Ming Dynasty scholar Yang Shiqi. The monarch and minister are separated by nearly a thousand years, and their poems and essays are put together Looking up, there is not much sense of disobedience in terms of taste.

Of course, the seasons must be wrong, but this mainly shows that this type of poetry has a similar style, empty content and no personality, and Li Shimin's five rhythms are not even as neat as Yang Shiqi's in terms of metrical duality.

Yang Shiqi belongs to a school of poetry, that is, Taige Style of Ming Dynasty.The style of Taige belongs to a small category in ancient poetry. To summarize its characteristics, the subject matter praises the holiness and the peace, and the art form seeks parallel couplets, emphasizing rhythm, and admiring elegance, but the content is mediocre. Thousands of beaks sound.

In short, Taige style is a poetry style specially designed for flattery, with gorgeous form and empty content, and it is very superficial and similar.As a result, the life of Taige style art is not long, and after the change of Tumubao, it gradually disappeared, so that in the future, except for some academic research, it has almost no sense of existence.

However, no matter what shortcomings it has, Taige style poems almost completely meet Li Tong's current requirements, with beautiful form, neat rhythm, elegant body and similar content.

Although it is said that in the era when Tang Dynasty poetry is about to flourish, it is a bit self-deprecating to actually copy Taige style, a style of poetry that has no artistic vitality at all.But copying still needs to consider one's own actual needs. Even if he copied Li Bai, Du Fu, Liu Yong and Su Shi, what's the use?Do you really want to pursue the young king's longevity and poet Jiabei?

No matter how weak the vitality of Taige style art is, it still has a relatively complete line of inheritance.However, in the early Tang Dynasty, Shangguan style was really broken except for Shangguanyi, but it was enough to make Shangguanyi the crown of poetry for a while.

It's not that Li Tong doesn't have long-term calculations, but the problem is that he needs to get through the present first, so that he will have the opportunity to constantly break through himself in the future and lead Tang poetry to a truly prosperous age.

So right now, copying the style of the pavilion, although it means that some people do evil ways and don't learn well, it perfectly fits Li Tong's personal needs.

Taige style has a very important feature, that is, all creators are important ministers of Taige like Sanyang. The flattery that looks a little nasty to others is exactly what they really feel.

May I ask, what kind of flattery can be so clever that I believe it to be true, and even I am paralyzed?

The demise of Taige style in later generations is not only because of its own low artistic style, but also because the harmonious relationship between the monarch and his ministers during the Sanyang period of the Ming Dynasty has disappeared, and naturally there is no real feeling of deep gratitude to the emperor, and singing and singing about it.

Of course, although Taige Style is good in many ways, it has one disadvantage that it is too remote, which makes the difficulty of copying skyrocket.

But when it came to this question, Li Tong really had to say proudly: "I'm sorry, I chose this subject to mix up my diploma back then! Although these poems are uncommon, at least I analyzed a little bit of them back then. "

It is precisely because of such a foundation of education that Li Tong has the confidence to compose such themes as the "Vientiane" Daqu.Although there are many famous poems in the whole Tang Dynasty, they all have a strong style and rich emotion.

Taige-style poems are highly similar in theme, content and interest, which has the consequence that if you don’t look at the titles of the poems, you can’t even tell whether the hundred or ten poems are about the same thing.Moreover, response poems usually need to determine the title and rhyme, and it is normal to compose several or more than ten poems with the same rhyme.

Facing such a fertile soil, Li Tong really had no reason to be polite. Naturally, he would write like flying, without adding any points, and relying on a thousand words.

Which task is the most difficult to formulate a big song?

To judge the degree of difficulty, there is actually a very simple standard, which is to look at the social status of these practitioners.Although rites and music are a solemn matter of the state, most of the musicians, voices, singing and dancing, instrumental music, etc. are of humble origin, and they cannot even marry with good foreigners.

But there are exceptions to this, and that is Xie Lulang who belongs to Taichang, that is, Sili Temple.

In ancient times, official positions that could be called "Lang" were hardly simple, and Xie Lu Lang was no exception.Although it is only an eighth-rank official position that belongs to Taichang, it is an official held by Xie Brown, such as the scholar Mengyin, the imperial examination guard and election, and it is an important starting point for his official career.

The so-called Jie Brown means to take off the short brown clothes on the body and put on official robes.

For example, Tai Lecheng Bai Fen, who is currently busy compiling songs, although he comes from a musical family and has a father who has gone through several dynasties, even if he has already served as the second in command of the Tai Le Department, compared with someone who has just entered the officialdom Xie Lilang is still one level behind.

In the official circles of the Tang Dynasty, there was a saying that if you can't get in, you should abide by the laws of association.It is about the official positions held by the official Xie Brown. Guange Xiaoshulang and Zhengzi are the first choices, and Xielulang is second only to these two.

After hanging out in the inner teaching workshop during this period, Li Tong also understood the process of compiling a lot of music. Taichang music is divided into two parts, the lyrics and the music book.Among them, Qubo is the tune of dance music, which belongs to the professional work of various musicians in Taichang.

However, the lyrics were not managed by Taichang, but were created by scholars from the Liangguan and Hanlin scholars.The logic behind this creative mode of separating songs and lyrics is very simple, that is, dancing and writing, you too lowly musicians are not worthy!

Li Tong's renovation of old songs before, the reason why there was no blockage, was because what he renovated were ditties, miscellaneous tunes and other folk songs.However, if he wants to make a new or refurbished Daqu, his tunes also need to be approved by Tai Leling, Xie Lulang, etc., and the lyrics can be selected into the music before they can be officially retained in the Yuefu.

In other words, even Li Bai and Du Fu's level of literary talent, if they can't be officially recognized, selected words into music and included in the Yuefu, they are still playing underground music.

Li Tong's compiling "Vientiane" Daqu was originally intended to be performed on the most solemn and high-end occasions in the empire, so naturally no underground dissemination was allowed.

And the time is very tight now, he needs to get his lyrics officially certified in the shortest possible time, so that he can rehearse with rhythm and music as soon as possible.If you are stuck in this aspect for ten days and a half months, I am afraid that even if it is compiled, you will miss the big wine.

Therefore, the elegant and beautiful, large and empty pavilion style is also one of the few choices for him right now.Even if you don't talk about whether Xue Huaiyi's prestige is easy to use or not, whoever can find faults in the stable Taige style poems can basically conclude that they are deliberately finding faults.

There are many poems in my mind that can be piled up and quoted, which saves the time of citing scriptures and allusions, and painstakingly sculpting. It only took two days to lay out a long poem. Not a small difference, the actual creation only took a few hours, and the remaining day and a half was mainly for catching bugs and modifying.

After the poem was finished, Li Tong immediately ordered Tai Le Cheng Bai Fen to send it back to the Tai Le Department, and let Tai Le Ling and others read the selected words, and arrange to enter the music as soon as possible.As for the amazing efficiency, wouldn't it be a bit strange?

Let's put it this way, I have been thinking about how to flatter my grandma since I was literate. If you can study a subject without interruption for five or six years, you can also have this kind of efficiency.As for my lack of knowledge and weak ability, it is difficult to make up for it?

That's really indescribable, you have no idea what kind of potential a person who has reached my level of loyalty and filial piety can unleash!

The lyrics were sent out in the morning, and in the afternoon there was a response from the Taile Department. A 35-year-old civil servant in scarf robes hurried into the inner teaching workshop under the guidance of eunuchs. Once he entered the straight hall, he raised the poem manuscript , looked at the people in the hall and asked anxiously: "Who wrote this "Vientiane" lyrics?"

Chapter 0071

Yong'an Wang compiled the new song "Vientiane", with the human support provided by Neijiaofang and Taile Department, there are as many as two to three hundred people.

For a literary and artistic enterprise, this scale is not small.But considering the scale of rehearsals of other big operas, for example, there are as many as 140 dancers in "Shengshou Le", and there are many advocacy sounds used in military music and ceremonial music such as Lubo music.

Regardless of the current situation where he is still a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, Li Tong can be regarded as ushering in a small peak of his career if he can make the manuscripts on such a large scale.

Although there are so many people involved in it, they all perform their duties and carry out tasks according to their goals, and it is not messy. At any rate, he has also served as the supervisor of a large-scale municipal project, and he still has a bit of foundation in terms of personnel planning.

After submitting the lyrics to Tai Le Department for review, Li Tong came to a working group led by Tai Le Cheng Bai Fen.This group is mainly composed of music officials from the Tai Le Department, who are mainly responsible for the compilation of the music book. Under the Tai Le Cheng Bai Fen, there are two Le Zhengs and two Tai Le doctors.

At present, the composition process is still in the stage of random sequence. For a Daqu, the random sequence is the essence of the rhythm and can best reflect the musical level of a Daqu.

Li Tong's repertoire "Vientiane" originally intended to cover everything, in other words, it was a hodgepodge, no matter ten pieces of music or two pieces of tricks, whatever essence was added to it.

Regardless of other aspects, this request means laymen guiding experts.There must at least be a theme in the harmony of voices, and there must be a tone that runs through the whole article. Everything is put into it. Among other things, there are as many as a hundred kinds of different timbres for various instruments. If there is no professional screening , can only be a mass of noise.

Therefore, when Li Tong came here, there was a musician who said with a bitter face that this requirement was really difficult to meet. After dozens of pieces of music, there was no musical style or musical instrument that could run through it all. , as a withdrawal.

"We have collected all kinds of music, and only a few of them, such as "Yan Yue" and "Qiuci Opera", may be able to meet the king's wishes."

Li Tong frowned when he heard Lezheng's words. Needless to say, Yanle itself is a hodgepodge of Chinese and foreign.As for Kucha music, it is versatile, and it is not awkward to mix any style of music. Even the most solemn and elegant Qingshang music can incorporate Kucha music into it.

For example, "Chun Ying Tiao" produced by Bai Mingda in the old year of Emperor Gaozong used the music of Kucha as the sound of birds.Having said that, Li Tong only found out after getting in touch with him that Bai Fen looked like a gentleman, but his father Bai Mingda was actually from Kucha.

"Since it is a new song made by Kuo, can't we get rid of the stereotypes of old music?"

When it comes to technology, Li Tong is a scumbag, but when it comes to concepts, he can still speak clearly.As for how to get rid of the stereotypes of old club music, you ask me?

After hearing the words, several music officials of the Taile Department all had embarrassing expressions on their faces. In the end, a doctor of Taile stepped forward and said, "Let the king listen to the rhythm of the Xinxie first."

After all, a voice actor had already appeared on the stage, and Li Tong had already taken his seat. Seeing his second brother Li Shouli standing among the voice actors holding a pipa, he nodded encouragingly.It can be seen that the benefits of reading more are two brothers, one is full of poetry and is a guest of honor, the other can only play musical instruments and can only play tricks.

Li Tong's music appreciation level is roughly at the level of "The Happy King". Even if he borrows a tiger skin to wear it now, there will be no major improvement in the short term.

Therefore, he has one of the most intuitive criteria for evaluating the quality of a piece of music, that is, how much musical instruments are used.It's the same as fighting. There are many people and there is a lot of momentum. Regardless of whether the tune is good or bad, you can bluff you on stage.

Although we worked together for a short period of time, after working together, the music officials have generally understood the aesthetic taste of King Yong'an. Therefore, after a piece of music is composed, they can use as many instruments as they can. Recently, they tried out a few songs and used more than a dozen instruments. start.Needless to say, when many musical instruments are combined, as long as the tune can still be kept, the effect will really be improved by several levels.

Li Tong closed his eyes and listened for half of it, then raised his hand and said, "Take down the Jiegu drum, Duoyin! Change to another drum."

This kind of request is not something that an outsider can make. Technical language such as "duoyin" and "deception" these days, when watching Tai Le Cheng Bai Fen guide the work, he also secretly remembered it. few.Don't care if you understand or not, as long as you can make a request, you must give me excellence!

Afterwards, several small adjustments were made one after another, and the final tune has been lowered by one house, and several small instruments such as Tanban and Sheng were added. Of course, the Jiegu that was removed was moved back.With so many musical instruments, the sound is already chaotic, and if the Jiegu, which is the leading voice, is missing, it will be even more inaudible.

But Li Tong was still a little dissatisfied. What he judged was not whether the tune was pleasant or not, but the basic sound theory.In this piece of music, Hujia is the instrument that underpins the chord, but the sound of Hujia is muddy and sticky, and some instruments that are not prominent in tone can be easily covered by the voiced sound.

There are thirteen kinds of musical instruments on the stage. Just now when he closed his eyes and listened, he could distinguish only nine kinds of musical instruments. This is the so-called bullying.

When Li Tong asked this question, a musician stepped forward and replied: "Hu Jia is easy to be deceived by the evil instrument, and usually does not use group voices to coordinate. But now, if there is no such instrument to support the group voice, it will be unavoidable. The tuning is more complicated..."

"Since that's the case, is there a kind of acoustic instrument that can be matched without confusing the sounds? How about the human voice?"

While speaking, Li Tong hummed to indicate that the melody of the tune was also humming at random. It can be seen that he is not a complete layman. He has been studying with these professionals for a long time and has been humbly learning.

When Lezheng heard the words, he showed embarrassment: "The preface is sung, this is a little, a little..."

"Just now I said that I don't want to stick to the stereotypes of old music, so I'll give it a try first."

Li Tong said with a smile again, and walked straight to Li Shouli, telling him to get out and come up with another pipa player.His level of appreciation is also increasing day by day, it is too easy to be too high-minded, and Li Shouli's playing skills can no longer keep up with the improvement of his appreciation level.

Lezheng was still bowing his head and thinking about King Yong'an's proposal, another human voice sounded from the side: "What the king said should refer to Fanbai. The sound of this "Xiliang Opera" is set up, and there is no reserve in the inner teaching workshop."

Everyone in the arena, including Li Tong, all followed the prestige, and the first thing they saw was Mi Baizhu, a rough-faced bearded man, walking quickly.

As the level of appreciation improves day by day, Li Tong has realized that Mi Baizhu's music skills are so-so, but this is the first musician who approached him in Neijiaofang. Stay to be a dispatcher of healthy soldiers, and deliver his orders in the inner teaching workshop.

Behind Mi Baizhu, a scarlet-robed official is walking calmly, what he said just now is exactly what this person said.

It was the first time Li Tong had heard of the so-called "Fanbai", and seeing that the person was not arrogant, he stood up, and when the other party arrived, he asked, "I would like to ask, what is the sound of Fanbai? "

The other party came forward and paused, first made a cross-hand signal, and then replied: "Cao Zhi, the king of Chensi in the old Wei Dynasty, was moved by the Yushan God, and wrote the "Ode to the Prince". In short, especially Qiliang is the most important, and Xiao's body has been strengthened successively..."

After listening to this man's citing and explaining from the scriptures, Li Tong finally understood that the so-called Fanbai should refer to the sound of chanting Buddhist scriptures.This reminded him that he had been thinking about adding some Buddhist and Taoist elements to "Vientiane" Daqu so that it would have the characteristics of Faqu.

It's just that he is really not good at the field of religion, and he hasn't figured out how to add these elements in an unobtrusive manner without overwhelming the main theme and destroying the tone of the whole song.Now it seems that this is a good element to add.

"Go back to the Taiyue Department and invite the voices of Fanbai to play the new tune."

Li Tong turned his head to give instructions to Lezheng, then turned back to look at the scarlet-robed official who reminded him, and asked, "Your Excellency is..."

"Wailang, the merit examiner of the low-ranking government office, and the selection of lyrics from the Naotara office, Shen Quanqi, pay homage to the king."

The scarlet robe official took a small step back, made another salute and revealed his identity.

Hearing this, Li Tong's eyes lit up immediately, and he took a step forward with a warm smile on his face: "So it's Yuanwai Shen, who has a famous poem. It is really a joy to meet here today unexpectedly.”

Who is Shen Quanqi, Li Tong is naturally familiar with it, among other things, the name has passed through his mind many times just by slandering Shiliu.Shen Quanqi and Song Zhiwen are the representative figures in the transition from the early Tang Dynasty to the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and they are also known as the key figures in the formation of the Qilu style in the early Tang Dynasty.

Regardless of whether he likes it or not, praise or criticism, at this moment, seeing Shen Quanqi appearing in front of him alive, Li Tong really had many surprises in his heart.Not to mention that as soon as the other party showed up, he made a thoughtful suggestion to him.

Shen Quanqi was a young man with great ambition, and his poem name has been passed down for a long time. He was not surprised that King Yong'an had heard his name. Seeing that this young Zongwang was so polite to him, he probably felt good.

He is also in charge of the selection of lyrics by Tai Le Department, so he naturally knows that King Yong'an and Xue Huaiyi are going to create new songs in the inner teaching workshop.To be honest, I didn't have a good impression of King Yong'an at first, after all, being able to hang out with Xue Huaiyi, thinking about it, I know it should be a dandy habit.

Unexpectedly, during this meeting, King Yong'an gave him a much better impression than he had imagined. Needless to say, the young king is very handsome, but it is rare that he is a man of etiquette.

After the two parties saw the ceremony, Shen Quanqi remembered the purpose of this visit, raised his hand and raised the poem draft in his hand, and said: "The humble job and the direct selection of lyrics by the Yuefu, the lyrics of "Vientiane" presented by the workshop, are decent and elegant, and a rare masterpiece. Poetry interest is too much, I want to visit Yicai, ask Lianjue Caiyi, I wonder if Your Majesty can give me a little guidance?"

Hearing this, Li Tong's smile turned reserved: "I didn't expect Xiao Wang to be flattered to be rewarded by outsiders for a mere clumsy work."

Hearing King Yong'an's answer, Shen Quanqi's expression became more astonished, and he even exclaimed: "The lyrics of this "Vientiane" are actually written by the king?"