Second Piano Concerto

Qin Haiou was stunned for a moment, he was too surprised by this conclusion.He was afraid that he would make a mistake, so he continued to read. He didn't stop until he had read the second movement carefully, and the manuscript had already turned two-thirds of the way through.

Now, he had nothing to doubt.Qin Haiou knew that he was right. This thought made his body lose all strength, leaned back on the back of the chair, and let out a long breath.

The excitement in his heart dissipated with this breath, and was replaced by deep loss.

It turned out that this was actually an imitation exercise.

No wonder Tan Shuo reacted that way when he found out that he was flipping through this work.

Because it is a practice work created by imitating others, I feel ashamed to meet people. This is indeed a very normal thought and a very common reaction.

In this way, all of Tan Shuo's performances made sense.This manuscript was stuffed in the corner of the bookcase by him. Perhaps he had long forgotten that among his messy books, there was still an exercise from his student days preserved.Therefore, when Qin Haiou accidentally turned over this work, he didn't want Qin Haiou to see the content, and thought there was no need to keep this manuscript, so he threw it into the trash can.

Qin Haiou figured out this link, and finally understood why Tan Shuo would say that this work was a "broken thing" written in the past.When I was a student, I imitated the exercises written by others. This is really not a good work, and Tan Shuo naturally felt that it was not good enough.

Ten years ago, because Qin Haiou loved "Song of the Long Night" so much, he studied its score repeatedly and practiced it secretly by himself. Later, his senior brother Xiao Cong recorded a CD for it as the premiere performer of the work. Qin Haiou I also listened to that CD over and over for a long time.At that time, he promised his teacher Wang Yifu that he would never perform this work, and he has always done so.However, this feeling of only being able to listen to others playing but not being able to play himself gradually made him feel uncomfortable.Later, he began to deliberately avoid this work, and put the score and CD on the shelves. He hasn't read or listened to it for many years.Therefore, when he first saw Tan Shuo's "Star Sea", he just felt friendly, and did not immediately think of "Song of the Long Night".

However, today when he read Tan Shuo's works carefully, Qin Haiou's impression of "Song of the Long Night" was awakened from his memory.And once he thinks of "Song of the Long Night", the fact that the two works are very similar is clear to him at a glance.

"Song of the Long Night" caused a sensation when it won the award, and received rave reviews. Many pianists were interested in it, and even music critics and music theorists wrote reviews and analysis articles for this work.For a new work, "Song of the Long Night" has stole the show.Qin Haiou remembered very clearly what happened that year. The composition competition was held in May. According to the time calculation, it should be a month before Tan Shuo graduated.Originally, in the early stage of creation, intentional or unintentional imitation was hard to avoid. People who just started to learn painting would copy the works of the masters. However, such a wonderful work appeared in the composition competition, and the students followed suit when writing exercises. This is also understandable.

It's just that today, when Qin Haiou finally got this work after going through such twists and turns, but found that it was just Tan Shuo's imitation of others, he still felt disappointed in his heart.

But disappointment is disappointment, which is not worth making a fuss about.Among the students of the composition department, almost everyone has this kind of imitation exercises, and some of them are homework assigned by the teacher.This is just a stage and a way of professional composition training. Even if Tan Shuo imitated others when he was a student, his other works and his talent cannot be denied.Thinking of this, Qin Haiou gradually calmed down.The reason why he was so disappointed, in the final analysis, was that his expectations were too high when the situation was not clear in the first place.He thought that Tan Shuo was a very good person and very talented. He wanted to see the piano works written by Tan Shuo so much, but he came across this manuscript by accident.This can't be blamed on Tan Shuo, it can only be said that the matter was too coincidental. Looking back now, Qin Haiou himself finds it a bit funny.

While thinking about it, he sat up straight again, and continued to read the manuscript to the end.It's just that this work has become boring to him now, and he quickly glanced at the third movement, then put the manuscript aside.

Qin Haiou did not tell Tan Shuo about the recovery of the manuscript.Since Tan Shuo no longer wanted the manuscript, and he bought it back from Cao Nan with great difficulty, even if he knew it was an imitation, Qin Haiou was reluctant to throw away the manuscript.

He kept the manuscript in his room, and went to Liu An to practice the piano the next morning as usual.But when he came to Liu An's backyard and greeted Liu Yang as usual, he suddenly remembered something.

He remembered the magazines that Liu Yang had collected. In the magazine that had an exclusive interview with Xiao Cong ten years ago, an analysis article about "Song of the Long Night" was included in the article, which quoted the example of this work.

Qin Haiou borrowed the magazine from Liu Yang.People's memory is unreliable, especially after so many years, Qin Haiou's memory of "Song of the Long Night" is somewhat blurred, and some details that were familiar at the time are now unclear.Tan Shuo's manuscript made him have a strong nostalgia for this work. He took the magazine back to the inn. Compare the spectrum examples in the article.He originally wanted to take a look at how Tan Shuo performed imitation exercises, but when he found the corresponding parts in the manuscript one by one, he felt a faint feeling in his heart.

Although it is an imitation, it is normal to have some similarities between the two, but it is a bit strange that every example can find a corresponding and extremely similar part in the manuscript.The scores quoted in the article include both the theme of "Song of the Long Night" and some very wonderful and original parts.Qin Haiou found that the theme in the same position in Tan Shuo's manuscripts only changed a few tones based on the theme of "Song of the Long Night", and the main part of the melody and the direction of the melody are completely consistent.And those wonderful passages, whether it is melody, harmony or piano texture, are almost exactly the same.

This made Qin Haiou feel very uneasy.There was an idea, a guess in his mind.The anxiety kept growing, but he tried to avoid it, tried to suppress the feeling.He said to himself, after all, the musical examples are only a small part of the original work, and simply comparing these musical examples with Tan Shuo's manuscripts cannot explain any problems.If you want to draw more accurate conclusions, you must compare more details in the two works.This is not what a few scores can provide, he needs to see the score of "Song of the Long Night".

Qin Haiou hesitated for a long time, and finally asked his agent to deliver a copy of the score of "Song of the Long Night".He wanted to prove something, but was afraid to face it.But if he didn't understand this matter, he couldn't find peace in his heart.

This feeling is very tormented.During the two days of waiting for the courier, Qin Haiou felt apprehensive whenever he saw Tan Shuo, and excused that he had something to do, so he didn't go to the rice noodle shop to help the cook.He didn't know what to do if things were really as he had guessed.He didn't even dare to think about the final result, he just waited anxiously.

Two days later, the score for "Song of the Long Night" finally arrived.Qin Haiou returned to the inn room, spread out "Song of the Long Night" and Tan Shuo's manuscript side by side on the table, and read them side by side.

Looking at the two scores in front of him, Qin Haiou's heart sank to the bottom.From the initial surprise of discovering the manuscript, to the loss and perplexity when the manuscript was lost, to the excitement when it was found again, to the disappointment again, and the doubt that came suddenly after everything calmed down—all these ups and downs of emotions, in the At this moment, it was replaced by a complete blank.

The relationship between Tan Shuo's manuscript and "Song of the Long Night" is definitely not an imitation.

Qin Haiou refused to believe it, but the facts were right in front of him.

Tan Shuo is not imitating.

He is plagiarizing.