Second Piano Concerto

Qin Haiou looked at these two dates for a long time before he slowly recovered his thinking and gradually realized what they might represent.

The first date was 11 years ago in August.Qin Haiou calculated subconsciously. At that time, Tan Shuo had finished his senior year of study. Since the composition major is a five-year course, he should be on summer vacation.

The second date was March 10 years ago.At that time, Tan Shuo was studying in the final semester of his fifth year, and two months later, in May, there would be a composition competition.

Under normal circumstances, if two parallel dates appear on the score of an original work at the same time, the earlier one is the date when the work was formally drafted, and the later one is the date when the work was revised.Composers often make minor repairs to the work for a period of time after the manuscript is completed, and such minor repairs will not be recorded with a date.Any modification with a clearly recorded date must be a comprehensive revision of the work or a major change.Corresponding to Tan Shuo’s manuscript, August in the second term of senior year is the date of completion of the work, and March in the first term of fifth year is the date of revision of the work, with an interval of 8 months in between.

However, Tan Shuo's manuscript was plagiarized. What's the use of marking such two dates and writing such a sentence on a plagiarized manuscript?Is it to fudge some details to make this work look more like its own original?

Qin Haiou immediately found two more scores, put down "Xinghai", picked up "Song of the Long Night", and looked for the date of Sun Chen's composition.

On the score of the officially published "Song of the Long Night", it is stated that Sun Chen's draft date was May 12 years ago.

This discovery immediately puzzled Qin Haiou.

Since Tan Shuo had already copied Sun Chen's score, why did he set the date on the plagiarized manuscript after Sun Chen's when he fabricated the creation date?

Tan Shuo's date is more than a year later than Sun Chen's. No matter under what circumstances these two dates are mentioned at the same time, it is not good for Tan Shuo.

Qin Haiou's doubts deepened, and his eyes returned to Tan Shuo's manuscript.

"Song of the Long Night" was first published and made public at a composition competition ten years ago.If Tan Shuo wants to take the lead, the best way is to publish the plagiarized manuscript before the competition of "Song of the Long Night".But if he did, and let the two false dates be seen, his lie would be self-defeating.Even if he didn't write any date, the odds of winning would be better than this.

And after the composition competition, it was even more impossible. "Song of the Long Night" was a blockbuster in the composition competition, attracting everyone's attention and stealing the limelight.If Tan Shuo wants to publish or even perform "Xinghai" in the future, once he shows his plagiarized manuscript, he will also be seen through immediately.He will be exposed immediately, which is undoubtedly a stupid act of taking the initiative to hit the gun.

"Writing to the sea of ​​stars under the sky, the singing on the grassland" - this seems to be a sentence written from the perspective of the creator, but the following two dates point to the opposite fact.Why did the words and sentences, which were obviously contradictory to each other, appear in the copied manuscript?

Qin Haiou thought over and over again, comparing the dates of the two works with the circumstances of the year, Tan Shuo's plagiarism became unreasonable.However, the plagiarism relationship between "Xinghai" and "Song of the Long Night" is clearly in front of us.If Tan Shuo hadn't copied Sun Chen, then Sun Chen could only have copied Tan Shuo.

... It was Sun Chen who copied Tan Shuo.

Qin Haiou's whole body trembled, and he stared at the two scores in front of him. For a moment, he felt a chill in his back and numbness in his scalp.

How is this possible?It can't be true.It never occurred to him that this was possible.

For him, it was easy to question Tan Shuo, but it was too difficult to question "Song of the Long Night".

"Song of the Long Night" is a gold medal work selected through a composition competition 10 years ago.Xinyin Cup is one of the most important and influential composition competitions today, representing the highest level of professional music creation. Whether it is the review of qualifications or the process of selection of works, there are strict procedures and standards. "Song of the Long Night" stood out in such a competition. Its author, Sun Chen, is a composition teacher who teaches at the same school as Wang Yifu. Its premiere was performed by Wang Yifu's student and Qin Haiou's senior brother Xiao Cong. Wang Yifu himself is also one of the judges of the competition.Qin Haiou has no reason to question the authority of the competition, and it is even more difficult for him to believe that the work that has been selected by a high-level jury and finally premiered by his senior brother will be a copied work.

Over the past 10 years, "Song of the Long Night" has been continuously performed around the world, and has already been widely recognized.For Qin Haiou, questioning "Song of the Long Night" is unimaginable.This work has been in contact with too many people from the entry, the award, to the public performance, including Qin Haiou's two most beloved people - Wang Yifu and Xiao Cong. Had a lot of feelings.To question "Song of the Long Night" is to question all of this. This kind of thought never even appeared in Qin Haiou's mind.Therefore, when he found that "Xinghai" and "Song of the Long Night" were so similar, he immediately believed that Tan Shuo copied "Song of the Long Night", and never thought that there was another possibility.

He bought back all the scores of "Xinghai" from Cao Nan, but he only missed the page with the date written on it.He came to the conclusion that Tan Shuo plagiarized. He was shocked and deeply shocked at the same time. On the one hand, he was unwilling to deny Tan Shuo's character, but on the other hand, he had to face the facts in front of him.At that time, he didn't see the date on Tan Shuo's manuscript, but he was just in pain and trouble.But now, the dates on these two works were like a basin of ice water being poured over his head, which suddenly woke him up.

Qin Haiou stared at the four exquisite silver hot characters of "Song of the Long Night" for a long time, until the chill that climbed up his back gradually penetrated into his heart.

Why didn't he think of it before!

He even suspected Tan Shuo, wrongly blamed Tan Shuo, and preconceived that the victim was a plagiarist.

In the past, he thought that he had begun to understand Tan Shuo, but now he found that he didn't know Tan Shuo, and he knew almost nothing about Tan Shuo's past.Tan Shuo has suffered such unfair treatment, how his work was plagiarized, and why he was not exposed after the plagiarism, but let Sun Chen win the award, and let "Song of the Long Night" play ten times at the concert in a grand manner. Year!

ten years.This work has been loved by Qin Haiou for ten years, and played by Xiao Cong for ten years. Ten years ago, Wang Yifu made a difficult choice between two students for the premiere of this work.What would the teacher and senior brother think if they knew about this?Not to mention how aggrieved Tan Shuo, as the original author, has been in these ten years. Seeing other people's names written on his works, all the honor that should belong to him has been taken away by others!

Qin Haiou looked down at the music score of "Song of the Long Night", and threw it out with a wave of his hand.

Previously, he believed that the plagiarist was Tan Shuo, and he felt sad, distressed, and annoyed, but now that he understood the truth, he was only angry with Sun Chen.

He turned around and picked up the manuscript on the table, tidied it up, and put the page with writing on it back to its original position in the manuscript.

"First Piano Concerto", this is a very serious concept.To compose a large-scale piano concerto requires a lot of time, energy and effort.Just to write a melody, composers often have to go through a long process from collecting styles, to refining ideas, to creating and shaping, not to mention the design of the piano texture and the orchestration of dozens of instruments in the entire band.This is an extremely difficult and complicated process. Some composers have only written one piano concerto in their lifetime, and some composers have written two or three in their lifetime. An achievement that will make its name go down in history.More importantly, the number "No. [-]" proves that the composer attaches great importance to a work, because with "No. [-]", there may be "No. [-]" and "No. [-]" in the future...Tan Shuo described this This work is marked as his "First Piano Concerto", which shows that he was very serious when he created this work.

Such a work full of painstaking efforts and brilliance was snatched away.Qin Haiou looked back and forth at that line of writing, and finally closed the manuscript, unable to bear to read any more.

Now he is almost certain that the reason why Tan Shuo stays away from the music circle, sells rice noodles in this town of Longjin, lives a self-enclosed life, and has never written an independent piano work for so many years, must be related to this Bad events have a lot to do with it.

Countless questions rushed out of Qin Haiou's mind frantically, and one was immediately squeezed away by the other before he had time to think about it.He had been avoiding Tan Shuo before and was unwilling to face Tan Shuo, but now he couldn't wait to catch Tan Shuo and ask him to understand what was going on, why things turned out like this, and why Tan Shuo didn't expose , Why has this mistake that lasted for ten years not been corrected so far!

Qin Haiou picked up the manuscript on the table and rushed out the door. He just ran to the stairs, thought for a while, then went back and picked up "Song of the Long Night" by the wall and took it away.When he went downstairs to the yard, Tan Shuo had disappeared, only Doudou was lying on the ground under the shade, sticking out his tongue.Qin Haiou was full of worries and was eager to find someone. When he turned his head and saw Doudou, he immediately asked, "Where's Tan Shuo?!" Doudou looked at him, opened his mouth and yawned.Only then did Qin Haiou realize that something was wrong, and rushed to the kitchen again.

Tan Shuo was not in the kitchen of the inn.Qin Haiou didn't stop for a second, and immediately came to the rice noodle shop. Seeing Tan Shuo was sticking a cardboard box at the back door, he grabbed his arm and dragged him up to the second floor.