Chapter 61 To Alice
This song contains the lightness of folk songs and the romance of urban music. Although it is a short song, it shows ingenuity everywhere: it flexibly uses the changes in modes.
The first phrase is a natural minor key, the second phrase is a natural major key, the shadow of the third phrase melody minor key flashes, and the fourth phrase returns to the natural minor key. The composer also breaks through the squareness of the phrase. The first phrase is four bars, the second phrase is one less bar than the first phrase, and the third phrase is divided into two clauses. One is syncopated, and the emphasis on the stress in the sense is just right. The rhythm of the fourth phrase is similar to the first and second phrases, but it does not start with the strong beat, but becomes start with the weak beat.
None of the four verses is exactly the same as the other in terms of the composition. The twists of the melody of the song are unexpected but natural and decent, with a broad breath and exquisite structure, showing a vivid interest in the simple and elegant style, which is amazing.
As the accordion sounded, Valed also began to sing. The pronunciations of some southern common words are slightly different from the original song, and are replaced by other vocabulary. However, they are still the same in general, and the lyrics are as follows:
Late at night, the garden is quiet
The leaves no longer rustle
How beautiful the night
Enthusiasm
What a quiet night
The river flows quietly, with a slight wave
The bright moon shines on the water, and the silver shines.
Can vaguely hear it,
Someone sang softly,
What a quiet night.
My sweetheart sits beside me
Looking at me silently
I want to tell you
But it's embarrassing
How many words are left in my heart
The night is coming soon, the sky is bright
I sincerely wish you a happy girl
Hopefully from now on
I will never forget you
Evening outside Moscow
After singing the song "Night outside Moscow", Alice's eyes shining. She didn't know if the feather fan in her hand fell to the ground. She just looked at Valed in a daze. This song - it can be said that this love song made her feel hot. She just wanted to let go of the reserve of all women and jump into Valed's arms.
"This, this song is..." Alice was almost speechless. She looked at Valed, eager to get an answer from him - Valed naturally could not say that this song was a work of the former Soviet Union. Mikhail Madusovsky composed the song and Vasily Solovyov Sedoy. Of course, he was not shameless to say that it was made by himself.
"This is a folk song I have heard by chance. It is said to be written by musicians from a northern country, far away from us." Vared told Alice, and then Vared asked her, "How do you feel?"
Alice blushed a little. After all, this song describes the story of a man and a woman dating alone at night. This is exactly the same as the current situation.
"Bad man!" Alice cursed secretly, but felt sweet in her heart. She lowered her head and pursed her lips and forced herself to smile and refused to speak.
"Don't you like it?" Vared misunderstood Alice's meaning. He thought she was not interested in this song. This puzzled him - medieval style songs, either constant court music or folk songs of the Xialiba people. This song "Night outside Moscow" is a rare masterpiece that is appreciated by both the elite and the masses. And Alice must have never heard of it before. However, even this one cannot satisfy her... so she has to show her trump card.
As soon as Vared thought of this, he smiled slightly, put down the accordion, walked to the piano and made it. His sleeves shook and his hands rested on the piano. Then he started playing.
Alice was still in extreme excitement and excitement. At this moment, she saw Valed start playing the piano again. She reluctantly calmed down and listened. She was looking forward to it in her heart, hoping that Valed could give her another surprise.
As Vared's slender and dexterous fingers kept pressing the keys, the melodious music slowly spread out like flowing water. Although the rhythm was simple, it was extremely beautiful.
The theme that appeared at the beginning was simple and friendly, repeated three times in succession, with two contrasting inserts in the middle. The first insert was built on a new tone, with bright tones, expressing joyful emotions; the second insert was set against the fixed bass of the left hand, with dull colors and strong rhythm, and the music seemed serious and firm. A series of upward triplets and subsequently smooth and lively chromatic downward tones naturally led to the third reappearance of the theme. The music ended in a joyful and bright atmosphere.
This song is neither gorgeous nor long, it is just a sketch. What is rare is that you can create such a good song with such a simple method. Alice nodded repeatedly when listening to it. After the song ended, she applauded Valed. Looking at Valed nodding and asked, "What about this song, did you hear it by chance?"
"Yeah." Valed looked at Alice with an ambiguous smile, a little embarrassed. He could hear that Alice asked, but she didn't believe that these two songs were heard by Valed by chance. After all, Sylvania is so big, and both of them are quite good. It is impossible that Valed had listened to him at Earl Castein, but she had no news at all when she was Earl Ramiya.
However, as I said before, Vared disdained to plagiarize other people's works. Whatever others think is someone else's business, he still needs to say what he should say: "This is written by a very excellent musician in the southern country."
"So what's the name of this song?" Alice continued.
"To Alice," Vared replied.
“…to Alice?”
After listening to this masterpiece by Beethoven, Alice's ambiguous smile on the corner of her mouth became stronger, and she seemed to have decided that this was what Valed did. And it was done for her. The eldest lady of the Lamiya family didn't like anything else, but she just liked this. When Valed said the name of the song "To Alice", Alice's heart was tied to Valed. Her eyes were full of dazzling colors, and she wanted to swallow Valed into her stomach.
"Well, to Alice..." Valed naturally noticed his cousin's abnormality. His voice was a little confident.
Seeing Valed like this, Alice couldn't help but mutter, "Bad man." Taking advantage of the time when Valed raised his head, she gently kissed Valed's side face. Then she left with only a string of silver bell-like laughter.
"This... the favorability has increased, right?" Vared to himself, touching the kissed place.
Chapter completed!