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"Jiuzhoutong" is out, the hunting time has come!!
Afternoon!
The final battle has arrived!
Great Xia, the United States, and the host country, Music Country.
Little Japan was just unlucky, only 8 votes away from third place.
Next, these three countries will compete for first place.
Just as Ye Qingqing was about to speak, she noticed that the number of people in the live broadcast room had reached a staggering 80 million.
This was truly a scene she had never witnessed before.
It broke the entire live broadcast history of Great Xia.
Music, whether it's highbrow or lowbrow.
From ancient times to the present, it has been an important part of human DNA.
There have never been few people who like it.
Or rather, who doesn't like good music?
This also led to the viewership of this live broadcast being much higher than when Nan Ye participated in free diving.
Ye Qingqing organized her words: "Great Xia has reached the final battle. Many people may ask, what are the benefits of getting first place?
Leaving aside the benefits, being able to get first place has already proven our strength to foreigners, proving that our Great Xia's music can also be very strong.
Regarding the benefits, the country that wins first place has the right to host the next International Instrument Exchange Conference.
If our Great Xia can host such a project, the benefits naturally don't need me to say more!
Second, future musical communication, exchange, and education with other countries can achieve better development.
Third, our Great Xia's musical instruments can further explore the international market.
...
In short, the benefits of first place are quite substantial.
We also hope that Great Xia can perform at a higher level in the battle this afternoon.
Oh, I forgot to mention, since the afternoon is the collision of the highest level, to eliminate some accidental factors.
Each of the three countries has prepared two pieces of music.
The one with the highest total number of final votes will be the final champion!"
Ye Qingqing's remarks made the Netizens in the live broadcast room happy:
[This means there are still 6 pieces to listen to next, that's great.]
[To be honest, we should thank the progress of technology, otherwise, we wouldn't be able to hear such international competitions at all.]
[Go Great Xia, go Da Xia Orchestra! Win first place, and I will definitely buy tickets to listen live at the next exchange conference!]
[That's right, that's right, I'll start saving money from now on, even if it costs a few thousand big bucks, I have to go! That's truly an auditory feast!]
[...]
This time, the performance started with the third place, and Great Xia was scheduled last.
Unlike the first round, where there were too many participating countries and those later were easily overlooked.
But now, being the last to perform is actually better.
You can first listen to the musical styles of the other two countries, and then bring out more suitable pieces to achieve a counter-effect.
This is the significance of getting the highest votes in the second round.
Music Country is indeed worthy of being the previous champion and the host of this session.
After one piece, people felt the changes of spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
Sometimes the sound of gurgling water, sometimes the chirping of birds and cicadas.
That pastoral mountain forest nature flavor seemed to be right in front of their eyes.
Making people feel relaxed and free.
The final votes were 1225!
The United States finally brought out their specialty this time, the war song!
That feeling of clashing swords and horses, that sense of collision between two armies, was still very exciting.
Although it couldn't compare to the grandeur of victory, it also received 1264 votes.
It was now time for Great Xia's first piece.
There was a pastoral style and a war song, so Dai Tianxiong decided to avoid these two styles.
Putting on these two styles at this time would undoubtedly be unwise, the biggest fear is auditory fatigue.
"Then in this round, we will bring out a national style piece that is unique to our Great Xia!"
This time, Dai Tianchuan and Nan Ye took the stage with suonas.
This was their first collaboration on stage.
North Dust and his Master MiyaI Ichiro, the Chairman of the Flute Association, took the stage together.
Then there were guzheng, satar, and drums as the main instruments, as well as some auxiliary instruments.
Information about the song appeared on the screen:
Song: jiuzhou tong
Composer, Arranger: Nan Ye
Performed by: Da Xia Orchestra
(Actual Composer: Teacher Guan Dazhou, Arranger: Guan Dazhou, Ding Jiacheng.
It was performed in the "National Treasures" program!
Penguin Music and other software should have it.)
As soon as the information came out, the Netizens instantly became restless:
[Good heavens, it's Xiao Ge composing and arranging again, he's going to sweep all the pieces Great Xia is participating with in this competition!]
[Xiao Ge is awesome, support Xiao Ge, I suddenly feel like he alone can fight a country!]
[Amazing, amazing, Xiao Ge's talent is top-notch, in terms of pure music composition, Xiao Ge is almost reaching the level of a Top Producer, right?]
[I think it's about there, right? As long as he wins the championship in this competition, if Xiao Ge gets the title of Top Producer of pure music composition, I don't think anyone will disagree, right?]
[Definitely agree, damn it, if this title isn't given to Xiao Ge, who else can it be given to?]
[Holy crap, a 24-year-old Top Producer of pure music, this, this, this...]
[Hiss, I've really watched Xiao Ge step by step reach the level of a Top Producer!]
[...]
While the Netizens were shocked, the sound of the satar rang out.
The satar is a bowed string instrument of the Uyghur ethnic group.
It is made entirely of wood, usually about 138 centimeters long, so under normal circumstances, like the pipa, it is played while sitting.
The resonance box is long and gourd-shaped, carved from a solid piece of mulberry wood.
https://img.wtr-lab.com/cdn/series/bFEisH8AYcAti_QyfLhpN4vfWLZ6_O3jmgaoOSW5y8I.jpegIts tone is bright yet slightly hoarse.
When it started playing, it was as if the wind and sand of the Silk Road were gently sweeping past the ears.
That heavy yet magnificent and vast scene of the Gobi Desert instantly appeared in everyone's minds.
After a brief silence, the feeling of the desolate desert in their minds would quietly dissipate.
At this point, the satar suddenly returned with a high note.
This is its brilliance.
The listeners' minds were filled with its desolate and vast sound for a time.
It couldn't be driven away no matter how they tried.
Although the tone still carried a hoarseness, the previous sense of sorrow and heaviness slowly disappeared.
What came to mind was no longer the uninhabited Gobi or desert.
Instead, it was the leisurely self-contentment of the nomadic people living in the Northwest, galloping on horseback and singing loudly.
It was the mystery and comfort of distant camel bells chiming.
This was the first movement that this piece intended to express - the Northwest!
As the sound of the satar slowly subsided, it was connected by a series of small drum beats, and then the sound of the guzheng poured out.
Instantly dragging the listeners' souls, which were far away in the frontier, back to Chang'an.
This ancient capital of thirteen dynasties, this capital of the Oriental world.
It felt like returning to the flourishing era of the Tang Dynasty, where the country was prosperous, the people were peaceful, and the borders were stable.
Returning to the heroic scene of Li Bai, Master Cen, and Dan Qiusheng, saying 'Bring in the wine, cups shall not stop,' and 'Let us drown the sorrows of ages with you.'
The zither strings were plucked rapidly yet gently, and the myriad lights of the prosperous age, the vast starry sky, bit by bit, stroke by stroke, were slowly etched into the mind.
Although the drum sound was powerful and majestic, it did not overpower the zither sound.
But that heroic spirit of 'swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger,' that demeanor of 'controlling the six directions and galloping through a hundred tribes,' was still fully displayed!
This is the second movement of the song - North China.
Following next was the sound of the flutes from North Dust and his Master MiyaI Ichiro...