Holding this "Cracking Field" migration road sign, Roy felt that things completely exceeded his expectations.

There is no way that Bishop Lavoisier left this "hazard guide" after he left, and the advice he gave me was to enter this unknown and weird secret place of migration to "escape", right?

"No, the priest has already told me to stay in San Pelto."

It was already past midnight, and the repetitive and monotonous steam noise could be heard. Every crew member in the airship was taking a nap or dozing off.

Roy held the folded road sign and walked for a while. Suddenly something came to his mind and he opened it again.

Turn it over.

There are words left by Bishop Lavoisier on the back of the road sign!

She bit her lip and read word by word. As her eyes moved, the handwriting with a faint crystal white light gradually disappeared.

"If this is true"

Looking at Bishop Lavoisier's speculation in the letter, Roy suddenly felt a chill running down his spine.

She still had a nonchalant expression on the surface, and refolded the empty Migration Road Sign, which had become empty on the back, and put it inside her underwear for safekeeping.

For the next few hours, she remained in a very nervous and suspicious state, sitting in her seat with her chest folded and her eyes closed, until dawn came the next day.

Judging from the travel time, it may be that the airship entered the border villages and towns of the San Porto region around this time.

She suddenly felt two beams of almost physical light sweep across her spiritual body.

The divine energy contained in it is like the vast, pure and hot ocean. Personally, she feels like a small boat on the ocean. However, she does not feel any threat or malice.

"The gaze of the saint from the heights of Huita?"

Roy felt that the two beams of light just glanced at him, "knowing" them, and he could no longer detect them.

At least, what Bishop Lavoisier said, this point can be proved to be true.

He actually sent a request to the saint, asking him to take care of him while he was staying in San Porto.

"When did I need to be taken care of like this? How risky is this?"

Although Roy had a wry smile on his face, the tension in his heart had been eliminated.

She stretched out her hand and pressed the part of her clothes where the moving road sign was placed. For the next operation that Bishop Lavoisier asked her to do, she felt a lot more at ease in her heart.

After returning to San Porto, the municipal government arranged a small villa for Roy to stay in with the most distinguished guest courtesy.

It has a quiet courtyard with a rich and deep layout, and more than a hundred steps from the main entrance, there is an endless stream of bustling streets full of flower shops and cafes. Standing at this intersection, you can see the stone pillars and arches of the Walstein Museum and its sloping

Opposite the corner, walking one kilometer to the left is the "Unfallen Fire" Festival Opera House, and the straight-line distance from the headquarters of the Holy Sun Church behind it is no more than two kilometers.

In the next three days, Roy fully followed Bishop Lavoisier's instructions, suspended part of the inspection work, and assigned other parts to his subordinates. He lived a standard "young lady's foreign affairs visit life" and visited museums.

, see art exhibitions, listen to operas, listen to concerts, attend salons, meet visitors, eat local food

San Porto is a shining place of art and humanities, but there is no one around who wants to share and discuss it. Thinking that this kind of life may last for a long time, and that there may be some problems in his own school, Roy still remains

I feel like my heart is filled with gloom.

On this day, February 10, she met her father, President McAdam.

Naturally, the other party came to attend the "secret seminar". Moreover, since Fan Ning "accidentally" pointed out this matter and let Roy know about it, Aunt Hermosa made a proposal for Roy to also participate, and got

Marquis MacAdam's promise.

The father and daughter met and had meals and conversations as usual. Roy expressed his willingness to participate in this new addition to his itinerary.

In a letter to himself, Bishop Lavoisier designated the seminar as "low risk" and said that in the core area of ​​the Holy City, there are saints and the Pope present. Even if there are hidden factors involved, there will be no risk.

Reveal a direct threat.

So that night, in the opera hall that was closed to the public, she participated in the first round of seminars involving two extraordinary organizations and dozens of representative musicians.

Facts have proved that perhaps Bishop Lavoisier's "low-risk" judgment was too cautious, and this was just an artistic discussion that could not be more pure.

In the first round of discussions, the musicians initially exchanged their atonal works, techniques and concepts.

However, among the modern music techniques involved, there are indeed many "mysterious chords" that Fan Ning once warned about, as well as some very radical, strange or disturbing sounds based on traditional human hearing, such as

"Twelve-tone system", "expressionism", "limited shift mode", "microtonal tone", etc.

For Roy, she is already very familiar with Fan Ning's late romantic harmonious writing style due to various influences in the past. The "Impressionism trend" has also opened up a new horizon, which can be regarded as a "high cognitive foundation".

She accepted the avant-garde works and concepts discussed tonight quite well.

However, she always felt that there was an overly anxious atmosphere throughout the seminar.

"Dad, if you put it this way, will our major music schools in Orion still teach the music theories compiled by Mr. Fan Ning?"

At the end of the show, Roy walked up to Marquis MacAdam and asked.

"Those are the basics and compulsory courses for students." The other party's nod made her seem relieved, "But my daughter, you have to understand that for a professional 'musician', the traditional two

The melody and harmony system of the fourteen major keys has almost been exhausted by our predecessors."

McAdam, dressed in a suit and ties, looked at the backlit silhouettes of the staff packing musical instruments in the opera hall, seeming to sigh with emotion, "Sometimes it is difficult to evaluate whether people who live in such an era of peak romanticism are lucky or unlucky, and they are not interested in enjoyment."

It is one experience for the 'travelers' who are nourished by rich humanistic achievements, but it is probably another experience for those 'path-blazers'."

"You have seen many original works by masters in the art museum these days. How do you feel?" he asked his daughter.

"Um?"

McAdam has always had strict requirements on the study and training of family members. When Roy saw him asking questions, he subconsciously started thinking quickly.

"I think the original works have a stronger sense of history. The content and style of each work belong to a specific era." She only answered some directional questions carefully.

"You are right about the latter point," McAdam said.

"If we turn the time back four hundred years ago, a painter with precise perspective, balanced composition, and proper control of lines and colors would most likely be among the 'greats' or even 'masters.' But today, this is just a matter of letting a painter

Students only acquire the basic skills that are a stepping stone to the Academy of Fine Arts.”

"In the era when photography technology and Impressionism were on the rise, what could an artist who just 'painted like' do? What was his place in the history of art? He was just a businessman who placed orders with him.

I’m just willing to pay a few more bills.”

"But my father's first point is that nowadays we should look at composers, musicologists and performers and conductors separately. The second point is that the 'torch bearer' of this era has not yet been determined, and has become a master.

Or those who are most likely to become masters are still composers in the Romantic style." Roy knew that her father was making an analogy with art, but she still pointed it out.

McAdam raised his hand: "I understand."

"They are either highly respected people with deep qualifications, such as figures like Schillings, Dominique, Viadrin, or the newly born Bishop Lavoisier. Or they are young and rare all-rounders like Fanning.

Or wizards among troubadours like Scheler. They are still the top contenders for the next Harvest Art Festival, and they are the group of leading figures that the Special Patrol Office pays the most attention to."

"However, do you know what state the vast majority of the other seekers and young people who have just embarked on the road of music are in?"

"If you analyze the development trends of modern music from the perspective of being at the helm of the future development of the entire academic school, the things you focus on will be very different from those of individuals."

"Now that the traditional major and minor harmony system has been fully developed, as time goes by, most of the young musicians will run out of inspiration at a certain point, become mediocre, and become a mediocre 'academy'

professor' or 'veteran'"

"The few who have better results will become 'excellent imitators' of Kashunich, Gilles or Sverinck. Yes, they have thoroughly understood the musical styles of the Middle Ages, Authenticism and Romanticism.

Being able to write one piece of "pleasant" music after another is considered a relatively excellent type. It is easy to impact the "character" of a "blade wielder", but what about higher achievements? Of course, well

, the Special Patrol Office will follow the will of their leader to select a few 'obedient guys' among these musicians to build momentum and promote them to a higher reputation."

When Roy heard this, he basically understood what his father meant.

Indeed, the monuments in front have been erected, not just one but two.

Not everyone is like Mr. Fanning. Not only is he always breaking new things, but even the works he created in the past style period also have refreshing creativity, as if they were found in another world.

inspiration

"But the key point is, what kind of art do the people in the Special Patrol Department know?" McAdam laughed lightly, "The academic school is the one with the right to speak in art evaluation. The Romantic style is very great, and it is still our core competitiveness today.

But it has reached the highest turning point from prosperity to decline. Just look at the current trend of Impressionism."

"Among the winners of this Harvest Art Festival, the romantic ones will be romantic, and the modern ones will be modern. This is the pattern that should be formed. The aesthetics of the art world and the general public will gradually transform towards 'atonality'"

"But can they really be so receptive to less pleasant sounds?" Roy frowned and asked, "Although I know that avant-garde music has its own logical beauty, but human ears

Naturally pursues melodies with memorable characteristics and harmonious progressions with clear tendencies."

"What does it mean to be pleasant to the ear?" the president asked.

Roy was startled for a moment.

"In the ancient music period, any change of tone outside the prescribed mode was a blasphemous heresy;"

“In the early days of medieval music, only chants composed in parallel octaves or fifths were considered harmonious;”

"In Gregorian times, augmented fourths and chromatic scales were considered 'devil's sounds'; in the mature period of polyphonic music, dominant seventh chords were systematically used, and the major second became a common conflict interval.

But minor second degrees are still an absolute no-no;”

"During the period of Authenticism, composers who dared to use too much brass in their symphonies or who wrote too long a development were criticized."

"So, what does it mean to be pleasant?"

"The future must belong to the world of atonal music. After the last masters of Romanticism and Impressionism pass away, the new masters will be like this. Everyone who comes from an academic school will only regard Romanticism as
To be continued...