Chapter 858 Music in the Air

Before Paris became the cultural center of Europe, Venice had been the music center of Europe from the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the 17th century, and being a musician in St. Mark's Basilica was the most enviable position in Italy.

Church music in Venice is not just organ, but also choir and strings.

There was Bach's string concert in the Gesuarti Church today, and they had already started when they entered the venue, and what happened to be played was Bach's very famous aria on the G string.

It was raining lightly outside the church at the moment, and the surface of the polished marble was wet, and it was easy to fall when walking on it. One by one old lady wiped it dry with a dry sponge.

However, after a while, when a new person came in from the outside, there was another string of footprints on the ground, and it felt like her efforts were useless.

Pomona quickly turned her attention away from her.

This song is called the sound closest to heaven, and she doesn't want to miss it.

The Baroque style is also very luxurious, very similar to the Roqueco style, but the Baroque pattern is more atmospheric.

Listening to this music in this gorgeous Dominican church is indeed a special flavor.

She would be in a better mood if the honeymoon wasn't nearly over.

The Easter break coincides with a full moon, and they're back to deal with werewolves again.

Without Umbridge's Werewolf Act, the werewolf would not be forced to die, and perhaps there would not be so many followers of Fenrir.

So far, being bitten by a werewolf is still a terminal illness, there is no medicine to cure it, and the wolfsbane potion only relieves the damage caused by the transformation, and the price is very expensive.

Copying sheet music to survive only exists in France and German-speaking countries, and Venice has always been the center of music printing.

The speed of hand copying is definitely not as fast as that of printing, and composers also need to promote their works.

It was also at this time that European music began to focus on the melody of the music, rather than the story and content. The current music is a combination of catchy lyrics and catchy songs. As long as the tune is good, people will listen to it.

This is everyone's preference. Lily liked the Beatles as much as they were popular. Pomona has no special requirements for music. Even if it is pop music, she can accept it as long as it is not the kind of rock with strong drum beats.

Times are changing, something and someone will be obsolete, sheet music printers replaced hand copying, inkjet printers replaced mechanical printers, those manuscripts and printers are now on display in museums, maybe someday inkjet printers will also be their neighbors.

It is completely unnecessary to follow the trend. Lily also "liked" the Beatles for a while. After entering the magic school, she found that what she really liked were magic, potions and cooking.

People who fall into the group effect, even Isaac Newton will become "stupid". He also lost a lot of money in the South Sea bubble. Only by leaving those irrational crowds may his mind recover.

"In June 1523, an astrologer in London predicted that the Thames River would submerge London in February 1534. At that time, many blind followers believed the rumor, and tens of thousands of people left this doomed place to be destroyed." In Tricia's divination class, she said in that strange cadence that "Muggles like to follow blindly, especially prophecy, and then when the appointed time came, the Thames did not flood London, and the angry crowd planned to kill the astrologist." Master, later he had an idea and said that he missed a hundred years of calculation. The doomsday prophecy often attracts people's attention the most. From the ancient Romans' demise prophecy in 684 BC to the present era, the earth has already There have been more than 160 doomsday predictions. The common feature of these people is that they like to make up stories. Observing these remarks, we can easily find a phenomenon that different professions have different professional views on doomsday theory. In 1530 That fortune teller thought he was an Egyptian priest, and the Thames was the Nile, which would flood with the rise of Sirius..."

There were quite a few girls snickering, and the boys were so disdainful of the word "Sirius" that their mouths twisted.

During the witch hunting period in the Middle Ages, the Dominican Church also used the doomsday theory to preach in the mountains of Switzerland. Those missionaries who claimed to eliminate ignorance spread panic everywhere. In the end, the villagers were so frightened that they couldn't help but think what the monks said Just do whatever.

Intimidation will make some people resist, but more people choose to obey. For example, mothers will threaten their children. If you don’t study hard, how will you survive in the future?

There are many occupations in society, not necessarily the only way to study, the monthly income of a gondola boatman is more than that of an engineer.

Reading more books doesn’t necessarily mean making more money. Zodiac probably doesn’t make much money, otherwise he wouldn’t be so extreme. After gaining social approval, there is no problem even if he doesn’t get married. Received attention and recognition, he uses what he has learned to take revenge on society.

In the incident on the Zodiac Island, the "executors" at that time wore black clothes and black hoods. In fact, most of the ancient executioners wore red clothes. Rome's Crime Museum has a piece of clothing worn by the officially sanctioned executioner Massimo Tita, who is said to have executed more than 500 people between 1796 and 1865.

The color of the red clothes is the same as that of the cardinals, except that the cardinals represent their own blood, while the blood on the executioner's clothes is the blood of other people, even if the person killed is a "sinner".

Intimidation is much easier than persuasion. Missionaries and pastors always talk about the last judgment, and believers will go to hell if they are not "righteous". Believers believe it, and they do a lot of behaviors that modern people think are unimaginable.

Many people have a misconception that the feudal royal government is old, corrupt and inefficient, while the democratic system is young, clean and efficient.

This happens to be a misunderstanding.

In Jean-Jacques Rousseau's social contract theory, the monarchy system government is extremely dynamic, it can actively dominate the will of others, and everything works in one direction.

The European kings were far worse than the Chinese emperors. Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall, Han Wudi attacked the Xiongnu, Sui Yangdi built the Grand Canal, and made an expedition to Goguryeo. Even Yang Yuhuan wanted to eat lychees, and Tang Xuanzong expedited it by eight hundred miles. way succeeded.

Pharaohs in Egypt built pyramids, and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon are all products of the royal power.

If the goal of Wang Quan is for the public interest, then he is a Mingjun. The Kaiyuan prosperity created by Tang Xuanzong in the early stage is an example. If his goal is not for the public interest, such as abusing 800 miles to expedite the delivery of lychees, and repairing Huaqing Lake and other actions, The continuous operation of the regime has brought harm to the people instead, costing lives and money.

The king's will is the imperial decree, and we must do everything possible to complete the solution.

The democratic system is reversed. The ruling party wants to do a project, and the opposition party desperately slanders it as if they can’t continue. The Moses plan was discussed for 20 to 30 years before it started. Venice is still flooded every year. Anyway, politicians in Rome , the flood waters will not cover them.

If theology is about discussing how many angels can stand on the tip of a needle, they are arguing endlessly about the size of the tip of a needle.

The monarchy thinks of men, and democracy is like a woman bargaining in a vegetable market. If it weren't for Winston Churchill and Roosevelt, God knows when Britain and the United States will enter the Second World War.

Monarchy requires absolute authority, and the church is responsible for domesticating lamb-like people and making them obey the king. The king gives the church various privileges. At the same time, emperors like Louis XIV and XV build their prestige through extravagance. Others The country is not as luxurious as the king of France. They learn the French way of life, and Paris becomes the center of civilization.

It's just that this kind of life of the nobility is based on the malnutrition of thousands of ordinary French civilians.

The common people are hungry, the nobles and the church are still throwing a big banquet, the hungry people are the angry people, the angry people are irrational, there are no eggs under the overturned nest, falling into that kind of chaos, whether it is a lady or a country Women, and even emperors and peasants have to face a question: to live, or to die?

The change of dynasty was not so slow, it was over as fast as the wind, and the former nobles were either reduced to prisoners or their heads fell, while those "poor" sans-culottes became "upstarts".

There are many people who lost everything in the mist, and they didn't understand how they fell to this end until they died.

But he could vaguely feel that this had something to do with his own extravagance and waste, and this happened to be Rousseau's argument for attacking and criticizing the nobility.

The regime based on love is undoubtedly the greatest, but it is extremely unstable. Once this love is lost, it will be pushed to the ground by the civilians who once looked up to them.

Compared with using the brain, it should be easier to "love" with the heart. Don't take the simple road, but insist on taking the complicated one.

When a man marries a wife, he often chooses his own inner projection and suppresses his femininity, and the woman he marries in the end is often his own shortcomings.

"Damn it," she cursed.

"What's wrong?" Severus asked.

"I can't find the feeling of putting my whole body into music." She said with a sad face.

"Me too." The old bat said indifferently, "what's so good about this music?"

She couldn't tell why, but it felt like the musicians weren't fully engaged, not as contagious as Severus's serenade at the Cornaro Pavilion, but their virtuosity belied it.

"You should try it too." She urged, "Don't you have that Paganini violin?"

"How do you know it's Paganini's?" Severus asked. "It's clearly owned by six nobodies."

She glared at him.

Why is he always so disobedient?