Chapter 179 (1/2)
Volume 5 / Chapter 179
TL: LightNovelCafe
[TN: Hey guys…we had a donation come in for God’s Song Queue and I realized I haven’t been keeping up with my scheduled releases…which isn’t an issue until I actually get a donation like this. So I want to say thank you to Kirindas $15 and Kagemugen $20 for their donations. Please note that there will be 8 chapter releases this week for God’s Song instead of 7 due to that donation. This is 1 of 8!]
Yoon Kwang Hun read the thick bundle of scores that Jun Hyuk gave him several times. It was to figure out what fun Jun Hyuk had been talking about.
But before he could find the fun in it, his jaw dropped at its configuration. Just the instrumentation is incredible. There are 29 instruments. It is such a large song that in a real performance, it would require over 100 people to play.
The song is long enough that even when played at an incredibly fast speed, it would take over 1 hour an hour to play. Yoon Kwang Hun was having such fun with the scale and changes of the song that he did not have time to think about the secret Jun Hyuk mentioned.
Looking at the number of movements in the symphony, it is not very different from a 4 movement classical. But the conventionally slow 2nd movement is nowhere to be found and instead retains change and taut suspense until the 3rd movement.
Once the radical presentation ends, there is an epitasis of over 180 bars. There wasn’t the typical method of using repeat marks to replicate a constant thematic progression and instead went straight into the repetition and closing.
He thought that it was a symphony when he first opened the score, but it transformed into a double concerto. The piano and violin had appeared out of nowhere.
As soon as the 2nd movement started, piano and violin solos jumped out so suddenly the person looking could almost pass out from surprise.
The 3rd movement did not transform different subjects in a variation format, but kept throwing around one subject. It kept pushing forward through a sweet harmony, a dignified performance, a destructive rampancy, and an explosive timpani.
The most bizarre aspect was the 4th movement. The emptiness that could be felt in the first 3 movements appeared in the 4th.
Until the 3rd movement, it was like watching a blockbuster movie of a magnificent scale, grand effects, and continuous action. However, the 4th movement changed into a dry art film.
He could not guess why Jun Hyuk had created such a configuration. He looked the score over dozens of times to see if the fun that Jun Hyuk had talked about was hidden there, but was not able to find it.
“Hey! Give me a hint. What’s so fun about this song that it’s such a secret?”
“The fun is in finding it. Ha ha.”
Jun Hyuk laughed proudly. It could be that the fun Jun Hyuk is thinking of is in watching people look for the hidden fun in the score.
“And Sir, that score isn’t complete. There’s something I need to add to it. I left it out because if it’s there, anyone can figure it out. Should I give it to you?”
“No. I’m going to figure it out no matter what.”
Yoon Kwang Hun glared at a laughing Jun Hyuk and buried himself in the score again.
Yoon Kwang Hun got lost in the score as though he had discovered a new toy. He finally found the hidden secret 2 days later.
Once he figured out the secret, he was blank and did not move for a while.
Jun Hyuk put himself to a rash challenge for 2 months, and it seemed that challenge had been a success. He cannot be sure that it is a success because he has not yet seen the score that Jun Hyuk hid.
Jun Hyuk had not gotten enough sleep while doing work, so he did not leave his bed for half of the day.
Jun Hyuk finally came down to the cafe when the sun was setting.
“Oh, you figured the secret out. Your expression… What do you think? Isn’t it great?”
Jun Hyuk smiled brightly when he found Yoon Kwang Hun not looking at the score and blankly enjoying a cup of coffee.
“Hey! Didn’t you say that it falls short of a masterpiece?”
Yoon Kwang Hun yelled as though Jun Hyuk had used trickery in a fun game.
“I’d be embarrassed to call it a masterpiece.”
“What’s your standard of a masterpiece? Though, I guess I’ll have to see the rest of what you haven’t shown me yet. Hurry up and hand it over.”
Jun Hyuk looked at Yoon Kwang Hun’s hand and kept laughing.
“You have to tell me the answer to the riddle first.”
Jun Hyuk urged Yoon Kwang Hun’s answer with sparkling eyes.
“Give me the vocal part.”
“As expected. You solved it in 2 days. Wait a second.”
Yoon Kwang Hun got goosebumps at the sight of Jun Hyuk running to get the score. He was more surprised by Jun Hyuk’s rash challenge than he was pleased by solving it.
He spent another day looking at the rest of the score that Jun Hyuk brought him.
Jun Hyuk waited the entire day for Yoon Kwang Hun to finish looking at the score.