To Play Pianissimo

 

Pianissimo張繼高與吳心柳

• 作者：楊憲宏主編
• 出版社：允晨文化
• 出版日期：1996年

Pianissimo是申學庸女士在憶述張繼高時所提到的字，意指音樂上的「極弱音」。「極弱音」並不是人人聽得到，更不是人人聽得懂，卻是最令知 音人細細品味的。張繼高一生從容處世，深沉出聲，卻能振聾發瞶，引人深思。《張繼高與吳心柳》，就是這個社會時代樂曲的Pianissimo。
張繼高先生終身以新聞傳播為業，而以音樂推廣為志。他堅持自己的器識與風格，同時在新聞與音樂兩種專業領域斐然成章。王鼎鈞先生形容他︰「學識精進而又談吐平易，內力深厚而又坦蕩明朗，經營上流社會的管道而又在財富權勢前從容矜持。」而以「高明自在」喻之。
張繼高先生走了，許多人懷念他，識與不識，多所憶往，其中往往讚嘆多於感傷；一如胡志強先生所說︰「曾經有他，實在真好！」
張繼高先生好學深思，謀而不求，涉獵寬廣而用心獨到，衣帶漸寬終不悔。

【音】（用作指示）極弱地（的）；極柔地（的）. n. 樂曲中最柔弱之部分. 

pianissimo

very softly

: very softly. used as a direction in music.

Pianissimo

adv. & adj. (Abbr. pp)
In a very soft or quiet tone. Used chiefly as a direction.
n., pl., -mos.
A part of a composition played very softly or quietly.

[Italian, superlative of piano, soft. See piano².]

Word OriginItalian, superlative of piano, literally 'soft'. 

pianissimo adjective pp. [written abbreviation] (music) very quietly – written on a piece of music to show how it should be played.

To Play Pianissimo

By Lola Haskins

Does not mean silence.

The absence of moon in the day sky

for example.

Does not mean barely to speak,

the way a child's whisper

makes only warm air

on his mother's right ear.

To play pianissimo

is to carry sweet words

to the old woman in the last dark row

who cannot hear anything else,

and to lay them across her lap like a shawl.

Copyright Credit: From Desire Lines: New and Selected Poems, BOA Editions, Rochester, NY. Copyright © 2004 by Lola Haskins and reprinted by permission of the author and the publisher.