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Genre: Music
Date of upload: Apr 12, 2021 ^^
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14:35 I really agree with David and Dorian, it's the very reason I love videos like these. As an 'uneducated' music listener I do enjoy (classical) music, but I always feel like there are a lot of layers and intricacies I am missing because of my lack of knowledge. Therefore, watching this makes me enjoy these and other pieces on a very different level. Thank you for that, David!
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Once upon a time, long ago, at some kind of cocktail party, I fell into conversation with a composer. He said that being a composer himself, and knowing the usual composer tricks, reduced the magic of listening to music to some extent because he would hear things as, for example, "trick to suggest a somber mood" rather than just a somber mood.
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Peaking behind the curtain doesn't take away the magic. It adds to it. It's like physicist Richard Feynman's appreciation of a flower:
"I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree. Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing,” and I think that he’s kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is … I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it’s not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there’s also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts".
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What an amazing video - I really love these ones, where you go over so much musical terrain so deftly.
Must say - the moment you mentioned working backwards I thought, "I really hope he mentions Chopin," because Chopin does this so often with his stunning little chromatic modulations/fills, and basically all of his fioriture. The long chromatic passage over the F# pedal at the end of the Barcarolle (I am convinced) must have been written this way, I think, because as weird and grinding as it sounds it resolves so perfectly into the tonic.
So you can imagine how happy I was to hear that your next video will be about Chopin!
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Interestingly, this bears far more directly on my subjective experience of music than any of the other theory videos I've seen. Maybe it's through lack of training, but all the polyrhythm material, alternate tunings, and so on typically sound entirely normal, even restful, to my ear, and I'm often puzzled by the discussions of seemingly arbitrary “chord resolutions”, but the experience of pattern A and pattern B (each determined by its own logic) proceeding in opposition until they hit a moment where they both demand the same thing? That's magic.
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Great video! I loved the backwards planning concept. Also, the birdie at the end is so cute.
I hate to be the c*** to point out this little errata: 4:03 The noted chord was Eb7 but the played chord was Db7
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@benjaminmjones5021
3 years ago
Oh yes the Half-Sharp Prince thumbnail🔥🔥
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