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It's sort of an inverted Hendrix cord

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Brad Mehldau uses this all the time, although without a lot of the doubling.

5:47 My mind immediately goes "F minor 11 over G".

6:28 Some of those mistakes sounded good those. Especially at 6:07. Very different vibe even though it's just one note difference.

Maybe this isn't a helpful way of looking at it, but personally, I see those first three chords all as being different levels of tension over the V7 (G7). You can look at the E minor over F minor as a structure from G mix. b2, then G13 as a less tense colour taken from plain G mix., before upping the tension again with a structure taken from (maybe) G super loc. I doubt he thought of it that way though. Like you said, he wrote this with the movement of each voice in mind.

The first time i heard the rite of spring i was shocked to hear how much Stravinsky had borrowed from John Williams’ Star Wars soundtrack ;)

Been watching loads of these weekly chords man so good, love from UK!

This is amazing. I was planning on making my own electric version of this movement but now there's no point. Were all the parts performed on keyboard? (minus the drums)

Isnt that first one nearly identical to the chord in augurs of spring section?

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Not every melody is best understood by describing it in chord terms.

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It’s melodic too. It could be seen as going from V-I Emaj and then V-i-vii-i-V Amin(or maj). If you’d want to write counterpoint that would be the way. There is a lot of harmonic room here for crunchy counterpoint if we wanted

Correct if wrong, but it’s moving lines that create the sonorities, not chords as a jazz pianist would think of them. Right?

Except as I understand it, Stravinsky was lying and that there are many other previously existing tunes within the Rite of Spring

Is it basically one of those that guitar players call "Hendrix chords"?

Dude: your video is great. But move your ring light so it doesn’t reflect in your glasses; very distracting.

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This is a great video

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Great highlight. Thanks. Love Concerto for Orchestra. I think more people would listen to this kind of music if they imagined it as film music (and these C20th composers did it first!)

Keith: "Especially the early pieces" Also Keith: "and now, the Concerto!" :) This was a great short vid about this part of the Concerto. My single humble comment is that the metal band and Frankenstein are not the proper associations here. Both examples have an unnatural quality; while Bartók's world is always kind of naturalistically natural. He does not search an effect to shock the audience with something that had been unheard; instead, he is always looking for a more deep and honest depicting of the human soul that ever heard. So it is not about shocking, but about honesty. These night musics are dominantly about the loneliness. A single soul in the center of the creature - either a cosmical view or some night narute picture or anything - which is either amusing or frightening, but does follow its own way, regardless to the presence of any last human being or non-presence at all. And this "rigidness" of the physical world puts the soul in a great segregation and sorrow, This is the general program of the night musics.

My old bass has the low B. And I love her.

Bartok is a monster... In all the good ways

I'm glad I found your channel with this video :) I think most people can get a connection to Bartok through Kubrick's shining. Maybe it's worth a video? It's really awesomely used by Kubrick!

Once upon a time, the Concerto for Orchestra and The Rite of Spring were popular disc mates (such as in Herbert von Karajan's recording for Deutsche Grammophon).

this channel is exhillarating to me. I cant read sheet music but understand theory, and to see how film scores and classical composers use harmony is opening my mind completely. after only studying jazz harmony, every video I wartch on your channel has me going "wait you are allowed to do that???"

Do Il tabarro 5 before rehearsal 2. BDFACE, probably just B half dim with some appogiaturas but it’s so nice.

I completely agree with everything you say here. Bartók is woefully underrated and deserves to be elevated at least to the level of his 20th Century contemporaries. American orchestras should include at least one substantial piece by him every season. “Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta” is absolute genius, for example. (The sync’ing of the “beast” chord to “Frankenstein” worked amazingly well. Thanks for that.)

Horn’s analysis is great- does this harken back to Monk?

The next step in orchestrational analysis are the resultant tones you get from this instrument choices and tessituras. These low-register string tremolos feed off each other by reinforcing overtones, making the Db even more dissonant in contrast. The actual instruments in a live performance, as you can hear, have a much more devastating quality.

You should feature some Prokofiev chords

and a tribute to Beethoven!

how interesting

Keith - the algorithm just showed me this series of yours. What a fantastic idea for a series of videos! Best wishes to you.

In a documentary on Netflix about Stravinsky you can hear a folk group singing the melody he used on the famous "Round dance of the princesses" from the Firebird. In Petroushka, he doesn't even try to hide the origin of the melodies. I mean, in his early work he did that all the time! Just amazing how the harmonic approach, voicing and orchestration can change everything. Stravinsky is the man! Thanks for the video!

Chord can be built off the tonic of any major mode #2, i.e Ionian #2 etc. Thas the R b3 (enharmonic #2) 3 5 I hear it as 7#9 chord, without the b7 *but is it a dominant chord without the b7, depends if it goes to 4 of the possible western logical places like major or minor, some form of B, Ab, F, or D* or Aadd#9 I haven't listened to the whole piece, so I am eager to see where it goes! Thanks for exposing this beast of a chord man. Love it.

May I suggest if you can do a video about the chord around the ending of Mark Anthony Turnage's "Three Screaming Pope".

Interestingly simple chord - 8vb doubling of the A minor triad adds so much depth.

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Another incredible harmonic delight to ruminate upon. Thanks for bringing up this “beast of a chord.” I love close played clusters- dark and dirty is sometimes the way and the truth. Bartok is amazing!

At the time Bartok wrote this, he knew he was dying from leukemia. That chord is a deep, heart-felt pang of his foreboding of the overwhelmingly sad inevitability of his approaching death. How you equate THAT to a headbanger's sensibility of a "beast" - is beyond me. Though there are indeed plenty of beasts and other dark figures to be found elsewhere in Bartok's music, this is not one of them. Like many European composers of his day, he had been forced to flee his beloved homeland because the Nazis were systematically exterminating his people and considered music like his to be "degenerate" art. In a heroic act, Bartok spent many years combing the countryside of his region recording - and basically rescuing for posterity - his people's folk music. He was directly embroiled in one of the most heinous acts of the 20th century, and probably all time - Naziism. Though you trivialize and equate this profoundly sad music by equating it with the bogeyman and heavy metal is misinterpreting this music for maybe millions of unknowing fans, I am still glad you are exposing this magnificent music to a new audience. For you folks out there, check out: Divertimento, Concerto for Orchestra, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste, the Miraculous Mandarin Suite, Dance Suite, Concerto for Viola and many others. Though Bartok delved deeply into the darkest regions of the human psyche, he also emerged triumphant, powerful and hopeful in the end.

3:24 It‘s not "Fünfstaiger Bass" but "fünfsaitiger Bass" which literally translates to five (= fünf) stringed (= saitig + suffix -er) base (= Bass).

It's "fünfsaiter" and just means having five strings. And mostly, the lowest string is tuned to C not B. Thank you for your interesting videos!

If you ask me, Rick Beato looks more like Villa-Lobos than Bartok. :-) Anyway, the entire Concerto for Orchestra is amazingly evocative. The start of the third movement always makes me think of descending into deep, dark water, with sharks circling around, so perhaps not a bad idea to end up with a beast of a chord.

Which sound libraries do you use in your mock-up videos? Especially the brass? They are fiiiiine 👍