23:47 "If you WRITE a polyrhythm, you better be able to play it just as well as you expect your players to play it! Because otherwise, you're just writing equations and expecting people to make them music" Yeah, you tell 'em Adam!
That's exactly why I started this series (ua-cam.com/play/PLqe8ITprxxnzT_sxknpZETMgB_srqa_QD.html by now in spanish but I'm working on the english CC) to be able to play the polyrhythms cause I want to write music with polyrhythms and also to teach other people how to do it so they can play my music :)
Hey! About the white delays: In some languages, including French, we don’t call notes by fraction names. A “white note” is what you call a half note… Perhaps that’s what they meant? A delay that lasts a half note.
@@BrightBlueJim Yes, exactly :D I get confused with anglosaxon names (English, German, Dutch, etc.), although it's very mathematical and makes sense. I wonder if it helps in the firsts years of music study 🤔 In most romance languages the names of the figures are related to their shape instead of their duration: round (the I've that lasts the double of a half note, white (half note), black (quarter note), croche (eighth note. It resembles a hook, croche in FR). Smaller duration figures' names vary even more among Romance languages.
@@BigBadWolframio LOL! I asked myself, if a quarter note is a black note, and a half note is a white note, then what is a whole note? A round? (But I would never have guessed what an eighth note would be called!)
@@BigBadWolframio that's hurt my head! I was taught by my grandmother, a concert pianist, who in turn was basically taught by Victorians, so I have no idea if these terms are still current in Britain - but I'm guessing a "whole note" is one which has the duration of a full 4 notes of 4/4 time, in which case I'd call that a semibreve. Half of that is a minim (white note?). Half of that is a crotchet. Then half again is a quaver, then semiquaver, then demisemiquaver etc. So a quaver is what you would call a croche, not a crotchet? Gaah 🥴😆😆
Hi Team, unfortunately I had to blur out one of the musical examples due to a copyright claim. You can view a non-copyright version of this musical example at the link below. Sorry for the extra trouble everyone, I hope you can still enjoy the video 😘 www.dropbox.com/s/hh0m03ah7t1bo8u/Giles%20Salvator%20Mundi%20-%20bar%2057%20example.png?dl=0
@@SteinGauslaaStrindhaug In the meantime I'd say that we need find a way to impose penalties on rights owners who repeatedly issue frivolous claims against clear cases of fair use such as this one.
@@RolandHutchinson I think it complies with fair use too... but there are a lot of copyright strikes and even full channel take-downs happening on UA-cam at the moment, and I couldn't risk losing my channel and livelihood over one bar! Thanks all for understanding!
Listening at this as a non musician is like standing on the ocean shore, thinking it looks kinda neat, and then Adam and Sarah ambles up to you enthusiasticly waving pictures of strange plancton and crazy deep sea monsters and you get all fuzzy headed with excitement
18:54 that moment when you break Adam Neely. Growing up I played concert base in a baroque orchestra by using much More modern instruments. I remember our instructor brought in a piece from the medieval time period. Sight reading it broke our brains. Four or five days of practice and our instructor figured that they had actually been teaching it wrong, which was a first for any of us to see, and we actually just put it aside. The next year for my music theory class I spent the entire time obsessed with that one little piece of sheet music getting it down to a three four time and we performed it. It was in the back of my head for almost 2 full years is a late teen and probably total we played less than 2 minutes but nothing made me understand how little I understood or will ever understand about music then that piece. Also for those two years my brain was broken exactly the way that Adam Neely was. Several head injuries later I don't remember the exact piece but it was done by Paolo de fire or fireza... Head injuries have also taken away most of my playing ability so I get to watch these videos and love on them for part of my mind that doesn't work anymore.
Adam the bass guy in awe of a recorder player. The hierarchy of cool is once more set to rights. Well done both, just for being musical mathematical mystical geniuses.
OMFG you and Adam Neely! This is off the charts fantastic!!!!! And you know, even in science what we think of people of the past is wrong. Yes, science has progressed, but a lot of people think that in the medieval period, they got a lot of stuff wrong because they were basically stupid. They weren't -- they were as brilliant as any modern scientist. There's just only so much you can get right when you have no access to basic things like microscopes and telescopes. So if you read for example, Hildegard of Bingen's medical/botanical encyclopedia, a lot of it is wrong by today's scientific standards, but it's still brilliant for her time. She reached the broadest, most intelligent and well-reasoned conclusions anyone ever could have in that time period with what access to evidence they had. In music, and in science, people were not dumber, they were just limited by their technology and as just as capable and driven to push their tools as far as they could, exactly as we do now.
people knew the earth was round and could even calculate its diameter pretty close (error is just as large as your eyeball compared to your height) centuries before jesus was born.
@@anhthiensaigon Yes -- where they had the evidence available to them, they could get the right answer. Where they didn't have reliable evidence, they didn't suddenly get stupid. They just made the best stab at the answer they could.
I find some older contributions to be even more impressive because of the rudimentary tools and more limited models/maths they had to work with. Kepler deriving his laws of planetary motion by hand from years of observations by teams of astronomers. That is dedication. Sure his hypothesis on how these laws derived from nested Platonic solids seems silly now (though his laws were used as the basis for Newton’s work that is often considered the foundation of modern science), the observations and mathematical derivations themselves are astonishing considering what he had to work with. There are many other similar examples as well
I am so pleased. When I got a job where I was making a little more money than my usual retail wages, I started buying up a bunch of instruments to mess with and record with. I was interested in the recorder and found this channel in my research and was highly intrigued and entertained. I didn't really fall down the UA-cam rabbit hole until I found Adam Neely. 4 years of so later worlds collide and I am smashed. Best. Day. Ever.
Funny Adam mentioned being reminded of Steve Reich’s pieces that incorporated phasing. It’s worth mentioning that Reich actually composed a vocal work called Tehillim, a setting of selections from Hebrew Psalms, that is directly influenced by medieval and Renaissance music with rhythmic concepts like this.
THIS. I didn’t know how truly nerdy I am until minute 24 and I was sad to realize the vid was almost over. @Its_AdamNeely nailed so much when he challenged composers to solve the equation (Sarah’s words). What a great way to go into a thoughtful + feeling music weekend. Thank you @Team_Recorder!
Awesome awesome video! More please!! The combination of Sarah and Adam is amazing. Two amazing musicians with completely diverse and complementary backgrounds. So much to learn from you two, so inspiring!
Listening to you both chatting so freely is so coo... I don't know, I just felt like throwing that out here. Thanx for this incredibly nerdy yet lighthearted video 💕 It made me want to play my recorder sooo bad
Oh, dear, this is wild! Adam Neely and Sarah... Not to mention that the e-bass and the recorder sound surprisingly good together. Not heavenly good, perhaps, but way better than I would have thought. And the nerdiness of this video really went through the roof. I think I understood about one third of the concepts but I'm still ecstatic. This is a collaboration that needs to happen again... pretty please?
all instruments can sound good together. i think what you're referring to is blending: do the instruments have similar tonal qualities? yes. they will blend well. but you can have a musical saw and a kalimba sounds good together, if the players are proficient enough
Very very interesting. It reminds me of an evening when my father a composer showed me a recording of a gamelan orchestra and pointed out that the pulses in it lined up only once in the composition they were playing. Gamelan is inherently percussive in nature, so polyrhythms are a natural place of exploration. I tend to be partial to the village gamelan orchestras on Bali, but there is one resident in Washington DC through the Indonesian embassy.
6:32 oh sure, Adam can meme out with the 7/11 time, but give him a poly pulse and he falls apart. I’m kidding. Big fan of both channels! So glad you got together. I’m really hoping you play the licc together by the end.
thank you for talking about medieval musics, we don't speak enough about medieval musics, medieval musics are really cool and interesting. I enjoy medieval musics very much. I study musicology in a college where medieval musics are a really important point, and I'm glad to because before this I had no idea how cool it could be
Wow! There's a lot more to medieval music than I realized. At times you both lost me, but it's cool to see that there were some crazy music nerds back then too.
This was the coolest nerdy video I ever saw! Instructional, fun! Lots of things I didn't know. You lost me at Nathaniel Giles at first but then it started making sense. (Giles: Look what I can do!) I love you coworking with Adam Neely. I have seen some of his UA-cam videos. I think he is great.
Well this is a dream come true in at least three different ways! Thank you for a fun video I can watch a dozen times and keep finding new stuff to think about 🙂
I really liked your editing style the notes and explanations help understanding and the collages / memes (like the inception one) help maintaining the fun and light atmosphere
This is so cool, I had no idea there was such intricate and complex music from this period. I play shakuhachi (an ancient Japanese flute) and I'm always amazed at the interesting musical elements I find in the ancient music.
19:58 “I get to 1750 and I’m like Bach’s dead. Bye!” I have replayed this moment so many times, I can’t stop laughing by how much I relate (as a clarinet player who adores Bach). **Edited for the time stamp**
This was absolutely amazing. Each day I get closer and closer to convincing myself I can afford and need a lute. Just so I can play some of this medieval goodness 👌🏼
I remember getting so fascinated with Ars Subtilior music that I decided to compose a piece in that style. No doubt it was one of the most refreshing experiences I have had when it comes to creating music.
I saw Adam Neely on you tube doing a great job on The Girl of Ipanema, I wrote it down for the alto recorder. Very nice that you met with him. I am also interested in medieval music. My first introduction to reading music from sheet are from the old notation of Gregorian Chants. I am a clergyman.
Dear Sarah and Adam, Thank you so much for this video! It was so interesting and informative ) I would love to know more about medieval music. Would you please make some more videos on the subject? )))
It's interesting how this highlights how music is a language to me. With the background I have, with what I listen to and what I can play and undestand, this sounds so foreign to me that it hardly qualifies as something musical. I was so lost that it seemed the two of you could be playing in different parts of the world, but you made an appointment to start around the same time. That is not to the detriment of the music, but rather my lack of undestanding of it. It's interesting and humbling as well, that there's so much to know and discover, that people have tried stuff like these a thousand years ago.
Yeah, I think this really comes into play with people who don't get outside their comfort zone in present day music as well. Much of "getting" any particular genre is being familiar with the components that go into it so you can actually tell what is even happening and why it might be interesting beyond just the basic "catchyness." I think if more people understood that they'd appreciate a wider variety of things instead of just hearing something way outside their comfort zone one time, deciding they hate it and never looking back.
What I learned is that before the invention of our harmonic system (around Bach), people didn’t listen to harmonies but to melodies. So this practice makes totally sense if you know this.
Hi Adam, I'm a mathematics professor and a long time fan of your channel (love the philosophical tangents). I teach a sophomore interdisciplinary class in "The Mathematics and Aesthetics of Musical Tuning". Over the years of studying math and applying it to music I've become something of an expert in "Quadrivial matter's". Happy to share my knowledge, if your really starting t0 dig into the Quadrivium. Prof Mack
..Not often one sees a bar of 13/1.. I always wondered if there had been an early music equivalent of King Crimson or Gentle Giant, and it seems that, well..! Fabulous video. I didn't know of you, until this showed up due to the connexion with Adam. you have a new subscriber!
I love disparate pairings like bass and recorder (accordion and mandolin is my fave). This sounded great. When I think of nested tuplets within tuplets I think of Zappa.
I remember being in the chorus for that Ives symphony where one movement (blessedly not tot choral one) was in 4 different time signatures. We had the conductor beating two of them and the head percussionist beating the other two -- wild.
Thank you. Shared with my uber computer geek friend who is also a recorder nerd. Agree 100% that any composer who writes polyrhythmic pieces should be able to perform them as well.
Now you just need a viola player and then you can form a trio with the three most bullied instrument ever
Yesssss calling ThatViolaKid
@@sarahjefferysecondchannel1340 that would be magical
What, no accordion? No banjo?
The trio makes it a triangle ie. the number one most bullied instrument.
@@digitig Viola jokes make banjo jokes look kind.
I have never seen Adam so out of his depth. Its brilliant.
23:47 "If you WRITE a polyrhythm, you better be able to play it just as well as you expect your players to play it! Because otherwise, you're just writing equations and expecting people to make them music" Yeah, you tell 'em Adam!
Nice Giles callout
Freaking yes. #ferneyhough
That's exactly why I started this series (ua-cam.com/play/PLqe8ITprxxnzT_sxknpZETMgB_srqa_QD.html by now in spanish but I'm working on the english CC) to be able to play the polyrhythms cause I want to write music with polyrhythms and also to teach other people how to do it so they can play my music :)
Don't agree. Writing and playing music are not the same.
Isn't that last bit the very basis of some minimalist music?
Love the sliding piano cameo! Great video Sarah and Adam! Bravo!
Hey! About the white delays: In some languages, including French, we don’t call notes by fraction names. A “white note” is what you call a half note… Perhaps that’s what they meant? A delay that lasts a half note.
ah, I see, then a quarter note is a black note, as in, the note body is filled in in black, rather than unfilled white.
@@BrightBlueJim Yes, exactly :D
I get confused with anglosaxon names (English, German, Dutch, etc.), although it's very mathematical and makes sense. I wonder if it helps in the firsts years of music study 🤔
In most romance languages the names of the figures are related to their shape instead of their duration: round (the I've that lasts the double of a half note, white (half note), black (quarter note), croche (eighth note. It resembles a hook, croche in FR). Smaller duration figures' names vary even more among Romance languages.
@@BigBadWolframio LOL! I asked myself, if a quarter note is a black note, and a half note is a white note, then what is a whole note? A round? (But I would never have guessed what an eighth note would be called!)
@@BrightBlueJim Haha, good intuition! 🎶
@@BigBadWolframio that's hurt my head! I was taught by my grandmother, a concert pianist, who in turn was basically taught by Victorians, so I have no idea if these terms are still current in Britain - but I'm guessing a "whole note" is one which has the duration of a full 4 notes of 4/4 time, in which case I'd call that a semibreve. Half of that is a minim (white note?). Half of that is a crotchet. Then half again is a quaver, then semiquaver, then demisemiquaver etc. So a quaver is what you would call a croche, not a crotchet? Gaah 🥴😆😆
Hi Team, unfortunately I had to blur out one of the musical examples due to a copyright claim. You can view a non-copyright version of this musical example at the link below.
Sorry for the extra trouble everyone, I hope you can still enjoy the video 😘
www.dropbox.com/s/hh0m03ah7t1bo8u/Giles%20Salvator%20Mundi%20-%20bar%2057%20example.png?dl=0
We really need to replace copyright with something else. Someone that doesn't stifle creativity
@@SteinGauslaaStrindhaug In the meantime I'd say that we need find a way to impose penalties on rights owners who repeatedly issue frivolous claims against clear cases of fair use such as this one.
Copyright claim on a 400 year old piece of music. Seems reasonable.
@@jtbsax That was my first thought too.
@@RolandHutchinson I think it complies with fair use too... but there are a lot of copyright strikes and even full channel take-downs happening on UA-cam at the moment, and I couldn't risk losing my channel and livelihood over one bar! Thanks all for understanding!
This is a crossover I hadn't expected, but welcome with open ears!
They both nailed the feeling of looking at the music and shifting from “oh this is fine” to “this is no longer fine teacher please help”
Listening at this as a non musician is like standing on the ocean shore, thinking it looks kinda neat, and then Adam and Sarah ambles up to you enthusiasticly waving pictures of strange plancton and crazy deep sea monsters and you get all fuzzy headed with excitement
18:54 that moment when you break Adam Neely.
Growing up I played concert base in a baroque orchestra by using much More modern instruments. I remember our instructor brought in a piece from the medieval time period. Sight reading it broke our brains. Four or five days of practice and our instructor figured that they had actually been teaching it wrong, which was a first for any of us to see, and we actually just put it aside. The next year for my music theory class I spent the entire time obsessed with that one little piece of sheet music getting it down to a three four time and we performed it. It was in the back of my head for almost 2 full years is a late teen and probably total we played less than 2 minutes but nothing made me understand how little I understood or will ever understand about music then that piece. Also for those two years my brain was broken exactly the way that Adam Neely was.
Several head injuries later I don't remember the exact piece but it was done by Paolo de fire or fireza... Head injuries have also taken away most of my playing ability so I get to watch these videos and love on them for part of my mind that doesn't work anymore.
Paolo da Firenze, most probably ;)
Adam the bass guy in awe of a recorder player. The hierarchy of cool is once more set to rights. Well done both, just for being musical mathematical mystical geniuses.
OMFG you and Adam Neely! This is off the charts fantastic!!!!!
And you know, even in science what we think of people of the past is wrong. Yes, science has progressed, but a lot of people think that in the medieval period, they got a lot of stuff wrong because they were basically stupid. They weren't -- they were as brilliant as any modern scientist. There's just only so much you can get right when you have no access to basic things like microscopes and telescopes. So if you read for example, Hildegard of Bingen's medical/botanical encyclopedia, a lot of it is wrong by today's scientific standards, but it's still brilliant for her time. She reached the broadest, most intelligent and well-reasoned conclusions anyone ever could have in that time period with what access to evidence they had.
In music, and in science, people were not dumber, they were just limited by their technology and as just as capable and driven to push their tools as far as they could, exactly as we do now.
We stand on the shoulders of giants :)
Well said, J Cortese!!!!! I totally agree.
people knew the earth was round and could even calculate its diameter pretty close (error is just as large as your eyeball compared to your height) centuries before jesus was born.
@@anhthiensaigon Yes -- where they had the evidence available to them, they could get the right answer. Where they didn't have reliable evidence, they didn't suddenly get stupid. They just made the best stab at the answer they could.
I find some older contributions to be even more impressive because of the rudimentary tools and more limited models/maths they had to work with. Kepler deriving his laws of planetary motion by hand from years of observations by teams of astronomers. That is dedication.
Sure his hypothesis on how these laws derived from nested Platonic solids seems silly now (though his laws were used as the basis for Newton’s work that is often considered the foundation of modern science), the observations and mathematical derivations themselves are astonishing considering what he had to work with. There are many other similar examples as well
I am so pleased. When I got a job where I was making a little more money than my usual retail wages, I started buying up a bunch of instruments to mess with and record with. I was interested in the recorder and found this channel in my research and was highly intrigued and entertained. I didn't really fall down the UA-cam rabbit hole until I found Adam Neely. 4 years of so later worlds collide and I am smashed. Best. Day. Ever.
My two favorite youtubers together. This is a dream come true. Sarah and Adam... please do more!
Funny Adam mentioned being reminded of Steve Reich’s pieces that incorporated phasing. It’s worth mentioning that Reich actually composed a vocal work called Tehillim, a setting of selections from Hebrew Psalms, that is directly influenced by medieval and Renaissance music with rhythmic concepts like this.
Phasing is what I see when I'm sitting in a left turn lane, and my turn signal runs slightly faster than that of the car in front of me.
Love Steve Reich, I saw one of first performances for “Electric Counterpoint” and I immediately fell in love with it!!
I loved this “suitably nerdy” video! I learned so much, not only about Medieval and Renaissance music but musical terminology in general.
THIS. I didn’t know how truly nerdy I am until minute 24 and I was sad to realize the vid was almost over. @Its_AdamNeely nailed so much when he challenged composers to solve the equation (Sarah’s words). What a great way to go into a thoughtful + feeling music weekend. Thank you @Team_Recorder!
I love this. Honesty between musicians is the best thing ever.
This is one of the best musical crossovers i've ever seen. Team Bass/Recorder ftw
My recorder crush and my bass crush in the same roooooom!
*swoon*
Great video! Mind has melted, but, it must be great because I hurt from smiling!
Awesome awesome video! More please!! The combination of Sarah and Adam is amazing. Two amazing musicians with completely diverse and complementary backgrounds. So much to learn from you two, so inspiring!
Listening to you both chatting so freely is so coo... I don't know, I just felt like throwing that out here. Thanx for this incredibly nerdy yet lighthearted video 💕 It made me want to play my recorder sooo bad
Play ittttttt
Looks you had a lot of fun :D
It was very cool to see how you approached this very complex and old music as professional musicians of today.
two of my three favorite music youtubers together, wow. I didn't understand much, but you two really clicked. Hopefully there will be more?
I just realized this is amazing, young people chilling and doing old music!!! These magic times we're living. Wow!!!
Two of my ab-fab UA-cam Musical personalities in one Vid! Oh my!!! What a way to start the day.....Thanx!
general enthusiastic babbling is an universal language. Great video!
Sarah Jeffery and Adam Neely together in just one video. That's the kind of content the Internet needs.
This is incredible. Thank you Sarah and Adam.
I love that you blew "The Nerd's" mind. It was fun to see Adam's excitement. Great video!!!
Oh, dear, this is wild!
Adam Neely and Sarah... Not to mention that the e-bass and the recorder sound surprisingly good together. Not heavenly good, perhaps, but way better than I would have thought.
And the nerdiness of this video really went through the roof. I think I understood about one third of the concepts but I'm still ecstatic. This is a collaboration that needs to happen again... pretty please?
E-bass sounds good with everything, just about. Every melody is better with a strong foundation!
all instruments can sound good together. i think what you're referring to is blending: do the instruments have similar tonal qualities? yes. they will blend well. but you can have a musical saw and a kalimba sounds good together, if the players are proficient enough
Very very interesting. It reminds me of an evening when my father a composer showed me a recording of a gamelan orchestra and pointed out that the pulses in it lined up only once in the composition they were playing. Gamelan is inherently percussive in nature, so polyrhythms are a natural place of exploration. I tend to be partial to the village gamelan orchestras on Bali, but there is one resident in Washington DC through the Indonesian embassy.
Oh wow! What an exciting collab! And on the same day that Early Music Sources posted a video, too.
This is shaping up to be a great Friday 😊
6:32 oh sure, Adam can meme out with the 7/11 time, but give him a poly pulse and he falls apart. I’m kidding. Big fan of both channels! So glad you got together. I’m really hoping you play the licc together by the end.
The licc but as a prolation canon
@@Team_Recorder Here you go! ua-cam.com/video/-pwZaQjo89Y/v-deo.html
@@jordanbradford7729 your video needs more views
For more music like this, the channels “Early Music Sources” and “I Fagiolini” are excellent.
This is great - two of the best music UA-camrs. I'm a big fan of both of you.
The collab I never thought I would see: My two favourite music youtubers together. Amazing
love the comparison with "phasing"
I love this so much! Never expected to see you both in the same video.. It's like a really good dream :) And such excellent material!!
thank you for talking about medieval musics, we don't speak enough about medieval musics, medieval musics are really cool and interesting. I enjoy medieval musics very much. I study musicology in a college where medieval musics are a really important point, and I'm glad to because before this I had no idea how cool it could be
I can't believe this! Two of my favourite youtubers, and I had no idea that they even knew each other.
Man I love both channels... But I couldnt foresee just how incredibly awesome a collab between you could be !
Long live music nerdiness :)
Wow! There's a lot more to medieval music than I realized. At times you both lost me, but it's cool to see that there were some crazy music nerds back then too.
I’ve been a fan of both of you for years! Awesome seeing this collab!
Ultimate collab right here
You should sing Sarah! Sounds like you've got a great singing voice!
Oh and.... Adam "repetition legitimizes" Neely crossover 😲
She not only sings, but she plays other musical instruments. 👍 😉
Definitely hoping the two of you collaborate again. Awesome video!
It's just mindblowing to feel rhythm in such manner.. I Never thought of that!
This was the coolest nerdy video I ever saw!
Instructional, fun! Lots of things I didn't know.
You lost me at Nathaniel Giles at first but then it started making sense.
(Giles: Look what I can do!)
I love you coworking with Adam Neely. I have seen some of his UA-cam videos. I think he is great.
Jazzers would be interested to investigate 16th century basso continuo accompaniment. "Jazz comping" was invented a long time ago!
I wish I could like this more than once! The crossover I never knew I needed!
Love this collaboration
This was absolutely perfect for y’all.
A great topic! Very enjoyable to listen to the explanations and the discussions and then the instrumental realization of what we're seeing.
Of all the youtube collabs i have seen, this is one i expected the least. Amazing.
They banged in a complicated math rhythm shortly after... 🤩
Wow, that syncopated clave (eighth note, quarter note, eighth note) is the bread and butter of many Brazilian genres
Well this is a dream come true in at least three different ways! Thank you for a fun video I can watch a dozen times and keep finding new stuff to think about 🙂
Wonderful to see both together. Vice nice and instructive video.
I guess I lucked up having a medievalist as a music history teacher and that sparking my love for it. Great vid.
I really liked your editing style
the notes and explanations help understanding and the collages / memes (like the inception one) help maintaining the fun and light atmosphere
I’m absolutely needing out right now!! Loved this collab, and such interesting material! 💖
This is so cool, I had no idea there was such intricate and complex music from this period. I play shakuhachi (an ancient Japanese flute) and I'm always amazed at the interesting musical elements I find in the ancient music.
19:58 “I get to 1750 and I’m like Bach’s dead. Bye!”
I have replayed this moment so many times, I can’t stop laughing by how much I relate (as a clarinet player who adores Bach).
**Edited for the time stamp**
Lol! I laughed too. For me it's something like 'I get to 1764, Rameau's dead. Bye!'
Of course it's not quite completely true, but yeah...
@@LHQM6875 Händel too, around that time. Baroque is peak music.
Beethoven and Mozart were the beginning of the downfall of music.
Omgggggg I am so stoked for this crossover. I didn’t know I needed this.
OMFG dream team. Bass (recorder).
OMG I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS COLLAB FOR SO LONG YES
THIS DUO?? ICONIC.
This was great! I could have sworn I heard "slow jazz" during much of the polyphony. Thank you Sarah! (and Adam).
This was absolutely amazing. Each day I get closer and closer to convincing myself I can afford and need a lute. Just so I can play some of this medieval goodness 👌🏼
I adore this collab
OMG Team Recorder and Adam ???? XDXDXD I’m so excited!!!
I had to do a double take when I saw this on my feed!
Great video, Sarah. Many thanks.
I remember getting so fascinated with Ars Subtilior music that I decided to compose a piece in that style. No doubt it was one of the most refreshing experiences I have had when it comes to creating music.
This is so cool... I'm addicted to both your channels :)
I saw Adam Neely on you tube doing a great job on The Girl of Ipanema, I wrote it down for the alto recorder. Very nice that you met with him. I am also interested in medieval music. My first introduction to reading music from sheet are from the old notation of Gregorian Chants. I am a clergyman.
Love seeing these guys nerding out on music
Dear Sarah and Adam, Thank you so much for this video! It was so interesting and informative ) I would love to know more about medieval music. Would you please make some more videos on the subject? )))
I never knew I needed this collab
It's interesting how this highlights how music is a language to me. With the background I have, with what I listen to and what I can play and undestand, this sounds so foreign to me that it hardly qualifies as something musical. I was so lost that it seemed the two of you could be playing in different parts of the world, but you made an appointment to start around the same time.
That is not to the detriment of the music, but rather my lack of undestanding of it. It's interesting and humbling as well, that there's so much to know and discover, that people have tried stuff like these a thousand years ago.
Yeah, I think this really comes into play with people who don't get outside their comfort zone in present day music as well. Much of "getting" any particular genre is being familiar with the components that go into it so you can actually tell what is even happening and why it might be interesting beyond just the basic "catchyness." I think if more people understood that they'd appreciate a wider variety of things instead of just hearing something way outside their comfort zone one time, deciding they hate it and never looking back.
I enjoy singing late medieval, Renaissance, and contemporary music so I really enjoyed this conversation.
Now THIS is my kind of nerdery. And such a good collab - please give us some more!
This guy is here!
What I learned is that before the invention of our harmonic system (around Bach), people didn’t listen to harmonies but to melodies. So this practice makes totally sense if you know this.
This was great. It belies the common modern chauvinism that humans in the past were not as smart as us.
What a cool and eclectic collab. of two masters! Amazing!
Its such a joy to watch your videos. Such a master musician.🎶❤🎶
Two of my favorite quarantine worlds collided in a most unexpected and delightful way. ❤️
brilliant.. two great treats together.. thanks guys.. ;9)
Hi Adam, I'm a mathematics professor and a long time fan of your channel (love the philosophical tangents). I teach a sophomore interdisciplinary class in "The Mathematics and Aesthetics of Musical Tuning". Over the years of studying math and applying it to music I've become something of an expert in "Quadrivial matter's". Happy to share my knowledge, if your really starting t0 dig into the Quadrivium. Prof Mack
Loved this - I'm so fascinated by Polyrhythms so this was such a Treat.
..Not often one sees a bar of 13/1..
I always wondered if there had been an early music equivalent of King Crimson or Gentle Giant, and it seems that, well..!
Fabulous video. I didn't know of you, until this showed up due to the connexion with Adam. you have a new subscriber!
I love disparate pairings like bass and recorder (accordion and mandolin is my fave). This sounded great. When I think of nested tuplets within tuplets I think of Zappa.
Very interesting video!
Adam Neely singlehandedly keeping the deep V in style
Two of my fav youtubers! This is crazy! 😍 And Manjunath is also up there.
Love your content.
I remember being in the chorus for that Ives symphony where one movement (blessedly not tot choral one) was in 4 different time signatures. We had the conductor beating two of them and the head percussionist beating the other two -- wild.
Thank you. Shared with my uber computer geek friend who is also a recorder nerd. Agree 100% that any composer who writes polyrhythmic pieces should be able to perform them as well.
What an interesting video! Very cool to see you collaborate with Adam as well.