Beethoven was able to achieve this harsh to soft quality in his work through his mastery of musical form - he knew exactly what should come next every time. Few composers have that. It's safe to say that Beethoven never wrote a wrong note.
Classical Music11 Oh yes. The video where Leonard Bernstein is talking to Maximilian Schell about how bad Beethoven was at everything (which is entirely ludicrous).
the shapes: the rectangles are brass, the rhombi are strings, the pointed rhombi are double reeds, the thicker rectangles are the tympani, the ovals are the flutes, and the octagons are clarinets.
Beethoven's 3rd is the best symphony from Beethoven by far for me. 1st movement is a masterpiece, the 2nd is a dark and dramatic funeral march with a heavy and passionate center, the 3rd is a quick springy and its just all good. Love it!
It was radically new sund and music style when was presented the first time in a private concert with mixed reviews. Today it's one of Beethoven's Greatest Hits. I love the first notes, but the whole piece was a beautiful triumph!
Questions,Answers,Echoes,Thunder claps, Exploding climaxes, Gurgling rivers, High mountains, Low valleys. A well populated Continent of Music. Epic. We live there with the great Beethoven.
Beethoven has been in my head since I was a kid and always will be. Played this one many times, listened 1000 x times and more and it gets me every time. Those six chords at 6:01 can be interpreted in so many ways ... each conductor feels them differently.
Il vedere pure le note che, velocemente volano via, rende l'ascolto più affascinante, e stanno a dimostrare, la genialità del compositore, La dissonanza meravigliosa ho potuto finalmente, vederla oltre che sentirla. La trovo straordinaria.
This and the 3rd movement of the 9th are, in my opinion, the two most beautiful pieces ever written. This particular recording beats many more famous versions. Thnx for bringing it to attention.
Philip Glass 9:01 to 9:12 anyone else hearing it? There’s that. And nice visual symmetry “bridge” pattern at 2:16 and again at 5:30 and 13:52. Another pattern at 2:46 and 6:00 and again 14:22. Then the “sprites” that appear around 0:16 and 3:30 and 4:15. This whole visual rendering is amazing, beautiful, and enhances music appreciation. I’m busy creating a playlist to share.
***** Eroica is seen as the start of the Romantic period by many. If it wasn't the start of "music as emotional expression" then the 5th most certainly was.
+smalin I wish you'd render or interpret Saint Saen's Symphony No 3 in c minor Opus 78 the Organ Symphony in this visual form. In that hope I'm subscribing to your UA-cam channel
After staring at this in wonder for a few minutes, then scrolling away, my entire computer display seems to sway left and right. Optical lag effect :-)
+Bettystar Kampayana You can. The whole of the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th and 9th are available. The 1st movement of the 1st is also uploaded. Search through smalin's channel.
You 're an absolute genious. I csnnot thsnk you enough for this. I love music, but i can't read notes. Kind of dyslexia. But you make me posible to at least get a certain idea what it is all about. Thanks, imnensly thanks❤❤❤
9:12 This part could have been even more like the famous chords of the Rite of Spring of Stravinsky. Beethoven had in mind alost Stravinsky's chord but Beethoven ended preffering a less primitive sound.
@@ze_rubenator It still reminds me of the chords Stravinsky used. Of course the ones in Beethoven's symphony aren't taken from Stravinsky but you never know if Stravinsky took some inspiration from this movement.
at least he fight against the bankers. But i believe beethoven dont look down completly since when napoleon died beethoven said he already wrote about the dead of napoleon (second movement of eroica)
If I have it correctly, the second theme (for sonata form) starts at 9:16 - and only Beethoven could successfully milk the first theme the way he does. Did you ever think about a different color/shape scheme for the second theme or other parts of music, such as rondos, etc.?
I've experimented with using different shapes/forms/relationship for different themes/rates/effects (e.g. see Mozart, Symphony 41, Jupiter, 4th mvt. (shapes)), but for the most part, I'd prefer to visualize lower-level forms (patterns), so that the viewer could see these things automatically, without me playing a "curator" role.
It would be interesting to see if the colors and shapes in the video affected how our brain interprets the music. By the way, did anyone see this because of Nodame Cantabile?
***** indeed - i didn't notice the exact number of chords before. i associatet Beethoven's passage to Rite's movement "Augurs of Spring", there it's a polychord consisting of E major (written as Fb) and Eb7 (guess if not from his illness, Beethoven would become deaf from this dissonance ;) )
@@moltzer I went to an Orchestra concert at Kenyon College were one of my family members was performing. It was always an educational experience going to the concerts there and classical music always reminds me of them and how in 2015 things were much different than they are now.
One has to wonder if Kubrick had ever made his film “Napoleon”, if he would have used this piece? It would be fitting. Yet maybe a little inappropriate, given that Beethoven changed the name of the symphony out of spite for Napoleons action. Also Kubrick was a great obsessor of Napoleon. He must have found some joy in this symphony.
Thx ... Is your term "stray horn" is kinda a pun on a "French horn"? I couldn't find anything in regards to that term besides pics of Mr. Strayhorn. When I read your very first comment I assumed that Ferdinand Ries played a French horn part in the symphony. Ha ha, most likely just my wrong interpretation as there is no evidence, at least not on google, that he played French horn at all. I think I didn't get your comment ... am I right?
Can anybody help me out, please! At 15:10 that particular melody I can't get it off my mind. And it's being years of such. In this video I finally see it coming and the visual interpretation is quiet helpful. But, there is got to be a name for that little segment. And how he came up with it? Please, help!!!!
At 15:10, Beethoven is making a sequence based on the first four notes of the main theme of the movement (which first happens at 0:07). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_(music)
I love how Beethoven switches from loud and brash to soft and quiet, and it never seems so abrupt that it doesn't fit together.
Beethoven was able to achieve this harsh to soft quality in his work through his mastery of musical form - he knew exactly what should come next every time. Few composers have that. It's safe to say that Beethoven never wrote a wrong note.
Classical Music11 Straight out of Bernstein; am I right?
1bol1 No?
Classical Music11 Oh yes. The video where Leonard Bernstein is talking to Maximilian Schell about how bad Beethoven was at everything (which is entirely ludicrous).
1bol1 Could you direct me and the rest of us to this video you speak of? Seriously, I'd like to see it.
the shapes: the rectangles are brass, the rhombi are strings, the pointed rhombi are double reeds, the thicker rectangles are the tympani, the ovals are the flutes, and the octagons are clarinets.
one of the greatest symphony ever composed.
Beethoven's 3rd is the best symphony from Beethoven by far for me. 1st movement is a masterpiece, the 2nd is a dark and dramatic funeral march with a heavy and passionate center, the 3rd is a quick springy and its just all good. Love it!
What about the 4th movement?
0:49 I love that french horn, adding brass can sometimes make all the difference.
Beethoven is such a genius.
No doubt bout that
So Smalin is with this geniality
Such a very unique and wonderful way to view and hear. A new way to experience Classical music. I love it!!
Tell your friends!
It was radically new sund and music style when was presented the first time in a private concert with mixed reviews. Today it's one of Beethoven's Greatest Hits. I love the first notes, but the whole piece was a beautiful triumph!
I’ve listened to this a thousand times and I’ll listen to it a thousand times more. I can’t imagine ever falling out of love with this one.
Questions,Answers,Echoes,Thunder claps, Exploding climaxes, Gurgling rivers, High mountains, Low valleys.
A well populated Continent of Music.
Epic.
We live there with the great Beethoven.
Beautifully said
I just can't stop listening to Beethoven music
Intro 00:04
Exposition:
Theme 1 00:08 - Eb major
Transition 00:51
Theme 2 01:01 - Bb major
Closing section 03:13
Exposition Repeat:
Theme 1 03:21
Transition 04:05
Theme 2 04:15
Closing section 06:27
Development 1:
Part 1 06:35
Part 2 06:52
Part 3 08:17 - Climax lies here
Part 4 09:16
Part 5 (Retransition) 10:22 - Eb minor
Recapitulation 1:
Theme 1 11:37 - Eb major
Transition 11:49
Theme 2 12:39 - Eb major
Closing section 14:49
Development 2:
Part 1 14:56
Part 2 15:27
Part 3 (Retransition) 15:56 - Eb minor/major
Recapitulation 2:
Theme 1 16:31 - Eb major
Coda 17:23 - Eb major
Beethoven has been in my head since I was a kid and always will be. Played this one many times, listened 1000 x times and more and it gets me every time. Those six chords at 6:01 can be interpreted in so many ways ... each conductor feels them differently.
I always think of them as the equivalent of musical brakes before the music begins to roll excitedly forward again.
omg! that's brilliant ... and I agree. Thanks
The symphony that formally introduced Ludwig van Beethoven to the world!!!!
Beethoven's symphonies are just SO SATISFYING TO LISTEN AND WATCH
This Symphony, and especially this movement, sound just perfect transcribed for piano.
Il vedere pure le note che, velocemente volano via, rende l'ascolto più affascinante, e stanno a dimostrare, la genialità del compositore, La dissonanza meravigliosa ho potuto finalmente, vederla oltre che sentirla. La trovo straordinaria.
This and the 3rd movement of the 9th are, in my opinion, the two most beautiful pieces ever written. This particular recording beats many more famous versions. Thnx for bringing it to attention.
Then which movement is longer?
9:07 is sooo beautiful!
Mr. Smalin I love your work.
Generally considered by most classical music professionals and experts as the greatest symphony of all time.
Who else goes totally insane while listening to THIS MASTERPIECE??? I'm still in shock after listening I think 1000000th time.
I could watch this all day it's so enjoyable to watch
Absolutely amazing! You can easily see the armony changes :)
Super, Bravo Beethoven!! Thanks for this great harmonies!
8:30 - 9:16 never ceases to amaze me. What a catharsis! So bold. I can only imagine how shocking it must have been when people first heard it.
Indeed.
+TheWindWaker333 I know right it's just so perfect and beautiful !
Wow, what an interpretation - well said - thanks!
You are a genius as well as B. Love your art!
Man, this is beautiful...
Philip Glass 9:01 to 9:12 anyone else hearing it?
There’s that. And nice visual symmetry “bridge” pattern at 2:16 and again at 5:30 and 13:52.
Another pattern at 2:46 and 6:00 and again 14:22.
Then the “sprites” that appear around 0:16 and 3:30 and 4:15.
This whole visual rendering is amazing, beautiful, and enhances music appreciation. I’m busy creating a playlist to share.
Beautiful first movement Heroic Symphony
Such a wonderful way to understand music
2 flutes: Ellipse
2 oboes: Inverted ellipse (star)
2 clarinets: octagon
2 bassoons: Inverted ellipse (star)
3 horns: Rectangle
2 trumpets: Rectangle
Timpani: Rectangle
Strings: Rhombus
THANK YOU for the info
God, I love Beethoven!
Look how colourful this cacophony is! How glorious!
Isn't "cacophony" supposed to be dispregiative?
These really make me appreciate the complexity and precision that went into composing and performing these compositions.
Beautiful!
Indeed. T_T
love these visuals
Thanks for uploading. You can see and hear the beauty of the symphony.
Amazing amazing graphics. This is how I have been looking at music for years.Thanks so much for doing it so well.
You're welcome. If you want to support my work: www.patreon.com/musanim
I can't imagine the rage Beethoven felt once he heard of Bonaparte crowning himself "Emperor."
Hey Abe!
So angry that he un-dedicated one of his works to him! (I can't remember which)
@@holyrolypolyBefore the emperor, this was the Bonaparte symphony.
Always stunning -
Bravo, loved every moment!
Muchas gracias por este vídeo. La tercera sinfonía de Beethoven me parece maravillosa en conjunto. Gracias de nuevo
Masterpiece by the Master.
Smalin, i adore you... keep translating music at visual pieces like this ;3
But let me say, i hate your midi channel :v hehe, i hate midi perhaps
MIDI channel? What is that? Are you referring to Animidify? (That's not my channel.)
Yep, animidify... i saw it recommended into your channel
I thincked thats yours, sorry... i still hating it :v
I truly hope that one day the "classical" genre is popular once again :)
I think it is becoming ...
Well this is of the "Romantic" genre.
***** Eroica is seen as the start of the Romantic period by many. If it wasn't the start of "music as emotional expression" then the 5th most certainly was.
Agreed, and it's not the only thing our society needs to restore to its former glory.
@@jrbleau Society today is, in some aspects, much better than before, although some things are definitly improvable.
I greatly enjoy your videos. So well done.
Thanks! this is really helping face up to problems
beautiful masterpiece. i love beethoven ულამაზესი შედევრი, მე მიყვარს ბეთჰოვენი
wow! (y) amazing! its like that the notes were playing
Happiness is this beautiful music!
I really love these videos. Thanks.
Magnifique ..
Marvellously done.
Shows the shape of the music better than a traditional score.
that's the point!
I don't know why, but with this beautiful score I find the music more entrancing. Well, maybe because I don't understand much of standard scores.
+Linus Pauling Your eyes are helping your ears understand the music. It's the reason I make these animated graphical scores.
+smalin I wish you'd render or interpret Saint Saen's Symphony No 3 in c minor Opus 78 the Organ Symphony in this visual form. In that hope I'm subscribing to your UA-cam channel
+David Wright He'll tell you to read the faq
Awesome! It's like being in space and travelling through galaxies.
this is magic
Brilliant! Thank you so much! ❤❤❤
Smallin.
Across The Compass Points.
Yeah!.
Go Smallin!
You're helping my Bass Chord progressions.
Starts and ends a with a couple of bangs to wake you up
That is Beethoven ‘My N.....a’ like Denzel Washington would say
Jimi Hendrix experience
Someone on another UA-cam channel put this over a video of how to make flash cotton or flash paper. That's what brought me here!
It's so hard to study while listening to this because you can't help but look at those Tutti Chords.
+fa18hornet for me it's hard to study but because of the feelings, i keep getting absorbed by the Eroica feelings
ThisIsRTSThree999 I know right! It's so good you can't put it in the background!
It transcends subliminally at 4:16 to four birds talking before being startled off by a dear in the forest just as the sun comes back out. S'cool.
The high note after 17:11 is the utmost climax.
After staring at this in wonder for a few minutes, then scrolling away, my entire computer display seems to sway left and right. Optical lag effect :-)
Phenomenal!
This is so cool!
Thank you for uploading so often, I really enjoy these videos :)
Have you watched all the ones I've already uploaded? There are 279 on this channel, and another 72 on my remake/spillover/alternate channel (musanim).
smalin I've watched a lot of them! And I just subscribed to your alternate channel.
oh... this is a pleasant surprise...
Es muy importante tener un descanso y disfrutar de éstos Fascinantes Clásicos de la Música.¡Disfrútenla!.
that's the best version I find! Why can't I find the full symphony with the same quality :( ?
+Bettystar Kampayana You can. The whole of the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th and 9th are available. The 1st movement of the 1st is also uploaded. Search through smalin's channel.
You 're an absolute genious. I csnnot thsnk you enough for this. I love music, but i can't read notes. Kind of dyslexia. But you make me posible to at least get a certain idea what it is all about. Thanks, imnensly thanks❤❤❤
I really enjoy your videos! I'm working on transcribing this movement right now. It's really a lot of work!
This is great!
10:59 to 11:10 ...so eloquent and elegant.
MAGNIFICENT
9:07. The chord that changed the face of Western music.
Fmaj7/A
I don't think it's THAT unusual...
1:26 Tão lindo...
Majestic, grand, beautiful
and with this piece Beethoven surpasses Mozart and all before him
Slightly controversial statement...
Wars Boerse care to elaborate?
Yeah, I would at least wait until his sonatas or string quartets to say he is definitely better than Mozart and all before him
But then it is not fair because the others did not live as long
Not until the 5th.😀
1:33 the ending of the first movement of Mozart's 39th symphony :)
I noticed that Beethoven used to inspirate from Mozart
I listened to both several times. It seems to be just a general resemblance. Isn't it?
ua-cam.com/video/cYnJWkvOYT8/v-deo.html....as well as the intro
@@kopite1963
It is well known that Beethoven took this intro to reformulate in his 3rd.
Hi thanks for the beaut itul video.
9:12 This part could have been even more like the famous chords of the Rite of Spring of Stravinsky. Beethoven had in mind alost Stravinsky's chord but Beethoven ended preffering a less primitive sound.
made my day
?????????? This is completely insane.
I was convinced of this too for a long time, but it's not true. Turns out it's a "joke" played by the owner of some music related website.
@@ze_rubenator It still reminds me of the chords Stravinsky used.
Of course the ones in Beethoven's symphony aren't taken from Stravinsky but you never know if Stravinsky took some inspiration from this movement.
This occurs way earlier in Handel's work to the same effect.
just in case you don't know the notes, dark blue is Eb, red is G, and so on.
Everything is moving to the right now! O_O
Gr8bugz1991 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_aftereffect
To think this was to be named after Napoleon Bonaparte until he did something that made Beethoven look down on him
Yeah being a completely fucking hypocrite proclaiming himself as the emperor
at least he fight against the bankers. But i believe beethoven dont look down completly since when napoleon died beethoven said he already wrote about the dead of napoleon (second movement of eroica)
Que bello.
Comment to help the algorithm.
Luigi Van Beethoven ・ Buonaparte
If I have it correctly, the second theme (for sonata form) starts at 9:16 - and only Beethoven could successfully milk the first theme the way he does. Did you ever think about a different color/shape scheme for the second theme or other parts of music, such as rondos, etc.?
I've experimented with using different shapes/forms/relationship for different themes/rates/effects (e.g. see Mozart, Symphony 41, Jupiter, 4th mvt. (shapes)), but for the most part, I'd prefer to visualize lower-level forms (patterns), so that the viewer could see these things automatically, without me playing a "curator" role.
It would be interesting to see if the colors and shapes in the video affected how our brain interprets the music. By the way, did anyone see this because of Nodame Cantabile?
I was watching this while high. Fucking amazing.
9:10
reminds me of Stravinsky's Sacre....(loudly played string chords, even half of the "Rite" chord tonality^^)
***** indeed - i didn't notice the exact number of chords before. i associatet Beethoven's passage to Rite's movement "Augurs of Spring", there it's a polychord consisting of E major (written as Fb) and Eb7 (guess if not from his illness, Beethoven would become deaf from this dissonance ;) )
Reminds me of a day in 2015 :)
I think I know what you're talking about.
What happened
I swear I think the same. Why does it remind you of a day in 2015?
@@moltzer I went to an Orchestra concert at Kenyon College were one of my family members was performing. It was always an educational experience going to the concerts there and classical music always reminds me of them and how in 2015 things were much different than they are now.
Kubric should've squeezed this into A Clockworck Orange somewhere. Alex would've got off on it....
Right Right.
One has to wonder if Kubrick had ever made his film “Napoleon”, if he would have used this piece? It would be fitting. Yet maybe a little inappropriate, given that Beethoven changed the name of the symphony out of spite for Napoleons action.
Also Kubrick was a great obsessor of Napoleon. He must have found some joy in this symphony.
The Erotica symphony.
Anon B yes?
wow.
11:31 Ferdinand Ries' stray horn LOL
Nice two bars ..... please is that name for real?
+SoWhat?Sixty! yes he was Beethoven's student.
Hailstormand Oh, din't know that ... cool .. thx.
At least I think so... LOL
Thx ... Is your term "stray horn" is kinda a pun on a "French horn"? I couldn't find anything in regards to that term besides pics of Mr. Strayhorn. When I read your very first comment I assumed that Ferdinand Ries played a French horn part in the symphony. Ha ha, most likely just my wrong interpretation as there is no evidence, at least not on google, that he played French horn at all. I think I didn't get your comment ... am I right?
9:18 maravilloso quiero saber la interpretación de Beethoven
6:32 - 6:44 momento mais foda, pqp!!
como assim?? kkkjkk
a PLAYLIST (linked-to from the description) a/o links by YT's 'video-response'-feature would be nice-to-have (and not too difficult top make)
Can anybody help me out, please! At 15:10 that particular melody I can't get it off my mind. And it's being years of such. In this video I finally see it coming and the visual interpretation is quiet helpful. But, there is got to be a name for that little segment. And how he came up with it? Please, help!!!!
At 15:10, Beethoven is making a sequence based on the first four notes of the main theme of the movement (which first happens at 0:07). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_(music)