Master Class Baroque Improvisation
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Composer William Goldstein has been a gifted improviser since he was a child. In this improvisation he creates in real time, a work inspired by Bach and Handel. This Master Class was given on the Cal Arts Campus for the summer students of Innerspark, now known as CSSSA. The California State Summer School For The Arts.
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It's the same king of improvisation that can be found with jazz people, I should say the same spirit because of course this is not the same style.
The real thing is that Jazz is like baroque music, inspired by Bach music but today Classical musicians have focussed more on reading music score and interpretation.
Thank You! The real inspiration is the life process and how that translates into one art.
William Goldstein's music always grabs my heart and never lets go! Everytime I hear a movie score that I truly think is stunning, it's by Mr. Goldstein!
Thank you master of masters.
I am humbled!
William Goldstein Master Pls if you have chance I would love you listen to my improvisations on my channel, may be with nice book or just meditating, I would appreciate your insight. Blessings & infinite Admiration.
Whoa, Wow, That was excellent! I must say.
Pablo Arellano shared this all of us, I can certainly see why.
You are Outstanding!!!
Thank You Very much Sir,
With All Respect That You Are Due,
Cheryl Holmes
Pablo Arellano
great playing my friend... Namaste from a pianist brother :)
I keep watching this nearly thirteen years later and am going to keep watching it.
Pure beauty! I wish I could hear such music played on a Moog.
Outstanding, from one improviser to another. In all my years I think I've improvised more notes than I've read off the page. Considering doing this grad school paper on the value of improvisation - a lost art outside of jazz. Bach would be delighted to hear you play.
This is the best thing I have heard for a long time! The sound from this recording is unreal!
Holy Smokes. Every day I think that one day I will be able to improvise baroque music, then I will be completely happy.
I listen to this over and over. Seriously amazing.
How about to take nice beautiful jazz tune. Nice, beautiful melody and do it like that four minutes? Nice introduction to jazz tunes
You are a fucking master. Can't express how much I enjoyed this.
Not strict baroque improvisation in that it hangs around the tonic too long and doesn't seem to follow any formal baroque models like a fugue or Passacaglia but very nice nonetheless
melodically it sounds like baroque
Agree, very nice indeed but basically monodic and the same 7th progression is used over and over again. Also, I understand playing by parallel 10ths sounds nice, but it was too much
Your being too harsh, this man improvised "Something from the baroque era" in front of a student body and parents. In other words this is what he can teach, now that's a sales pitch. I thought it was beautiful...
Brevíssimo! Thanks WG! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Wow! This is a fantastic piece and extremely well executed. 👏 🎹 👍
Great to see musicians improvising instead of just playing what's on a sheet of music. Was there instruction going on here at some point later in the class? I would love to see online instruction in this area.
BRAVO BRAVISSIMO!!!! improvising? what a genius, holly crap, WONDERFULL.
Plus with the knowledge and practical harmony training this guy probably has this piece is a piece of cake
i must say, he is playing this improvisation amazing good. This is the real sound of Bach on a very special way. i want to hear more of this kind of Bach
Amazing! Thanks for sharing your love for music
I haven't witnessed it, but I was told by someone I trust that they saw a concert where a professional organist was given a theme and improvised a five voice fugue on it.
that's amazing. i luv the way he moves with the rhythm of the music
He is following certain rules of thematic composition and voicings of the period, all thrown into the sea of improvisation. Jean Guillou is another player who made a career out of this discipline. Its the most exciting area of Classical music because its so fresh to the ears. Thank you!!
I sat in on a master class with this MASTER MUSICIAN today. Duke Ellington School of the Arts!
And it is very Bach-like, which is even more amazing because his style is of the type where you can really hear the great intellect, so to be able to write like him (let alone improvise!) shows a great musical capability
Its basically the same chord changes as in "Autumn Leaves", a well known Jazz standard tune. Cool! :) Very baroque changes
Sebastian Rolland this improvised composition of many years ago, like much of the Baroque. And particularly the great Bach, passages which are built around "circle of fifths". Autumn leaves, like thousands of other compositions have sections of the composition based on the "circle of fifths". In all the many years that have gone by since I sat down and created that these I never once connected with "autumn leaves". Very interesting comment, at least you got my attention.… :-)
Yes i know :) I really liked it, as i myself is an jazz pianist, and recently i imrpovised on the "autumn leaves changes" on the fortepiano, trying to emulate the baroque style. Its funny to hear a classical doing the same changes with a similar approach as me even though we come from two different schools. Goes to show how much Jazz and classical music have in common! :)
perhaps it sounds 'rehearsed' to you because he's very comfortable and artistic with his improv. great music!
This "little salon concert" is quite superb.
please make videos i love this type of music
This was amazing!
Im also blessed with with an improvisation-type mind, but I dont have the technique you have. I hear harmonies and notes all day. A few times I can do similar things you played. I know for sure, that one can`t prepare all what you have played here. I do know, that when you play the music falls out of your heart, through your hands on to the keys...
Bravo!
I have just done my grade 5 piano, and although there was no Baroque, the examiner has pointed out that I should get a feel for the Era I`m playing. Had I known before my exam that Haydn was classical and not Baroque I probably would have played and learnt the piece with a different approach.. But it is a very important!
By the way, that improvisation is magical!
Wonderful!
The most impressive video I´ve ever seen
That is lovely music. After listening once, I heard beautiful counterpoint and the harmony of the baroque style. It's a great idea and should be an area of practice for us students. It reminds me of some of the variations on early music that some of the composers had written back in their day. Thank you for sharing, nicely done...
Amazing...!!
I really like this.
the most impressive video I' ve ever seen
thank's a lot for the video!!!!! I like it very much and want more)))
thanx for publishing... u made my day :)
thank you
" THIS ONE GREAT MAN OF MUSIC.... MY HAT IS OFF TO YOU SIR "!
Respectfully,
Dan Gross
Saint Louis, Missouri
Fabulous and greatly inspired by
Genius.
Bel canto!
“Very” nice.
Happy to ‘hear’ that it is a Yamaha {I prefer that sound}; and [I mean this as a compliment] while playing, I couldn’t help but think of the body-movements as similar to Chico Marx; 😉
Wow, I wasn't sure people with skill like you in improvisation still existed! This was a real treat to watch!
Mine also... I say infamous because it is so widely used in the Baroque and early Classical period, and I feel like it's almost too good to be true. You know what I mean? I feel like its so simple, yet so beautiful.
I hope one day to be on this level on my instrument.
Hehe, one of the lucky few. Excellent stuff!
just perfect
Intriguing
awesome!!
Interesting . Now cziffra styl . Goddd. I stil try to get his improvisation styl. Its just amazing
That was excellent!
i bet bach, clementi, scaraltti are so jealous they werent around to see the types of pianos that are developed today. You are able to pull such a gorgeous sound of of the piano, and your soul. Absolutely gorgeous piece.
Its like a 2oth century baroque style.
Very jealous :P
this is INSANE!!!
Beautiful!
I'd love to be able to improvise like this!
Thank You!!
William Goldstein No, thank you!
This 'baroque improvisation' is similar to the 1st Part of Keith Jarrett's "Paris Concert"! It's lovely, I mean.
...bastard... hahaha. it took me a couple months to get down a rudimentary song that really isnt all that complex. i hope i can improv like that one day.
I have done Conservatory and I like also to improvise in the way as it is being done on the video. But I don't use a pedal when I practice, because I want to hear the sound dry and clear-cut in order not to fool myself in what I am playing.
So dope!
You managed to create a greater sense of romance than traditional aristocratic baroque without taking from the quiet "feel" of the baroque atmosphere.
it's better than superb after listening to it again. so sue me.
Never saw improv quite like that!
Como me gustaria saber tocar de esa manera, es bellisimo oir esas notas , me encanta.
you havent answered my question get of course it has certain way to be every music have an estructure but if you talk about guidelnes you are talking about forms like sonatas preludes ore that so I dont get the form you have reconized
and dude the hip hop also has a certain way to be played
this is genius even if he improvises barroque estyle you can reconize is his music his languague
Cycle of fourths and often approach tones by 1/2 step below in the bass
I hate it when people say that. AHH heard it before! Nope, this is real improvisation. Yes, certain techniques are taken from the likes of Bach and Handel as this is in a Baroque style. However it is new material, and good material too!
what?? I meant that playing in Baroque style means a certain way of playing, that has already been put in place, as opposed to playing in a hip hop sort of style.
Hey this sounds like a passacaglia or like it has an ostinato theme in it =)
I'd say it's more hard work and effort - talent tends to diminish the amount of work that we put in :)
It is possible. I can almost do a simple version of this and seen it happen with other people.
Very fine playing with plenty of variety of colour and texture. The creative process is marked by confidence and an ability to project and communicate to the listener; It successfully emulates many of the stylistic traits of J.S. Bach, (or rather J.S. Bach as realised by such arrangers as Busoni) if not with the structural tightness and vision in the development of motifs and harmonic shape found in many of the master's works. This is really a creation in the spirit of Jazz, heavily infused with the Baroque, rather than an actual Baroque pastiche; a very attractive one nevertheless.
Mr. Riley thank you for your kind words and analysis.
@gothips music 9especially good music) is never unnecessary
Im 15 and im an improvise piano player, thats exactly my goal as far as music!
Nice. Sounds like a medley of Bach pieces than a true improv.
Maraphlegm, I have NEVER clicked on a critics channel and seen even a half baked chopsticks on there!!!
whoa
Truly impressive. Although I prefer Bach's style over Handel's style. Do you have any recording of you improvising in Bach's style?
2020 ftw
he really likes the circle of the 5ths...
i just started playing, a true novice. how exactly do you develop improvising skills. all i do now is just play notes from a book, seems so routine mechanical. what steps do you take in order to improvise like this?
I believe the Air On the G String's bass opens with octaves?
Yes, much of the piece revolves around this infamous chord progression pattern.
This is pop not baroque. It does sound nice, but is not historically true. The sad part is that it is demonstrated to students as an example to be imitated. A historical distortion.
True
@@JSBach-pd4yg Oh fuck...i mean, its Bach himself
I kinda agree; well executed tho.
A piano , still, is not the best instrument to play baroque
I didnt see the whole video but it sound more baroque than pop for me..
Your right for students, but there is conterpoint, and polyphonies, with liberty on the rythm yeah, but the spirit of improvisation is here. In fact, more than the pop spirit.
Hello sir, I woul like to congratulate you on you amazing skill and creativity and I would like to ask you one important question: how much of Bach's repertoire have you mastered? have you learnt the Inventions? fugues? well tempered clavier? Goldberg? all of it? Thankyou
+Joaquin Ramirez as you can tell I am a great admirer of Bach. I have certainly played through much of his music, I would never claim to have mastered the great Johann Sebastian Bach. As a child I used to improvise inventions in the style of Bach well before I became familiar with Bach's music. As I look back I find that amazing!
Improvisation in baroque style is something I enjoy doing. It is very often frowned upon by those who are fastidiously bound to manuscripts. Yet without composition, we would have no Bach, no Mozart, no Chopin in the first place.
honestly I looked up this video I believe I am the best baroque improvisor out there Iand I was right
hard to believe its improvised
Wtf.. these improvisations are.. fucking songs!! They're just as good! If the title was something like: "Unknown Mozart piece played for the first time in public", I would've believed it.
Is there a CD available ?
really wich form is he following right now??
Great playing! It's a pity that improvisation disappeared from classical music almost entirely but thank god was resurrected a couple of hundred years later in jazz. Do you enjoy jazz records, sir? What's the impulse that makes you improvise?
Yes I enjoy Jazz. Jazz is mostly improv around an existing composition, what I'm doing is starting from scratch and creating the entire piece. Improv and composition are my responses to being alive. For more info: ua-cam.com/video/MnSkNMCPnOA/v-deo.html and williamgoldstein.com/instantcomp.html
William Goldstein Wow, i love the way you play out of nothing. I started studying music at age of 6. By 12 i gained some command over my instrument and the thing i loved the most is to lock myself in the practice room and try to play whatever i heard in my head. Other kids used to say that i was weird and coo coo doing what i did. So i had to shut down that creative force inside me for a long time.
Have you written any books on composition?
Respectfully, Erik
Erik Teleman At the moment no book but I give Master classes on the creative process and improvised composition. Have your school invite me to speak....:)
William Goldstein It should have happened a long time ago, but the school i attended was a rather fascist classical Russian school :-( You ain't supposed to play whatever comes to mind kinda attitude. And "if the composer wanted you to play that he would have written so" stuff. Just awful. Guess what now i am teaching jazz and other styles of modern music under a very fascistic director. She's a mediocre violin player who has no appreciation of anything spontaneous basically improvisation is her worst enemy.
Well at first you have to get some skill at playing in general...then you have to improvise a lot thanks to which you get to feel the music way better and after some time you can improvise easily playing with both your hands just exactly what you want to...at least thats what I do and already after about 4 months of doing so I have pretty decent effects. But it really takes time and first you should improve your skills in general so that when it comes to improvising theres nothing you cant play.
What is the name of piece he plays ?
Why is it "baroque" ? It doesn't sound like it to me. What makes it baroque?
yes maybe I guess is that
Great technical skill and showmanship, however, to be honest, my ear wanted to hear some more interesting and diverse melody lines that tell a story, rather than just constant repetition of leading tones playing around the circle of fifths.
But still very impressive, and a joy to listen to.
I want to improvise like him.. =/
Well when he says I am going to play Baroque style it already means that his playing is going to follow a number of guidelines, so that you can't really say he is 100% freestyling at all...
Baroque??
Where is the rest of the masterclass?
Ludwig Störholt perhaps archival footage. Why?
+William Goldstein
Because I'm interested to hear what you have to say about Baroque Improvisation :)
Ludwig Störholt I'm not an authority on Baroque inprov. I just do it. Check out: ua-cam.com/video/MnSkNMCPnOA/v-deo.html
I wonder if it's possible to play the piano without seeming like you're overdoing it and showing off?
isthisodd don’t be jealous baby 👶🏿