You kill me. After an undergrad in music education and a masters in bassoon performance I can honestly say... this is the greatest channel in recapping and fully understanding musical eras. I sent my Oboe quintet member that picture of the clarinet and she died.
This explains why Baroque music always has that unique sound. Do you do the video on Renaissance music? I looked through your videos and didn't find it. You've made a zillion videos. Amazing!!!!!!
I am loving your music history videos, I home school my 11 year old. When I started this journey with her I really wanted her to learn about the history of music as she's learning how to read music and other topics. She really is learning a lot from these videos, as am I.
Allysia...thank you for this video. I have been using it in my Music Appreciation community college course for a couple years now and it causes just as many "light bulbs" in my students as Dr. Benjamin Zander's TED talk on classical music (REALLY good video for the "un-musical"). I have taught this course many times and am continually inspired by how my students connect with you and what you teach in this video. Thank you!
Tonality came at the beginning of the baroque era (1600). It’s a musical system based on hierarchy. Some keys are more important than other keys. **An organized system of tones in which one tone becomes the central point of all the remaining points.** There are 8 scales in modality 2:22
Gravity and the discovery that we are not the center of the universe. There was a movement of science, rationality. Music also headed in that direction. 5:18
I am writing a term paper on how Baroque music was similar to a Baroque architect, Borromini and the explaination of tonality was really useful! thanks :)
The easiest way to remember modal scales on the piano is.........Simply play the white-key scales. Ionian C-Cº, Dorian D-Dº, Phrygian E-Eº, Lydian F-Fº, Mixolydian G-Gº, Aeolian A-Aº, Locrian B-Bº.
Hello, I love your videos! You do a great job at making it interesting. So much so that I use you videos to show to my 4th &5th grade musicians. I just wanted to let you know that when you say "oboe" you are actually showing a clarinet. Is there any easy way for you to change that? My clarinet players would be most appreciative ;-)
To me, one of the most pointed differences between modality and tonality is that modal music tends to feel more harmonically static. Tonal music goes somewhere, like from home (tonic) away (subdominant) almost back (dominant) and back (tonic). Modal music just finds a sound and explores it for a while before going to another sound. At least that's how I conceptualize it.
Haha I was thinking the same about Miles. But I guess she's got a point there: while listening to classic modal jazz albums, like the almighty Kind of Blue, you notice that it doesn't stand out for having complex harmony structures or unexpected chord changes or such, but rather cause its melodies and the precise combination of instruments create these dense, palpable and uniform atmospheres throughout each the songs. I'd say it focuses more on solos; maybe that's one of the reasons you never hear "All blues" on the radio.
@@cristiangdc618 To be fair it was the beginning of people using modality as if it was tonal functional harmony so it wasn't as developed as it is now. Back then people like Miles Davis and the minimalist composers used them the same way the impressionists did, as a bed for melodic development. But somewhere around the time of rock and roll and soul music we start to see more complex ways to use modes such as cadences, use of altered dominants to establish a modal key, and modal interchange.
Hey great video ! I have à question though, why is the Phrygian and Locrian scales (flats "b") looking the same ? I thought 1/2 steps where between i/ii and v/vi in Phrygian mode and between i/ii and iv/v in Locrian mode ? Thanks a lot ! Chris
Fun fact that my music theory teacher pointed out from observation: Violists tend to be naturally good at picking apart counterpoint, because we're right in the middle of it all and we have to be like...there.
Mads Ploug Jepsen there are a lot of great 3 voice fugues. I’d recommend no.2 and 3 (C minor and C# major, respectively) from Book 1 of the Well-Tempered Clavier for starters. Anyway, the inventions and sinfonias (also called 3-part inventions) are specifically pieces that Bach wrote for students learning to play the keyboard. Contrapuntal works with fugal structure not strictly intended for education (by Bach, anyway) will generally have other names, sometimes arbitrary and sometimes descriptive; there’s the fugue, which is the umbrella term, the fughetta, or little fugue, the canon, which involves each voice playing the same thing, but a measure or two behind the last, contrapunctus, which is just a fugue but specific to The Art of Fugue, and others.
There are a number of false statements in this video. The modern Harmonic Tonality did not come in 1600 but beginning of 1700 along with the formalization of the major-minor system. There is no impediment to harmonic complexity with modal writing. The modern usage of modes is completely different from the usage in XVIth century. It is ridiculous to present tonality as a progress. It is a different system and it did not prevent composers to write masterpieces without it, such as Monteverdi, Gesualdo, Palestrina, Frescobaldi. Bach has not been writing in harmonic tonality per the definition we give to it nowadays. The main principles have been formalized by Rameau in several publications from 1722 to 1750. Bach was in disagreement with these new concepts. Even if it is true that the sense of tonic and key as a fundamental cornerstone of the piece has an increased role in his compositions, so is also the counterpoint rules and the thoroughbass practice of his time. His harmonic relationships follow often the circle of fifth as theorized by Heinichen in 1710. In fact Bach is at the junction between the counterpoint writing herited from the renaissance and the emergence of the major-minor system based on harmonic tonality.
Exactly! This video is phrased with a very modern-centric view of music. People ought to be more cautious about believing that everything has simply 'improved' over the centuries, since I've found that music education these days is full of misconceptions about earlier music. Like 'we needed the major/minor tonal system to make more intricate music', 'a shawm is quieter than an oboe', ' 'harpsichords fell out of use at the end of the baroque era', 'the organ lost popularity when Bach died' - completely 100% incorrect facts. She obviously doesn't listen to much early music other than modern piano recordings of Bach, and hasn't really talked to anyone that actually knows about this stuff.
Thanks a lot. Love from Iran.
You kill me. After an undergrad in music education and a masters in bassoon performance I can honestly say... this is the greatest channel in recapping and fully understanding musical eras. I sent my Oboe quintet member that picture of the clarinet and she died.
10:36 Woah! so Queen, was part of the baroque era?! you learn something new every day! 😧
This explains why Baroque music always has that unique sound. Do you do the video on Renaissance music? I looked through your videos and didn't find it. You've made a zillion videos. Amazing!!!!!!
This is so well done. thank you!
You're so full of energy. Thanks for making these fun history lessons.
This one video is a lot more informative than my entire AP Music theory class.
You are smart, and a great teacher. I learned a lot. Thank you.
I would be very interested in a further explanation on modes! Like why couldn't we make harmony within them?
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You can. Just listen to any modern funk song from the past half century.
I think its just cool that we can work with key signatures and then apply modal tonality to that so we can explore different moods in one piece.
I am loving your music history videos, I home school my 11 year old. When I started this journey with her I really wanted her to learn about the history of music as she's learning how to read music and other topics. She really is learning a lot from these videos, as am I.
Allysia...thank you for this video. I have been using it in my Music Appreciation community college course for a couple years now and it causes just as many "light bulbs" in my students as Dr. Benjamin Zander's TED talk on classical music (REALLY good video for the "un-musical"). I have taught this course many times and am continually inspired by how my students connect with you and what you teach in this video. Thank you!
your videos has really helped me for my music appreciation class!
Tonality came at the beginning of the baroque era (1600). It’s a musical system based on hierarchy. Some keys are more important than other keys. **An organized system of tones in which one tone becomes the central point of all the remaining points.**
There are 8 scales in modality 2:22
Gravity and the discovery that we are not the center of the universe. There was a movement of science, rationality. Music also headed in that direction. 5:18
Counterpoint music is that when there’s two or more melodies happening simultaneously. 6:00
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Amazing! Thanks
really good video for introducing these things to kids, detailed and accurate info, and really accessible for the kids, thank!
I am writing a term paper on how Baroque music was similar to a Baroque architect, Borromini and the explaination of tonality was really useful! thanks :)
Love all your videos. They are fun, happy, very informative, and to the point. Keep it up. It enriches my musical interest and knoledge. :)
The easiest way to remember modal scales on the piano is.........Simply play the white-key scales.
Ionian C-Cº, Dorian D-Dº, Phrygian E-Eº, Lydian F-Fº, Mixolydian G-Gº, Aeolian A-Aº, Locrian B-Bº.
Thank you. Very nice lesson. Love your channel. Regards
Awesome vid.. :) I'm a teacher and I need this. I hope its ok to show this in my class. Thank you~
Yes, share away! :)
thanks boo.. :)
Adore your videos I've learned so much. Thank you and I love your hair.
How did the piano get out of gym class?
It had a note 😂
That wasn’t an oboe tHaT WAs a ClaRiNEt
(also great video)
Found the comment
You just saved me from stuDYING from my music class!! thanks so so much
Hello, I love your videos! You do a great job at making it interesting. So much so that I use you videos to show to my 4th &5th grade musicians. I just wanted to let you know that when you say "oboe" you are actually showing a clarinet. Is there any easy way for you to change that? My clarinet players would be most appreciative ;-)
I lose concentration looking at you :). Amazing video
Very good overview, thanks!
that was awesome explanation.thanks a lot
PianoTv: Oboe
Also PianoTv: Shows Clarinet
To me, one of the most pointed differences between modality and tonality is that modal music tends to feel more harmonically static. Tonal music goes somewhere, like from home (tonic) away (subdominant) almost back (dominant) and back (tonic). Modal music just finds a sound and explores it for a while before going to another sound. At least that's how I conceptualize it.
Is there a good example of modal music doing this?
@@theamazingpigpen A modal tonic can be established through the use of altered dominants.
Love this
"Modality is no good for creating dense rich harmonies" Miles Davis and George Russell would like to have a word with you.
Haha I was thinking the same about Miles. But I guess she's got a point there: while listening to classic modal jazz albums, like the almighty Kind of Blue, you notice that it doesn't stand out for having complex harmony structures or unexpected chord changes or such, but rather cause its melodies and the precise combination of instruments create these dense, palpable and uniform atmospheres throughout each the songs. I'd say it focuses more on solos; maybe that's one of the reasons you never hear "All blues" on the radio.
@@cristiangdc618 To be fair it was the beginning of people using modality as if it was tonal functional harmony so it wasn't as developed as it is now. Back then people like Miles Davis and the minimalist composers used them the same way the impressionists did, as a bed for melodic development. But somewhere around the time of rock and roll and soul music we start to see more complex ways to use modes such as cadences, use of altered dominants to establish a modal key, and modal interchange.
Thank you for this!!! Great video series. :)
This saved me for music class tomorrow
Awesome! Subbed!
It's very weird to see these videos in arbitrary order and keep seeing your hair changing color.
12:05 that's a clarinet :), pretty cool video though
+walkabout Ha ha, whoops! +Septobus we need to work on our instrument identification. :)
+pianoTV (editor) why must you fail me, Google Image Search D:
That cannot be!! The Oracle of Googlios is all knowing, all powerful!! It cannot make any mistakes...(:
Hey great video ! I have à question though, why is the Phrygian and Locrian scales (flats "b") looking the same ? I thought 1/2 steps where between i/ii and v/vi in Phrygian mode and between i/ii and iv/v in Locrian mode ? Thanks a lot ! Chris
You just earned yourself a new suscriber. ^^
That fugue had four voices.
Fun fact that my music theory teacher pointed out from observation: Violists tend to be naturally good at picking apart counterpoint, because we're right in the middle of it all and we have to be like...there.
Harpsichords do not sound aggressive they sound pretty.
Fugue 1 of the WTC, is a stretto fugue, i.e., the subject is always present (no episodes). Huh, take that Allisha.
Counterpoint kind of sounds like modern jam music to me
BWV 846 - fuga I a 4 voci
:D
I could not find anything on Dvorak ?
12:05 is that an oboe? It looks like a clarinet.
Is there a difference between modols & notes.
The picture of the "oboe" is a clarinet lmao 😬😁😂
The "oboe" at 12:05 is a clarinet
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9:35 the fugue has 4 voices, not 3.
Right, then it would be called a sinfonias.
Mads Ploug Jepsen no, there are 3 voice fugues, in fact, that’s pretty much the minimum. This one happens to have four, though.
@@thereyougoagain1280 well im pretty sure its, invention - sinfonias (also called 3 voice fugue) - fugue... So yes you're right.
Mads Ploug Jepsen there are a lot of great 3 voice fugues. I’d recommend no.2 and 3 (C minor and C# major, respectively) from Book 1 of the Well-Tempered Clavier for starters.
Anyway, the inventions and sinfonias (also called 3-part inventions) are specifically pieces that Bach wrote for students learning to play the keyboard. Contrapuntal works with fugal structure not strictly intended for education (by Bach, anyway) will generally have other names, sometimes arbitrary and sometimes descriptive; there’s the fugue, which is the umbrella term, the fughetta, or little fugue, the canon, which involves each voice playing the same thing, but a measure or two behind the last, contrapunctus, which is just a fugue but specific to The Art of Fugue, and others.
solid roast at 5:27
That was not an oboe!
That Latin diss...ouch
straight fire
There are a number of false statements in this video. The modern Harmonic Tonality did not come in 1600 but beginning of 1700 along with the formalization of the major-minor system. There is no impediment to harmonic complexity with modal writing. The modern usage of modes is completely different from the usage in XVIth century. It is ridiculous to present tonality as a progress. It is a different system and it did not prevent composers to write masterpieces without it, such as Monteverdi, Gesualdo, Palestrina, Frescobaldi. Bach has not been writing in harmonic tonality per the definition we give to it nowadays. The main principles have been formalized by Rameau in several publications from 1722 to 1750. Bach was in disagreement with these new concepts. Even if it is true that the sense of tonic and key as a fundamental cornerstone of the piece has an increased role in his compositions, so is also the counterpoint rules and the thoroughbass practice of his time. His harmonic relationships follow often the circle of fifth as theorized by Heinichen in 1710. In fact Bach is at the junction between the counterpoint writing herited from the renaissance and the emergence of the major-minor system based on harmonic tonality.
also she said latin was irrelevant, so...
Exactly! This video is phrased with a very modern-centric view of music. People ought to be more cautious about believing that everything has simply 'improved' over the centuries, since I've found that music education these days is full of misconceptions about earlier music. Like 'we needed the major/minor tonal system to make more intricate music', 'a shawm is quieter than an oboe', ' 'harpsichords fell out of use at the end of the baroque era', 'the organ lost popularity when Bach died' - completely 100% incorrect facts. She obviously doesn't listen to much early music other than modern piano recordings of Bach, and hasn't really talked to anyone that actually knows about this stuff.
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Not fair; really hot pink-haired woman trying to make me learn - totally not fair!
Please pronounce it Ba-Rock, not Baar-Oak. Please, it's unbearable. Look at the German spelling.