don't think it's right to say locrian - IS used minor tetrachords for much of the melodic material, very common in russian folk music. these then interact with octatonic/chromatic subsets. worth digging out Taruskin and van den Toorn, they did a good job analysing it
@@minimaster0328 the minor tetrachord is the first four notes of the minor scale. if you put two of them a tritone apart you get the octatonic scale (ie. the tone-semitone scale). you can add extra chromatic notes or "enclosures", or double at the fifth, and other weird stuff. richard taruskin spent twenty years writing a 2000-page book about what it all means
at first i thought it was just a thumbnail of an inexperienced student's composition because the left hand part is E major but written as an F flat major chord but then i realized the context was rite of spring
Le Sacre gets a lot better towards the end though. I don't get why people feel like this particular transition is so remarkable. It is but the tip of the iceberg of Stravinsky's genius.
Played this with the conservatory orchestra in college. The professor conducted the entire piece from memory - no score during performance. Blew me away!
Dance of the Adolescents... Stravinsky had at least 2 phases in his compositional life. Avant Garde and Classical. This work is from his earlier avant-garde days. Even from the thumbnail I knew which piece this would be. But I have an MM in musicology and wrote a couple papers on him in college. 😉
The Jaws theme, but the original, more prog metal version. Rite of Spring is brilliant start to end, but this section and the Spring Rounds soon after are some of my favorite bits.
Love this break down. A piece I loved enough to transcribe for solo piano and pour 2 years into memorizing! It's always fun to see new UA-cam content on it.
The thing about the Rite of Spring is, that you’re totally unprepared for the opening, where you hear the solo entrance of an exotic sounding wind instrument, (which I know is a bassoon) followed by full orchestra. Where here, you’re blown away by a torrential flood of dissonance, while understandable in the context of the music, is so disconcerting you turn off. And that’s unfortunate, because it’s remarkable music. However, I know that’s my response and not everyone’s else. But is certainly challenging for the listener.
Oh yes, in fact the chaotic dissonance is exactly what Stravinsky wanted to achieve! So I find it perfectly natural that the listener is disoriented in such a cacophonous texture.
In fact, rhythmic accents are provided by horns playing in unison with strings, their timbre is simply submerged into strings’ one so we hear only accents
Funnily enough, I first heard the rites of spring when I was 17 and was repulsed by it . About 25 years later I heard john Williams saying that when he first heard it he was blown away. When I went back to listen again, all I could hear was James Bond ! It was a good gate way tho- I see now how great it is.
don't think it's right to say locrian - IS used minor tetrachords for much of the melodic material, very common in russian folk music. these then interact with octatonic/chromatic subsets. worth digging out Taruskin and van den Toorn, they did a good job analysing it
@@LawrenceDunn101 Thanks for the info! That makes much more sense
Agree. The melody itself could be in "locrian" sort of, but one the Eb quintal harmony, it throws off the perception
i would want to say I have a rather good grasp of music theory, especially compared to the common person.
that said, the fuk this even mean
@@minimaster0328 the minor tetrachord is the first four notes of the minor scale. if you put two of them a tritone apart you get the octatonic scale (ie. the tone-semitone scale). you can add extra chromatic notes or "enclosures", or double at the fifth, and other weird stuff. richard taruskin spent twenty years writing a 2000-page book about what it all means
Mixolydian vibe
at first i thought it was just a thumbnail of an inexperienced student's composition because the left hand part is E major but written as an F flat major chord but then i realized the context was rite of spring
@@Annihilator_5024 🤣
literally the same thing as a beginner's composition though so you were right
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@Annihilator_5024 omg it u woah
@@lolbruh1170Hi wim, now you're using alt accounts for your bait comments? 😊
Moments like this are the reason I listen to classical music
@@oritdrimer4354 absolutely!
Le Sacre gets a lot better towards the end though. I don't get why people feel like this particular transition is so remarkable. It is but the tip of the iceberg of Stravinsky's genius.
@@BlintsonEcker-t5lyep I love the sacrificial dance
Stravinsky doesn’t just write music - he conjures fantastical characters, landscapes, complete narratives in sound.
The flute and clarinet passage at 0:42 is one of my favourite textures in any piece ever!
Brilliant orchestration! Had to check out what he did there to have such an effect
Played this with the conservatory orchestra in college. The professor conducted the entire piece from memory - no score during performance. Blew me away!
Stravinsky loved bassoons, bassoons love stravinsky
At 1:14 a string player does their accent at the wrong place ahah
@@Trumpyfilip sharp ears 😄
holy spot
Gives an eco like feeling
Must have been a viola.
@@hdbrot😐
This is my favorite part in Rite of spring! 🥰🥰🥰🥰 I love Stravinsky!! 😍😍
When I saw the thumbnail, I immediately knew it was going to be the "I like very much this chord here" section 😂😂
I never really noticed the similarity between the beginning and ending parts of this video, thanks for painting them both blue
Not too similar in terms of the intervals used but it is interesting how this falling gesture is used as a cadential movement!
Wow! What a piece of music! Thanks
One of my favorites!
All hail Stravinsky! I still think of this piece randomly throughout the day.
i love the rite of spring such an interesting piece
i went to see it performed once in the royal albert hall
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Thank you!
One of the greatest!
i am absolutely in love with this piece help meeeeeee
@@dedede5586 no one can help you now...
@@skylarlimex thank you for this great analysis btw!!
you could try listening to Super Rite of Spring, maybe that will help... or maybe it will make your condition worse
Metal 🔥
Unfortunately I've used that title already 😆
You need to hear Xenakis
Muito bom. Gostei. Obrigado.
I was shocked by this video❤❤
stravinsky
Great analysis! I'd love to see more Stravinsky, Ravel and Scriabin. Also, have you considered Messiaen?
@@pgbpriuvnri I'd love to do some messiaen in the future...
Dance of the Adolescents... Stravinsky had at least 2 phases in his compositional life. Avant Garde and Classical. This work is from his earlier avant-garde days. Even from the thumbnail I knew which piece this would be. But I have an MM in musicology and wrote a couple papers on him in college. 😉
Also "Primitavist" or "Dada-ist." But I'm a Renaissance expert. ;) Still Love Stravinsky though. :D
Thank-you for sharing. I never viewed music in this way. (yea... I am a hack), But I love music.
The rhythm hits like a truck? Trucks are scared of Stravinsky.
Great analysis by the way!
Exquisite video as always!
@@twanswagten thanks so much!
I can’t hear this without thinking about dinosaurs and volcanoes.
The Jaws theme, but the original, more prog metal version.
Rite of Spring is brilliant start to end, but this section and the Spring Rounds soon after are some of my favorite bits.
Exactly my experience of this music
Love this break down. A piece I loved enough to transcribe for solo piano and pour 2 years into memorizing! It's always fun to see new UA-cam content on it.
@@AaronPetitPianoTutorials I watched that and it's absolutely legendary. Brilliant work, you should've commented with your main channel.
The Tertadoodle of the Hinky Spunky has several Locrian variants of the boing boing which leads to a most efficient expelliarmus.
I do not tend to like Stravinsky, but I listened to this while finishing The Lord of the Flies a while back and it was perfect.
@@jtbasener8740 That's an amazing pairing, I've never made that connection before!
The thing about the Rite of Spring is, that you’re totally unprepared for the opening, where you hear the solo entrance of an exotic sounding wind instrument, (which I know is a bassoon) followed by full orchestra. Where here, you’re blown away by a torrential flood of dissonance, while understandable in the context of the music, is so disconcerting you turn off. And that’s unfortunate, because it’s remarkable music. However, I know that’s my response and not everyone’s else. But is certainly challenging for the listener.
Oh yes, in fact the chaotic dissonance is exactly what Stravinsky wanted to achieve! So I find it perfectly natural that the listener is disoriented in such a cacophonous texture.
Rite of Spring!!!
Vaguely reminded of the ostinato in Blind Bigger Brother from The Simpsons: Hit & Run
In fact, rhythmic accents are provided by horns playing in unison with strings, their timbre is simply submerged into strings’ one so we hear only accents
@@ДмитрийБаженов-ш6т Yes, but the strings also have accents written in
I thought the part at 0:15 had different type signatures, its just 4/4 with different accents ?
Brilliant, isn't it?
But the last movement of Rite of spring does indeed have rapidly changing time signatures
Am i being hunted down or something?
Sounds like a Star Trek TOS action sequence
Sounds like Tom & Jerry music!
If you think this is crazy, wait till you see the dancing
You depress me when you show music like this. I can play a little but if piano but have only two hands.
motif x is also in the ostinato😮
@@dmachine07 I wonder if he'd composed it with that intention, I think Stravinsky is quite intuitive as a composer
@@skylarlimex Probably
song name plssss 😭😭😭😢
The rite of spring. This is specifically the second piece
This sounds like it’s from jaws
I always loose the 2/4 feeling at 1:01, even with the score!
What if you don't like being hit by a truck?
But pretty similar to the music of Jaws.
This is from Tom and Jerry
Stravinsky, he destroys elegantly the established musical canon, but some of his melodies are very nice although brief.
@@JJLemire I wouldn't use the word elegantly in this case 🤣
Ah, another random 15 seconds of some symphony from 1938 John Williams ripped off for an entire billion dollar movie soundtrack.
nah
1. 1913, not 1938
2. Ballet, not symphony
3. "Lesser artists borrow; great artists steal" - direct quote from the person who wrote this music.
Funnily enough, I first heard the rites of spring when I was 17 and was repulsed by it . About 25 years later I heard john Williams saying that when he first heard it he was blown away. When I went back to listen again, all I could hear was James Bond ! It was a good gate way tho- I see now how great it is.
@@TheSlowPianist nobody cares
@@davidbeddoe6670 Same could be said of your original comment.