The GENIUS harmonies of Mozart's Requiem Lacrimosa: A harmonic analysis
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- In this video, I do a harmonic analysis of Mozart's Requiem: Lacrimosa. Music all done in Cubase from scratch ;)
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Check how I recreated the piece in Cubase using just two libraries here: ua-cam.com/video/C5UUsZRHGIc/v-deo.html
Crazy lucky that Mozart left his midi files for us and future generations
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Talk about having foresight
idiot they ddidnt have midi in the 1500s
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It's strange, but a lot of people who think they don't like orchestral music, will be deeply moved whilst watching a film, and not even be conscious they are listening to orchestral music, and the whole range of emotions it can convey.
100%. Great comment.
I'm personally so tired of hearing just orchestras in movies. It's been done to death for 100 years already, can we move on aaaa
It's a rare thing to find such people who talks this passionately about classical music. Keep up the good work buddy!
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Thankyou so much to talk about classical music.
Superb. I have been teaching music for over 50 years and this is a great explanation of the Lacrimosa.
This is probably the best explanation I’ve heard. I’m not classically trained. But I think I kind of understand why people call him a genius now.
Yes I would like a breakdown of this piece of music!
The first time I heard the Lacrimosa I was in tears at the end.
I have a guitar arrangement of the Lacrimosa I enjoy playing for myself. Taking this music apart and seeing how it works is an amazing experience. Thank you for making and sharing this video.
Could you please share your guitar arrangement? I'd love to play it. Thanks in advance!
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Interesting topic. I like how understanding harmony can make your songs better, so analyzing important Pieces is like having a cheatsheet !! :D
Mozart did exactly the same thing...that’s why his music changed over time, after studying with Haydn and J.C. Bach, among others
The introit of the requiem and the ouverture of the Magic Flute are beyond compréehension too.
Dom you are a treasure, nobody makes videos like this, music theory with fun modern approaches and a jovial charismatic host. Fantastic job, i really like your videos and you are really really talented. Thanks for this aweskme vid
Check out Adam Neely's channel, it will blow your mind
While Mozart died before he could finish Lacrimosa himself, I think Franz Xaver Sussmayr deserves a fair amount of credit for tying it all together the way he did too! Especially with the ending, which goes from a Minor Plagal Cadence to a Picardy Third. Normally the Picardy is associated with a brighter and more "hopeful" sound, but Sussmayr, through some black magic, managed to make it sound absolutely crushing, like all light has fallen.
Bro, please more Mozart analysis!!!! I came here because in my own compositions I find my harmony somewhat boring, and you explained this amazingly. Great job, thank you, and please do more!
Thank you Dom, that is one of the most wonderful pieces of music EVER written .. thank you thankl you thank you!!
Dom, this video is incredible. Bullseye. You took up the challenge of opening the mind of younger musicians for classical masterpieces with a modern approach. A specialist in music technology talking about the genius of Mozart, if one guy have the credibility to do this. it's you. More-more-moooore!!!! ;-D
Great job. I literally could not find a theory breakdown this good anywhere on YT. Im using your video to write out the main theme as a sort of lead sheet with chords so i can study it more easily. Again, thanks brother.
My favourite Mozart piece.
Loved it. Highly insightful. I learned something. Much appreciated. I like the mood you convey. Fantastic.
We are strung from the same web. Love classical and Mozart is truth. You know I am doing a study on this piece and teaching the concept of hemiola rhythm which lacrymosa is perfect for. It’s crazy how he wrote the requiem and 3 of his last symphonies which are perfect beauty and the pinnical of his creativity. Thanks for teaching with all of us and reminding us that music is truth.
Duuuuuuuuude. This is a killer idea. Can’t wait.
15:35 I am not a musician but I am a music enthusiast. I've figured there are about 25 chord expressions in a diatonic scale. Double that to count the 3rd inversions for a reasonable palette of harmony choices within a scale. What Mozart did with chromatic scales and harmonies while moving through different keys is hard for me to follow. Thanks for stepping through Mozart's mind on this example.
I hope the season will start with the phenomenous transition from the confutatis to the lacrimosa
Thank you for sharing this. Beauty will save us.
Beautifully done! It's always great to go deeper into masterpieces of classical music! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Lacrimosa is simply Divine!
Woooow! A video that none should miss! A great composer's harmonies by another great composer!
Perfect analysis. I actually found you by searching "lacrimosa harmony analysis" without too much hope of finding smth. The internet will never stop to amaze me
Brilliant Analysis! Your passion is infectious. I share your enthusiasm.
By the way: The „natural B“ in the ascending melody was certainly not as surprising in Mozart's days as it seems today. In fact, this melody is not an ascending D minor scale. It’s an ascending D dorian scale, and it then continues as a chromatic scale. Dorian was the „standard mode“ of church music before Mozart, and Mozart probably used it to give the melody an „ancient holy“ feeling.
Also the chord progression was widely used before Mozart. It is called „La Folia“ (ua-cam.com/video/uqihZj4kHiE/v-deo.html ) and here Mozart used it twice to underline the dorian scale. Like the Pachelbel canon, the „La Folia“ progression was extremely popular, comparable to today's four-chord progression or the ’50s progression or the descending fifths progression. A lot of hits used these chord progressions. Typically, the „La Folia“ progression is able to confuse the listener so much that he can no longer tell what key it is based on. The tonic seems to be constantly shifting from minor to major to... The main surprising event is, that Mozart switches to a chromatic scale, and therefore resolves the G major to C minor! (The Folia progression would resolve to C major instead)
And using the German Sixths is typical of Mozart. Nowadays these chords are called „Sub V 7“ and they are widely used in Jazz music and also Rock/Pop.
This was an excellent video, thanks so much for making it!
Thank you for your explanation of the chord scales of a Mozart musical piece that steals and enthralls me.
I watched this video a few times over in the past year. Dom’s enthusiasm and explanation really delivers Mozart’s brilliance so well. And it’s so instructive and inspiring. Thanks, Dom & Mo! 😉
Most satisfying build up to a cadential 6/4 ever. Thanks for this, Dom!!!
There was a great episode on Mozart in the City where the conductor refuses to do a version a robot has filled in for the part Mozart didn't get to. The conductor Roderigo just conducts the Requiem, including a beautiful version of Lacrimosa, my favorite as well. So wonderful, on Amazon.You did a great job. Thanks for keeping Mozart out there.
Thank you Dom Sigalas.
It is very deeply explanation what and how Mozart did in this part of Lacrimosa.
I had no idea a chord analysis could be this adventurous, kudos!
Arrepiante, extasiante. Maravilhoso!
i love this song
Yes Dom, we want to see how you made it, it already sounds great. I think we'll appreciate that😊👍
Yes mr Dom nice 👍 video , please more videos like this 😋
pls make a lots of video like this .... you are really great .. thanks
I love this. Mozart is absolutely incredible
You're the man Dom. I've been an Ableton user for years and am sorry I didn't begin with Cubase.The learning curve hasn't been easy, but not giving up. I played trumpet in the school band, and used to read music. The biggest mistake of my life was quitting. I got infected with underground music in the late 90's particularly progressive trance. Bought two Techniques 1200's and the rest is history.
Love your analysis. Awesome. My heart is fill this evening with the most beautiful music. Thank you!
I am amateur musician with no knowledge in harmony but very interested in classics. Your video is just a perfect conbination of musical knowledge withou being too much dense or confuse, very didatic. Thank you so much gor you effort
He was talking about eternal damnation and put the tension the topic demands, genius!
Great video.
Love this classical music study!
Great explanation
This gives an entire different perspective to people who are unfamiliar with the classical music, LOVED IT! -- and for those who spends most of their time on jazz harmony or stuff like me, a quick reminder; aslo in jazz harmony, we see (ii b) voicings leading to the dominant/tonic time to time, like Mozart does. For ex: Db maj 7 - (G7) - C min6
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Wonderful video! Watched many times!!! BTW score has A natural 8:54. Still, the best analysis! Big thanks!!
Totally love the Salieri jealous insets!
Mozart manages to make a journey from D minor, away and back, feel like one has touched God on the way. The second G6th is as you say the work of a genius.
i feel in love with a video
Brilliant work!!!
Great video! Geeking out about the Mozart Requiem got me through music school. As a vocalist I am frequently reminded of Mozart’s tremendous knack for musical psychology when he’s setting a text, and I think an analysis of the text is helpful here as well. The text for this section is, in English, “when the guilty man rises from the ashes to be judged.” Mozart paints this with that huge ascending scale in the soprano, BUT ALSO on the harmonic level, he gives us a sequence rising by thirds (A to d, C to F, E to A, G to C). I think we can feel that root motion and the affect is visceral.
Thank you, Dom for making this video with such enthusiasm and fun. If we see further, it is only because we are standing on the shoulders of giants.
It’s genius in simplicity, the kind of genius that is long gone. Vision, that’s what is lost; mastering every tricks in the book doesn’t make you an artist, vision does
Wonderful content! I appreciate all your effort and love put in this video. Would like to know more about the sound library you used i the prodution. I hope there is something from the montage... maybe the choirs?
Thank you Pedro! Video coming up where I will reveal all the instruments used and how I orchestrated it :)
@@DomSigalas can't wait for that! :D
Amazing analysis of one of the most awesome crescendo of the whole history of music. Thanks for you dynamism and enthusiasm, thanks for your expertise. I have a question however. In the first Ger+6 at the end of the crescendo, you are playing a Ab. I've checked the score I have and it is a A actually. It does not remove the genius of the music... does it change a little bit your analysis if I am right ? Are we more on a dim7 chord ? Thanks for your light on this. And please continue such kind of harmonic analysis.
I just caught this, too. I love the sound of the Ger6 as well, but unfortunately, Mozart didn't write this. It's too bad, because I was ready to use this with my choir this fall! Excellent work otherwise.
holy shit thank you for this video, you literally saved my life since i chose to base my skilled work on this incredible piece!
So so amazing...
Great vídeo, i would like more like this. Thanks a lot, Dom.
Really enjoyed this.
I think this is the proper way of teaching theoretical concepts. It shows how these things are actually used in music, and also gives you an idea of the sound that they achieve.
Reading about augmented 6ths and secondary dominants in a textbook may sound scary, but I think this demonstration alone taught a lot more about these chords than reading any book about these chords would (considering that one hasn't heard of these concepts before). I would actually encourage people to start from musical examples first, and only then read what the books say about those chords. This gives context to what the textbooks are actually talking about, and this gives you a much better understanding of how everything works.
Reading about music is kind of useless if you don't have an idea of how the concepts actually sound like. But of course reading about the concepts, when you know their sound already, gives you a more in-depth understanding of them. This is why I would say, sound first, theory second. When you know the sound, then theory is a really powerful tool for gaining an in-depth understanding of the sounds. But if you don't know the sound, then theory is really difficult to approach, and not very useful either.
Thank you! I actually totally agree with you. I wish more of my teachers were teaching harmony like this- it shouldn’t be all rules and guides - let’s hear how this is actually used!
i've been looking for this....
Thanks!
Brillante! Could you do the next part of lacrImosa?
Excellent! I like the way of remembering the German 6th. They're sods to remember at times with the French & Italian as well.
AMAZING! Your passion is contagious. Wonderful job; I'm delighted. Thank you so much for your wonderful videos: following you is just a pleasure!
You are Great!
The sample you played was the only part of Lacrimosa that Mozart wrote (if you leave the instruments, not including the continuo, after the second bar). The rest was completed by Süßmayr after Mozart's death.
Dom, thank you so much for helping Classical music to be alive! Cheers from Brazil!
your most passionate video, by far. do more, you are very good to transmit your goosbumps from music, and people needs to know who Mozart was. let's do a series about classical music, I think people will like.
great video Dom!!!
Just a quick note! 8:32 would be a dominant 7th, not a major 7th, a major 7th would contain a B instead of a Bb!
Majestic Bombastic!
I’d love to see how you put this together, it sounds incredible.
Спасибо
so much passion in this piece, also to Don. You can feel it from your heart! amazing !!
I just love this! You explain it very well. I found it very interesting especially since this field is kind of new for me. Thanks Dom!
That's music ... and that's Mozart hehe! Just the raw music! Total endorphin trip! :D
I liked you and your content already, but now you have my mad respect for doing a video on classical music. Love your channel!
OMG Please do similar videos on Bach , Brahms, Vivakdi etc.
Every time I see this vid… Dom U’re killing us !! Extraordinary, simply magic !!
it seems to me like I’m hearing Neville Mariner’s St Martin in the Fields, although I heard this piece maybe thousands time.
You really made something great, I think this is the best electronic music piece ever done !
This was fucking awesome
Excellent work bro
Great video.
Keep your favourite pieces coming! Love the harmonic analysis, your knowledge and enthusiasm...
Hi Dom, amazing analysis of this magnificent piece. I sang the Requiem years ago for the 200th anniversary of Mozart's death and the Lacrimosa was my favorite part. I can see your passion for this music! Great video, thank you!
Excellent video. I love the idea of the German aug 6th. I use it all the time, especially in jazz. It's an Ab7, tritione of D7, but because it's German you know it will work!!
Shout out to his pupil Sussmayr who did a stellar job finishing this where Mozart left off.
In fact the harmony that comes a few bars after this, at "Qua resurget..." might be my favourite part of the piece.
That said, we've all wasted hours wondering how it might have sounded had Mozart completed it
Wow!! That’s my favorite piece of music! Another one it’s Giuseppe Verdi’s Lacrimosa... thank you!!!
gratulations- you know a lot about music harmony and moreover you are a great teacher with much motivation. Thanks so much!
Hey Dom, correct me if I'm wrong but I hear that first German 6th as a diminished 7th with a C in the bass. That then resolves to the G in first inversion (B in the bass) .
That bass then descends a semi tone to the B Flat which IS then a German 6th which resolves to the A .
great video didnt realise i watched till the end, mozart is a scary human to compose this piece lol
Hey Dom! Nice, this is one of my favourite passages! You might want to check your score, though: The first "augmented sixth chord" you talk about is actually NOT a German Sixth, but a F#diminished7! (The notes in the Altos and Violin2 are "a", not "a-flat".) The second one is of course a German Sixth.
Great mockup, btw, sounds great!!
I am obsessive compulsive with resolving notes. Almost all of them. I feel Mozart's "heartache". Dm 64, Bb res to A, and more of them... I have lost sleep time some nights in learning theory because I wake up with notes in my mind and need to play in order to either resolve or remember. This is one of your best - I like learning from you as well! I wouldn't mind you going deeper into this - say 50 min vid - No worries JUST KIDDING! I will do this myself!
Great ending of this great video. I couldn't resist to press the like button...
Nice explanation! Thanks maestro!
What a brilliant video and analysis! It brought tears of joy to my eyes....
As a blues dude, these harmonies are sort of a mystery to me... :D But so beautiful!