One of the beautiful things about the animated scores, for someone like me who reads music as a 5-yr old read text, is that the voices, and dynamics of each voice, are clear; and the harmonies explain themselves! Particularly important for antiphonal music like this. Very many thanks.
It's just amazing that this work could remind me of Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring", variations on an American folk tune, But this work is probably older than the folk tune that the fugal tune resembles.. A "Simple Gift" indeed!
@MatchbookD70 The basic idea is to make visual counterpart to the musical motion more dynamic, more moving, so that it feels more like the motion of the music. I want it to seem like the score is alive, and that it is playing itself.
@Nomm098 In this visualization, the area of the circle is proportional to the duration of the note. In some videos, the circle shrinks to show that it's reaching the end if its duration, but in this one, it just changes size to approximate the size of the next circle. I haven't posted any videos in which size shows loudness.
@clumma I tried to match the reverb on my favorite recording of this piece, the Columbia Masterworks recording with the combined forces of the Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Chicago brass ensembles, originally released in 1969.
@shizohal For this piece, I didn't to any tweaking, but I wrote the software, and I sometimes change it if it's not doing exactly what I wanted. (Actually, in this piece, there were some places where it *didn't* to exactly what I wanted, but I was too lazy to fix it ...)
@bunnybunnybunny8 Since this wasn't originally written for the piano, there are places where you have to kind of "fake it" --- play the tenths as rolled chords, use the pedal to hold things you can't hold with your fingers. It's possible, but it's not simple. However, it's worth it --- Gabrieli is so cool! Good luck, and let us know how it goes.
@smalin I agree with Ilorek regarding the glissando effect. I also find VERY disturbing (sorry about that) the acceleration, or zoom in the middle of the screen, which makes for ex. the themes of a fugue much harder to recognize, the zoomed in melody looking different in the middle of the screen from the very same melody in a different voice being yet on the margin. This also kills the static and unstoppable tempo of a baroque piece.
@clumma I went back and listened to the Gabrieli recording (I'd made my version based on memory). A lot of things were different than how I remembered. It was much faster. There was less reverb. Way less reverb. :-) There was much more "arrangement" involved (not just everybody playing all the time). The high instruments were much brighter.
@smalin The zoom makes the whole thing look like a walking spider, it is very organic, and eye catching, but i think in most cases it distracts attention from the musical structures. I think it is very suitable for changing rhythm performances, like Chopin, or other slow wondering melancholic pieces, like Satie. I also would associate the radius of the notes with their volume rather than their lenght, sometimes a piano note has a really big meaningless circle. Piano roll with ...
This is so clean and clinical looking, its almost like something I imagine seeing on the screen of a really important medical device with lots of buttons and blinking lights... or something. Strange fantasies aside, I'm gonna have to agree with the bar style being more my preference. Thank you for your videos, as always :)
Do you have to do any finishing work with a video like this? For example, at around 1:48 the phrases get short and the connecting lines are visually detached. Is that automated, or do you have control of the visual components?
Although I find this most visually pleasing of your videos, I think the heavily suggested glissando between all notes in this visualization is rather confusing. Good work though.
@smalin ...I think Piano Roll with the actual notes lit worked much better for baroque music. I also liked very much the blurred percussion and basses in the Beethoven symphony. I Appreciate your work very much anyways!
Congratulations on the work. Awesome visualization. Which tools did you use to generate the graphics? Did you hardcode each frequency or you sampled each melody from an external source?
One of the beautiful things about the animated scores, for someone like me who reads music as a 5-yr old read text, is that the voices, and dynamics of each voice, are clear; and the harmonies explain themselves! Particularly important for antiphonal music like this. Very many thanks.
It's just amazing that this work could remind me of Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring", variations on an American folk tune, But this work is probably older than the folk tune that the fugal tune resembles..
A "Simple Gift" indeed!
@MatchbookD70 The basic idea is to make visual counterpart to the musical motion more dynamic, more moving, so that it feels more like the motion of the music. I want it to seem like the score is alive, and that it is playing itself.
4 melody lines-I knew it! Thanks for the proof. Gabrieli's most joyful, exuberant piece!
@orboksanci Different strokes for different baroques ... note that in the FAQ there is a link to the bar-graph version of this.
@Nomm098 In this visualization, the area of the circle is proportional to the duration of the note. In some videos, the circle shrinks to show that it's reaching the end if its duration, but in this one, it just changes size to approximate the size of the next circle. I haven't posted any videos in which size shows loudness.
@clumma I tried to match the reverb on my favorite recording of this piece, the Columbia Masterworks recording with the combined forces of the Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Chicago brass ensembles, originally released in 1969.
@shizohal For this piece, I didn't to any tweaking, but I wrote the software, and I sometimes change it if it's not doing exactly what I wanted. (Actually, in this piece, there were some places where it *didn't* to exactly what I wanted, but I was too lazy to fix it ...)
@bunnybunnybunny8 Since this wasn't originally written for the piano, there are places where you have to kind of "fake it" --- play the tenths as rolled chords, use the pedal to hold things you can't hold with your fingers. It's possible, but it's not simple. However, it's worth it --- Gabrieli is so cool! Good luck, and let us know how it goes.
@smalin
I agree with Ilorek regarding the glissando effect. I also find VERY disturbing (sorry about that) the acceleration, or zoom in the middle of the screen, which makes for ex. the themes of a fugue much harder to recognize, the zoomed in melody looking different in the middle of the screen from the very same melody in a different voice being yet on the margin. This also kills the static and unstoppable tempo of a baroque piece.
@clumma I went back and listened to the Gabrieli recording (I'd made my version based on memory). A lot of things were different than how I remembered. It was much faster. There was less reverb. Way less reverb. :-) There was much more "arrangement" involved (not just everybody playing all the time). The high instruments were much brighter.
Fascinating notation.
Amazing as usual.
But I still like the dark screen, the colors of the circles makes me happy.
@clumma Oh, absolutely; my rendition is a pale reflection.
@smalin
The zoom makes the whole thing look like a walking spider, it is very organic, and eye catching, but i think in most cases it distracts attention from the musical structures. I think it is very suitable for changing rhythm performances, like Chopin, or other slow wondering melancholic pieces, like Satie.
I also would associate the radius of the notes with their volume rather than their lenght, sometimes a piano note has a really big meaningless circle. Piano roll with ...
@Iloerk I hear you.
thank you. i love these . they help me understand reading music.
This is so clean and clinical looking, its almost like something I imagine seeing on the screen of a really important medical device with lots of buttons and blinking lights... or something.
Strange fantasies aside, I'm gonna have to agree with the bar style being more my preference. Thank you for your videos, as always :)
Oh the polyphony!
@bunnybunnybunny8 Good idea! I've made a transcription for piano solo and added a link to it to the FAQ.
yeah! white background! it looks very pretty!
i think the bubbles work better than the little bars for this song.
I now credit Gabrieli as the composer of " 'Tis a Gift to be Simple"
kinda like this setup, its cool
Do you have to do any finishing work with a video like this? For example, at around 1:48 the phrases get short and the connecting lines are visually detached. Is that automated, or do you have control of the visual components?
Although I find this most visually pleasing of your videos, I think the heavily suggested glissando between all notes in this visualization is rather confusing. Good work though.
@OurenV2 (see the FAQ)
@smalin
...I think Piano Roll with the actual notes lit worked much better for baroque music. I also liked very much the blurred percussion and basses in the Beethoven symphony.
I Appreciate your work very much anyways!
Awesome ^_^ I love it ♥ #COOL
This is very hot. Thank you.
Congratulations on the work. Awesome visualization. Which tools did you use to generate the graphics? Did you hardcode each frequency or you sampled each melody from an external source?
This page gives an overview of the process: www.musanim.com/ProductionNotes/synchronization.html
I'm learning this!
oh, I like this!
nice,, I love brass to, I play Tuba and Alt horn meself.
@jpstenino :-)
I would like if this was a string piece.
the bar scores are much better for actualling vizualizing the notes.
@hi19hi19 I think you'll agree that the patient's vital signs look good. :-)
I hear some Appalachian in this....