I'd rather say this looks harder than it is. Imo Bachs well-tempered-piano looks far easier but is infact way harder to play (at decent speed without errors)
@@Trixex Incorrect, WTC contains a lot of Prelude and Fugues. The C Major Prelude is very famous, but it's following Fugue is one of the hardest ones in the entire 48.
Definitely agreed! The sheer complexity of this piece lends way to the enjoyment of listening to this beautifully, playful piece! Definitely one of the most challenging, yet rewarding pieces I ever learned!😁
Golliwogg was a type of afro-ragdoll but became a racist term, excluding it from use eventually. The piece gives life to the ragdoll, as if it can't walk stabily, thus the rythmic motives that sound like a starting and stopping, while stumbling sort of walk.
Layser H first off: no need to be triggered. Second: if you had bothered to take anytime to look into the history of it (as I did) you would realize that the dolls started OUT as black fictional characters, but as time went by they started being associated with black face based on their appearances (which isn’t that far fetched), as well as it’s rude representation of Africans. It’s essentially a black face doll. It may not seem like it at first, but it is once you dig a bit into its history.
This was a song I remembered from a childhood dance class, and stayed in my head for over 50 years. I never knew the title until another UA-camr helped me out. This is a splendid version. It's a lovely piece that shouldn't succumb to politics. It sounds happy.
Godddamn! You waited 50 freakin' years to find out a song's name?! Talk about waiting a long time to answer a nagging question. To think if you'd put your hand up in class and asked you wouldn't have had to have waited a half century. Bet it felt good to FINALLY get an answer on it. I once waited 20 years to find out the name of a song I heard from Ren and Stimpy called 'Hit and Run' so I can understand the frustration then finally the relief when I found out what it was called.
very nice performance, one the best ones I have found actually, not like these crazy little kids that rage at it and completely kill the vibe & phrasing.
I kind of disagree. Tilling adds pauses all over the place (for unnecessary "emphasis") which take away the fun dance feeling. How can you dance (a cakewalk is a very simple dance) when the band is always adding pauses to the music? He does this clearly as a choice, not from lack of skill.
@@calebhu6383 Really? I never knew he said that. Could you please tell me were? Another thing, this has been said to be a joke for a long time. And always heard it been referred to that way.
Image in my head: Walking to the cake shop cause you recently got some money, then you notice you're walking alone to the cake shop because you don't have friends, then once you get there you try to cheer yourself up, then the sadness goes away
Uhh lmfao i think you’re thinking cake shop because of cakewalk but a cakewalk was a tour of all the slaves on a plantation that were planning to be sold off to future buyers and Golliwogg was a racist symbol (blackface)
This was the soundtrack in a Atari ST game under the title "Mousetrap", that's where i first heard this when i was four/five years old, it was apart of shaping my musical taste and my playing/composing many years later. And i did not know it was Debussy before 2019, which is fun because Debussy is one of my favorite composers and has been that for quite some years now.
The genius of Debussy is to create a story in music of something deeper than words. True art latches onto something that we don't understand. The title of this piece even creates a facet of what it might be about. I wonder what we would feel about this piece and others like the girl with the flaxen hair without the title.
Bryn Miller A golliwog was a popular doll back in the 19th and 20th century based on minstrel show depictions of black people. It also was a fairly common slur for black children (which, in the context of this song, is probably the use of the word that we're looking at). And even the term "cakewalk" has a bit of a dark history, again relating to a particular dance performed during minstrel shows (and on slave plantations before that).
Johan Delvare I didn't say otherwise. I only mentioned that it was a slur as well because that makes more sense in the context of the piece's title (ie. dolls don't do cakewalks).
Gamerwhogames Well, a golliwog is a doll back in the 1800s that, according to some, is racist towards to black people. Today, in some countries, citizens may be detained for displaying one. This song, however, doesn’t have a racist vibe, but rather a carefree and lively one.
@@Metalpipeandcarrots It has colonialist attitudes because Golliwog's Cakewalk is a clumsy and comedic song. No matter though, we can recognize its cultural backwardness and still enjoy it for the music itself (:
Do any older listeners remember a Sunday afternoon serial called The Young Lady from London? About a pair of identical twins, one in London and one in Paris? The Golliwoggs Cakewalk was used as a signature tune
I like to imagine "Golliwog' as an elderly gent, dressed in Top hat and tails, staggering along half sozzled after leaving a night club. Gooli doesn't fall over at any time, as there is always some thing to head for and hang on to.The music is played much slower, with a bit of rubato to fit the action.
Debussy composed in reaction to the romantic period, specifically Wagner, and attempted to discard the use of rubato and artistic interpretation entirely. His piece is supposed to be played fast (but I agree that at 0:59, the performer should have played the piece slower because of the "un peu moins vite). Also, Golliwog is supposed to be an African-American figure, so he was, around 1900, always portrayed as clumsy and unreliable.
Image In My Head: A Ragdoll Coming To Life, Looking Around, Finding A Dog, And Starting To Sort Of Stumble-Walk Away In A Rush, Tripping Every So Often.
I heard it in a video and a kind soul gave me the title. Deep in my memory for over fifty years. I think it was from a dance class I took at about age six. The tune has always stayed in my head. I'm so glad I found out what it was!
LewisHamsterHammond I actually heard he included it to "take a shot" at Wagner, by inserting one of his most famous lines into a children's play songs, As though he is poking fun at Wagner.
Pues según parece "Golliwog" fue un juguete en forma de un muñeco de "piel negra" muy popular en Europa a inicios del siglo XX, mientras que el "cakewalk" fue un tipo de baile propio de los estados sureños de USA a finales del siglo XIX.
no offence but i played harder pieces but this what u played is a nice level of piece and richard tilling the player played very well, this recording was better than most of other recording i heard on youtube so out of a level 10 i give u a 9
Thanks for the video! But Tilling's enormous rubato in the march sections really put me off--so self-conscious and really odd. He took a piece designed to tap your foot to (it's even called a Cakewalk!) and changed the beat so much that impossible to tap with. Typical problem with pianists, sigh.
Probably one of the hardest easy seeming pieces I've ever seen
I'd rather say this looks harder than it is. Imo Bachs well-tempered-piano looks far easier but is infact way harder to play (at decent speed without errors)
@@DaGhost141 no, wtf? Especially if you are talking about his prelude in C major, that's litteraly the piece every beginner knows.
@@Trixex Incorrect, WTC contains a lot of Prelude and Fugues. The C Major Prelude is very famous, but it's following Fugue is one of the hardest ones in the entire 48.
@@SCRIABINIST When did I mention the fugue? There's no question that it's incredibly hard
Definitely agreed! The sheer complexity of this piece lends way to the enjoyment of listening to this beautifully, playful piece! Definitely one of the most challenging, yet rewarding pieces I ever learned!😁
Golliwogg was a type of afro-ragdoll but became a racist term, excluding it from use eventually. The piece gives life to the ragdoll, as if it can't walk stabily, thus the rythmic motives that sound like a starting and stopping, while stumbling sort of walk.
Is that where the term wog comes from?
m woo I just googled it and it all came back to me: THeyre racists black face dolls.
************** How is that racist dumbass
Layser H first off: no need to be triggered. Second: if you had bothered to take anytime to look into the history of it (as I did) you would realize that the dolls started OUT as black fictional characters, but as time went by they started being associated with black face based on their appearances (which isn’t that far fetched), as well as it’s rude representation of Africans. It’s essentially a black face doll. It may not seem like it at first, but it is once you dig a bit into its history.
@@user-xj4vo8ui5d "but as time went by they started being associated with black face".
Only by the permanently offended.
This was a song I remembered from a childhood dance class, and stayed in my head for over 50 years. I never knew the title until another UA-camr helped me out. This is a splendid version. It's a lovely piece that shouldn't succumb to politics. It sounds happy.
Godddamn! You waited 50 freakin' years to find out a song's name?! Talk about waiting a long time to answer a nagging question. To think if you'd put your hand up in class and asked you wouldn't have had to have waited a half century. Bet it felt good to FINALLY get an answer on it. I once waited 20 years to find out the name of a song I heard from Ren and Stimpy called 'Hit and Run' so I can understand the frustration then finally the relief when I found out what it was called.
@@Demogorgon47really puts it into perspective that my 10 year search for Chelsea dagger by the fratellis was barely a wait comparatively
very nice performance, one the best ones I have found actually, not like these crazy little kids that rage at it and completely kill the vibe & phrasing.
I love that you put up the music as well, so musicians can follow along. Excellent cover.
best performance i ever seen
rhythm and dynamics are so good
I agree!
I kind of disagree. Tilling adds pauses all over the place (for unnecessary "emphasis") which take away the fun dance feeling. How can you dance (a cakewalk is a very simple dance) when the band is always adding pauses to the music? He does this clearly as a choice, not from lack of skill.
love the Tristan und Isolde quote
I imagine it to be as much of a "homage" to Wagner as his Etudes are to Czerny.
@@bathtubbarracuda2581 My man, Debussy is mocking Wagner with this piece. There is no homage here.
1:15
@@roberacevedo8232 Are you sure about that? Debussy said that Tristan und Isolde was "decidedly the finest thing I know".
@@calebhu6383 Really? I never knew he said that. Could you please tell me were?
Another thing, this has been said to be a joke for a long time. And always heard it been referred to that way.
Image in my head: Walking to the cake shop cause you recently got some money, then you notice you're walking alone to the cake shop because you don't have friends, then once you get there you try to cheer yourself up, then the sadness goes away
Neat!
Shido Tomoushi you don't need other people to be happy :D
Image in MY head: death and destruction
Uhh lmfao i think you’re thinking cake shop because of cakewalk but a cakewalk was a tour of all the slaves on a plantation that were planning to be sold off to future buyers and Golliwogg was a racist symbol (blackface)
Chris Chan oh wow that turned dark
i love this song. I am currently playing it and it has so much spunk and rhythm to it.
PERFECT PERFORMANCE!!!
Love the satire of Tristan at 1:16. Great playing all around.
This was the soundtrack in a Atari ST game under the title "Mousetrap", that's where i first heard this when i was four/five years old, it was apart of shaping my musical taste and my playing/composing many years later. And i did not know it was Debussy before 2019, which is fun because Debussy is one of my favorite composers and has been that for quite some years now.
Im here because this is also in Kid Dracula for the gameboy.
I used to absolutely love that game Mousetrap as a kid - and it was also my first exposure to this amazing piece.
The Super Pipeline title theme. Thats how I remember this piece of music.
I'm doing this as a level four solo this year on trombone, this is one of my favourites by Debussy.
The genius of Debussy is to create a story in music of something deeper than words. True art latches onto something that we don't understand. The title of this piece even creates a facet of what it might be about. I wonder what we would feel about this piece and others like the girl with the flaxen hair without the title.
Never gets old.
I love these videos that showcase the sheet music so you can follow along.
Thank you for putting in the score!
An unfortunately named piece, but I've always enjoyed playing this one on the piano. Just has a fun relaxed feel to it.
Why unfortunately named?
Bryn Miller
A golliwog was a popular doll back in the 19th and 20th century based on minstrel show depictions of black people. It also was a fairly common slur for black children (which, in the context of this song, is probably the use of the word that we're looking at). And even the term "cakewalk" has a bit of a dark history, again relating to a particular dance performed during minstrel shows (and on slave plantations before that).
+Phlebas Actually the wiki page says it's named after the dolls and "golliwog" as a slur only came into use later
Johan Delvare
I didn't say otherwise. I only mentioned that it was a slur as well because that makes more sense in the context of the piece's title (ie. dolls don't do cakewalks).
@@Phlebas
The dolls are based on the character from a book
Nostalgia, my father used to play this for me on our old upright piano when I was little. Still makes me think of him.
i'm hearing "under the bam-boo treeee." in this.
Parody of Wagner at 1:16. Debussy admitted his little joke to a friend!
Wow, that is cool! Thanks for pointing it out. It was exactly the excerpt I thought it would be, just from reading your comment.
Excellent performence!! :)
I really like this interpretation. Best I've heard so far oooo !
Briliant!!
Hearing this reminds me of my childhood for some reason.
I don't know about the racism of this song (if it's racist or not, I think not), but it's a very catchy tune and I like it.
Gamerwhogames Well, a golliwog is a doll back in the 1800s that, according to some, is racist towards to black people. Today, in some countries, citizens may be detained for displaying one. This song, however, doesn’t have a racist vibe, but rather a carefree and lively one.
@@Metalpipeandcarrots It has colonialist attitudes because Golliwog's Cakewalk is a clumsy and comedic song. No matter though, we can recognize its cultural backwardness and still enjoy it for the music itself (:
Piano Confirmist Yep!
this piece is not intended to be racist
A thousand lifetimes ago I played this in competitions....to think I've spent 30 years tickling the vertebra after 22 years of tickling the ivories !!
amo locamente está pieza 👌💥💝
Do any older listeners remember a Sunday afternoon serial called The Young Lady from London? About a pair of identical twins, one in London and one in Paris?
The Golliwoggs Cakewalk was used as a signature tune
It's so sad that this is one of Debussy's less well known pieces, it is such a great piece
thanks, almost finished learning it :)
Excelente con la partitura :) Thanks!!!
Thanks!
i’m learning this!
I'm playing this song too its fun.
I like to imagine "Golliwog' as an elderly gent, dressed in Top hat and tails, staggering along half sozzled after leaving a night club. Gooli doesn't fall over at any time, as there is always some thing to head for and hang on to.The music is played much slower, with a bit of rubato to fit the action.
Debussy composed in reaction to the romantic period, specifically Wagner, and attempted to discard the use of rubato and artistic interpretation entirely. His piece is supposed to be played fast (but I agree that at 0:59, the performer should have played the piece slower because of the "un peu moins vite).
Also, Golliwog is supposed to be an African-American figure, so he was, around 1900, always portrayed as clumsy and unreliable.
Nice tempo.
Thanks! Glad you like it. Richard Tilling is great.
Image In My Head: A Ragdoll Coming To Life, Looking Around, Finding A Dog, And Starting To Sort Of Stumble-Walk Away In A Rush, Tripping Every So Often.
Thanks! Yes, I uploaded it once I realised there was nothing I liked here.
An interesting interpretation
Who’s listening this for music memory
Me
:3 ma people
I heard it in a video and a kind soul gave me the title. Deep in my memory for over fifty years. I think it was from a dance class I took at about age six. The tune has always stayed in my head. I'm so glad I found out what it was!
It's_natalie Rosas what does "for music memory" mean?
yooo i remember i used to be in music memory in 5th grade (2018 competition)
Thx Nati!
so much better than people who try to show off at a million miles an hour lol
this is my next piece to learn on piano at my lessons, is it hard?
Definitely
7 years passed by quickly...
Did you learn it?
It's one of the easier Debussy pieces to play. After all, it was written to be played by Children.
@@thomasthompson6378 I think it was written to be played for children
Am I the only one who thinks it is the precursor to ragtime?
When you have an older sister who was stuck on this song for about 2 months on her way thru royal conservatory.... I will never forget this
That's great! I'm glad I could help you =)
this song is so fun to play :-)
riéndose de Tristan e Isolda jajaja
....Translation?
Rinatya Nessim "Laughing at Tristan and Isoda, hahaha" :)
+Nico Derbez Debussy was a great admirer of Wagner.
+Nico Derbez thanks!
LewisHamsterHammond I actually heard he included it to "take a shot" at Wagner, by inserting one of his most famous lines into a children's play songs, As though he is poking fun at Wagner.
I'm also learning that at the moment but not on piano. I learn it on clarinet with a piano at my side.
Cool
thanks, I lost my sheet music
it's tough at the beginning rhythmically, but that's not an overpowering obstacle to overcome.
KLM! (Any Norwegians here?)
Mmm no, but I'm mexican hehehe
Elias Eriksen Me not, but i love norway and i want to move to. I was learning swedish few months and maybe i still could make some :D.
Ja :)
which grade is this? I wonder how many times it will take to play it greatly (: i'm in 9-10th grade so (: beautiful playing btw :)
Satie: le Piccadilly
im here form kid dracula
Alguien que se acuerde o que sepa me podria decir de que composicion son esos fragmentos de wagner del minuto 1:15
Tristan e Isolda
Divertido
the easiest composition of Debussy to play , in second " the little Nigar " ( two work year-piano for me ) .
小６の時に弾きましたこの曲不思議ですよね
We all chaned to the rythum
je l'ai jouée en 7e :) tu n'auras pas de difficulté !
It seems to me that's Gerhwin
True! There are similarities
Not bad.....
SOUPTOYS!!
LMFAO
Our woodwind quintet version here:
ua-cam.com/video/yhoGAQo_mwk/v-deo.html
Love this music!
Awesome!! Thanks for posting that! I like it.
@@NatiDeNut Thank you very much. Nice to hear it!
1:28
barrons ap music theory book bring anyone here?
That is all I can say😂
Do you know why is it called golliwogg's cake-walk?
Pues según parece "Golliwog" fue un juguete en forma de un muñeco de "piel negra" muy popular en Europa a inicios del siglo XX, mientras que el "cakewalk" fue un tipo de baile propio de los estados sureños de USA a finales del siglo XIX.
hi
Sorry, but I'm here for Kid Dracula
Seems a little slow for "Allegro guisto".
Soup...toys...
is this a reference to something?
Mr. Tilling may wish to invest in a metronome. He keeps losing the beat.
And yet it is the best rendition I have found. He tastefully mimics how the ragdoll cannot walk steadily =)
Fight me IRL al u haterz can be a chignon nuggetz
no offence but i played harder pieces but this what u played is a nice level of piece and richard tilling the player played very well, this recording was better than most of other recording i heard on youtube so out of a level 10 i give u a 9
hahaha How long before this little innocently but unfortunately titled choon gets renamed/banned.... forever!!! Long live ...."Inside the WAP"!!!😂😂😂😂😂
Thanks for the video! But Tilling's enormous rubato in the march sections really put me off--so self-conscious and really odd. He took a piece designed to tap your foot to (it's even called a Cakewalk!) and changed the beat so much that impossible to tap with. Typical problem with pianists, sigh.
Interesting observation! I always thought he tastefully mimics how the ragdoll cannot walk steadily =)