Leitmotifs in Miracle Musical

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  • @monkeytime3169
    @monkeytime3169 3 роки тому +434

    Dream Sweet really ties the whole album together nicely whereas Introduction creates an atmosphere of mystery and intrigue

  • @Asmokedetector
    @Asmokedetector 3 роки тому +522

    Dream sweet really is just an amalgamation of all the other songs

    • @cryogencrypts7484
      @cryogencrypts7484 3 роки тому +43

      Which now that I've seen this, that may have been the plan for it. They did a lot with that song compared to when they have the demo for it. It seems they decided to make the last song a song that combines most, if not all, the previous songs. Which is pretty cool

    • @NAFProjects
      @NAFProjects 2 роки тому +8

      Which is why it's the best album closing song of all time

    • @clemclemclemclemcl
      @clemclemclemclemcl 2 роки тому +3

      @@NAFProjects it’s the song that plays when the world ends

    • @OMGTVGuess
      @OMGTVGuess Рік тому +8

      So is variations on a cloud

    • @booiscaredyou.
      @booiscaredyou. Рік тому

      which is why it reigns supreme.

  • @Dr._Geno
    @Dr._Geno 3 роки тому +783

    Also there's a faint whistle in the mind electric that becomes the melody for "see how I circle/ see how I fly away" in labyrinth.

    • @dudeman1983
      @dudeman1983 3 роки тому +93

      In the demos, Mind Electric ended with music almost exactly like Labyrinth; it think they were supposed to be very closely connected.

    • @Thelileggboy
      @Thelileggboy 2 роки тому +20

      “See how I loved you, you’ll never understand”

    • @Entity404SFM
      @Entity404SFM 2 роки тому +38

      @@dudeman1983 in demo 4 it ended with
      "See how i laugh at you
      You'll never understand
      No you'll never understand
      No you'll never ever ever ever undersand
      See how i run from you..."

    • @NAFProjects
      @NAFProjects 2 роки тому +9

      That leitmotif also plays during Dream Sweet in Sea Major, it's just really hard to hear

    • @clemclemclemclemcl
      @clemclemclemclemcl 2 роки тому +17

      @@Entity404SFM i thought it was
      “See. How I laugh at you.
      You’ll never understand,
      no you’ll never understand.
      No, you’ll never ever *ever* understand.
      See how banana man.
      Hops over the white hot sand
      here he comes with some for me
      here he comes with some
      for me”

  • @jadentrios
    @jadentrios 4 роки тому +438

    One more- the "keep it coming back" in variations on a cloud is the same melody as the xylophone(?) before the final lyrics in dream sweet in sea major

    • @retrorenegade8562
      @retrorenegade8562 3 роки тому +21

      That’s continue- and it’s also present in the beginning but much faster and plucked on strings!, around “Believe me darling, the stars were made for falling” and whatnot!

    • @cowboybepis4071
      @cowboybepis4071 3 роки тому +7

      Also the lyrics that come right before that xylophone melody are the same melody that plays at the start of introduction to the snow

    • @jforjaelyn3415
      @jforjaelyn3415 2 роки тому

      True!

    • @colemanshofner3514
      @colemanshofner3514 2 роки тому +1

      It’s a glockenspiel if you were wondering

    • @jforjaelyn3415
      @jforjaelyn3415 2 роки тому +1

      It is also present in Introduction to the Snow

  • @destinynart2426
    @destinynart2426 2 роки тому +142

    The entire album in and out of itself is a masterpiece, i always find myself listening to a song from it everyday

  • @acronscawlernc6697
    @acronscawlernc6697 4 роки тому +598

    Labyrinth instrumentally references The Mind Electric, its the "someone help me" line.
    In Dream Sweet, there's an instrumental reference to The Mind Electric after the line: "To be where I am."
    Though it isn't really a reference, Dream Sweet could also be referencing the song Murders with the "she knows you heard her, staging music murder."
    Thank you for the great video!

    • @acronscawlernc6697
      @acronscawlernc6697 4 роки тому +58

      Also, there could be a reference to Murders in The Mind Electric. Specifically the piano bit of "Fountain Of Infinite Mirror"
      It's in the background of the line "Spiraling down thy majesty..."

    • @uranium404
      @uranium404 4 роки тому +10

      @@acronscawlernc6697 woah, I never noticed that last one :O

    • @samuels.b.9508
      @samuels.b.9508 4 роки тому +25

      The Mind Electric also references Ruler of Everything. If you listen closely the "And they give it all they've got" kinda has the same rhythm as "Are the ruler of everything"

    • @quantumblauthor7300
      @quantumblauthor7300 4 роки тому +14

      The mind electric is a conglomeration of the rest of the album, it's literally got the thumping of "Murders," it's got Labyrinth, It's almost in the exact center of the album.

    • @samuels.b.9508
      @samuels.b.9508 4 роки тому

      @@quantumblauthor7300 what "thumping"?

  • @resident_simon
    @resident_simon 4 роки тому +155

    the part in DSISM that goes "Apart is slowly ending, a line in any final song" is the same melody from the piano bit in Intro to the Snow as well !!

    • @intergraphenic
      @intergraphenic Рік тому

      the part, not apart. still though yeah

    • @MinaWalker
      @MinaWalker Рік тому +2

      I was playing it on piano and I realized that ❤

  • @Epicbasher
    @Epicbasher 4 роки тому +271

    Also!!!!! In the forwards version of mind electric there’s a little piano part that plays during murders too. (Before the all but nothing at all part)

    • @rootgotter355
      @rootgotter355 3 роки тому +5

      I read somewhere they're both from a classical piano song

    • @AB-xx6gy
      @AB-xx6gy 2 роки тому +2

      bees and birds

  • @accuratecompliment
    @accuratecompliment 3 роки тому +75

    i didnt even notice that humming in dream sweet and stranded lullaby, thats insane!

    • @Pyro_Fandango
      @Pyro_Fandango 6 місяців тому

      If you can remove the voice from the song through an app, in the French part of Dream Sweet in sea major, you will hear a robotic voice. (which could represent the voice of space station level 7).

  • @thegooobley1993
    @thegooobley1993 3 роки тому +71

    I had no idea the humming in stranded lullaby was in DSISM

  • @bonnietrap7749
    @bonnietrap7749 2 роки тому +28

    fun fact:
    in "labyrinth" the female voice that sings, is singing to the rhythm of "the mind electric" (I say this because in the part of "see how the brain plays around, and you fall inside a hole you couldn't see" hear a whistle that sings the same melody)

    • @KeruuKat
      @KeruuKat Рік тому +1

      Fun fact: thats not a female voice

    • @SolciteGuy
      @SolciteGuy Рік тому +1

      @@KeruuKat Yes it is? They didn't say that "The Mind Electric" had a female voice

  • @yam1370
    @yam1370 4 роки тому +274

    this is great! I was looking for any sort of analysis on either miracle musical or tally hall and this contributed a bunch! thanks for this

  • @penntopaper9305
    @penntopaper9305 3 роки тому +52

    theres also that bit at the end of dream sweet that sounds a hell of a lot like time machine

    • @Forevopera
      @Forevopera 3 роки тому +1

      Which part is that? So far Time Machine is the only track I can't connect to the others

    • @maybejackbright1581
      @maybejackbright1581 3 роки тому +2

      @@Forevopera the last one, it not only is exactly like the instrumental of Variations on a Cloud, but reminds of the Time Machine instrumental

    • @KeruuKat
      @KeruuKat 2 роки тому +5

      Labyrinth and Time Machine are both in The Mind Electric! The bit before the opera has Time Machine on piano and after "doctor I can't believe I'm not me" has Labyrinth.

  • @phant0mlily
    @phant0mlily 2 роки тому +13

    there's also a motif in the drums which is in a few songs. It goes something like: kick, snare, kick, kick, snare, snare, snare, snare

  • @nowayjose1870
    @nowayjose1870 7 місяців тому +2

    I love the leitmotifs....... Tally Hall had so many too and it gives the sense everything is connected MMMMMMMMMMMMM

  • @tweer64
    @tweer64 2 роки тому +15

    The endings of Black Rainbows and White ball are very similar.

    • @DominickDoggo
      @DominickDoggo 2 роки тому +1

      Maybe, you might be up something...

    • @ofeliasimon9387
      @ofeliasimon9387 Рік тому +1

      Legit the first comment that mentioned white ball, so sad cuz its a great song and my fave

  • @legacymeme8746
    @legacymeme8746 10 місяців тому +2

    Never a song without meaning and reference

    • @AlsoStuck
      @AlsoStuck 7 місяців тому

      look at joe hawleys songs

  • @joshjimmens3215
    @joshjimmens3215 5 місяців тому +1

    Dream sweet in sea major genuinely feels like the beginning singer at the end theyve went through so much but they want to go back in time my assumption is because of the line "for merely dreaming we were snow" changing the original of "with sparkle crystals souls aglow" and because the beginning songs named "introduction to the snow"

  • @ohcee_
    @ohcee_ 4 роки тому +74

    THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THIS IN A COMPREHENSIVE LIST I LOVE THIS AND I LOVE MM's LEITMOTIFS

  • @r.a.c.e.1348
    @r.a.c.e.1348 Рік тому +8

    Time Machine appears at 1:56 of DSISM, as a robotic voice saying the chorus of “With a Time Machine”, and the last two repeats says “I wait for you”.
    Murders piano also appears at 4:37

    • @139_Scarbon
      @139_Scarbon 8 місяців тому

      Why did I see the 1:56 timestamp glitched out at first but when I looked away it was gone

    • @stevenoct11
      @stevenoct11 4 місяці тому

      no?
      neither of these exist, no clue what you're talking about...
      The entire murders piano is availible in Hawaii Part 2 Part 2, so it's not like I can't check that, and it doesn't exist.
      where tf do you hear time machine bro?

  • @rootgotter355
    @rootgotter355 3 роки тому +52

    Here's another one;
    At the end of the mind electric (for some reason this isn't in the lyric video version) at the line "Doctor, I can't tell if i'm not me" you can hear a quiet synthesizer playing one of the parts from Labryinth.

    • @KeruuKat
      @KeruuKat 2 роки тому +6

      Before the opera/glitchy bit you can hear piano from Time Machine!

    • @rootgotter355
      @rootgotter355 2 роки тому +3

      @@KeruuKat Wow, that's crazy

    • @zacknattack
      @zacknattack 2 роки тому +2

      the lyric video is the album version backwards

    • @rootgotter355
      @rootgotter355 2 роки тому +1

      @@zacknattack yeah, I noticed that

    • @wodawiod5447
      @wodawiod5447 Рік тому

      @@KeruuKat friend, with all due respect, the whole song is the opera/glitchy bit, could you provide lyrics or a timestamp, please?

  • @sophireal
    @sophireal 3 роки тому +24

    This should really have more attention, since so many people are talking about the leitmotifs in the comments of Hawaii: Part II uploads.

  • @Notviceroy
    @Notviceroy Рік тому +2

    I’m surprised nobody caught this before, but at the strumming at the very end of black rainbows is also present in the end of white ball!

  • @6destroyer9boi99
    @6destroyer9boi99 Рік тому +5

    During the glitched bit before “Nuns commence incanting” in The Mind Electric, the piano part from Murders (from just before “All, for nothing at all”) is present (slowed down and pitched down).
    Also in The Mind Electric, during the “See how the serfs work the ground” section, the chiptunes (8-bit) part from Labyrinth is in the background.
    The “Keep it coming back” part in Variations on a Cloud is almost identical to the beginning of Bye, Hi (from the end of Dream Sweet).
    This one’s a bit of a weaker connection, but the very beginning and very end of Variations (the piano and the beat) sound like the end of Dream Sweet (the repeating notes).

  • @marktoledo6595
    @marktoledo6595 3 роки тому +22

    Listen to Marianas Trench's No Place Like Home, it's also the amalgamation of all other songs in the album. Like an anthem of anthems. Bohemian Rhapsody material with ABA structure of music! Little Piece of Heaven by A7x is also like this. Jesus of Suburbia too.

  • @ShiftyShampoo
    @ShiftyShampoo 5 років тому +99

    Great video but you forgot mind electric/ laberynth

  • @beepothebest
    @beepothebest 3 роки тому +19

    YES i love this video so much ive ranted to my friends about all these leitmotifs so much they probably hate me LOL

  • @WJINTL
    @WJINTL 2 роки тому +2

    George Lucas:
    It's like poetry
    It rhymes

  • @uncreativename5
    @uncreativename5 Рік тому +2

    In general I personally noticed that a decent amount of lines or piano melodies have the either the same flow of variations on a clouds line “why don’t we keep it coming back” for example, the piano piece at the end of Introduction to the snow has the same melody. And a decent amount of mind electric lines have the same amount of syllables as one another

  • @Pacmanfan-po9rn
    @Pacmanfan-po9rn Рік тому +6

    Not a massive fan of this album but I like the reccuring melodies

  • @nandocordeiro5853
    @nandocordeiro5853 3 роки тому +29

    This is a great short analysis! What do the leitmotifs represent though!? I guess it’s up for interpretation.

  • @dbj760
    @dbj760 2 роки тому +2

    Another: I think the pianos sound the same in ITTS and Isle Unto Thyself

  • @Siteca_ed_
    @Siteca_ed_ 2 роки тому +70

    I also noticed that at minute 0:42 of Tally Hall’s ‘Ruler of everything’ The Rythm and the Rhymes really looks like the “And they give it all they’ve got” part in The Mind Electric.

    • @intergraphenic
      @intergraphenic Рік тому +5

      also VoaC straigt-up contains ruler of everything

    • @JoeMama-ne8wp
      @JoeMama-ne8wp Рік тому +1

      @@intergraphenicwhat’s voac?

    • @gamerhogplays
      @gamerhogplays Рік тому +1

      @@JoeMama-ne8wpvariations on a cloud

  • @TypekMD
    @TypekMD 4 дні тому

    i think theyve used like 3 voice actors(joe, the guy in Labirynth, and the woman) for the entire hecking album

  • @ce8249
    @ce8249 2 роки тому +3

    i’m pretty sure the ending of sweet dream in sea major is an extended version of the ending of white ball

  • @juanvasquezaldana8825
    @juanvasquezaldana8825 Рік тому +4

    hay uno que descubrí por haber escuchado tanto el album, pero no es un leitmotiv
    las notas de las vocales de variations on a cloud cuando cantan la parte de keep it coming back son las mismas que las del principio de la parte final de dream sweet in sea mayor (justo antes de que empieze a cantar la parte de bye, hi, sight hawaii)

  • @Seamusandflynn
    @Seamusandflynn 7 місяців тому

    also, at the end of isle unto thyself (the intro to black rainbows), it very faintly says "worker, i saw you begin i-" like when Variations on a Cloud says "Miracle Worker, i saw you begin it". am i the only one that noticed it?

  • @dreamysodagaming
    @dreamysodagaming 3 роки тому +3

    Awesome video!

  • @astertempleton1266
    @astertempleton1266 Рік тому +2

    Great video, one little thing. I wouldn’t call these leitmotifs? The story of the music is VERY vague. I know about the Simon thing, but there’s a reason that wasn’t included in the Final Cut. I think these are just little ideas that tie the music together, make it feel like one long song a little more than your average album might. Leitmotifs are little pieces of music that represent people or ideas, and that’s not really applicable here.

  • @25cats
    @25cats 2 роки тому +9

    now, what do you think came first? DSiSM or the rest of the album?

    • @Aloekunyep
      @Aloekunyep Рік тому +3

      Hard question, but I think the rest of the album came first, uh

    • @MinaWalker
      @MinaWalker Рік тому +1

      Definitely the album, I heard VOAC in T.H. I.S and Murders was originally supposed to be in Good & Evil. Also I really liked that Joe sampled ROE with VOAC ❤

    • @Ilovetallyhall-te5ez
      @Ilovetallyhall-te5ez 10 місяців тому

      bit late but time machine was supposed to be a tally hall song and they preformed it live once

  • @yukillyouu
    @yukillyouu 2 роки тому

    Thx!

  • @funnyandoriginalnamethatev8373
    @funnyandoriginalnamethatev8373 2 роки тому +18

    Interesting vid. However, Leitmotifs only apply to motivic moments associated with a character in opera or other story based music. So these would just be motifs

    • @RCFox
      @RCFox  2 роки тому +27

      Your friends must love you and you must be fun at parties :)

    • @funnyandoriginalnamethatev8373
      @funnyandoriginalnamethatev8373 2 роки тому +12

      @@RCFox Of course! Though, to tell the truth, these wouldn’t even be motifs if we’re being technical. Motifs are simple ideas only a few notes long that reappear multiple times throughout the piece. While the things you’ve picked out are entire phrases with cadences. Good job making musical connections a toddler could pick out though! 😉

    • @RCFox
      @RCFox  2 роки тому +24

      @@funnyandoriginalnamethatev8373 I'm glad to be part of the wholesome and nice community known as the tally hall fandom, with such friendly and welcoming members such as yourself.

    • @EternallyEve
      @EternallyEve Рік тому +1

      @@funnyandoriginalnamethatev8373 god you're such a cunt

    • @thecassin8r
      @thecassin8r Рік тому +2

      ​@@RCFox I was going to say there's no harm or shame in admitting you don't know something, but I proceeded to read OP's second comment and now I'm on your side 👍Shockingly, it IS possible to correct gaps in someone's knowledge without being a total ass about it!

  • @Toenail_VR
    @Toenail_VR Рік тому +1

    only bad part of the album is his french