New! A cleaned up PDF version of the piano reduction is now available for sale at the link below. www.sheetmusicdirect.com/en-US/se/ID_No/1436604/Product.aspx
The version on the first side of Henry Cow Concerts I think is the definitive one (minus the multitracked atonal pianos). Tim Hodgkinson's organ line over the vamp is gorgeous and completely cogent atonality, with Fred shifting to a compressed guitar lead in counterpoint. John's fuzz bass on the vamp for the C section finale is blistering.
That damn groove in 7/4 with the second bar a 8th note shorter. I had such trouble figuring that rhythm out back in the day. Its such a damn great groove though, god damn. Especially in the live version, where they really ham it in and Cutler goes crazy on the drums.
Henry Cow are usually categized as a subgenre of progressive music, often known as Avant-prog. Hell, they may be the band that founded the subgenre. Other bands in the same subgenre, are: Univers Zero Thinking Plague Art Zoyd Aksak Maboul Miriodor Samla Mammas Manna Yugen And otheres...
Living In the Heart of the Beast is one of the greatest masterpieces of RIO / avant prog. Total earworm, every section singable and memorable. Great lyrics, too.
Holy f#$@ Batman, that's impressive. Like how you squeezed Magma in there. Frith is up there with Fripp for me. Your explanation is almost akin the the BBC shipping forecast. Neat.
Song of Solomon - Chapter 6 6:4 Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners. 6:5 Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead. 6:6 Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them. 6:7 As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks. 6:8 There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number. 6:9 My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her. 6:10 Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
Hi. Thank you so much for your video on what is one of Henry Cow's finest achievements on record. In all truth, I would have dearly loved to hear you attempting the free form overdubbed piano music played by Fred Frith just before the song's finale. I understand that would have been very difficult but it would have been great to my ears to have heard some very rough attempts at it. I note that Henry Cow themselves never performed this free form piece live, but instead inserted three or four other songs to make a suite of different musics as a cohesive entity. That was good but even Fred Frith would play different free form guitar solos to his composition "Ruins" whenever that piece was played, which was a great many times. Thanks once again and I would love to see your response to this, if you have the time and inclination. Sincerely, Peter.
Thanks for your message Peter! Haha, yes, It would have opened another can of worms to get into that section as it does contain it's own thematic material, almost like a tone row? There were so many aspects of this piece/album that I wanted to touch on, including the lyrics, I had to eventually dwindle it down as to not make this video excessively long. Thanks again, I'm glad you enjoyed.
You are so cool to transcribe this song. Tell me whats the lyric tells us? l love HC mostly the vocal pieces.Thanks to play this song,and I just know piano play by Fred Frith(?). the tones mysteriously beautiful.
nailed it addy's homeplate. this music means so much to me, and it's great to see how practical its theory is in execution, it all Makes Sense and goes deeper and deeper. a less theory-minded individual would have a difficult time pulling this kind of writing off. myself very much included.
Hi, this piece is really a master piece. Thanks a lot for your transcription. Will it be possible to find or to buy the complete transcription in PDF ? Tks in advance Krgds YL
I stared putting links pdf scans of materials used in my videos in the description , so you can find the handwritten one there. Someday I want to make a nicer one but I hope that's helpful for now!
Great analysis! But I'm little suspicious of some parts. I think that 2nd bar is 3/8 and I think Bb7#9/D's bass is C#.anyway really great analysis I've ever seen
Absolutely! I did my best to notate what I heard on the original mix and there's no way I got it all 100%. I'll have to check it out. Such dense music! I'm just glad we've got the conversation going, there's so little out there on this band's harmonic innovations.
New! A cleaned up PDF version of the piano reduction is now available for sale at the link below.
www.sheetmusicdirect.com/en-US/se/ID_No/1436604/Product.aspx
this is awesome! i would love to see a video like this breaking down a magma piece!
Thank you for this amazing study!
You're welcome! Glad you dig
Do more Henry Cow please. This was wonderful
This is so cool! Would love to see more HC analysis.
The version on the first side of Henry Cow Concerts I think is the definitive one (minus the multitracked atonal pianos). Tim Hodgkinson's organ line over the vamp is gorgeous and completely cogent atonality, with Fred shifting to a compressed guitar lead in counterpoint. John's fuzz bass on the vamp for the C section finale is blistering.
Great to hear someone tackling HC. Bravo!
Subscribed.
That damn groove in 7/4 with the second bar a 8th note shorter. I had such trouble figuring that rhythm out back in the day. Its such a damn great groove though, god damn. Especially in the live version, where they really ham it in and Cutler goes crazy on the drums.
That’s a colorful and challenging piece of music. You presented it very well! Good job!
Thank you!
Came here from Reddit. Three decades ago, I was encouraged to listen to Henry Cow, but I never got around to it. Thanks for being my guide!
Henry Cow are usually categized as a subgenre of progressive music, often known as Avant-prog. Hell, they may be the band that founded the subgenre.
Other bands in the same subgenre, are:
Univers Zero
Thinking Plague
Art Zoyd
Aksak Maboul
Miriodor
Samla Mammas Manna
Yugen
And otheres...
Some says rock in opposition
Nice reduction. Love this piece and the flipside long-form composition by Tim Hodgkinson.
Living In the Heart of the Beast is one of the greatest masterpieces of RIO / avant prog. Total earworm, every section singable and memorable. Great lyrics, too.
Holy f#$@ Batman, that's impressive. Like how you squeezed Magma in there. Frith is up there with Fripp for me. Your explanation is almost akin the the BBC shipping forecast. Neat.
Your effort here is much appreciated 🙏
Oh, and by the way, I did enjoy singing the actual lyrics to your playing the music! Thank you! P.
Thanks for this, which really brings out the dark beauty of the piece.
So dope! I've never heard this song before but I'm super into it
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Song of Solomon - Chapter 6
6:4 Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem,
terrible as an army with banners.
6:5 Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair
is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.
6:6 Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing,
whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among
them.
6:7 As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
6:8 There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins
without number.
6:9 My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her
mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw
her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they
praised her.
6:10 Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon,
clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
I always love an explanation, even if it is way out of my learning. Henry Cow is a band I've been pressing people to listen to for decades.
Great work 👏 Thanks for posting this. Always been a favourite piece.
Thank you very much for your transcription and harmonic analysis of this compelling piece of music.
You're welcome!
Hi. Thank you so much for your video on what is one of Henry Cow's finest achievements on record. In all truth, I would have dearly loved to hear you attempting the free form overdubbed piano music played by Fred Frith just before the song's finale. I understand that would have been very difficult but it would have been great to my ears to have heard some very rough attempts at it.
I note that Henry Cow themselves never performed this free form piece live, but instead inserted three or four other songs to make a suite of different musics as a cohesive entity. That was good but even Fred Frith would play different free form guitar solos to his composition "Ruins" whenever that piece was played, which was a great many times.
Thanks once again and I would love to see your response to this, if you have the time and inclination.
Sincerely, Peter.
Thanks for your message Peter! Haha, yes, It would have opened another can of worms to get into that section as it does contain it's own thematic material, almost like a tone row? There were so many aspects of this piece/album that I wanted to touch on, including the lyrics, I had to eventually dwindle it down as to not make this video excessively long. Thanks again, I'm glad you enjoyed.
You are so cool to transcribe this song. Tell me whats the lyric tells us? l love HC mostly the vocal pieces.Thanks to play this song,and I just know piano play by Fred Frith(?).
the tones mysteriously beautiful.
Lovet it!
i have always loved this track, the piano zomg
nailed it addy's homeplate. this music means so much to me, and it's great to see how practical its theory is in execution, it all Makes Sense and goes deeper and deeper. a less theory-minded individual would have a difficult time pulling this kind of writing off. myself very much included.
Thanks friend!
really enjoyed this, thank you.
Now do Living in the Heart of the Beast!!!
YIKES!
@@addyd.3140You can do it!
Amazing work, mate. Congratulations.
Thank you for transcribing this piece I love Henry Cow. Have you heard Arrigo Barnabe’s album Tubaroes Voadores?
Thanks! No I have not, but will check out.
Nice work. Love this piece
Excellent work!!!
Thank you for watching!
Hi, this piece is really a master piece. Thanks a lot for your transcription. Will it be possible to find or to
buy the complete transcription in PDF ? Tks in advance Krgds YL
Thanks so much! I agree. Well, It doesn't exist yet, but it's good to know you'd be interested, I hope to make time to create it at some point!
I stared putting links pdf scans of materials used in my videos in the description , so you can find the handwritten one there. Someday I want to make a nicer one but I hope that's helpful for now!
You forgot reason number 4. #4, BECAUSE I'M BRILLIANT!
haha
Hey! Great work transcribing!!! Now can you get your partner to sing like Dagmar Kraus?
IMHO
(Don't try it, she might get injured! )
Great analysis! But I'm little suspicious of some parts. I think that 2nd bar is 3/8 and I think Bb7#9/D's bass is C#.anyway really great analysis I've ever seen
Absolutely! I did my best to notate what I heard on the original mix and there's no way I got it all 100%. I'll have to check it out. Such dense music! I'm just glad we've got the conversation going, there's so little out there on this band's harmonic innovations.
@@addyd.3140 thank you for checking my comments! I'm really grateful to see the analysis of this hard,phenomenal piece!