As someone who loves to improvise, it's a lot about being very aware of chord progressions and having a lot of fun, listening and experimenting.

As we are in the enlightened part of KZbin, I would like to make a polite request: please could you - and by ‘you’ I’m afraid I’m referring exclusively to Americans - refrain from referring to Europe in its entirety as a satisfactory descriptor or an umbrella term when a specific European country would not only be more accurate but it would also be more illuminating and informative. (02:45) It would also be more respectful to do so! To say, “I studied in Europe” is frustratingly vague and implies that Germany is directly comparable to France which in turn is directly comparable to England which is indistinguishably comparable to Spain, which is also nothing but a synonym for Italy… etc, etc. I hate to be ‘that guy’ but when using ‘Europe’ as an umbrella descriptor (in this context, obviously, ‘Europe’ itself isn’t a meaningless word!) it comes across as massively North American-centric. (Ditto for referring to an English accent as a ‘British accent’, when there is in fact no such thing. Try telling a Scottish person that their accent is in any way identifiably British in the same way an English accent is identifiably British and you’ll be given a free demonstration for how dissimilar a Glasgow kiss is to a French kiss).

this is a great series, hope to see more videos!

I’m going to have to retitle some of my “Scherzo”s as “Scherzando,” since they don’t really follow this sort of form.

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I’m getting [back] to Composition, after decades of work work work. These videos about the dance forms of the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic Era are proving very helpful. That, to know how to write such a composition, or the reverse: When I devise and write a composition, which such form it most resembles (“should I call this a Gigue, or a Loure? Well, the tempo is Adagio, so Loure may or may not be appropriate, but it is at least _more_ appropriate”).

church organists often have decent impro skills, and they are classical musicians.

Thanks for the video, it was very helpfull, but, what are the sources of the video?

I think it all boils down to two reasons: 1. Jealousy. Classical Music has been around for centuries after being born from Baroque Music and surpassing it in popularity. Classical Music was THE hottest genre for some centuries until the 20th century rolled around and Jazz took it over. Jazz just had that sound that most Classical musicians never had. Jazz musicians weren't afraid to mix things up and bend the rules. Jazz is basically Blues meets Classical with a twist of Ragtime music. Jazz musicians started to think more like Mozart or Beethoven, while the Classical musicians tried to sound like Mozart or Beethoven. Trying to put a talented pure Classical musician using what they know only in any other genre is like putting a skilled pure Tae Kwon Do master in the UFC by just using Tae Kwon Do techniques and forms only. It won't work. 2. Snobby and egotistical. Don't get me wrong, Classical Music sounds great, but it just sounds like it's so old... Like centuries old. These modern Classical musicians try so hard to sound like the great Classical musicians but they end up sounding so boring. They feel that complexity, skills and talent is all you need to make people get into your music, which is wrong. Like I've said in point 1. They've been replaced by other music genres like Jazz, and they still refuse to try different styles or embrace improvisation. It's crazy how Classical Music inspired so many genres, but it refuses to even acknowledge other genres. There's a lot of Classical musicians that legit think other genres are a joke or not worth their time. Some even come off as purists and elitists without even trying or knowing.

thank you.. what model of pilotf fixon are you using. thanks.

Devouring this interview. Thank you thank you. Can’t wait to follow up with copious listening and reading.

Goog video, but I would have like some examples of unrelated secondary dominants. I heard these in baroque music too. Now it makes sense to me but it's confusing since most teaching examples secondary dominants are preparations to be "tonicized" or are related secondary dominants, which gives the impression from other sources that these are these only secondary dominants and that unrelated secondary dominants are just borrowed chords or modal interchange (but not saying that about your video since you did mention unrelated secondary dominants)

My assessment of the 7th grows from my understanding from research that the majority, including the 1st mvt, was written prior to the events that unfolded in Leningrad. DS found it just as warranted to ascribe the inspiration to anti-Nazi as anti-Stalinist purposes and perhaps more expedient. Irrespective of that, I find the two most powerful musical statements of the 20th century to be his 4th and 8th symphonies, standing above anything by Gustav or Sergei IMO. The struggled DS overcame is only portrayed and illuminated by the arc of the 4th through the 10th synphonies.

I think of improvisation in a similar way to ear training and sight singing; even if you don’t directly use those skills in your musical life, learning them helps you connect to and understand the music you play, rather than strictly being a machine that turns sheet music into sound

The explanation runs too quickly ... really quickly. Also why not play the notes and chords to make your point 👀❓ I went in because I was interested, but really disappointed with the "soundtrack" albeit beautiful. Doesn't demonstrate the lecture. Thank you for taking my comment seriously. Mm

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5:57 These parallel fifths in Corelli still follow the minor key rule of the octave and it's just considered unavoidable in this case, and this makes perfect sense why Corelli did this. They are also not in the outer voices.

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Good video, but I will say there are also examples of combinations of jazz and classical that are more jazz with classical influence, rather than classical with jazz influence (rhythms, harmonies, etc.), which are what you mostly focus on. For example, the album Romantic Warrior by Return to Forever has major classical influences, played though an electric fusion lens, or a lot of ellingtons big band writing had classical influences. I also disagree that jazz has been stagnating. While in many music institutions it has, there is a lot of boundary pushing modern jazz, like Yussef Dayes or Jojo Mayer, combining elements of things like electronic music or hip hop into jazz

I have always thought Classical and jazz have been combined in songs like George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”.

As we are talking about a dance, I think it would have been important to mention the menuet step (pas de menuet). The steps follow this rythm, beginning by the right foot: blanche, noire, noire, blanche. The baroque minuet mesures should then be taken as pairs, as the complete one minuet step. The emphasis is put one the first measure since it's starts the step. If you, the reader of this comment, is interested in the link between music form and danse, I urge you to look at renaissance Bransles. Things really are intertwined here has a cadence with a passing 7th often indicate a type of step (pieds en l'air)

I heard the Mannheim sigh and an early version of the introductory Mannheim rockets in Henrico Albicastro's trio sonata Op. 3. No. 2., first movement. (1696). The Mannheim Sigh is just like the Stamitz example in the video at 7:29. I also heard the Manheim sigh in the slow movements from Albicastro Op. 7. (1704).

Believe or not,, Jazz has evolved since the 1930s. Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor etc.

Where do you get the idea of Jazz Muscians being "ignorant" of Classical ? Have you never seen Andre Previn and Oscar Peterson?

For all those who said that Jerome Kern wrote yesterday‘s, yes that’s correct. But the author of this video never said that Art Tatum wrote yesterdays. As a matter fact, he didn’t write anything as far as I know. What he did compose was his piano arrangement of it, and I think that was clear from the presentation of the author of this video. Great job by the way, I have my own issues that apply to this topic. But I’ll save those for another time thanks.

BTW i reject the idea that Shostakovich was an anti communist who wrote coded messages in his works I don't reject the idea as being intrinsically impossible but I do reject it because the source of the idea is a book by one Solomon Volkov written after S's death, and there is good reason to hold that it is fraud the issue here is not a referendum on Soviet Communism: those who hated it said this book was real, those who believed in communism denounced it as froud but the issue is truth, not factional loyalty and it is shoddy scholarship to deny this and Volkov has no credibility it appears that you have been influenced by his ideas here

yes. music has the power to whip up emotion. that is why Plato wanted it banned from his ideal Republic I am a history buff as well as a retired symphony orchestral musician with a degree in composition. Russian history is one of my special interests, so to me this video is almost all about the expressed subject S said it was this symphony was written to stir up HATRED. this was the expressed goal of soviet war propaganda at the time , of which this work is a prime example, and i have seen war poetry that explicitly said so in plain words,. some was so explicit that if any posted it here they would be banned for hate speech and the campaign of stirring hate succeeded so much that 2,000,000 German women were r4aped by the invading soviet troops; and the soviet govt tried in vain to pull it back. but the blood lust, the battle fury and the craving for vengeance was too deep did you know these things? so yes music has the power to stir up emotions but to what effect??

Interesting!

I have tried over and over again to learn jazz theory as someone who was taught music theory from a classical perspective. I have read all of the recommended books, taken several courses, and I am still nowhere near understanding. Jazz theory is taught using "chord/scale theory", which goes against everything I was taught about how modes work. So, I am still unable to learn this genre, despite wanting to. It feels as though jazz theory resources aimed at those who learnt classical theory first are few and far between.

Why should classical music embrace jazz? Classical music makes a lot of money for itself, why should it.

All music should live and flow, not simply be reproduced. The rot may have first set in in the latter half of the nineteenth century with academic institutions, reinforced in the twentieth by recording technology which promised 'definitive' versions of pieces.

Black Swan and Acheron brought me here.

I didn't fully understand. If Indian rhythms are very complex should it be considered classical. Maybe it's called Indian classical. There is also Turkish classical. So maybe it's jazz classical. And then there is western classical.

This video misunderstands both the Jazz tradition and the avant-garde: 1. Schoenberg saw his music as inside the German tradition that had historically differentiated "art music" from popular and folkloric music traditions. There was a bourgeois tradition of art making and consuption. This tradition was in crisis at the end of the 19th century. 2. The criticism of the "Frankfurt School" is larger than culture. The video misses the point when does not point out the actual Adornian criticism of capitalism, and its forms of creating a "Cultural Industry" and using it to generate conformity and alienation in the capitalist world. Adorno's point isn't just about jazz (the most popular dance music of its time) it's about how capitalism tends to comodify art and use it to alienate the working class. 3. Jazz has a rich history of emacipating itself from being a product of mass consumption to an elevated art form. Bebop was a reaction to swing music for this very reason! The contradiction of black americans living at that time (and still are) creates and rejuvenates the art form. 4. Much of what happened with "serial composers" and the avant-garde in general in academia and the concert halls has to do with the cold war and the soviet position that art should be created having socialist realism as the main aesthetical guiding principle. The west then embrace the Avant-garde as a form of ideological opposition to the socialist block. Despite the general public not engaging with Avant-garde art at all. 5. Classical music has a long tradition of incorporating folkloric and popular elements to its own culture. Of course it'd happen with Jazz. Although I think it did not happen in academia more because of racism than anything else. I think this is an excellent issue for discussion, but I feel the author misses the mark, in not engaging with the actual arguments of Adorno, as the author did not need to cite Adorno at all to make this point!

When I start a fresh stave, after the clef sign and key signature, I leave some extra room before starting to write the next measure of music. I don't want the key signature to be confused as an accidental flat or sharp. If I am writing for a solo instrument, I try to end the musical phrase at the end of the stave, but that is not always possible, and can be irksome, at times! I write in pencil, proofread it, and then go over it in fine tip marker. I LOVE your suggestion of the erasable pen. I am going to buy some this week. THANK YOU! Also, some validation for you: Graphic artists also try to do most of their design work on paper with a pen with value, or sometimes adding color, before attempting to do the design in software. It is important to keep the flow of thought in that moment, and it is easier to do with a pen and paper, and more enjoyable in my experience. Thanks for posting this video. Not many people talk about how to write music by hand.

Atonal music gives me a headache.

The audience is who you make the art for, but remember the first and most important member of the audience is yourself. However, the critic is never your audience. Those little fuckers can be ignored so long as others enjoy what you are doing.

The flaw of this video is not acknowledging jazz as it is, as a successor of classical. In the creole concert halls of New Orleans classical music was as much a part of the American cannon as the blues or church music, and as creole classical musicians were forced into the brothels and bands of New Orleans to see and hear the rest of American folk music, the genres did mix, and jazz was made as a nephew of the classical tradition.

I’ve always loved both genres, but also a huge fan of many Latin styles-especially Brazilian music. Brazilian music demonstrates many layers and influences from Europe, indigenous, African, and American jazz music. If you explore MPB music, you can hear a blend of other genres as well.

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As a Shostakovitch fan I would say that to understand him, one should remember that just criticism of one's own society doesn't make one automatically reject either one's homeland or its principles. Shostakovitch was a good Soviet citizen, through and through. But as the USSR's leading composer, he attracted far too much attention from Party bureaucrats. Artists in the West are subjected to social pressures of different kind, and if anyone doubts that they might also note that despite its incredible wealth, the West's artistic development appears to have stalled generations ago.

Use both your imagination and piano together

Very valuable opera not only musically but its historical importance is incredible. It not only develop musical ideas of the time but its charge with the culture of the era. It should be ressurected and regularly performed.

Just came across this video. All I can say is "WOW" !!!! Have loved classical music since my teenage years (I'm 76 now) and Shostakovich is right up there as one of my favorites. His music could be tender one moment and then biting satire the next. Too bad the first movement of the 7th by Bernstein and The New York Philharmonic has that cut in it. Never knew about it until I heard other performances that played that missing section. Much thanks for this video.

Poor Marin unnecessarily laboring by conducting EVERY beat.

Great explanation! Thanks!!

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One composer known for having personal motifs spread throughout unrelated movies is James Horner

Actually this german Theme resembles more the hitlerian Song "Heili heilo heila"