THANK YOU!!

Damn how have I never heard of Cecil Taylor all my life til now?

It's all really simple. 3x5, or 5x3 =15. Then you build a 15 unit grid, coz the sum is 15. Now you have 3 groups of five units, or 5 groups with 3 units in them. Draw both examples and mark where your accents are going to be. In the first example you simply slur 3 units at a time underneath your 5 groupings (they will have counts 1,2,3 above, and accents marked 1,4,2,5,3 at the bottom respectively). Why 1,4,2,5,3? Because that's where your quintuplet notes are going to land on in your 5 unit groupings drawn previously. Finally, you get to practice it by reciting your 15 unit rhythm while tapping (1,2,3) with your RH, and accented notes with your LH. Alternatively, you can reverse the process and draw 5:3 grid. You'll end up tapping (1,2,3,4,5: five groups of three) with you RH, and 1,3,2 with you LH. I hope that helps. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300066555/performing-twentieth-century-music/ Buy that book and study it! Everything about the performance of contemporary classical music is explained here in detail.

Dude looks kinda like a young version of Keith Jarret

Thanks for this - saw you again on the Monk video with Neely while I'm prepping a course on Jazz Method for Music Ed folks. But I couldn't love SS any more - and Carrie and Lowell has been my go to for four years now, following the loss of my dad. Thanks for this - love your work. You have a new fan!

Sorry but it's gonna be hard to convince me Braxton wasn't embraced because of his skin color or racism. It's the music (which I enjoy)

been a couple years but I just rewatched this and I have to say with no musical theory background but a love of Philip Glass, I really appreciate your mastery of the subject to the point that you can make an accessible presentation of music theory using lego blocks and put things in terms that an intelligent layperson can understand and appreciate. To me that is the sign of true mastery of a domain. thanks again, this is really a great piece all the way around.

Fun analysis. Why the goofy rhythm machine in the background? You dont need this gimick.

I wonder if she’s copying his style?

What bass guitar did Pino use on Tears for Fears' "Woman in Chains"? Is he in the videos or only recordings? Thank you for your consideration.

Immortal!!! ♥️❤️🌍🌎🌏

Such a fun video (as a rabid PG fan), that I've watched probably 5 or 6 times now. At 12:47 (m. 22-23), isn't the melody actually F G F? (not F G A) I feel like that dramatically changes the feeling, giving a sense of resolution, rather than ascending/building. I don't think that would change your overall structural analysis, but that struck me as something that didn't quite jibe with how I feel the piece. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Interesting video. To me the minor 4 chord is the saddest chord in music.

Fantastic interview

silly video but i’m glad someone’s covering braxton’s work on youtube with only a little misinformation ;)

Get Cecil Taylor in your title :)

If anybody knows a more melancholy chord than Fmaj7 please share

Rosemary was so great!! WAs Jimmy Hamilton also in that session?

I remember back when youtube was new and I used to listen to mad rush. Then sony pictures got all possessive when they brought him in for that movie Hours. A lot of glass videos got taken down. Of course all the music came back but some of the more unique recordings never found their way back.

(15:06) you just discredited yourself. Intelligence is not accepting a history of monkey-people that morph into homo sapiens, it is foremost critical thinking which means you don't submit to identity politics at your age and cognition level. Braxton has been given carte blanche his ENTIRE career because he deserves it, so you complaining about race is internecine. Braxton is too smart for race to play any role in discourse concerning him.

I played 'Mad Rush' at a college recital about 15 years ago. It lasted over fourteen minutes. It was a workout making it expressive the whole time. This is a pretty good analysis. It's definitely not meant to be played exactly as written.

In the thermodynamic theory of information, surprise = entropy, and entropy is antithetical to life. The fundamental role of cognition is negentropic, that is to say, to reduce surprise. Complex musical intervals, sudden changes in timbre or pitch, etc gnaw at the evolutionary foundations of the brain. I would be careful about making statements like 'tones don't want to do anything' - despite the overly teleological phrasing, our biological embodiment is at the root of our musical perceptions and music theory is simply a journey towards discovering this.

Similar to the last 3 bars in the Qui tollis in Haydn's mass in the time of war.

Nice idea with the legos

deeply into astrology, which is based on squares and triangles.

just discovered you and bingeing your vids. thank you for sharing ur thoughts and cute viiiiibes

Mad Rush was my gateway drug to Glass. His writing embeds so much Eastern philosophy, elements like change and metamorphosis, and meditation and stillness.

I came back to this video after 2 years, post-concert of Koyaanisquatsi at Mass MOcA! I played it for my friend in our hotel room to help explain his brilliance after her virgin eyes and ears were racked by witnessing his brilliance live. Great video, thank you!

I think that the BEST use for programs abd synths vs natural instruments is to fu things that cant be oerfirned live or with actyal ohysycal instruments whether too fast to precise to intricate etc

I THINK 12 TONE DID THE X/π

love that last quote.

Schubert too...

Mad Rush, along with In C by Terry Riley are what sold me on minimalistic "classical" music. How so much is done with so little just adds a sense of elegance and grace to beautiful, emotionally evocative music. In C is unlike any other piece I've heard and explores a world of sounds that seem so unique and interesting. Knowing the wonderfully simple, yet so creatively original way it is composed and performed elevates it to something legendary for me. Before I found pieces I enjoyed I would have assumed minimalist pieces/composition would just be boring, likely pretentious. I'd highly recommend people who make that same assumption take the time to explore the music.

actually i was thinking the original Nightmare on Elm street possibly my fav Horror score <3 such an interesting video/topic ! thank you

Can you please help me understand what what bozan Gorisek does here at 5:17-18? Is the dissonance in the score in the score or added by the performer? I don’t hear it in other performances of Mad Rush. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kH2rZ2ylbsxpiJIsi=yCiLbGug8duWiNL2

Here we go again with the fuckin' spiritual, what do you mean with spiritual ? It means nothing it's just an expression of ignorance. Unfortunately Coltrane chose these words to describe his own ignorance but did you know who Coltrane worshiped amongst other grifters ? The king of devils and pedophiles called Sai Baba.

I grew up listening to all of these free Jazz musicians while in the process of becoming a Jazz musician and the thing that bothers me deeply is the fact that most of these artists did believe in gods and souls and "spirituallity" ignoring that these were part of the tools used to justify slavery and racism. Still today, there are numerous musicians (some of whom I used to consider intelligent, based on the music) that express this kind of idiocy. People feel things, there's no god, there's energy and you only have a "soul" to feel energy while you're alive, after that there's nothingness but you won't fell that because without a brain we have no consciousness of it.

Is there a Celtic Carnyx used at all in the soundtrack? I had never heard of one until a recent TikTok, but it immediately made me think of Hereditary. Thanks!

Is there a Celtic Carnyx used at all in the soundtrack? I had never heard of one until a recent TikTok, but it immediately made me think of Hereditary. Thanks!

Is there a Celtic Carnyx used at all in the soundtrack? I had never heard of one until a recent TikTok, but it immediately made me think of Hereditary. Thanks!

Academic Overture by J. Brahms. The entire work.

Thank you for this video. I play the viola, but unfortunately, I never took a proper theory class. I also love horror, and I found this very educational and helpful both for my understanding of music and how it's used to trigger certain emotions. I will have to rewatch Hereditary as the music blended so well with what was happening on screen that I hardly noticed it.

Hey Brian, Well explainded but not enough, could you please make a tutorial about it?

My favorite description of the track "Reborn" is, "the victory fanfare of something which should not have won".

Listen to the final part of his opera: Satyagraha. The melody is so beautiful……..

One more, Angeles - rather than just a record exec, this seems to also imply heroin

Enjoyed this and i am now subscribing. One issue, please dont use the TRIANGLE for Major triad, it often represents a Major 7th chord. It took me a couple of beats to realize what you meant

It’s an old country and blues chord used by everyone. Beatles used it all the time, which is how it found it’s way into Elliot’s vocabulary. It’s hardly his chord though

Absolutely love this video.. been deciding about getting a new soprano and this helping my internal struggle

amazing video man