Are melodies unique? | Answering Your Questions | Part 4

[@timanderson9115]

Finally, an intelligent composer who is not confined by others rules. Alma write what you want and I will love it.

[@KennyBentley7]

Yes, and she's so young, too. Young and brilliant.

[@louisegogel7973]

🎼✨💖🎶✨🎵🌟

[@mjnyc8655]

It seems that Ms. Deutscher has added lecturing to her repertoire of abilities. Bravo! This lecture is reminiscent of Leonard Bernstein's televised musical lectures in the fifties and sixties.

[@louisegogel7973]

And such a fun, interesting, and entertaining way of lecturing! Anyone would be inspired to learn history, music, and social interactions just from this most extensive educational answer session!

[@cardinalflower6959]

Yes! I was just thinking the same thing (being old enough to remember the televised Young People's Concerts)!

[@yahyamhirsi]

@@cardinalflower6959 I’m defintely not as old. But I watched every recording of these lectures.

[@Karen-ul9hd]

Oh dear! Not original, then? :)

[@jerryglazman260]

That was my thought exactly. If she ever (heaven forbid!) decides to give up composing, she should teach.

[@ryanwillings6392]

Love her. I’m just an amateur musician but everything she says is so enlightening. Love hearing her play too

[@mvmarchiori]

Music(and other arts) should not be made to impress academics. It's main goal is to communicate with the soul, with the heart. Loved the presentation :)

[@dfvid]

This is fun! The random appearance of a pixelated Schubert at 4:25 made my day. Thanks.

[@alexhusko]

Such an old, timeless and wise soul channeled through a modern era. I’m beyond impressed with you Alma

[@XERTZ1925]

Great advise! No need to invent the wheel, just innovate its composition!

[@dalennia6803]

Gut recherchiert und brilliant vorgetragen! Es macht immer Freude, Dir zuzuhören, liebe Alma.

[@louisegogel7973]

Das ist ja Wahr, immer eine Freude Alma zuzuhören!!

[@DanCalloway]

Alma, your intelligent and quite impressive answers to very deep and worthy questions is astonishing. You keep lifting the bar on what it means to be a very successful and talented composer. Keep up the great work!!!

[@brendamullins1641]

Oh my goodness, how much I enjoyed listening to your composition lesson. You are better than all those Uni professors who stressed the students out composing their ,,unique,, work.

[@ragingsithmaster]

Thank God inspiration is still allowed. 😊 Also that composers have always been allowed to build from one another's works.

[@Nonconform14]

Alma ,you are better than many professors at any universities,really!

[@leoestrada1213]

Anything I've heard from you since you were a child, has held my heart with joy, whether you were interviewed or talked about your music and needles to say that in you, lives a lighted spirit that shines brightly in this world..... And your music is a promise of hope to all.. Well done!!

[@louisegogel7973]

✨💖💛🌟

[@JohnMcIlroyTax]

Same!

[@smoothsilk47]

Same too, I totally love Alma!

[@elisabethm9655]

Oh my goodness! What a revealing expose on the place of inspiration in composition and creativity. As I was told when someone blatantly copied a work I had created ‘imitation is the sincerest form of flattery’… in other words, there is no harm borrowing and improving a beautiful piece…indeed, all ‘originals’ are the products of divine inspiration and the source of that is, well, a bit beyond us all - it is truly Divine. Thank you!❤️

[@georgeridewood9503]

Thank you Alma for explaining so well how music through the ages can borrow ideas and thus appear so similar, or even the same! Have been a subscriber to your KZbin channel for a few years now and really enjoy whatever you produce. In addition to composing, conducting and playing, I can see teaching and possibly even, a role as an expert witness in music plagiarism trials being on the cards.

[@lrichardson1090]

Hi Alma, I have been following your career in music for a few years now. I’m not a musician. I don’t know much about music. Yet, listening to you play the piano or the violin is stunningly beautiful! Listening to you speak to a common question about whether we should be concerned if we make melodies inspired by musicians past was amazing! Your a fantastic teacher! I don’t even really listen to a lot of music but I listen to yours! So, THANK YOU for sharing your gifts and inspirations with us!

[@2Hearts3]

Oh, my gosh-- i am completely blown away by this wonderful young composer/conductor/pianist/violinist/teacher/philosopher. She is amazingly gifted and a gift to us to hear. 🏆🎶👏

[@mitsos8919]

Thanks Alma! You free our spirit!

[@deve6641]

Thank you for a wonderful video. And I don't think I'm the only one desiring to hear you speak in other languages for the pure joy of hearing such a wonderful accent in multiple languages!

[@alberteinstein9176]

You're very enjoyable to listen to. You're very clear and you articulate with great details. Thomas Dutkiewicz USA

[@stuartgerger7828]

Keep up the great work Alma! Thank you for your helpful examples and the excellent presentation of what you wished us to learn.

[@MaximilianMKGill]

It’s very impressive how intelligent and controlled she is.

[@pjmoseley243]

I wish you all the success you wish for yourself. with love and best wishes from England, I have followed you from the early days. from an old veteran of the British Army. peace.

[@lepaintre123]

Very beautiful analysis Alma. Happy to see you again

[@richardwaugaman1505]

You are an inspiration! It won't be long before your approach triumphs over corrupt musical modernism. You mention the comparison with novels. Great literature has always been a conversation across the centuries with prior writers. Modern theoreticians of creative arts have gone off the rails in destructive ways. Academics, unfortunately, sometimes act as though they have the last words, when they ought to acknowledge the superiority of creative people such as you.

[@christopherosborne2453]

I've said it before. you are a great teacher. thank you Alma that was brilliant.

[@erikpeterson25]

Alma you are an original gem....you made my day with this surprise musical education even to the point of tears Thank you so much for your ORIGINALITY 🙂💕

[@andreashennemann597]

Ja!!!! Alma ist immer wieder unglaublich, kaum fassbar. Extrem eloquent, geistreich, unterhaltsam, humorvoll, liebreizend, intelligent, aristokratisch... und was mir bis dato nicht klar war: Eine versierte Musikwissenschaftlerin! Was kann diese junge, überaus talentierte Dame eigentlich nicht?!? OMG.

[@lepaintre123]

​@@andreashennemann597 Very beautiful analysis Alma. Happy to see you again

[@kabernat]

Thank you Alma for giving us these great examples of how Mozart and Clementi and others would hear a piece but add their own little nuances and style to it. You are so right, everything is copied from before and we can kill our creativity looking for a melody that has never been heard before. Thank you for putting an end to this myth!

[@frozenhorse8695]

I am truly grateful and humbled, that great composers came before you, to show you the light. On tuesday the 1st of march, I came to Salzburg from Denmark, to witness your opera Cinderella. It was absoultely breathtaking, and i was moved to tears. No words can describe what i felt. Thank you Alma, you and your lovely family, are beyond amazing.

[@Nooticus]

Must have been incredible!! Congratulations!

[@kkuugglleesskkooeerr]

What a coincidence - I also came from Denmark to Salzburg to hear Cinderella on the same day!

[@caramäleon]

Dear Alma, I want you to teach my music class. You have such have such an entertaining way to answer the most difficult questions and I could listen to you talking about music for hours and hours. Thank you for doing what you are doing!

[@Sassmill]

I’m particularly fond of every single horror film score that uses the dies irae motif, as well as hearing it in musical theatre-the main melody of each Sweeney Todd chorus, and one brief little phrase in the song “Monster” from the Broadway version of Frozen come to mind. I even heard it worked into the score of a spy movie I watched the other night! So instantly recognizable and instantly sets the tone.

[@ptakjones]

Love this! I recently had an eye opening experience about this even for works as great as Beethoven's piano sonatas. I always thought they were so unique and new for the time but if you go through Haydn's piano sonatas (works that Beethoven no doubt studied) you see striking similarities in the construction and motifs. It is painfully clear that Beethoven, while a genius in his own right, had his own influences just like anyone else. If he had not been able to mimic his teacher then the world would have missed out on some of the best piano music ever written. Thank you for this video though! It's always great to have permission from someone so accomplished to release our creativity from unnecessary "dilutions", as you say.

[@sofieada]

I felt captivated, thank you Alma ! Love from France

[@raycornford283]

Fascinating and insightful, as always, Alma. Bravo!

[@vocalchords3609]

Simply wonderful in every way - thank goodness Alma has a lovely sharp wit to accompany her musicianship! Thank you for a really stunning take on our challenges as artists one and all!

[@carinapencet]

You describe it so good Alma and you are so right with it👍🏻😊 Very well researched.

[@LiloUkulele]

Just lovely...came for the theory, stayed for the history. Can't wait to spring Mozart's little secret on my teacher. Love your channel; wonderful entertaining and insightful lecture.

[@alanmunch5779]

Fascinating, Alma! You are clearly learning so much, and you have a wonderful way of communicating your thoughts and conclusions. I look forward to more videos like this one!

[@bhami]

Your presentation is both delightful and informative; thanks! Sadly, the question of legal copyright often rears its ugly head re: works written in the past 75 or 100 years or so (depending on which national laws apply). And so we see famous cases such as George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" ruled as derivative from "He's So Fine" (performed by the Chiffons).

[@cardinalflower6959]

Fascinating! Thank you, dear Alma, and best wishes in all your endeavors.

[@epiczeven6378]

very wise Alma, love your melodies work. Even your talking voice is super musical and dynamic, perfect for storytelling :)!

[@nolebuc1]

A fascinating exposition on composing. Thank you for sharing your genius and musical gifts that brighten the world.

[@SamGralla]

Lovely, thank you. Sometimes I wonder how much of the borrowing was unintentional. It happens to me all the time, because I have such a poor memory. Once I spent some months composing a piano trio (planning to have it performed at my wedding, in fact), before I noticed the middle section theme was pretty much identical to the Strauss song "Morgen". I had heard it only once or twice before, so as I composed, it felt like I was slowly inventing it, as I recalled bits and pieces from my subconscious memory. Well, now I have a piano trio I call "Morning celebration (after Strauss)" or something...

[@mariannepagliaccina]

Oh what an interesting video. I could listen for hours to your explanations and comparaisons. It gives us a new view to music. Thank you Alma

[@LeonidKorelstein]

Absolutely wonderful video, Alma! By the way, for scientific articles and thesis such computer systems do exist (maybe your parents even use them - I myself used them for my articles). You cannot imagine what an incredible number of partly borrowed texts or even completely stolen thesises they revealed (especially in Russia)

[@Parketak]

Great video, thanks for encouraging young composers! This examples you gave, are new discovery for me!! I'm looking forward for the next video! ♥️🎵🎶 Perfect job 👍🏻

[@tiffcat1100]

Loving your new piano pieces book for children, it’s right at my level (am 65!) and love the little comments, descriptions, instructions, fingerings and cute colours as well of course the beautiful music (also the photos and drawings) 🥰

[@ChadBarksdale1]

You know a truth is being shared when it crosses disciplines and continues to hold. I wish some of my teachers in all my education could have provided this quality of instruction and insight. Imagine where the world would be today if this level of expression and sharing was possessed by those who haunt our current learning institutions. They should all be required to watch these before they are ever allowed to influence another young mind. You are beautiful and inspiring.

[@Fuzzer227]

Thank you for being Alma and for sharing so much! All the best to you always!

[@JohnMcIlroyTax]

Super glad you are paying NO attention to these music professors! Even better that you can explain it in such an interesting an entertaining way. BTW... LOVED your recent concert in Toronto!

[@z.siblings9055]

Thank you for answering these questions so wisely! You’re definitely a big inspiration for me

[@carolsmith9478]

Thank you for adding beauty into this world by sharing your love of musical compositions.

[@vicson1222]

Siempre admiración y respeto por tu maravilloso talento. Siempre escucho tu música 🎼 y la coloco en el equipo de sonido. Es genial 😊.

[@luc5798]

It's very interesting, but when you are the one who explains it, it's really captivating!

[@itsme-le1bg]

It's delightful listening to you and your music. I'm enriching my understanding of music so much. You could be 6, 16, 60. You transcend time. You have taped into the unbounded laws of nature from where all music come from. You are music. The point you make so eloquently to me is that humanity always evolves from the traditions of the past and takes it as inspiration for the future. It's the geniuses that create something new from it. Too much of our current generation misses that. Carry on❤❤🙏🙏

[@paulmoakes6981]

Just love your account of Mozart’s view and analysis of Clementi for his sister… you perfectly portrayed his attitude and jealousy/envy. Excellent!

[@didigoldman]

das letzte beispiel ist sooo schön erklärt. danke alma.

[@autumnleaves2766]

Very enjoyable look at how composers are inspired by earlier works. Alma is an excellent speaker and her level of musical knowledge is incredible for one so young. Lecturing about music could be another string to Alma's bow if she ever needs a break from composing and performing. We're all eagerly awaiting Alma's future compositions, starting with the new opera that is being premiered next March.

[@NomeDeArte]

Love this Q&A, thank you Alma and everyone involved to take time and made it. Best wishes from Argentina!

[@erikbrodnax7050]

Again, Ms. Deutscher finds a way to bring hope to those of us who appreciate classical music. In her polish and panache we find a tonic to the incessant naysayers who suggest classical music has no postmodern place in the world. With her wit and charm and spectacular compendium of musical knowledge we are reminded that this music will outlive us all with her own compositions as standard bearer. So, what's next Ms. Deutscher? We're all waiting! Thank you for your generosity in sharing your gifts!

[@moviebod]

Clearly Alma, you exceed the computing powers of all computers. That was also very interesting about Mozart and the Magic Flute.

[@PowerKorrupts]

@1:24 "A really beautiful melody of 'mine' was shamelessly stolen by some composer who lived centuries ago" - A true testament to the fact that much like love, music can and does transcend time and space.

[@opucam]

Uma bela harmonia, com sua frequência, eleva nossas almas ao céu 🇧🇷

[@hugobodiam4065]

Well done Alma As a footnote; Mozart wrote impulsively, in a private letter to his sister , which certainly wasn't intended to be taken seriously. Mozart was very fond of his Italian friends. I'm sure Mozart would regret many of the things he wrote in his letters and would be appalled that they are so freely available for all to see.

[@tamara4piano]

Thank you for the interesting glimpse into music history and the question of originality!

[@matiass1150]

Loving the lecture video consept!!

[@milakohen630]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 you are amazing!!!! So educational and simple ❤

[@michaelcortis2713]

What a wonderful and talented young lady you really are! So intelligent and marvellous. I love your creativity and boldness. In three words You are amazing!!

[@danielezekiel97]

Thank you Alma, I have listened to alot of lectures in the past , even from Yale university, and yours are far better . BTW. Even John Williams Star Wars was inspired by Gustav Holst "Mars" the planets, but he did his own thing with it, and thank god he did.

[@kristianbjrnjensen5388]

Oh .. I am so relieved. I myself have put at least three small pieces together, which borrow close by from other tunes.

[@MusicaAngela]

I love your advice for students with professors who look down on them for composing music that may resemble styles of the past. I wish I had had the courage to tell my professors (back in the 1970’s) “Thank God Mozart, Schubert and Strauss didn’t have to study with you!”

[@birbamour6]

Another example, but with a pop musician: Eric Carmen seemed to admire Rachmaninov as he had based the first and second verses of "All By Myself" off Rach's 2nd piano concerto, 2nd movement, as well as the chorus of "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again" off of the beginning of Rach's 2nd symphony, 3rd movement. The trouble was, Eric Carmen got into copyright issues as Rachmaninov's works were not actually in the public domain yet, and Carmen had not credited Rachmaninov. Carmen had to pay the Rachmaninov Estate a fraction of what he had earned on the songs and albums AND had to credit Rachmaninov. To this day, if you go to Eric Carmen's official music videos or search up the lyrics to "All By Myself" and "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again", you will find the songwriters credited: Eric Carmen, Sergei Rachmaninov. There are many more examples of pop musicians using classical melodies as ideas for their songs, and it really shows how amazing classical melodies are! Thank you for this video, Alma; I like to compose and have taken composition courses and I now feel a bit better about some of my pieces sounding a bit like Mozart or Beethoven. Clearly I love those composers and am inspired by them!

[@johnbethell1952]

I would not want to miss one of your brilliant videos

[@Gartenglueck-Niederrhein]

Wie wunderbar erklärt. Da könnte sich mancher Dozent eine dicke Scheibe abschneiden. Bravo.

[@beaumuse7890]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge, wisdom, and experience! It is truly inspiring. I would love if you could discuss exercises for composition such as partimenti. All the best!

[@mka46479]

What a delight listening to this lecture. Even for someone who does not understand music much. 😊

[@Ian-ky5hf]

You are so intelligent and incredible. I admire your music very much.

[@YvonneViator]

Brilliantly put! Agree totally!

[@Stashi1808]

Wow this is the most real thing I've heard about music.😂 I have a question too if you don't mind my asking, how do you pick the stories for your opreas? I'm thinking of writing one, or adleast some incidental music, but your's always have this fairytale quality, is there a writer you particularly like to work from? Any suggestions? Thanks. 😊

[@jazzstandardman]

John Adams' work for orchestra Slonimsky's Earbox was clearly influenced by Stravinsky. Alma, what's your favorite Stravinsky piece?

[@najem-meyermona3480]

Super interessant wie immer, danke Alma ! And on a more superficial subject: I really like you dress, where does it come from?:)

[@tttyyycc4176]

Finally, you uploaded another video. I've been looking forward to seeing you again so bad!!! 😄

[@christianeyazdani1340]

Liebe Alma, wie wunderbar hell und elegant Du doch hin- und herspazierst, durch das weite Reich Deiner Muttersprache, der Musik...

[@motty2707]

Very interasting and sweet. Thank you alma. Motty. Tel aviv

[@antonio_vendramini]

We live in a quite difficult time. Those who are inclined to create are unfortunately criticized by: those who believe that nowadays no one can create something on the same level as in the past ("it's not as good as ..."), and those who believe that what is created today is too similar to what have been already produced (mainly in the style: "it's too much like..."). I think it is also the reason why many want to create something new, something we never heard of, even if it's not that good.

[@jefffisher1045]

Alma, your storytelling inspired me to subscribe, please post often, thank you

[@chaplainmattsanders4884]

Brilliant musician & communicator. Impressive!

[@TimothyZhou0]

Nice, couldn't agree more! I'd also like to point out the striking similarity between the opening of Mozart's 25th symphony and Beethoven's 1st piano sonata :)

[@colinm5481]

You're brilliant. I love you.

[@dimosorchestral6338]

What a bright beacon of light.

[@MaximilianMKGill]

I was wondering what you thoughts are considering Rachmaninoff.

[@ladyliberty417]

Thank you Alma, you are an inspiration and you give me hope for the future ❣️ All the best ❣️

[@myhighmusicworld8036]

You're a genius girl! Thank you for yours videos, operas and creativity! Dvoŕak has interesting melodies - 1) main theme of 4th part of Symphony №9 "From the New World", played trumpets and French horns - nobilmente, maestoso; 2) main theme of Dvoŕak's Cello Concert, played cello in the start. There are a little bit the same in most intervals - only rythm is different.

[@MishaSkripach]

Beautiful music should be back in 22 century!

[@jmachadok]

This was brilliant even for a non-musician like me.

[@NNNNNNNNNNNNNNl]

I had a professor at university who I had written a sonata for in composition class which was in the style of Beethoven and in e-flat major, and when I sent him the first draft, he told me I needed to write an entirely new piece for his class because the sonata sounded too much like that of an 18th century composer. So I wound up writing a string quartet that was very fast, dissonant and based on crazy 9th and diminished chords, except I still prefer the harmonic sound of the 18th century style. I feel like a lot more can be done with it. Dissonance to me usually sounds much better in screamo and death metal music than in classical music.

[@ItIsJustJudy]

I think Alan Hovhaness might have been inspired by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Listen to Hovhaness’ Mysterious Mountain and Vaughn Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. Of course the latter is based on Tallis’ melody!

[@leoambgut4461]

W. Mozart took inspiration from the Thema Regium in his Sonata in C minor K457. The theme was given to J.S. Bach by Frederick II. Composers always took melodies they knew, like plainchant and popular songs of their time, and used them in their compositions. For example: Josquin - Missa Pange Lingua (chant: Pange Lingua Gloriosi) J.S. Bach - the Quodlibet from the Goldberg variations (various German folksongs) Haydn - Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser (Croatian folk song: Stal se jesem) Mozart - Requiem Introit "Te decet hymnus" section (Meine seele erhebt den Herren/German Magnificat) Brahms - Wiegenlied (ländler: Du moanst wohl. The sheet music for this can be found in this paper: Brahms's "Wiegenlied" and the Maternal Voice)

[@l.a.415]

Thank you for this important statement! Being similar to other melodies doesn't make a piece of music less genuine. It's the contrary. The music has always lived from variations, hommages and developements. Variations are so fascinating, especially those on the "follia" theme that is an endlessly inspiring ground. Mendelssohn's style lives because of the inspiration he got from Bach. There's the hidden beginning of Dvořák's Cello concerto in the first symphony by Brahms. There were no 1812 ouverture without the Marseillaise. And the example I love the most, is the side theme in the first movement of Beethoven's a major cello sonata which begins like the aria "Es ist vollbracht" in the Saint John's Passion. The exact same melody for about three bars. But different key, different instrument and it continues differently. I have no idea if Beethoven knew that he copied this melody. I just love it. Mendelssohn copied it in a totally different way in his oratorio "Elijah" (Es ist genug). It's not that much the melody there but the structure of the aria and the similarity of the texts as a hommage to Bach. And it is so much fun to find all those little tresures of similarity in the great works. They are most often a sign of appreciation (Mozart's example left behind).

[@danielezekiel97]

You would be a fabulous TV Presented to present Classical music to the world. I would place a bet that. you will