How Did Brahms Compose? - Composer Insights

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[@marcstauch3081]

Thank you Gareth - a masterful exposition on masterful music!

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[@bobcosmic]

An in depth look at how Brahms approached composing . Why do I feel like I’m back at University studying music that I’ve known for most of my life . Great upload !

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Glad it’s both helpful and nostalgic

[@bobcosmic]

@@MusicMattersGB compositions can be intricate but then again when broken down to the smallest cell they are simple variations on a theme . Hope I’m not sounding too anal !

[@jayducharme]

Fascinating! And a beautiful performance, BTW. What impresses me the most is how inevitable the music sounds, as if it has no other way to progress than the way Brahms wrote it.

[@MusicMattersGB]

It’s gorgeous music

[@mensabs]

tapping into the truth perhaps

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😅

[@ericrakestraw664]

Beethoven has that same sense of inevitablity in his music as well. Perhaps that is why Brahms was always being compared to Beethoven in his lifetime.

[@MusicMattersGB]

Very likely

[@iknowyourerightbut4986]

One of my favourite pieces by Brahms. Thank you for the expert analysis. A video on the whole work would be wonderful.

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[@drtmuir]

It's such a special piece. I've loved it since I was a child.

[@MusicMattersGB]

Fabulous piece

[@uv357raz]

very well .. I am enjoying your recent installments very much .. this and your previous "Composing a Two-Part Invention - Music Composition" keep the "how to compose" discussion coming .. appreciate it very much.

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That’s great

[@janefaceinthewind6260]

A great, great joy to listen to, thank you so much! You are absolutely fantastic.

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[@WalyB01]

op 118 in its total is probably my favorite piano composition. It tells a store of passion, tenderness , a rising hero, love and despair. There is always that second voice telling a different story, in the background which is so clear in this intermezzo. ps there is somewhere a reference to Clara, which knowing their history, well finishes the deal for me. For me it tells their story and well I find that so incredibly beautiful put to music.

[@MusicMattersGB]

It’s an absolutely beautiful piece and yes, surely that theme is there.

[@cschlums2235]

clara is all over brahms music

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True

[@adamrafferty]

Very inspiring to hear you play, thank you so much for this channel and your dedication!

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A pleasure

[@paulmoon232]

A wonderfully-explained analysis, Thanks so much.

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[@neptunogaudio5460]

thats my favourite piece

[@MusicMattersGB]

It’s fabulous

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Happy New Year 2022 Gareth !

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Thank you. Happy new year to you too.

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[@miladeskandari7]

This piece was my introduction to Brahms, and I have loved it since I heard it 8 years ago

[@MusicMattersGB]

Fabulous piece

[@martinlewis6661]

Lovely - many thanks for sharing your expertise. I think that Brahms chap will go far.

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Agreed!

[@diegoalonsomartinezhernand5972]

Top quality content. Inspiring way to explain music. Thank you!

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[@williamsmithington3157]

Thank you sir. Very well done.

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Most kind.

[@carlstenger5893]

Wonderful video. Thanks so much!

[@MusicMattersGB]

A pleasure, as always. Great piece.

[@igk1099]

your talking is like a mixture of carl sagan and mr rogers, super nice to hear you talk and explain things

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[@Scriabin_fan]

Thanks for this. I'd love a video like this for composers like Ravel, Messiaen and Takemitsu.

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They will be in the pipeline

[@bossshrek1241]

very good video!

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[@conforzo]

Would love to hear about some cinematic/theatrical harmonic ideas like from Wagner, Strauss. For example the Loge leitmotif, like how you fit chromaticism inside rapidly changing harmonies.

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That’s an idea

[@simongross3122]

I've not paid much attention to Brahms, but this piece is gorgeous. Thanks for the explanation of what's going on here.

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[@cschlums2235]

Your missing out, his concerti, piano quintets, and his german requiem are great places to start

[@MusicMattersGB]

Those are all wonderful pieces. Obviously there’s only time to focus on a few bars of a single work in one of these videos but we could easily look at those other pieces in due course.

[@cschlums2235]

@@MusicMattersGB Oh I was talking to the other guy, but that would be amazing!

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@@cschlums2235 😀

[@joaquinblasberg5368]

Thank you so much for this masterclass!! This is one of the most beautiful and profound pieces in all repertoire, and view this analysis makes me apreciate it still more. Greetings from Argentina

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[@juanballesteros5084]

Me hizo apreciar aun mas esta maravillosa pieza de Brahms

[@MusicMattersGB]

It’s a wonderful piece.

[@iwright621]

Very nice piece , keep up the good work ! Great explanation .

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Thank you

[@cascanicoff5763]

A most interesting vídeo. Thank you indeed

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[@grubmountain]

Absolutely superb as usual!

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[@scottweaverphotovideo]

Very interesting analysis! Looking at that first page it also strikes me that it's all the middle of the keyboard, like most of Schumann's piano music.

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Good observation

[@ivvrthehomeless]

Thank you so much for this!

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A pleasure

[@adamrafferty]

Aside from the first A nd B, the basic idea of measures 2&3 look like retrograde inversion (B-up to E down to D) looks very much like the opening statement.

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😀

[@johankrafft7295]

Yes very interesting! Thanks for the insight.

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[@franzlisztish]

GREAT! Thanks VERY Much.

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[@katiesethna]

Excellent video. Excellent exposition!

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[@TheMentalblockrock]

Something about this piece reminds me of Queen! Please do an analysis of a Freddy Mercury song, Bohemian Rhapsody would be fantastic!

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Could do.

[@Santtittos]

Yeah! A great exposition!

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[@thevidkoproductions]

We need the same video for Mozart because his music is just out of this world

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We have a video on Mozart with more to come.

[@GuitSiva]

Thanks.. 👍Warm cheers.. 😊

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[@quisieable]

Very inspiring!🥰 I wonder if you could introduce a little peace of Prokofiev once in a while? For instance Op 3 Nr. 1 Story? I like it so much and it has kind of very unusual harmony...🤩

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Good idea

[@psypau]

I have an idea for a video concept, you are such a scholar I am sure you will be able to explain how composers manage to develop their ideas. I'm sure I'm not original in being able to produce a lot of ideas like melodies or a series of chords, but what to do with this idea? how to develop it? how to play with imitations or harmonic accompaniment to make this idea charismatic. I am sure that with examples offered by Beethoven Chopin or Mozart you could teach us very interesting things. Thank you very much for your courses which are of an enormous richness.

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We’ve got some webinar material on that at www.mmcourses.co.uk plus our Composition course.

[@alfredonaviagarrido3622]

Maestro Green, first of all thank you for doing this great job about giving musical education. It is such a great job, which makes worth watching KZbin. I´d like to ask you a question, if you don´t mind, something I guess I don´t understand well yet: in the bar 4, the last chord (e, g natural, c sharp-b) how it is possible that chord is a secondary dominant? As far as I know, a secondary dominant is a progression V-I, not I-V and, I don´t see the chord G but a diminished c# chord or a e minor chord (I don´t know if that is a matter of a melodic progression instead of a chordal one). I guess there´s must be something important I don´t know about that subject of secundary dominants and tonicizations. I wonder, then, if you could recommend me a video or a text when that it is explained thoroughly (I´ve alreadty seen a video of yours when you explain secondary dominants). Thank you very much indeed.

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Thanks for your positive comments, which are much appreciated. I’m glad you’ve seen our videos on secondary dominants, which explain the principle. What we have in this case is a secondary dominant into the key of D.

[@neochanlee]

Super!

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[@nhanhuynh5643]

The first 3 notes are the beginning of Disney's Aladdin A whole new world, just brilliant.

[@MusicMattersGB]

Interesting coincidence

[@petersturmey2789]

Is it just me, but is Brahms prefiguring serialism here with development of small cells, retrograde like cells etc. love the presentation.

[@MusicMattersGB]

It’s very interesting to draw those parallels. Schoenberg was much influenced by small cells in Bach and it’s certainly a feature of Brahms.

[@yoavnacht]

Great. Please do some analysis of schumann (maybe something from the Humoreske)

[@MusicMattersGB]

Okay

[@JoeLinux2000]

How did Brahms compose? Quite well.

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😀

[@minidrags2]

I'm a bit confused about the chord at 10:36. Isn't it a chord VII in D major? There is no A and when you play the notes close together it's a diminished chord i.e. chord 7? Or can it only be chord V-7 because that's what makes it into a secondary dominant? Thanks

[@MusicMattersGB]

Yes. I’m really thinking about how it functions as a secondary dominant but you’re correct in regarding the isolated chord as VII in D.

[@rafaelrios3282]

Could you do one on Stravinsky?

[@MusicMattersGB]

Sure

[@luigipalumbo3294]

👍

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😀

[@isaacshaw1596]

Interesting that in this rather beautiful lyrical reflective style, he writes d# to a melodically in the fourth phrase writing that melodic tritone. I’m assuming he gets away with that because it resolves by step coming inside the leap to help cushion that tritone.

[@MusicMattersGB]

Absolutely

[@isaacshaw1596]

How do you come up with motifs to get writing a longer piece.

[@MusicMattersGB]

Experiment with inventing short melodic/ rhythmic figures

[@tjcint]

A question for you .. you are highly analytical. Analysis is logic. Logic is basic, belongs to basic consciousness. To what extent do you imagine classical composers took flight into realms higher than basic logic when composing, rather than dwelling in logic ?

[@MusicMattersGB]

Of course composing is a mixture of technique and creative imagination. By understanding the technique we sometimes access a glimmer of the creative mind.

[@tjcint]

@@MusicMattersGB How can understanding technique ever give access to creativity ? It can't.

[@MusicMattersGB]

@@tjcint I’m not suggesting that it does but without technique creativity can’t flourish. When we analyse a piece of music we discover both the technique and the creativity. That’s the joy of analysis, particularly with regard to the latter.

[@SpaghettiToaster]

Wonderful! Rachmaninoff next please!

[@SpaghettiToaster]

For example, the D major prelude is a miracle of melody, harmony, counterpoint and pianistic texture. I'd love to hear your analysis.

[@MusicMattersGB]

Rachmaninov is in the pipeline

[@SpaghettiToaster]

@@MusicMattersGB Cool, I can't wait!

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😀

[@christopherlord3441]

Brilliant. I suppose you could call this 'melodic leading' rather than just 'voice leading'. Mozart does the same thing. Keep up the good work.

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You could. Voice leading is the official term.

[@christopherlord3441]

@@MusicMattersGB No, I mean using fragments of melody rather than just single notes.

[@MusicMattersGB]

Okay. Certainly fragments of melody are used in sequence or with one fragment answering another.

[@dankleffmann2473]

❤️

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[@manguera9]

Composers like Brahms, never composed by techniques, they composed what they heard in their brains, this video is about analysis how they did composed a classical piece.

[@MusicMattersGB]

Composition, like anything creative, is a mixture of inspiration and technique. The analysis reveals the technique and often leads us to the inspiration.

[@manguera9]

Bethoveen had a method to composed ,first sketch, the inspiration lines pages ,second sketch,the arrangement using techniques

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Certainly his output is a wonderful blend of inspiration and technique

[@drKozelnik]

beautiful, isn't it?

[@MusicMattersGB]

Gorgeous piece.

[@deplinenoise]

Repetition legitimizes!

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😀

[@trafyknits9222]

Not sure about his composing skills, but his ice cream is pretty good. Oh wait, that's Braum's. Never mind.

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😀

[@IrminsulMusic]

According to Tchaikovsky, not without help from someone else.

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😀

[@ergbudster3333]

With a pen and some lined score paper.

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😀😀

[@NothingHumanisAlientoMe]

Obviously the elves in the North Pole were kept at the composition sheets 24/7

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😀

[@Dzonrid]

Brahms doesn't write anything. He's dead. Sorry, I just couldn't help it. Great job! Very interesting.

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😀

[@guytyler2]

Decomposing

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😀

[@meyerbeer13]

Brahms was great but he wrote the same piece many times over.

[@MusicMattersGB]

There’s huge variety between one piece and the next.

[@meyerbeer13]

@@MusicMattersGB well ... Depends ... But Brahms had certain predictable things he did ... But whether the pieces are different depends on which pieces.

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😀

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I had no idea that this is happening. Most unfortunate and sadly, beyond our control

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I’m fine. Intentional weight loss. Thanks for asking.

[@miguelmeyer1735]

Please, transplante to Spanish

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There are professional captions available and you can change them to translate in Spanish automatically. Not perfect but hope that’s useful.