In the Hall of the Meowntain King

[@Lbpsack]

just to clarify since the algorithm likes this video right now: yes this took like zero effort to make, i just took a midi and slapped the meowsynth plugin with default settings on every channel. you can find MUCH better meowsynth videos out there that have WAY more effort put into them than this one if you look around

[@LukeAps]

I appreciate your honesty.

[@Assisssstance]

Life doesnt always reward effort :)

[@He1IoStuff]

I only just found out that meowsynth was a thing so thanks for this :)

[@wolfiemuse]

This is still hilariously cute! Don’t shut yourself down so hard.

[@Tsumtsumdere]

The algorithm lead me here and I had no idea what the heck meowsynth was before this moment so uhhh congrats! I was impressed to say the least. 🫠

[@OfficiallySnek]

I wouldn't mind being a cat named Contrabass

[@DPS-2004]

i'm pretty sure i have met a cat named Tuba at some point

[@noahlani6480]

Ima call my cat “Oboe the hobo”

[@snailcheeseyt]

Horn in E ll Is what I’ll name my cat if I ever get one

[@lauravturner]

Tag yourself; I'm Trombone II

[@klondii]

_trumpet in e type of guy myself_

[@legitgopnik8431]

I own 16 cats and I am furious that they cannot perform this masterpiece.

[@DarthLiam-gd1wc]

You must purchase one more

[@AnachronisticAstronaut]

There are two kinds of people

[@fr33kout82]

not with that attitude

[@nunyabiznes33]

Get them to identify you as an honorary feline so you can play this with them.

[@netnutella]

horn in e ii is essential

[@IceboundCat6]

Thank you for labelling each cat, I'd have gone crazy figuring out which cat did what

[@ocelotmadness6287]

They all meow

[@Illumina_Blade]

Cat? These are instruments. Are you OK mate?

[@Ryan-op7yd]

Those aren't labels those are their names

[@mummyhugo]

They aren’t meowing ocelot they are making a instrument noise!!!!!

[@syvvieon]

@@Ryan-op7yd "awwwww. he's so cute! what's his name?" "Horn in E II 😇"

[@DerpyEinstein]

I cant beliueve that you need a minimum of 17 cats to play this song. unreal.

[@could_possiblybe_thane07echo]

This out of context sounds hilarious lmao

[@DerpyEinstein]

@@could_possiblybe_thane07echo i didnt know this comment had 19 likes till you replied

[@deaconthe3rd]

Check again

[@DerpyEinstein]

@@deaconthe3rd i still count 17 cats. I dont have 17 cats.

[@James-wd9ib]

Horn in E II cat is useless AF

[@kaisquared3867]

you: oversleeps your cats' feeding time in the morning your cats:

[@Hypercane2025]

Well at least it’s a nice tune?

[@jonmab6990]

lmao I would oversleep on purpose

[@tarah._.]

This made me laugh way more than it should

[@ArDeeMee]

@@Hypercane2025 It‘s literally based on a nightmare the composer had. =D

[@skiaphrene]

Slagt ham! (translates to slay him!)

[@blackenedizzycore]

i like to imagine those aren't labels for each instrument but actually the names of the cats, i would love to have a multitude of cats named things like Tuba, Contrabass, Viola, Piccolo, Trumpet in E, Bassoon I and Bassoon II (we call them Bassoon Jr.), etc

[@kitsicles111]

Cat named Horn in E II:

[@arsony1775]

this is my cat clarinet in A

[@maddieb.4282]

Oboe and Tuba are EXCELLENT CAT NAMES

[@dvdside]

@@maddieb.4282 *OH FUCK YOURE RIGHT*

[@matrixphijr]

Do I need to paint my cat green before I call it Piccolo?

[@Trident_Gaming03]

Cats when you're one millisecond late to feeding them

[@The_Goood_Sort_Of_Slob]

Lol yes

[@radaghast0238]

In the middle of the video I realized that the names of the instruments didn't matter at all because all the sounds are just meows and now I'm shitting myself

[@38mb.]

yeah but theyre like differently pitched meows

[@dopaminecloud]

Bit lazy because it's not like the synth isn't configurable to allow for a wide variety of sounds that more properly fit the role of emulating certain instruments.

[@Lbpsack]

@@dopaminecloud yeah it is kinda lazy LOL i did this in a couple of minutes cuz i thought of the pun

[@catfish552]

@@Lbpsack all this for the pun, exceptionally based

[@cara-seyun]

They okay distant parts tho

[@DonkoXI]

In a weird way, this really highlights how cool the original orchestration is. Because the cat moves a little when it plays, you get a very nice visual depiction of the structure in the orchestration.

[@Kureemy]

It actually looks like something is vibrating, like the ground from the Mountain King’s footsteps or something.

[@thepangremlin6707]

I remember playing this song a few years back in orchestra. It was a pain for my fingers 💀 I don't think I ever fully learned the melody (I'm a cellist, and this song surprisingly has quite a lot of melody parts for us, usually we just play the low and rhythmic parts)

[@Asteri0519]

​@@24allix _Thank_ you

[@nyarg33]

new music theory teaching tool: meowsynth

[@tahutoa]

It's also not too far off from how it's actually done. Horns, flutes, and violins go on the left, oboe, clarinet, and violas in the middle, and brass, bassoons, cellos and basses to the right

[@scraub8913]

Absolutely wonderful, thank you for orchestrating 17 cats to preform this wonderful wonderful song.

[@Tony_Baloney_69420]

This guy's a genius innit?

[@thebaseandtriflingcreature174]

What gets me most of all is that he got 17 identical cats. He didn’t need to do that but he did!

[@fluffly3606]

24 actually. The Flute, Oboe, Clarinet in A, Horns in E, Trumpet in E and Trombone I parts each represent two instruments that play slightly to moderately different... sequences? For some reason the first edition score notates the bassoons separately while keeping the others on the same staff

[@allmymimings]

i understand this as a meme, but unironically having all the parts laid out like this is rlly helping my brain understand the score better

[@qraptor4738]

This feels like a youtube video that you'd find 10 years ago. Thanks

[@Tony_Baloney_69420]

Same bro

[@TheRenegade...]

This feels like a KZbin video that would be recommended ten years after release

[@LuigiPianeseMusic]

Like Piccolo

[@makszab285]

Definitely

[@Ellesenzacognome]

Ten years ago was 2015

[@_.Dylan._]

You know you’re deep into MeowSynth lore when you get year old videos recommended with 40 comments Edit: Well there’s a little more than 40 now…

[@NotHereLookAway]

yes

[@slavboii420]

I am so glad I am getting these high quality memes in my recommended section

[@blueninja012]

this is my first ever meme of this type

[@_.Dylan._]

@@blueninja012 Well now there are 3 times as many comments, maybe the video is slowly blowing up to even those that aren’t deep into MeowSynth memes

[@pinkiepie7823]

@@blueninja012 same

[@gigogrom216]

2:05 Everyone: mawmawmawmaw Horn in E II: the heck is hapenning

[@Saliman-vr]

He didn’t get his wet food😢

[@anonthebeta1230]

frrr

[@BLUEREALwhoa]

as a horn player this is routine

[@Incredible_sinix]

Lol

[@navybr0wnie]

Horn in E II sittin there for 2 minutes and 20 seconds to be able to finally play 3 notes in the last 30 seconds of the song be like.

[@BugBestieLily]

nahh they get a bunch of notes after 1:00

[@tntmaxter8607]

Nah man thats trumpet in E, It starts around 1:55 i think

[@mummyhugo]

@@tntmaxter8607No horn in e 2 gets a couple of notes in 1:00

[@wauweau]

@@mummyhugo your right it’s horn in e 2

[@rayanderson5797]

I used to be, like, 5th chair trumpet in high school. This was exactly what some performances were like.

[@grumblegrapes7950]

This would probably make a medieval king break into tears if he heard this masterpiece.

[@nunyabiznes33]

He's not medieval but Alexander the Great is shaking rn. 🤣

[@kk_cats6072]

Meowdieval king...

[@StarvingKFCemployee]

Since cat in Chinese is mao, you could call this video in the hall of the maontain king

[@cohengamertv6548]

Wait, that means that Mao Zedong is actually Cat Zedong

[@StarvingKFCemployee]

@@cohengamertv6548 In Chinese there are multiple meanings for each sound, it’s really dependent on the character. For example in Pinyin which is how it sounds in English, ma with the fourth tone symbol could be horse or mammoth. Mao Zedong’s name starts with 毛 instead of 猫.

[@Tony_Baloney_69420]

@@cohengamertv6548 Lmao ze dong

[@stratonikisporcia8630]

@@cohengamertv6548 "Máo" and "māo" are pronounced differently

[@elimcgamerguy]

@@cohengamertv6548

[@trbk16]

As the Meowntain King who has a Hall, I can confirm that this is true and also an absolute banger.

[@hondaaccord1399]

Damn, all the other Meowntain Kings have antechambers

[@libby0512]

the dynamics are what get me. the fact that it actually had musicality and sounds amazing is the coolest part

[@HGShurtugal]

In band class, this song just turned into brass vs woodwinds in who could play the part louder.

[@krakenwastaken]

LOL XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

[@anonthebeta1230]

FRRRRR

[@evilsharkey8954]

It’s always the brass. Trumpets are loud AF

[@krakenwastaken]

@@evilsharkey8954 I love playing trumpry

[@bitterandresentful]

As a cat I can confirm we do this in our free time

[@matthewstrauss6402]

and eat lasagna

[@Clarkamadorian]

@@matthewstrauss6402 and kick dogs off tables

[@lumbearcat]

agree too

[@HazardThe2st]

@@Clarkamadorian and claw apart furniture while us people arent looking

[@ninetailedfox579121]

@@HazardThe2st And consume human souls to feed the eldritch gods.

[@Mimas2115]

If you play is at 1.25 speed, it sounds like someone is having a rave next door that's staring up until about 1:37 when it sounds like the intro to an early Cartoon Network show about aliens invading the earth thet think they're threatening but they're like half the size of humans and everyone thinks they're adorable

[@LgiidOakLeaves]

Yes

[@KittyHeadSetOSC]

INVADER ZIM??????

[@virgilepiaux150]

​@@KittyHeadSetOSC *_IT IS I, ZIIIIIIIIIIIIM!!!!_*

[@ErinKTheWriter]

INVADER ZIM!!

[@ErinKTheWriter]

The lice episode lives rent-free in my head.

[@giruse]

Yes this is exactly what I should be watching at 3 am.

[@ep_ion1112]

Mad respect to this guy. He adopted 17 cats, recorded each one of them meow and tuned the meows. And then he made this beautiful masterpiece from the meows. Ignore the pinned comment. He definitely has 17 cats that meowed so he could make this.

[@digitalunity]

This playlist has escalated quickly

[@w0omer]

Lol ur watching it too

[@flyingstonemon3564]

What playlist?

[@imoutodaisuki]

@@flyingstonemon3564 kzbin.info/aero/PLBdkDKgSn99cKVpwvgvYyfWdbICaZsDtj

[@snowy8132]

@@flyingstonemon3564 this video is in a playlist somebody made of every MeowSynth video they could find

[@flyingstonemon3564]

@@snowy8132 Ohh I'll go look it up thanks, sounds fun

[@cosmictreason2242]

Can’t believe the PICCOLO was the last instrument to bring in in the crescendo

[@iceberg_os]

I loved it when the cat said "it's meowing time" and meowed all over the place

[@aidanmallon9879]

Which one? Horn in E I?

[@iceberg_os]

@@aidanmallon9879 _a l l o f t h e m_

[@TheLastPhoen1x]

This is what the internet was invented for.

[@mirekkardos9527]

They are so talented

[@Skibidirizzler250]

No joke my cat starting meowing at me during this

[@blizzard_the_seal9863]

He Knows

[@preyfix_]

honestly, I was expecting "in the hall of the crimson king" but this makes more sense

[@Tony_Baloney_69420]

found a stand user

[@2minuss]

Only the results!

[@abigcupofwater]

Court

[@죽은_시민의_사회]

Piccolo is a great name for a cat

[@Waow-o2t]

2:34 Is something out of Super Mario Galaxy.

[@JS_Guitar09]

More like Mario Odyssey or Wonder, but I see what you're saying.

[@parkervance3646]

I read the final one as “crowbar” and was like *EXCUSE ME WHAT*

[@CharGaming09]

I’m going to say with confidence that none of us searched for this.

[@InkHyaena]

This sounds like music you'd hear in the old Inspector Gadget cartoon and I love it so much

[@nicklagoni7306]

The song is absolutely going off at 2:00 and Horn in E II is just.. 😐

[@FoxDog1080]

It's used at 2:31

[@dootdoot9066]

literally everyone vibing 2nd horn: no i dont think i will

[@Edzilla]

It sounds like I need to find a wacky item to retrieve a golden key from a high place whilst trying to escape the Goblin King's castle undetected in a charming 90's point and click adventure

[@themechbuilder6171]

that must be a very long hall

[@schyzm]

The internet was built specifically so we could be blessed with this masterpiece.

[@thatoneguywithoutausername4153]

All of them are so talented

[@IsaacFoster..]

This is basically how it feels to watch two cats fight in the street.

[@Charley_Cheshire]

Almost gave me a heart attack, 10/10 experience

[@Phantom914]

Don't tell me you're gonna just take a well known melody and slap a meowcestra over it. Oh well, ITS SICC

[@elan344]

i unironically absolutely adore the kinda chill electronic vibes this brings to an already amazing song 😭

[@bombglass2509]

Horn in E I just dies after the calmness

[@simonwillover4175]

This helped me understand the song and the instruments much better. Having consistent, clear labels for all of the instruments helps so much.

[@MechaBorne]

Why does this feel like old KZbin

[@samuraicupcake289]

"Hey Tom! Watcha did for your week-end?" "Oh, you know, just making music with my 17 cats, the usual." 🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱

[@Papercat-uq6ve]

A true meowsterpiece. I'm not kitten ameownd. And I'm not lion.

[@TamaMochi678]

I love how it clarifies "Trumpet in E", "Clarinet in A" and "Horn in E". Gotta make sure the cat transposes the sheet music correctly.

[@NoteBard]

This is probably the best three minutes I've ever spent in my life

[@Scavenger82]

When people ask what kind of music I listen to, "It's complicated."

[@shishsquared]

Horn in E I really hits different

[@electricevil1672]

All 17 cats at meal time

[@TacoT-uy9zu]

Man the poor tuba cat relatable.

[@ozzy_anamations17]

horns: chilling rest of the brass:

[@quadrupleheart]

Look at them, they're having such a good time

[@yssoloman]

So this is where we are 20 years after cat videos...

[@Evan-hm7tz]

Now they can all feel what it's like to be low brass So... many...rests... *cries in trombone*

[@thepangremlin6707]

*cries in cello* I didn't think I'd ever have to say that anything is too much melody. Well this one is an exception 💀 I never fully learned the melody when I played this a few years back (I'm in a string orchestra), and my fingers were just dying the whole time

[@Evan-hm7tz]

​@@thepangremlin6707 damn, atleast you get the melody, ever. Anytime we get the melody, it's a synchronized part, and whenever low brass does get the melody, we share it with the baritone, which of course overshadow us because they are much louder than us, although the trombones have had the melody alone a COUpLe of TimEs, only a couple ;-;

[@cjthecomposer02]

Alternate title: If In The Hall Of The Mountain King was Recorded Through a Sega Genesis

[@143Ollie]

This has gotta be the greatest 2 minute I’ve spent thank you for making this

[@dapple8012]

Confirmed banger that just appeared in my recommended. Thank you algorithm

[@marianmcclellan6527]

It must have been really hard to train all these cats to sing their parts. Very commendable effort. Applause!

[@orionbarnes1733]

Me on my way to the local shelter to adopt 17 cats for unspecified purposes

[@Victorsandergamer]

2:53 all cats: MEWOW Horn in E II: 🗿

[@TheHiddenite]

KZbin algorithm you've done it again, see you next year.

[@swoopingsilver2949]

I have no idea how this ended up in my recommended but I’m glad it did. Beautiful, inspirational, moving.

[@TheKidsAreSOnotOkay]

I love KZbin’s recommendations at times.

[@nanalanlover420]

I love how the chords sound w this VST

[@graphincer3164]

It is not why we are here, it is how are we here

[@memetech-]

1:50 is so much meow

[@rivercat7765]

POV my owner didn’t feed me at 3:00 in the morning

[@toniusxyz]

Better than 67% of the videos in this app

[@renaultluk6376]

I absolutely love how the bassoon had a different timbre to the cello and contrabass

[@_Tesseract]

I truly enjoyed the piano to forte transition this is a masterpiece

[@psycore600]

these cats are so well trained

[@thehomiejw6714]

that one at 0:33 really hits it

[@Gelogeist]

Have to keep the likes at 69, otherwise I would’ve liked your comment!

[@alault-cook4072]

@@Gelogeistit’s now 75

[@Gelogeist]

@@alault-cook4072 I liked it now

[@dariasilenthief3115]

Uaooo

[@paddingtono3823]

a fine addition to my cat music collection

[@necromantic318]

This is exactly what it was like lmao. I played this in tenth grade orchestra (I was a cello) and my section and the basses were playing for a solid 4 minutes while the violins and violas were just chillin out

[@asorteoffish5839]

These performers all worked so hard I hope they got paid in lots of snacks and catnip

[@AlexDeLarge1]

Nothing beats the richness of a full purrchestra.

[@MiniTemper1023]

Lol

[@mxt3k]

I literally meow this song all the time, it's one of my most common vocal stims. Kinda wish you'd used meow samples instead of just synth but love it anyway 💖

[@Schnort]

Here it is on the cat piano with actual meow sounds: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqXaoYRje7WaiZo

[@mxt3k]

@@Schnort EXCELLENT. Thank you :)

[@Schnort]

@@mxt3k ofc haha

[@FireyDeath4]

That just sounds like a common synth. Nothing like a cat

[@FirstnameLastname-jd4uq]

They do sound sort of like a cat near the end during the climax or whatever its called

[@ruben7801]

This is genuinely great

[@SmexHex]

Bruh, I play Horn and am glad that it‘s actually included in this. Because were kinda forgotten

[@TheRealDoctorBonkus]

God, I love living in the 2020's

[@a-s-greig]

I was born exactly at the end of the right generation.

[@soklkayYT]

Dbz fans going crazy after seeing a instrument named piccolo.

[@darthalex314]

Oh, so that's what that song is called. Thanks for solving this decade-long mystery for me.

[@Tony_Baloney_69420]

Wdym? people know the name of the song for a long time!

[@AB-gh5be]

the name of the song may be known, but that doesn't mean everyone knows it. it's not unusual for a song to become so ubiquitous that its name gets lost in the shuffle for folks-i'd be willing to bet a good portion of the people for whom "beethoven's fifth" means nothing could give you a hearty "DUN DUN DUN DUUUUNNNN" if you asked them what a vampire plays on the organ.

[@FenriruEchocalypseFan]

*that is indeed the hall of the meowtain king*

[@handmetheparachute]

In the Paw of the Meowntain King 🥺🐈

[@TrateMusic]

When i was a toddler in the early nineties playing on the family Packard Bell, i discovered Hall of the Mountain King in a midi sound file and would play it over and over again. It doesn't matter if it's an orchestra, computer beeps, or 17 cats meowing - it still remains one of the coolest musical pieces I've ever heard!

[@Jestokost]

Fun fact: this is just a pitch-shifted “Mary Had a Little Lamb”, and you’ll never be able to unhear it now.

[@FirstnameLastname-jd4uq]

You could just say the rhythm of the melody is similar to Mary Had a Little Lamb

[@DanielleGallano]

The cat orchestra did a good job at this cover!

[@3oddsocks47]

This is truly one of a kind. This is amazing ❤

[@timer1238]

My 17 cats begging for food at 3 AM:

[@KoshkiBlin04]

Why's this unironically a good way to learn how orchestras work

[@spacecocolocotoco5120]

I have gone too far into the music parody rabbit hole.

[@Chromaticana]

They are quite talented