Playing Love (from "The Legend of 1900") by Ennio Morricone - Analysis and Performance

This is a great piece from the movie "The Legend of 1900", about a jazz pianist on board an ocean cruiser. In this scene, he sits down at the piano and starts to play some wild jazz riffs, but he looks at the window and sees a beautiful girl, and the music that emenates from his fingers follows in that direction.
Correction: The movie is from 1998.
0:00 Jazz!
0:22 The film
1:13 The scene
2:10 The meter
3:40 Analysis
5:35 Coda
6:45 Playing Love
▶ The real movie scene: • The Legend of 1900 (19...
📄 SCORE
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"Playing Love" by Ennio Morricone, from "The Legend of 1900" (1998)
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[@macmanmanny3983]

This piece.. Thank you for making this tutorial. I have been humming the melody for almost 10 years now. I am crying while writing this. I often can not put my deepest feelings into words.. It helped me thru the hardest of times. It hurts so freaking much. My kid, almost 8 now. And completely dependend. Without the ability to speak she could and can never put HER feelings and thus also her pain, into words. I have spent so many days and nights, hours and hours just carrying her around to calm her down while humming. (Epilepsy) It is hard to see your child so helpless and in so much disstress. So i always hum. This song ,.. Thank you for making this video.

[@kygirlhighlands]

The thing about 1900 (Tim Roth) is that he could simply look any situation and make music that exactly matches that situation. He proves this over and over when he is playing for the 1st class passengers on top deck; and also when he is playing for the poor folks down below. If the situation is sad, his music is sad. If the situation is exciting, his music is exciting. He sits down, reluctantly, to record some music as he was persuaded by his friend. That's what those fast rolls are in the beginning.. he's just being himself. Then, he sees the girl; AND OH MAN does the music change. Ennio, I can feel this one, deep in my heart... I often wonder who you were thinking about when you wrote this exquisite piece of music. Thank you for bringing this into the world for us to enjoy!

[@user-rd9jz4ou4n]

Fantastico!!!! Leggere lo spartito di Morricone e sentirlo ben interpretare..!!! Molto emozionante!!!! Fai tanti altri video così!!! Saluti da Napoli 😊😊😊 Bravissimo

[@pablito607]

This peace, and Magic Waltz is hunting me since my primary school. Always wished to play both

[@user-gg5ts4mm2w]

This is my favorite. Such tenderness. Has anyone ever written lyrics for this?

[@chaserivera1623]

This piece has so much of Chopin's nocturnes and Romance Larghetto from Chopin's concerto no. 1, and also some Oscar Peterson mixed in as well. It's such a beautiful combination that brings out all of the deepest emotions of the piano. Great performance!

[@oceansmusicinhkukandgerman7009]

It’s my favourite film music too! Rip Ennio Morricone

[@margarethansen7480]

Really beautiful music, as all that Morricone create for films! Thanks for this!❤❤👏👏👏

[@PhilipGarciaReacts]

Thank you for this one ❤️‍🩹

[@COMMON-SENSE501]

🤔It's supposed to be created on the spot in the movie I believe. That's what 1900 felt when he saw the girl and translated it to🎹🎶🎵 GREAT JOB👏👏thanks from Amsterdam✌ *I wish I could play like that*

[@Merseyrock]

Yes, what a great scene. Not to mention your rendition of the piece. On the other hand, the audio technician made an acoustic (no electricity involved) cut of the disc on shellac. As opposed to vinyl, a format which wouldn't be developed until some decades after 1900's lifetime.

[@danielasantini5701]

Magic.

[@Leopejo]

A short excerpt from A. De Rosa: "Ennio Morricone: In His Own Words" (my translation from the Italian original): "[about the scire for The Legend of 1900] I created much, much music, of different genres, and the full orchestra score blended often with jazz sounds and jazz 'dirtying'. But perhaps, I must confess you, I prefer the main theme in that simple version for solo piano - the track called Playing Love - that accompanies the sequence in which 1900 sees the girl's face through the ship's porthole, while he is being recorded with a rudimental phonograph. [...] The biggest problem that I had from the first time I read the screenplay was to write «music never heard before». These words were used by Peppuccio [G. Tornatore, the director], but also by Alessandro Baricco, author of the novel from which the film is taken from, to describe the music played by 1900. A beautiful sentence, sure... but what if then you have to compose this music, what do you do?". In the same book Morricone also tells about the technically difficult job of extracting Jelly Roll Morton's playing from the original recordings, note by note; while the last piece played by 1900 in that confrontation with Morton was played by pianist Gilda Buttà in several takes/tracks, which were later superimposed to get the "several pianos in one" effect.

[@SonataSecrets]

Thanks so much for posting this, very interesting to read!

Gilda Buttà played all piano music in 1900 including Playing Love.

[@Anitapalace]

I love this melody so much, I really appreciate this video! ❤❤

[@SonataSecrets]

📄 About the score 📄 I used several transcriptions when I learned the piece, but in the end I put in the rhythms I prefer in a transcription version of my own, which is used in the video. It's not for sale, but I share it with all my Patreon supporters here: www.patreon.com/posts/58654634. Become a Patreon to unlock! ;)

[@safarygirl]

Beautiful!!

[@brendanodwyer6184]

Thank you so much for introducing me to this beautiful piece of music. I've downloaded the score and learnt the song part. It will take a while to learn all the notes in the jazz runs but they set up the love song so well!

[@charleshudson5330]

Love the movie. Adore this melody. The jazz into is cool. You do a great job here. Morricone is such a gifted composer. I like everything he writes. Ditto for Alexandre Desplat.

[@reimakousei793]

I believe that this was the piece that introduced me to jazz. I love this piece quite a lot haha. Good video!

[@Taka-nq3ys]

i love this song so much when it came out... thanks for the beautiful analysis.

[@NiermanPracticeManagement]

So glad you made this! Wonderful

[@mariasoledadguzman7254]

Great job and beatiful playing!! Thank you 😍😍

[@ManuelAmico]

wonderful work!

[@pianoman1973]

Beautiful melody and playing ! Loved your interpretation :)

[@SonataSecrets]

Thank you :)

[@kyounga1191]

멋집니다 ❤❤❤❤❤😂

[@windyra]

This is great. Would you play Magic Waltz some time soon?

[@atmadeepmukherjee5550]

Sir, you are a great teacher and master! I have a small request to make to you. Please make an analysis and performance of Rachmaninoff's Prelude Op. 23 No. 6? It is such a lovely piece! If you make an analysis of this beauty, it would be so nice!

[@demopem]

Very nice, I haven't seen the movie, but I believe it's from 1998.

[@SonataSecrets]

You're right, I mixed up the numbers! Have corrected it in the description now.

[@carr16k]

That g minor 6 😢

[@AlexChangYuan]

Unfortunately it proves again that composing beautiful music for a girl does not earn her love.

[@SonataSecrets]

hehe, sadly so.

[@chloeagnew1]

I still cannot understand jazz

[@openendedthinking4033]

Look up Barry Harris

[@lokmanmerican6889]

I think the regularity of the quavers (in the main body of the piece and especially in LH) detract from the quality of the performance. They're too predictable.