What's in a (Classical Music) title?

What are all those numbers and letters at the end of classical music titles?
Let's have an explore...
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Beethoven Pastoral: Sir Adrian Boult with the BBC Symphony Orchestra recorded August 1, 1972, the Royal Albert Hall.
The Sad music is of course Elgar's Cello Concerto: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rVW4
Haydn London Op 104 • Haydn - Symphony No. 1...

[@Mykes]

im getting into classical music, you won't believe how much i needed this

[@danawinsor1380]

Very good! This was explained very clearly and was enjoyable to listen to.

[@Redraw4444]

This came up on my feed. I’ve always bloody wondered what it all meant, even though I’ve enjoyed the music blissfully unaware of their meaning. I have been enlightened. Thanks.

[@plushistoriae]

3:11 *gasp*... Is that a part of the classical cello repertoire? Oh my god we made it boys! For anyone wondering, that is "Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Opus 85". No number is given, because it is his only Cello Concerto. Despite there being no nickname, is is a part of our (cellos) repertoire (that might just be because it is small though.)

[@renzo6490]

Here, the Cello Concerto is performed by Yo Yo Ma kzbin.info/www/bejne/baO5iGeQbJWHnKc

[@waitandsee42392]

Thanks! Just asked for this actually! Haha

[@waltuh2.3bviews3secondsago3]

My favourite piece ever

[@georgealderson4424]

I always think that Elgar's 'cello concerto (no 5 in the video ) is positive! Great video. Thank you. I liked it a lot as it wasn't stuffy and patronising as some instructional ones can appear I think.

[@sbonventure]

Here's some other interesting words at the end of some classical titles: Allegro - quick, lively Largo - slow tempo, slower than adagio Danza - (?) some kind of dance maybe Adagio - another slow movement Presto - really fast? Grave - burial song? etc. . . .

[@picante28]

yup, each of these italian words indicate the speed, or tempo. it's measured in bpm (beats/minut), and since you can't just say say "this piece's tempo is 87!" because of different interpretations (musicians playing the piece slower or faster according to how they think it sounds the best), one word doesn't indicate a tempo but a range of tempo, to allow diversity. Here's a copy-paste of wikipedia page "tempo" : Larghissimo - extremely slow, slowest type of tempo (24 bpm and under) Adagissimo and Grave - very slow, very slow and solemn (24-40 bpm) Largo - slow and broad (40-66 bpm) Larghetto - rather slow and broad (44-66 bpm) Un Adagio - slow with great expression (44-66 bpm) Adagietto - slower than andante or slightly faster than adagio (46-80 bpm) Lento - slow (52-108 bpm) Andante - at a walking pace, moderately slow (56-108 bpm) Andantino - slightly faster than andante, but slower than moderato (80-108 bpm) (although, in some cases, it can be taken to mean slightly slower than andante) Marcia moderato - moderately, in the manner of a march (66-80 bpm) Andante moderato - between andante and moderato (at a moderate walking speed) (80-108 bpm) Moderato - at a moderate speed (108-120 bpm) Allegretto - by the mid-19th century, moderately fast (112-120 bpm) Allegro moderato - close to, but not quite allegro (116-120 bpm) Allegro - fast and bright (120-156 bpm) Molto Allegro or Allegro vivace - at least slightly faster and livelier than allegro, but always at its range (and no faster than vivace) (124-156 bpm) Vivace - lively and fast (156-176 bpm) Vivacissimo and Allegrissimo - very fast, lively and bright (172-176 bpm) Presto - very fast (168-200 bpm) Prestissimo - extremely fast (200 bpm and over 208) (At this tempo, cut common time is often used) ps: this is approximative

[@alfredomalines3136]

I'm so happy because there is a video so helpful like this on KZbin ❤️

[@scmontgomery]

As an aspiring composer, I can't explain how helpful this is

[@davidfryer9218]

I was never really exposed to classical music growing up in any significant way. And I really kind of came to it by listening to Alma Deutscher. She just pretty much stunned me with her talent. I love her violin concerto. I would really like to see some content on her music and her! I do appreciate the information that's clarified a couple things for me. When I started listening to alima I listen to her playing in a recording studio her rondo I had to look up what a rondo was. Found something on KZbin to explain it pretty well.

[@gilroytom]

Excellent video, well done! Loving the content, keep it up

[@MandaPanda254]

This is wonderfully useful. Thank you 😊

[@valeska01]

Thank you so much, that was so helpful! 🤍

[@Brian-sh5ne]

Thank you! This was really useful! I'd love to see a another video in this format explaining the relationship between the tonic, subdominant, dominant, etc.

[@pinoiado]

I needed this, I’m learning about classical music and this video really helped me. I am happy that I understand it even tho I’m not an English fluent, thanks a lot dude

[@reysolo3672]

Thank you very much!

[@70shahin]

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[@alexieeeeeeee]

very entertaining, thank you!

[@Solitaire001]

To avoid the entire issue of artist's names, I just file my CDs by the album's name. I maintain a music library on my computer, so I can easily find any CD that I need by going through my music library. When it comes to the names, I treat each name as a string. As an example I would file "Huey Lewis" in "H" followed by "Huey Lewis & The News". But I do disregard the opening "The" when it comes to group names. Also, when it comes to the name of acts I follow the rule that I use "&" if the group is permanent and "and" if it is temporary group. So I have "Simon & Garfunkel" but use "Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel" for the song "My Little Town" since that wasn't a permanent pairing. Thanks for the information on Classical Music, I've had an issue where all of my Classical Music is just in one genre named "Classical". The problem I have is that it doesn't really give me much information what the music actually is. I tried including the Style but that didn't tell me much. What I plan to do is to subdivide it by general type (such as Solo Piano, Concerto, Symphony, and Sonata).

[@Felixrobinson]

Subbed, I see you're a new channel, keep up the good work!

[@lcottrell3]

Thank you for this information. I listen to classical music when I am studying and got curious about how to say the titles of the piece.

[@danielcherpit4586]

On veut la conjecture de Hodge !!!!😂😂 Incroyable la video👌👌

[@Dionysus_333]

Haha cheeky, subbed!

[@cihant5438]

These videos are great, and should get a much bigger viewing. I didn't know that the BWVs are not chronological. Are there K numbers for Bach?

[@Brian013100]

No, K is only for Mozart. Several composers were catalogued by someone other than themselves (Mozart, Debussy, Liszt), and their catalogue numbers use different letters (K for Mozart, L for Debussy, S for Liszt) which like Mozart are the cataloguer's initials; the vast majority use opus. Some composers, confusingly, have both opus and a different cataloguer (Schubert, Chopin); I wouldn't worry too much about them.

[@nodarikirtadze8220]

I'll go listen to Pastoral symphony now

[@csucskos]

I knew all of this but still wanted to check it out since I was never able to explain it in a well structured manner when someone asked. One minor complaint, the nicknames I think were mainly given by publishers to sell a piece or the listeners to easily differentiate. When you say Symphony in G major I ask OK, but which one? It's much easier to remember by the "Surprise" than lets say the Hoboken number.

[@davidfryer9218]

Is there any catalog numbers for Alma Deutscher? Also just how many pieces has she composed now. I'm also curious about the evolution of the Opera Cinderella I know it's gone through a number of changes in rewrites and I'd kind of like a better background on it than I've been able to piece together.

[@davidramos873]

Noice vid m8

[@jojojorisjhjosef]

I knew it, catalogue numbers never made sense as they mostly dont.

[@GoodNews-px2im]

Where is the gentleman in the thumbnail, and what do Roman numerals at the front of a title mean?

[@draekarys]

from what I understood, the no. and op. are the same thing xd but I must be misuderstanding something

[@draekarys]

I think something that always confused me was the fact that a whole title would say "symphony no. 5" and then "in C minor" as if I had the choice to look for "symphony no. 5 in D," for example. and also learning up the letters and numbers drives me crazy cause they really don't give me any extra info, it's just a letter or a number. while the title "pastoral" does mean something to me

[@5BBassist4Christ]

Some people have called Beethoven's 5th the Victory Symphony. I have wondered about the OP thing. Like if I'm listening to Spotify on shuffle and I hear something come up and I look at my phone to see what it is. I see "Beethoven: Symphony No. 6" -okay, good information. What movement? "The Pastoral Symphony". Okay, keep scrolling so I can see the movement number. "OP. 68". GET TO THE POINT! WHAT MOVEMENT?! "Hey, why are you staring at your phone? You've got work to do."

[@Johnadams20760]

i agree, i used to think i could figure out when in his life bach wrote something by BWV number than reliazed it has no logical order lol

[@davidfryer9218]

Another question that I have is how do you exactly define classical. For example to me the Angelina Jordan song, Song for A sounds classical to me but I don't think it actually is. But how exactly do you define it?

[@reysolo3672]

THANK YOU! I hope you can do an analysis on pop culture music. Do criticize its cons.

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

Lawrence Taylor's You Tube Comment in A# Major, the Greatful Comment, Opus 1, BKW 247

[@anuragsharma4159]

A loud but sad should be Major i guess?

[@evans3254]

I already know what the titles mean but I wanted a more in depth explanation and this was great. At 3:03 there was an orchestral piece playing, do you mind telling what it is? It caught my interest

[@hape3862]

It's the Cello Concerto by Edward Elgar.

[@evans3254]

@@hape3862 thanks, much appreciated

[@hape3862]

​@@evans3254 The Elgar Concerto is one of the most beautiful Cello Concertos. While discovering Elgar, don't miss out on his "Enigma Variations", his Violin Concerto and the "Pomp and Circumstances Marches" and you'll be hooked with classical music forever! But there is sooo much more to discover than just Edward Elgar, enough for more than a lifetime.

[@evans3254]

@@hape3862 I've been into classical music for about 14 years now. I haven't dove into Elgar yet

[@evans3254]

I love your enthusiasm and also will check out the pieces you recommended.

[@waitandsee42392]

What’s the piece played at 3:04 ?

[@davidramos873]

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[@aliasahar4700]

Now we all can sound a bit smarter..

[@rogerkearns8094]

I never understand that about particular keys having their own emotional significance. For example, if a piece in F major is played with, for some reason, instruments tuned a semitone too low, do we not hear that, presumably now in E major, with the same emotional significance as we would have in F? ( I understand the difference between major and minor; this question is not about that.)

[@marktow9895]

For instruments that play a semitone lower, the written music that will read a semitone higher. So in the end they make the intended noises after all.

[@rogerkearns8094]

@@marktow9895 I know; that's not what I mean. (Thanks anyway.)

[@Composer_]

Very interesting question, I've often wondered this myself. There's no way to measure this, all we can say is that it just sounds at a lower frequency, even all these keys he said in this video with F major being quite mellow, F major in beethovens time was a bit lower than today's f major so it's hard to say. But the fact that a piece is played higher or lower might move us in a way that if it's lower, it might sound a bit more dramatic or scary, but if it's higher it might sound a bit more energetic, these things come from evolution.

[@rogerkearns8094]

@@Composer_ Interesting, thank you; I'd assumed that it must somehow be something more profound than overall pitch, albeit that overall pitch seemed, to me, to be the only variable involved. It's reassuring, too, to learn that I'm not the only one who wondered about it! Cheers :)

[@danawinsor1380]

In the early 18th century the "major/minor" system of tonalities had been established but the system of equal temperament had not yet become standard. Therefore, the different keys were unique in a way they no longer are today. In those days theorists such as Johann Mattheson wrote about the emotional differences among them. At later periods and up to the present, despite equal temperament, people still hear differences in mood among the different keys (that is, among major keys and among minor keys, not just the difference between major and minor). I'm sure you can find articles about this phenomenon somewhere on the internet. Happy searching! This is a very interesting topic.

[@jackflanagle6079]

It's a true pity so many young people haven't a clue about classical music. (A recent survey revealed that most respondents under a certain age couldn't name a single classical composer). I wonder if the simplistic rubbish they listen to at earsplitting volume is, possibly, being churned out entirely by AI? Wouldn't surprise me. I'm past seventy and have been deeply enjoying classical since childhood even though it was never heard in my home. Can't imagine living in this crazy over-stressed world without it.

[@patricklewis9787]

Just wondering what are your favorite classical artists/ pieces? I’m only 19 and recently got into classical (enjoyed it since a kid too but only recently really got into it) and think it’d be cool to hear an opinion from a man who’s listened for 7 decades. My favorites so far are Tchaikovsky and Ravel. Beethoven too

[@juzzkuz3061]

I’ve learned smth about me from this vid, it’s that I prefer minors🫥