Martha Argerich's performance is my favorite. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n04GkRTC_Lo.html Do you have any thoughts on her intepretation?
fantastic analysis, you have ' transcended' the sometimes dry analysis to compositional insights. As a viewer I could feel that you are a composer. If you ever were to get round to it, more content like this would be very welcome.
12:11 In Bar 8 soprano and alto do not merge into one voice. The soprano clearly stays in the tied E from the previous bar and the alto enters with an A minim at bar 8. No merging.
This is great! I've been reading through MacFarren's 1886 Counterpoint (I just like the way he goes through it but definitely going to look at Prout now!). This allowed me to start working on a simple Fugue and this gave me an easy in, very accessible, many thanks :)
When ever I get lost in a tangent of miss information I come back to this video it's brilliant, I love how bach utilises the accents on 1 & 3 of his concomitent parts by using smaller lead in notes to emphasise the strong beat or creates space at these points for another voice to do it. It's Magical and Marvellous work can we expect any more videos please? Ray
It might just be me looking for it but I feel like the Coriolan motif is everywhere. Like so many places! Just small fragments or hints of it harmonically, some times spread out across octaves, other times rhythmically referred. Amazing video! Thank you so much for making it! This piece is truly a masterpiece of great dimensions!
You’re welcome! And you’re not alone 👍 It’s often the case with Tierce de picardie (for me at least), although in this example and in Bach’s original I personally hear more of G minor because of the B flats and the prior hints of G minor noted in the video.
@@trocomposition4216 I finished! I did a lot of copying of schema and modeling after your and Bach's material, and I annotated the whole thing to remember what I did. This is by far my best result so far. Thank you for this excellent video.
A really great video packed with lots of practical information. Demystified a fascinating subject (no pun intended). But a “simple” fugue? I think not !
Fantastic interpretation, thanks a lot! This harmonic Bm never lets go! :) There are very good versions by Lugansky (my favorite), Ashkenazy and Pisarenko on youtube. Who are you using here?
The Liszt sonata is already some 60 years my favourite piano piece. But after this "explanation" I finally get why I cannot play it. Far too difficult. My favourite interpretation is the version recorded by George Bolet
Countless arrangements I've been listening to for a few months and couldn't put my finger on why I loved it so much... until NOW. Thank you so much for doing this!
“Technique only has value when it serves an end that transcends the means” How beautifully said! Thank you for this wonderful video dear sir. This piece lives in a deep place within my heart.
The way you talk about music is amazing! I love how your not just focusing on the harmonic and melodic features etc (though incredibly detailed and useful) but also the effects it has which is fascinating. Most valuable music analysis out there thank you. Currently watching all your analysis' to get inspiration for my A level composition.
Useful video. But would be more helpful if you teach us HOW to construct countersubjects, episodes and transitions after the subject; WHY and HOW they need to be written in certain ways or intervals to conserve the harmonies of all the voices.
Thank you for a wonderfully clear and illuminating analysis! And also for avoiding any programmatic interpretation -- my feeling is that had Liszt intended to limit the scope of the piece to a particular scenario, he would have said something about it to someone else at some point. I feel you are quite correct to hear the Sonate as a process between Light and Darkness, the two polar opposites of the composer's makeup... many of Liszt's works explore this terrain in one way or another, though never in such a concise and densely packed form.
Hi James. Thanks for watching! Remember the Answer is schematised in A minor here, so the F# is the 6th in A Dorian and chord IV is Major (derived from A Dorian) rather than the more common minor iv (derived from harmonic minor). There are plenty of other ways of schematising it, but this section of the video was focusing on the contrast in key between Subject and Answer, so this analysis focuses on that element.
This piece has been close to my heart for some time and I really enjoyed your brilliant analysis, thank you so much! I am amazed by Schubert's genius again and again
Sir, I am a student particularly interested in the New Formenlehre. I would like to know if you teach music theory & composition for students like me, sir.
I really appreciate you making this very insightful analysis! I like your interpretation of the ending as the forces of darkness (deprived of their strength and threat) leaving the stage one by one.
If someone played this, I would have thought Bach had written it. It is very well written. Ever since I was a teenager, I have loved the form of fugue in music and even attempted to compose a couple of fugues (terrible ones) myself. This video explains a lot about how they are stuck together. Should I pick up my pencil again?
I actually have to thank you a lot for posting this. A detailed analysis of the sonata is really difficult to be done. I really appreciate your effort; not many people have such knowledge 💯
Thank you for the terrific analysis of this piece. Incredibly thorough and very useful. If I may make one suggestion, please feel free to play the sections you're discussing more often, even twice. It's always helpful to the brain to put the words right next to the phrases you're discussing.
I love music and can sort of play the piano but I'm not a scholar and this is just perfect in being accessible yet also providing information that makes more sense to someone who has studied music. I have listened to this piece a lot lately and spotted motifs and some order but your interpretation is marvelously clarifying.
Hi! I’ve made the analysis of Contrapunctus I private as I want to make a couple of edits, but as I haven’t had time yet I’ll make it public again for a while 👍
