how to harmonise a melody like a romantic composer 

Amazing how a few chromaticisms move the melody somewhere else !

It almost feels like you started in the early romantic period like with Beethoven and moved into a later romantic style with this line, ultimately sounding more Schumann-esque

This video is incredible! The style is straightforward and clear. More please???

This is crazy useful! I definitely struggle with harmonising from a given melody, especially in a romantic style, but this is super clear. Thanks for all the help :)

Am I the only one who loves the first one? Tbf, I love the classical styles of Mozart, Haydn, and Paganini to death, and that cadential 6/4 felt very homey and nostalgic.

A lot of this went over my head, but I really enjoyed just listening to the changes and hearing you explain them. Thanks for broadening my musical palate!

You're a great source for quick, easy-to-digest music content. As a fellow composer, stuff like this is incredibly useful when it comes to opening into deeper study and utilising techniques like this in my own writing! Like man, I could've adapted some of these ideas when I was working on my symphony!

I actually enjoyed the example at 1:14 the most, with the suspension and appoggiatura in the Violin II. That first suspension is beautiful.

I loved it! It feels like you switched on/off the Brahms plugin

Thank you for playing the examples several times it really helped me understand what you were doing. ❤

Great video. After you added the interrupted cadence I was screaming at the screen "that doesn't sound resolved anymore!! AGH" which I suppose is the point :) . Interesting food for thought in my own improvisation.

I've started learning to compose properly recently and this is like the perfect thing for me to find. Thank you

This kind of video makes you realize how similar Romantic composers are to Jazz.

Beginner pianist here! This was so impressive to watch as you build up a simple romantic melody to something even more beautiful and interesting! It truly makes me fall in love with classical (romantic-era) music all over again :)

Love it. Examples of music theory in motion like this light that fire in me while I build up my piano technique before continuing with my composition work. Subbed.

Thank you for providing such well-laid out and clear examples of harmonic possibilities. I liked the point made about not necessarily using everything!

love this video. had the feeling of a painting tutorial. please do more videos in this style, taking concepts from classical music and explaining them clearly by applying them in a composition

Thank you for this information, YOU GAINED NEW SUB! Keep up the good work man!

Short, concise, practical and well explained. Perfect.

This has been inspirational to my own compositional art. Thank you!

Amazing teacher. Appreciate more videos of this kind. Thank you again

Sometimes, simple things sound more beautiful.

Great video, concepts are very nicely explained👏👏

Fantastic. Very well done, very clear and to the point. God job!!!

lol thank u so much for telling us to try it, I tried it and honestly I feel like I nailed it might have to expand, bless you for this

This is awesome, thank you very much for doing this.

underrated channel, great advice

This video was very understanding and great. i learned a lot from this!

Thank you. Such a great, short video. Subscribed!!

A very helpful video. Keep up the great work !!

This is a great exercise for me: please more of these ❤

Very informative! Thank you!

Very well done explanation/example!

EXCELLENT VIDEO !!! PLEASE MORE HARMOMIZING MELODY VIDEOS 👏🙌

short and sweet, well done

Very well explained. More please!

Okay, you got my attention, I’m all ears and I left you you a sub, it’s nothing much but I hope this will make your day better.

That was awesome! Please make more videos like that. :)

3:02 we should show this to anyone who says they can’t tell the difference between schubert and schumann

THAT ITALIAN 6TH god it sounds so beautiful

awesome, thanks for this

Eye-opening (or should that be ear-opening) to hear the two versions side by side at the end. Great work!

Good stuff, harmony is so wonderful :)

Really nice video. You really showed a nuanced understanding of harmony here

The additions to the original harmonisation move the music into more adventurous areas and that's fine, but the true talent of any composer in any age Western European music is to understand the value of simplicity and to sense when that's the appropriate choice. Some of the profoundest and most memorable passages of music, from Palestrina through Bach, Haydn, Brahms, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Copeland to Britten, Shostakovich, Ligeti, Glass and others "hit the mark" through simplicity, directness and transparency.

very very helpful thank you!

Very inspiring and professional. Please upload more of the same concept👌

Nice, good things to learn

Thank you Sir. It is wonderful to continue learning.

That was so cool!

beautiful!

That was a really interesting watch! As a fellow Singaporean, I could also recognise your Singaporean accent immediately 😂

More about harmonizing please!

Great lesson! Please, keep going😊

I wish the video played the raw melody. I cannot read sheet music without a reference tone, but I can think up chords and tones up very well in my head

Good video 👍 finally someone who knows what's talking about

Brilliant!!!

An incredible brief video

That was amazing! Thank you. The only thing I missed was the actual sound of the strings. Anyway, great vid

Great video, more from the romantic era please!

Great content… good luck

Arhhh, harmony and counterpoint. My arch nemesis.

Very nice!

Plz keep doing vids like this one

So much helpful information in such a short video!

Hello fellow composer! Nice video!

Hmmm! sounds like Brahms and Reger too! Delicious.

Dope!

great video

I think one of the best impact was adding non harmony notes to bring more movement and spice to the inner lines ; will you be making more videos about that aspect ?

Good video.

The second violin part is tasteful!!!

the most MOST important thing in music, in my opinion, is narrative and context. There is space for every sound and ambient in music, given the narrative and context. Rationalization of compositional tools and processes, also subjective descriptors, gain more meaning and becomes more useful when associated with narrative and context.

I don't understand anything of this but the first thing already sounded very nice!

That’s great!! Which romantic harmony book do you suggest for me to study?

Last measure tension / resolution: Violin II - D (first beat) to C (second / third beats) ...

Holy crap, this was enlightening. Please do more of these!

earned a sub

Sounds like some Joe Hisaishi Ghibli magic! Love it!

Very good chromaticism!

💛💛💛

nice

Very interesting, thanks! I think this sounds more like the first iteration of a musical idea early in a music piece, then the second, enriched one, later in the piece. Do you know how to acquire the "tools" you mentioned at the end of the video? I try to remember the ones I see in each piece I learn but is there some kind of list? Do you have one?

The italian chord broke my hearth.

Is there a wrong note in the audio for the first chord of the viola part in the final harmonization? The chord sounds like a V42 of ii instead of a viiº43, with a C in the viola instead of a Db.

Where can I find this collection of given melodies?

are there books one can go through to learn about chords and harmony? this kind of analysis. what are some of them?

Thank you. Very interesting! Could you sometimes do some stuff about 64-chords in romantic music? It seems, they appear occasionally "irregular". That means: not as a transitus and not as a suspension bevor 53 but more like a "normal" chord.

Wanting to learn this style of orchestration. Any recommendations on literature I can read?

That first option with the interrupted cadence sounds like Randy Newman

Could you explain how you've named the chord at 3:21 at the upbeat? I'm not really sure how this chord is vii43dim/ii in Eb. Thank you!

The italian chord is good to know

What’s the piece from this video?

Armonice eso pero en do menor. Ya que Mi bemol mayor sentía que no le queda. Pero es mi opinión. Kas posibilidades de componer esa base son muchas.

It would be cool for the Cello's B natural in bar 4 to come a beat earlier!

jazz

Out of curiosity, you mentioned that the Italian 6th is a predominant chord, but when I listen to it, it sounds like a dominant chord to me. I get that it's technically an enharmonic with a dominant 7th chord (with the 5th omitted), but the Cb It6 chord to my ear in this context makes me hear a B7 leading to a Bb... or a II-V to the V with a tritone sub on the II chord. I think part of why I'm feeling that chord as a dominant is because the F-natural (or E#) in the melody would be the lydian of the B7 dominant chord, so it injects a tense brightness at that moment.. Also, I'm curious how you address the F-natural in the Cb It6 chord.. or do you just see it as a non-harmonic passing tone? Fascinating how aspects of jazz theory and classical theory sorta intermingle with each other, TBH.

In the recording it sounds like you play a V42/ii (C/Bb) instead of the diminished chord written in the music and fig. bass, but I think it sounds better that way anyways.

Yoo could you do some kapustin, maybe his 4th concerto

This was great! Do you have any useful resources on harmonisation? I’m trying to compose more in my free time and it’s difficult because I don’t have my piano on me at the moment.