His music is so gorgeous. When I listen to classical music, I often get swept up in the world inside of it, but listening to minimalist music is very different. The music has a way of letting you get lost inside of yourself or your surroundings. It makes you present in a reality you weren’t really paying attention to
This is like taking an aural bath of notes! LOVE it. Repetitive? Yes. Harmony and structure? Yes. Ostinato? Yes. Compositionally sound? Yes. I'm in! As a piano player myself I have to say I enjoyed this piece very much. Music is subjective, anyway.
@@stacia6678 It's not really even simple in terms of structure though. You just have to analyze more in terms of pitch collections rather in terms of clear motives/melodies like you would in traditional forms.
@@Eorzat amen. In no way is anything about this piece simple from an analytical perspective. The beauty of it is that the listener perceives simplicity aurally. But that is entirely dependent on the extreme focus and musicianship required by performers to play this piece.
Despite being quite the opposite of a minimalist composer myself, nothing inspires me more than the works of John Adams or Philip Glass. There’s just something so exciting about hearing the patterns evolve and the sections changing. The primary idea behind this piece is so interesting! I’m definitely going to have to use it for my own stuff.
Transcendant. Perfect for our era - old music no longer describes us. The cars, the lights, the depression, the loneliness - this piece is our society, and it's broad enough for every one of us. The ones who don't understand simply have their head entrenched and nailed through the lining of their rectums. This piece is for them too. A tonic that is always deteriorating, always confused, lost - harmony that keeps slipping from a stable foundation, keeps murmuring, hopeful and wistful - life that does not believe in itself, but more strongly resents the world in brief bouts, and then returns to a sighing apathy, forced into a dejected content. It is the specialty of the minimalists to know exactly what is important of music. Here we only see what we need to - and from this little we can take so much.
You're right Zack. Ignore the 4 people above (or other ignorant people below me in future comments). This music really shows how dissonant people can be.
I first heard this piece in college for Music History class, and ever since, I have been coming back to listen to it often. Such a beautiful and captivating composition, not to mention what a challenge it must be to perform. The chord progression at 1:10 to me is vaguely reminiscent of James Newton Howard's final composition in the movie Signs (apart from the film itself, one of the most gorgeous and memorable soundtracks from him I have heard). Quite an incredible composer.
This is Phrygin amazing - how one can go back and forth between Phrygian and Lydian and then circle through the fifths. Wow! What genius! Who could have thought of something so original? My favorite part is the alternating Hanon exercises and the cluster chords. Never heard that before. And the melody is so subtle, so reminiscent of an imperial wardrobe.
There are blocks of measures of repetitious notes, a common occurrence in minimalistic music. Each block also has its own mode. Mainly, the piece modulates between Lydian and Phrygian modes, spending more time in Phrygian mode as time goes on. Although this temporal structure of mode shifting seems complex, the modal shifts follows a certain algorithm (particularly, following a sweeping pattern on the "circle of fifths"). That the music follows a simple algorithm is why it is "minimalistic"
In that sense, isn't this more of theoretical exercise in listening, rather than a "music" per se? Morton Feldman seemed to play with ideas of staying on a beat, but repeating nothings. Just constant changes in of a landing. Sort of like a gymnast doing a bunch of variations on a landing from the balance beam, yet never doing a single routine or dance. Again, more of a listening exercise than a music.
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A. 此曲的風格源頭：John Coolidge Adams是簡約主義的代表人之一，結合了簡約主義音樂和浪漫主義的部分風格。 B. 有趣之處：這首作品用重複簡單的結構，營造出簡約的音樂風格。而這首Phrygian Gates的姊妹作China Gates也是為人熟知的，被公認為他的劇作之一。 C. 作曲年代：1977~1978 D. 價值感：Phrygian Gates可以說是代表John Coolidge Adams從古典走向極簡約主義。 E. 風格形式：在他的音樂里，聽到的不是音符微妙的律動，而是一種與當代高速度生活絲絲入扣的機械飛馳之音，全曲原有大約24分鐘，曲子不斷迴旋，簡約主義的曲風在Phrygian與Lydian mode中不斷替換，非常獨特與美麗。 F. 本樂曲的重要性與影響：Phrygian Gates號稱開啟了電子音樂的大門。 G. 作曲的對象與可能的社會背景：John Coolidge Adams在麻薩諸塞州出生，幼年時即學習吹奏單簧管，而且十歲出頭便已經有自己創作的音樂作品上演。後來他又就讀於哈佛大學。1972年至1984年， Adams任教於舊金山音樂學院。1978年，他寫出了弦樂作品Shaker Loops，這部作品後來成為簡約主義音樂的經典作品之一。近期他的作品Scheherazade也在紐約愛樂演出。
Sometimes I wish there was a more tangible melody thrown in there every now and then, but the work has already been written and is successful and highly moving as it is. This would be very nice in a film
Chanter l'Ave Verum de Mozart, voix de basse, accompagnée d'un choeur de jeunes filles de 10 ans, par un après-midi de mai, devant un auditoire surpris par tant de beauté, et reconnaître en pleurant l'existence de Dieu...
Have heard several recordings of this, but this is my favorite performance of the piece. It's also the only time I've heard it played by a woman; perhaps it's a matter of touch or it could simply be that Gloria Cheng has a superior understanding of what the music is trying to express. Either way, it's superb and ethereal.
When I was younger, kinda looked down on minimalist music, because in my mind classical music wasn't supposed to be "easy". Now I realise how great minimalism is, it's sometimes better than the more complex styles of music.
This may be classified as minimallism but john had a new vision of minimallism where it was a blank slate to get away from complex european serialism . Thats why we have seen his works become more and more maximal . Even in this piece I hear maximallism . Trying to get my head around the odd beaming . Obviously he kept in in 4 4 and let the beaming spell out the phrases and time value . BTW its great that we can study music like this .Its one of youtubes biggest contributions . IMO . Love 2 all
Wonderful to see the score - a good pianist cou ld guess the harmonies correctly but the repetition is carefully constructed . We're lucky to have all our American minimalists . Imagine if we repeated lines in Bolcolm or Elliott Carter or Unsuk Chin or Threadgill or that wonderful American who writes really American sounding cartoon -inspired music ! This peaceful ,restful stuff (Arvo Part) needs a corollary . I have done a bit .The Dutch master Andriessen is great ! .
@Eddabed There are twelve distinct Phrygian scales, a mode is not the same as a key signature. A quick check on wikipedia confirms that Phrygian Gates is indeed written in the Phrygian mode.
In the course of this piece, Adams uses a constant, repetitive eighth note pulse. It's called "minimal" because he's stripped away any complexity and left only the gradually-evolving, simple, minimal eighth-note pulse. Granted, there are pieces out there more "minimal" by definition than this one. But it's essentially all there in this piece.
People that criticize minimal music are the ones that can't listen to it as it has to be listen, the same goes for the most part of the contemporary music in general, you can't listen to it as how you listen to Mozart, Chopin, Bach or Rachmaninoff
Honestly, I like this music. One thing I'm looking for right now is a composer similar to Steve Reich who wrote for solo piano, and even though Reich and Philip Glass are both classed as minimalists, I feel they are completely different from each other, and I don't find Glass nearly as interesting. But I feel like Adams has a bit of what I'm looking for, even though I can't say exactly what it is.
@thecollguy Hmm, interesting. Didn't notice that :O It just doesn't sound typically "Middle-Eastern" like Phrygian usually sounds like, that's probably why.
How difficult is this piece? I'm not saying performance-wise, but for a non-piano music major who's trying to pick up more rep, are parts of this doable just as an exercise? I would love some advice before I buy the score..
Check out all 60 pages of the score (parts 1 & 2) here: ark.media.mit.edu/~mike/music/scores/Adams/ ID leopold PW godowsky.There's more to it than heard/shown here.
I like this a lot, but I swear it should have been called Lydian gates ^____^ I can only hear Maj7#4 chords, with occasional 7th's on the bottom making it sound a bit Phrygian. Or maybe my ears have been institutionalised by contemporary Western music (... and Japanese RPGs and anime music which use Lydian chords a lot.) Edit: Ok, so 5:40 happened. I take it back.
Can I get people's opinions on this? I'm very curious - how do you think he actually went about composing this? Do you think he improvised the sections on the piano and recorded it and then wrote it out? Do you think he composed it abstractly, like just used theory and basic ideas of rhythm and harmony and wrote it measure by measure like stream of consciousness? Do you think he used a computer somehow? As a composer myself, I am completely awed by music like this because I have no idea how to approach it in my own pieces.
I feel you have to like Adams very much to play this. I planned to buy the score but I wonder if it is more difficult than is seems to be. Are there some pianists who plays this score? Répondez-moi en français si vous voulez.
This starts out great and turns into some exercise not too far off from what I saw a guild guide to music. At about 5:43 in it's too much. A nice Erik Satie-like ending 5:30-in would work nicely.
@Technicolor909 Send the link to friends. You can copy the URL and eMail it --- I send a lot of friendly suggestions of music.... at least the link is opened and gets more views, secondary but also good point....
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Absolutely stunning, an iconic piece of 20th century music
His music is so gorgeous. When I listen to classical music, I often get swept up in the world inside of it, but listening to minimalist music is very different. The music has a way of letting you get lost inside of yourself or your surroundings. It makes you present in a reality you weren’t really paying attention to
That's a very beautiful and apt way of describing it. Thanks.
This is like taking an aural bath of notes! LOVE it. Repetitive? Yes. Harmony and structure? Yes. Ostinato? Yes. Compositionally sound? Yes. I'm in! As a piano player myself I have to say I enjoyed this piece very much. Music is subjective, anyway.
I'm a big fan of complex music, but this shows that there is an infinite level of beauty in simplicity.
Repetitive maybe, but not simple. Imo
@@somonerandom706 Minimalism is an unfortunately misleading term.
@@somonerandom706 Simple in terms of structure.
@@stacia6678 It's not really even simple in terms of structure though. You just have to analyze more in terms of pitch collections rather in terms of clear motives/melodies like you would in traditional forms.
@@Eorzat amen. In no way is anything about this piece simple from an analytical perspective.
The beauty of it is that the listener perceives simplicity aurally. But that is entirely dependent on the extreme focus and musicianship required by performers to play this piece.
Despite being quite the opposite of a minimalist composer myself, nothing inspires me more than the works of John Adams or Philip Glass. There’s just something so exciting about hearing the patterns evolve and the sections changing. The primary idea behind this piece is so interesting! I’m definitely going to have to use it for my own stuff.
Transcendant. Perfect for our era - old music no longer describes us. The cars, the lights, the depression, the loneliness - this piece is our society, and it's broad enough for every one of us. The ones who don't understand simply have their head entrenched and nailed through the lining of their rectums. This piece is for them too.
A tonic that is always deteriorating, always confused, lost - harmony that keeps slipping from a stable foundation, keeps murmuring, hopeful and wistful - life that does not believe in itself, but more strongly resents the world in brief bouts, and then returns to a sighing apathy, forced into a dejected content.
It is the specialty of the minimalists to know exactly what is important of music. Here we only see what we need to - and from this little we can take so much.
its not that deep bro
If you choose to drag your mind thru the gutter you just described, who am i to judge what you listen to.
People are allowed to like different music. This speaks to some (me included) but not to others. You have to be able to respect that.
You're right Zack. Ignore the 4 people above (or other ignorant people below me in future comments). This music really shows how dissonant people can be.
Cardiacs we’re not ignorant, friend. You’re pretentious.
Achingly, meancingly ...beautiful
I first heard this piece in college for Music History class, and ever since, I have been coming back to listen to it often. Such a beautiful and captivating composition, not to mention what a challenge it must be to perform. The chord progression at 1:10 to me is vaguely reminiscent of James Newton Howard's final composition in the movie Signs (apart from the film itself, one of the most gorgeous and memorable soundtracks from him I have heard). Quite an incredible composer.
I can’t believe the president wrote this
I love this piece. It makes me feel okay about myself.
Thank you for showing the sheet music. As someone interested in minimalism it helps a LOT.
john adams will always be superb.
This is Phrygin amazing - how one can go back and forth between Phrygian and Lydian and then circle through the fifths. Wow! What genius! Who could have thought of something so original? My favorite part is the alternating Hanon exercises and the cluster chords. Never heard that before. And the melody is so subtle, so reminiscent of an imperial wardrobe.
John Massaro Can you indicate from what moment to which other this happens (using minutes and seconds...) Thx in advance
i laughed harder than I should have. gj sir.
this is best song ive ever hurd. those baroque guys sure know how to work a pianer
I feel lot of synaesthesia with John Adams and Steve Reich and with that I can say that their music taste delicious.
There are blocks of measures of repetitious notes, a common occurrence in minimalistic music.
Each block also has its own mode. Mainly, the piece modulates between Lydian and Phrygian modes, spending more time in Phrygian mode as time goes on. Although this temporal structure of mode shifting seems complex, the modal shifts follows a certain algorithm (particularly, following a sweeping pattern on the "circle of fifths"). That the music follows a simple algorithm is why it is "minimalistic"
In that sense, isn't this more of theoretical exercise in listening, rather than a "music" per se? Morton Feldman seemed to play with ideas of staying on a beat, but repeating nothings. Just constant changes in of a landing. Sort of like a gymnast doing a bunch of variations on a landing from the balance beam, yet never doing a single routine or dance. Again, more of a listening exercise than a music.
can i copy and paste your comment to use in homework
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Simple yet extraordinary. Thank you.
A. 此曲的風格源頭：John Coolidge Adams是簡約主義的代表人之一，結合了簡約主義音樂和浪漫主義的部分風格。
B. 有趣之處：這首作品用重複簡單的結構，營造出簡約的音樂風格。而這首Phrygian Gates的姊妹作China Gates也是為人熟知的，被公認為他的劇作之一。
C. 作曲年代：1977~1978
D. 價值感：Phrygian Gates可以說是代表John Coolidge Adams從古典走向極簡約主義。
E. 風格形式：在他的音樂里，聽到的不是音符微妙的律動，而是一種與當代高速度生活絲絲入扣的機械飛馳之音，全曲原有大約24分鐘，曲子不斷迴旋，簡約主義的曲風在Phrygian與Lydian mode中不斷替換，非常獨特與美麗。
F. 本樂曲的重要性與影響：Phrygian Gates號稱開啟了電子音樂的大門。
G. 作曲的對象與可能的社會背景：John Coolidge Adams在麻薩諸塞州出生，幼年時即學習吹奏單簧管，而且十歲出頭便已經有自己創作的音樂作品上演。後來他又就讀於哈佛大學。1972年至1984年， Adams任教於舊金山音樂學院。1978年，他寫出了弦樂作品Shaker Loops，這部作品後來成為簡約主義音樂的經典作品之一。近期他的作品Scheherazade也在紐約愛樂演出。
Lydia Huang right right. this is exactly what i am saying for years.
Masterpiece of sound.
Sometimes I wish there was a more tangible melody thrown in there every now and then, but the work has already been written and is successful and highly moving as it is. This would be very nice in a film
a pure beauty...
Beautiful!
This is very reminiscent of Weird Fishes by Radiohead
yes defo
Chanter l'Ave Verum de Mozart, voix de basse, accompagnée d'un choeur de jeunes filles de 10 ans, par un après-midi de mai, devant un auditoire surpris par tant de beauté, et reconnaître en pleurant l'existence de Dieu...
Even though Marcus Smart and John Adams got beef, I gotta say, dude went off on this one
calms down my heart ... muy schon... beautiful
@Eddabed It starts in E-Lydian but it only lasts that way until the first gate ends. Most of the piece is inthe Phrygian of different keys.
Have heard several recordings of this, but this is my favorite performance of the piece. It's also the only time I've heard it played by a woman; perhaps it's a matter of touch or it could simply be that Gloria Cheng has a superior understanding of what the music is trying to express. Either way, it's superb and ethereal.
When I was younger, kinda looked down on minimalist music, because in my mind classical music wasn't supposed to be "easy". Now I realise how great minimalism is, it's sometimes better than the more complex styles of music.
This is not an easy piece to play at all; keeping a steady tempo is difficult.
what an amazing piece; have to own a copy to perform!!
bellissimo pezzo. bellissimo.
wow - this is amazing.
This may be classified as minimallism but john had a new vision of minimallism where it was a blank slate to get away from complex european serialism . Thats why we have seen his works become more and more maximal . Even in this piece I hear maximallism . Trying to get my head around the odd beaming . Obviously he kept in in 4 4 and let the beaming spell out the phrases and time value . BTW its great that we can study music like this .Its one of youtubes biggest contributions . IMO . Love 2 all
Cool, that's exactly the sort of answer I was looking for! Thanks!
I was expecting to hear a song in Phrygian mode, but this isn't bad :)
in these 10 years, I wonder if anyone has told you that he switches from Lydian to Phrygian and back
Hypnotic.
great piece
Truly atmospheric...
Sublime
Performer: Gloria Cheng-Cochran
CD: Piano Music of John Adams & Terry Riley
This is really good. I love tonal minimalism.
Brilliant
This is both a piece I have to study and a piece that is helping me study.
It sounds cliche but there are no words to describe what this piece makes me feel
Very good.
This music stopped my neck hurting…
2:48 aaaaaaaah :)
giving me evangelion vibes, really great piece
very good
The contrast is sharp, c-sharp -_-, imperssive .
Wonderful to see the score - a good pianist cou ld guess the harmonies correctly but the repetition is carefully constructed . We're lucky to have all our American minimalists . Imagine if we repeated lines in Bolcolm or Elliott Carter or Unsuk Chin or Threadgill or that wonderful American who writes really American sounding cartoon -inspired music ! This peaceful ,restful stuff (Arvo Part) needs a corollary . I have done a bit .The Dutch master Andriessen is great ! .
@Eddabed There are twelve distinct Phrygian scales, a mode is not the same as a key signature. A quick check on wikipedia confirms that Phrygian Gates is indeed written in the Phrygian mode.
Finally.........a John Adams piece with a key signature!
' Call me by your name'..
In the course of this piece, Adams uses a constant, repetitive eighth note pulse. It's called "minimal" because he's stripped away any complexity and left only the gradually-evolving, simple, minimal eighth-note pulse. Granted, there are pieces out there more "minimal" by definition than this one. But it's essentially all there in this piece.
@thecollguy soooo what about the D#s? :P or would that be for when it goes through one of the "gates" (fast modal changes)? :)
People that criticize minimal music are the ones that can't listen to it as it has to be listen, the same goes for the most part of the contemporary music in general, you can't listen to it as how you listen to Mozart, Chopin, Bach or Rachmaninoff
Did she play it with music or from memory? Imagine trying to memorise this!!
曲名中就有隱喻Phrygain調式的意義。
1977-1978
從實驗作品到一個藝術作品的呈現。
為獨奏鋼琴所寫的作品。利用循環五度的方式，從A到E到B到F#到C#以及D#，從Lydian調式漸漸轉換成Phrygain調式。
Honestly, I like this music. One thing I'm looking for right now is a composer similar to Steve Reich who wrote for solo piano, and even though Reich and Philip Glass are both classed as minimalists, I feel they are completely different from each other, and I don't find Glass nearly as interesting. But I feel like Adams has a bit of what I'm looking for, even though I can't say exactly what it is.
Try "Lir" by the Belgian composer Wim Mertens.
Elio, Elio, Elio...
friggin gates
존 애덤스 - 프리지안 게이트 : 대부분 온음계적 선법에서 가져온 빠르게 반복되는 음형들로 구성, 일군의 음들에서 다른 일군의 음들로 변화하면서 [게이트]를 통과
@H057IL3 It's phrygian dominant that has that middle eastern you're talking about I guess, same as phrygian but with a sharpened 3rd
5:40 is so metal
22 thousand views? Why not 22 million? Or billion?
@thecollguy Hmm, interesting. Didn't notice that :O
It just doesn't sound typically "Middle-Eastern" like Phrygian usually sounds like, that's probably why.
This sounds like the beginning of "Don't you know" by Jacob Collier and Snarky Puppy. It sounds like syncopations but this one has arpeggios.
It's not in Phrygian mode until we reach the "phrygian gate" at about 2:48.
could you please upload a new link with the entire score? I need it for and orchestration i want to make. Thank you so much
ark.media.mit.edu/~mike/music/scores/Adams/ ID leopold PW godowsky
This note repetition is 10 min 2 seconds of the piano tuner tuning the piano and making sure all the notes work.
This piece is in the FLCM syllabus. Can you fucking believe it?
5:41 O_O
Differences on the matter of taste and opinion.What's the point? Respect.
Creating something new.
Who's performing it?
Yeah indeed, I think you'd be hard-pressed not to hear the e and b (h) as well as the part that follows as an E major passage.
Like an arpeggiator on a vst piano instrument
5:22
Of course spotify wouldn't have this recording...
@Technicolor909 Because is a music difficult to appreciate... I think....
How difficult is this piece? I'm not saying performance-wise, but for a non-piano music major who's trying to pick up more rep, are parts of this doable just as an exercise? I would love some advice before I buy the score..
Check out all 60 pages of the score (parts 1 & 2) here: ark.media.mit.edu/~mike/music/scores/Adams/ ID leopold PW godowsky.There's more to it than heard/shown here.
I like his way of doing minimalist music much more than Glass' or Reich's.
very rain like. I want to learn this piece :).
Why are there some little boxes page 18?
I think that Adams just wanted to get attention to the sharp notes which ideologically belongs to next section.
I like this a lot, but I swear it should have been called Lydian gates ^____^ I can only hear Maj7#4 chords, with occasional 7th's on the bottom making it sound a bit Phrygian. Or maybe my ears have been institutionalised by contemporary Western music (... and Japanese RPGs and anime music which use Lydian chords a lot.)
Edit: Ok, so 5:40 happened. I take it back.
Can I get people's opinions on this? I'm very curious - how do you think he actually went about composing this? Do you think he improvised the sections on the piano and recorded it and then wrote it out? Do you think he composed it abstractly, like just used theory and basic ideas of rhythm and harmony and wrote it measure by measure like stream of consciousness? Do you think he used a computer somehow? As a composer myself, I am completely awed by music like this because I have no idea how to approach it in my own pieces.
It sounds like a lot of improvisation, that was then morphed into a composition with some theoretical analysis and calculation
This is piece is probably a nightmare to learn and memorize.....
what kind of god plays the whole song like this?
@H057IL3 I believe it is in phrygian.
It starts in Lydian, goes to Phrygian, then back to Lydian. :)
I feel you have to like Adams very much to play this. I planned to buy the score but I wonder if it is more difficult than is seems to be. Are there some pianists who plays this score? Répondez-moi en français si vous voulez.
+Nicolas Messina I think that is the same for any music ~ you have to really like any composer/piece to play it well
This is true.
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This starts out great and turns into some exercise not too far off from what I saw a guild guide to music. At about 5:43 in it's too much. A nice Erik Satie-like ending 5:30-in would work nicely.
@Technicolor909 Send the link to friends. You can copy the URL and eMail it --- I send a lot of friendly suggestions of music.... at least the link is opened and gets more views, secondary but also good point....
This reminds me Daydreaming by Radiohead
1:07
Schumann-esque...
2:38
im rly curious why people call this uncreative. what is you guys' definition of creative anyway?
song?
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