These animations are literally the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. It just shows the genius behind the composers to have been able to see how all those melodies could come together.
I am really surprised at the number of people saying that can't stand this piece because of it's melodic/temporal dissonance. This was one of the first pieces of music I heard when I was 4 years old on Fantasia. It has always had such a place in my mind, like it makes me feel a way no other piece of music can. Absolutely love it.
H3Vtux consider though, that when it was first played in Paris, the whole ballet provoked something of a riot among the spectators. Even in its premier it was incredibly controversial.
Dissonances ? Far away from the standard harmonies, as the voices of the different instruments move, some of them come close enough to make a dissonance with the next one, while they make a harmony with a lot of others... This is a werk of supremacy the composer a brillant genie, and those who dislike it, they dont have to be afraid... If they listen carefully again and again, the schemes will be tonaly recognisable and the musical paterns will be one after tbe other relevated. This is celebration music, dance and ballet together. Of course its not like a Waltz of Strauss...
Honestly, the most realistic sound I've EVER heard a virtual orchestra make. The only thing that sometimes makes you remember that it's not real is the ridiculous of the muted trumpet, and every once in a while in the high winds.
Stravinsky's understanding of the particular qualities of each orchestral instrument is what amazes me. The use of a bassoon at the very top of it's register to play the entry theme for example. This technique turns the entire orchestra into totally fresh and new.
stravinsky had the knowledge of 20th century orchestration, but he did not have the knowledge of writing fucking music and smashed his keyboard in shame instead.
Part I 00:05 Introduction 03:17 Augurs of Spring 06:26 Ritual of Abduction 07:47 Spring Rounds 11:22 Ritual of the Rival Tribes 13:07 Procession of the Oldest and Wisest One 13:47 The Dancing Out of the Earth
Glad you think so. Tell your friends! I'm hoping that lots of people will know about this video in time for the 100-year anniversary of the piece's premiere (May 29th), so anything you can do to help spread the word will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks to this electronic recording, I'm hearing many different parts and sections that I've never heard in 20 years of knowing this music inside and out. Very intriguing.
I'm a very visually-oriented person, and though I love orchestral music, it's always been a little hard for me to really grok it's shape and structure. I first discovered your work many years ago on a post of the old 'Well'... that early site in Sausalito, CA... I think it was a Bach fugue... and just LOVED it...! Finally I could SEE the music and how it all came together. But I lost your name and had been looking for it for years now. Delighted to not only find you and your work again... but to see/hear Le Sacre... my favorite piece... it's such a treat. THANKS...!!
I love this era of music so much. Before, it was trapped emotion, controlled emotion, and now, the whole of dissonance has been released. What comes are great things, and lovely expressions. From romanticism and forward, it is only unrestrained music in its full glory.
Nietzsche's Moustache Is the Best ballet is, a spectacular none the less. I once watched the four seasons danced in what looked like a raised boxing ring without the ropes on Christmas day. It was on television and it was quite by chance and quite wonderful to have seen. Yours sincerely, I Prefer Eyebrows.
6:02 it's incredible how much this part remembers the EDM POP of these days. A very strong bass rhythm, a simple and repetitive melody and a 300 sound FX.
This is one of the greatest masterpieces of music ever wrtten. It was composed in 1913,when Stravinsky was 30 years old. Hard to imagine there are people who, 101 years later are shocked by it. The graphics above are wonderful. I think Iggy would have enjoyed seeing this.
I have loved Le Sacre inordinately from the first time I heard it in my teens. It took no 'acquiring'. It took no getting over a prejudice for tonality. It is utterly amazing... and Malinowski has given us all a fantastic view of it, maybe making this HIS masterpiece as well as Stravinsky's.
I put a lot of effort into this animated graphical score (see www.musanim.com/pdf/RoS_MalinowskiBacal_ProgramNotes_2013jul24.pdf), and I'm very pleased with how it turned out, but I think the main reason it's so effective is that Stravinsky's composition is so well suited to this kind of treatment. I had to solve a lot of technical challenges to make it, but other pieces have been more challenging artistically. I'm currently working on Ravel's La Valse, and I think I'm adding more to the music for that piece than I did for Le Sacre.
Every time I listen to this synthesised recording, I'm blown away. It feels like I'm on the conductors podium and can hear each part with such clarity. Amazing work.
Spring Rounds (8:16) is one of my favorite sections of this piece.. In the midst of all this chaos, a semblance of normalcy appears. It’s a beautiful melodic passage that seems so out of place, we’re lulled into a false sense of security. And then Stravinsky rips it away at 9:45. Absolute genius.
This reminds us that there are many ways to appreciate what we hear. For those who cannot read an orchestral score this is the perfect post-Disney representation of this monumental work that never gets stale no matter how many times you listen to it.
i love this piece and you did a really really good job. this goes for all of your videos really but it's so nice to have a rolling graphic score like this, it really helps me pick out the different voices and see recurring motifs and notice changes of scale and really zoom in on all these details. i love it!
This is the 1st time I've been able to appreciate this work by Stravinsky. By watching the visualization of his music, I can finally understand the organization is this chaotic sounding piece. Thank you!
Even more astonishing than the incredible visualisation is the expressiveness of the synthetic performance. The capability and subtlety of MIDI has come such a long way.
Thank you smalin. The graphical representation mirrors the art of the music itself, and for me makes this beautifully complex piece more accessible. Tonal complexities that are difficult for me to hear are easy to see, and thus I hear more of the music while watching your wonderful animation.
This is wonderful! I wish visual scores like this could accompany live performances. I think they are incredibly helpful in understanding the music, as well as creating a fuller sensory experience.
This is hypnotizing.. An X-Ray into one of the most ambitious and path-breaking orchestral works ever written. Hats off to you Sir !! I think this should be used to teach the structure of the Rite in music schools.
I’ve used this to teach elements of music, staccato, legato, sustain...etc as well as dynamics. I’ve asked students to list descriptive words as the sections change as well as using movement to do the same. It’s a brilliant piece of art. Possibilities are endless.
This is an astonishingly brilliant rendition and video "score" as well. I would never have guessed that the music was not done by a top-flight orchestra. The score is mind-blowing and beautiful. If only there were a "market" for such matchless brilliance and beauty.
smalin A populist market. One that would bring in the kind of money that it deserves. Popular music often brings in millions of viewers, and rakes in big bucks. Too bad your video rendition can't match that, due to the dumbing down of most culture in our society.
Tom Furgas Millions of people have watched my videos, and millions of people have seen The Rite of Spring. (I don't know how "dumbed down" my viewers are ...)
This is brilliant. A shame the Disney Fantasia animators will never see it. It would blow their minds. The "performance" is very convincing. I thought it was a real orchestra until I read the notes. I am most impressed by the MIDI "performance" and the animation.
I am simply astounded. I first heard The Rite Of Spring in 1958, instantly fell in love with the music and have listened to many different recorded versions over the years - and, of course have got to know the music very well. As a non-musician who can't read the dots I think this is a very exciting way to follow the music. I would say more but I'm running out of characters. Thank you, smalin!
I think Stravinsky must rank as maybe the greatest in his mastery at making amazing use of the particular sound characteristics of each orchestral instrument. His orchestrations are as amazing as his music.
Aaah, Stravinsky .... Love your graphical scores. Love both hearing and seeing music. Wow! For a moment 3:17 reminded me of the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
Your videos are amazing! Thank you. I am a music teacher and I show your videos in class. They are such a good representation of complex musical elements like melody, rhythm, tempo, texture, form... you name it. They are so thoughtfully done! Keep making more videos- you clearly have a talent for it. I just wanted to let you know how much of an impact your videos have!
@@plaierdifortnaiti9955 this person you're replying to is off their meds... There is another thread of him/her arguing about how awful this piece of music is.
This is really helpful to understand the flow of the music and is quite lovely to look at while listening. I am surprised there is so much BREATH in the graphics. Really nice. I would suggest also more detail than "Jay Bascal" -- I don't know the orchestra nor the date of the performance and if there was a dance troupe as well, they should be credited. Thanks for this!
Jay Bacal is a master at making synthetic recordings (see the FAQ). I've made animated graphical scores for four of them. See ruclips.net/p/PLtj_HurkS7ZwWZ9V-au8-4ynLC2VnUrAU
Oh, my - this is absolutely riveting! I will be checking out more of these videos. Fantasia gave me fascinating associations many decades ago, but this is putting the musical experience into the stratosphere for me. So amazing how the visual lets my brain easily separate, then re-unite the voices, while hearing them all play together in a much more conscious manner.
I love it. I love the mean tempered grand staff. It distinguishes the minor and major thirds. I saw this a few years ago and I was pretty sure it was smalin. But I had a hard time. I couldn't find one of them. Finally at the end of Bach Cantata and fugue in D minor there was an in-video link near the very end. It showed this staff for rhapsody and blue. The link went to rhapsody and blue but without this effect. I was aggravated but finally followed on to this piece which has it. Wow thank you. Keep it simple.
this is simply amazing, honestly this is the best way my eyes have ever tried to actually watch music, simply remarkable work. I bet Stravinsky would cry of joy if he could see this. Great Work, keep on it til the end of your days.
Bravo!!!!! I have been waiting for this day. Spring is here a 100 years later and its animated. Thank you so much for providing this enriching content.
I love your music animations! Since I was young, I'd see, in my minds eye, music much like how you perform it on these videos. They're fascinating. Thank you from bringing my imagination into such vivid focus!
You're quite welcome. I hope you subscribe (and click the 'bell' for notifications) so that you can see my latest animated graphical scores as I post them.
Goodness gracious, this is fabulous. I'm taking about 87 fourth graders to see a symphony orchestra concert next week, and (part of) this piece is on the program. Your visualization really helps them to understand things like accents and texture that can otherwise be somewhat hard to grasp for young kids. Thank you SO MUCH for all of the time and effort that you obviously put into this amazing work!
Yes, I agree. If I had hired Stravinsky to make something that was visually effective with my style of animated graphical score, I would have been more than satisfied with the result.
I was listening to some late symphonies of Mozart just before listening to this. Not to diss Wolfie, but Stravinsky is like a quantum leap ahead in orchestral sophistication, at least in my mind.
You sound like some preppy dumbell who just got into classical music yesterday and wants everyone to know how much better she suddenly is than everyone else because of it and how into Mozart and Beethoven she is while never listening to anything even remotely challenging or out of the ordinary. Mozart is easy listening because that was his intent. A ten year old with a slightly above average IQ can appreciate Mozart. I imagine Stravinsky takes a little bit more concentration for most people but if you can't see the merits then that's your defect, not Stravinsky's. Just stop embarrassing yourself, you come off as a thirteen year old who was "born in the wrong generation" and listens to nothing later than Beethoven for about a year before tiring of posing and going back to listening to Radiohead and My Chemical Romance.
Dude, I listen to the rites like every other day, its one of my favorite pieces, before this i never fully realized how intricate it is. This helps you to see it in a completely different manner lol
A lot of the great jazz musicians loved Stravinsky, and vice versa. There’s a story about Charlie Parker spotting Stravinsky in the audience at one of his gigs. Parker told his band to play “KoKo,” and during the second chorus he quoted the intro to The Firebird in Stravinsky’s honor. “Stravinsky roared with delight, pounding his glass on the table, the upward arc of the glass sending its liquor and ice cubes onto the people behind him, who threw up their hands or ducked.”
Just wanted to thank you smalin for all these wonderful videos. You've inspired a lot of people to change their view of music, and others to maybe pick back up their instrument they haven't touched in years. Whatever the case, I'm sure everyone agrees, you've done the world some good, even if a small portion of it.
The Spring Rounds used to be my least favorite part of this piece, but somehow, especially after learning it on piano, it has grown a lot on me. I used to HATE the brass glissandos and the clashing of the bimelodic bitonal parts, but it is now my absolute most favorite section of the rite.
Indeed. I heard the piece live for the first time a few months ago. I was expecting to be able to hear more than I heard in various orchestral recordings I'd listened to, and I did, but there were still things that I'd heard in Bacal's rendition that were obscure even "ideal" concert circumstances.
Over the years, I've rewritten it many times, in different languages, on different platforms. I do it in whatever language I'm most comfortable with at the time, on whatever hardware I have at the time. It really doesn't make much difference.
I remember being in my music history class last semester and being introduced to this piece with the dancing. Everyone literally said "What the fuck is this" Hell, even I did. But the more I kept listening to it, the more I fell in love with it. People hate what they don't know, and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is truly out of this world and unordinary I get why people don't like this, so I don't judge them for it. But I, adore this piece, a lot. I'm really into Bach's fugues and stuff so getting attached to something as eccentric as the Rite of Spring wasn't too difficult. It was really the dancing that made me so confused. You guys should take a look at it.
After watching that, everything I look at is slowly moving to the right. Fantastic visualisation, and a very crisp/accurate rendition of Part 1. Thankyou for putting this together. It was very enjoyable!
I have been waiting for this one for quite some time now, and I surely wasn't disappointed. On the contrary, I think you absolutely outdid yourself. Congratulations on a fantastic piece of work! Looking forward to part II.
Translation: Listen to Stravinsky's symphony, I think it inspired the movie "Superman", and "Star Wars". The sound track of American composer John Williams is shadowing Stravinsky's. I think that's what it says, my Chinese is not perfect.
Smalin, I don´t know if you hear this often, but your videos are a service to all humanity! Keep this amazing work for as long as you can! I´m sorry I can´t congratulate you enough.
I think this is the most ambitious animation I have seen you do ! Absolutely superb, and I can only imagine the amount of work that went into this. Thank you.
I understand that they at the premier did not like the dancing! A year later Stravinsky conducted in Paris just the music and the audience heartedly applauded.
You know you've watched too much smalin when you look away and the room starts slowly shifting right
Or too many waterfalls ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_aftereffect
or spinning...
That literally just happened to me. It felt like my computer was about to fall out of my lap.
That boy ain’t right
These animations are literally the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. It just shows the genius behind the composers to have been able to see how all those melodies could come together.
I am really surprised at the number of people saying that can't stand this piece because of it's melodic/temporal dissonance. This was one of the first pieces of music I heard when I was 4 years old on Fantasia. It has always had such a place in my mind, like it makes me feel a way no other piece of music can. Absolutely love it.
H3Vtux consider though, that when it was first played in Paris, the whole ballet provoked something of a riot among the spectators. Even in its premier it was incredibly controversial.
I think he tried and succeeded to make something intriguing and interesting and to get people to think about music in a completely new way.
1902 ? Pfff after 1850 all went to shit XD
Dissonances ? Far away from the standard harmonies, as the voices of the different instruments move, some of them come close enough to make a dissonance with the next one, while they make a harmony with a lot of others... This is a werk of supremacy the composer a brillant genie,
and those who dislike it, they dont have to be afraid...
If they listen carefully again and again, the schemes will be tonaly recognisable and the musical paterns will be one after tbe other relevated.
This is celebration music, dance and ballet together.
Of course its not like a Waltz of Strauss...
Honestly, the most realistic sound I've EVER heard a virtual orchestra make. The only thing that sometimes makes you remember that it's not real is the ridiculous of the muted trumpet, and every once in a while in the high winds.
If it was real there would be like 3 coughs per minute
Stravinsky's understanding of the particular qualities of each orchestral instrument is what amazes me. The use of a bassoon at the very top of it's register to play the entry theme for example. This technique turns the entire orchestra into totally fresh and new.
stravinsky had the knowledge of 20th century orchestration, but he did not have the knowledge of writing fucking music and smashed his keyboard in shame instead.
The visualization really gives you some insight into the composer's genius.
if random garbage is genious, then you are far from being that.
Part I
00:05 Introduction
03:17 Augurs of Spring
06:26 Ritual of Abduction
07:47 Spring Rounds
11:22 Ritual of the Rival Tribes
13:07 Procession of the Oldest and Wisest One
13:47 The Dancing Out of the Earth
Are we going to all ignore Jay Bacal's brilliance here? It is no different than a real recording. Very good job from him.
This is way ahead of its time. Even now. People dont know how to digest this style of music. I LOVE IT!!!
Glad you think so. Tell your friends! I'm hoping that lots of people will know about this video in time for the 100-year anniversary of the piece's premiere (May 29th), so anything you can do to help spread the word will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks to this electronic recording, I'm hearing many different parts and sections that I've never heard in 20 years of knowing this music inside and out. Very intriguing.
Its clarity is one of the reasons I was pleased to use it, since a lot of people use my videos for study.
I'm a very visually-oriented person, and though I love orchestral music, it's always been a little hard for me to really grok it's shape and structure. I first discovered your work many years ago on a post of the old 'Well'... that early site in Sausalito, CA... I think it was a Bach fugue... and just LOVED it...! Finally I could SEE the music and how it all came together. But I lost your name and had been looking for it for years now. Delighted to not only find you and your work again... but to see/hear Le Sacre... my favorite piece... it's such a treat. THANKS...!!
The section beginning at 7:49 has to be one of the greatest pieces of art anybody has ever produced.
Without a doubt one of the greatest pieces of music ever written.
Как будто озвучка отличного фильма....прекрасное произведение кинемотографии без экрана...Браво!!!
After all these years, I still think this is the best smalin video. Never ceases to amaze.
I love this era of music so much. Before, it was trapped emotion, controlled emotion, and now, the whole of dissonance has been released. What comes are great things, and lovely expressions. From romanticism and forward, it is only unrestrained music in its full glory.
thank you for making these. the music is much more accessible and this is a great didactic tool I wish more people knew about
Whoa... this has gotta be the best music visualisation I've seen...
Buffoon1980 Tell your friends.
Yes, it's an overwhelming piece. I've watched this video more times than I can count, and it still knocks me flat.
I absolutely love this piece. I recommend everyone view the ballet with the choreography as well.
Nietzsche's Moustache Is the Best ballet is, a spectacular none the less. I once watched the four seasons danced in what looked like a raised boxing ring without the ropes on Christmas day. It was on television and it was quite by chance and quite wonderful to have seen. Yours sincerely, I Prefer Eyebrows.
I love this. Stravinsky is to classical music as Black Sabbath is to Rock and Roll.
Huahuahuahua
Igor S. wasn't classical music my friend...bad quote!
Comparing with Black Sabath? huehuehue my god...are u madness?
I'm saying this Stravinsky is something totally different in the same way I would say Black Sabbath was the first of something totally different.
6:02 it's incredible how much this part remembers the EDM POP of these days. A very strong bass rhythm, a simple and repetitive melody and a 300 sound FX.
Hahaha
This is one of the greatest masterpieces of music ever wrtten. It was composed in 1913,when Stravinsky was 30 years old. Hard to imagine there are people who, 101 years later are shocked by it. The graphics above are wonderful. I think Iggy would have enjoyed seeing this.
111 years now
I have loved Le Sacre inordinately from the first time I heard it in my teens. It took no 'acquiring'. It took no getting over a prejudice for tonality. It is utterly amazing... and Malinowski has given us all a fantastic view of it, maybe making this HIS masterpiece as well as Stravinsky's.
I put a lot of effort into this animated graphical score (see www.musanim.com/pdf/RoS_MalinowskiBacal_ProgramNotes_2013jul24.pdf), and I'm very pleased with how it turned out, but I think the main reason it's so effective is that Stravinsky's composition is so well suited to this kind of treatment. I had to solve a lot of technical challenges to make it, but other pieces have been more challenging artistically. I'm currently working on Ravel's La Valse, and I think I'm adding more to the music for that piece than I did for Le Sacre.
Every time I listen to this synthesised recording, I'm blown away. It feels like I'm on the conductors podium and can hear each part with such clarity. Amazing work.
Brilliant! I can't imagine the work involved in rendering this! Beautiful!
I worked on it for a few months.
Excellent work!
I'm a Stravinsky nut and I just loved it. I now have a deeper understanding of the "Rite". My hats off to the creators of this!
6:25 *sees chord coming*
oh this is going to be good
Most iconic orchestral piece of the 20th Century. I can't believe you got it all right, this is stunning.
Wow. This one caught my attention from the get go.
InstaBlaster...
actually seeing Stravinsky's mastery with rhythm and theme-developing is something... mind-blowing!!!
Spring Rounds (8:16) is one of my favorite sections of this piece.. In the midst of all this chaos, a semblance of normalcy appears. It’s a beautiful melodic passage that seems so out of place, we’re lulled into a false sense of security. And then Stravinsky rips it away at 9:45. Absolute genius.
wow, actual music in non-music, that marks a great composer! *not*
This reminds us that there are many ways to appreciate what we hear. For those who cannot read an orchestral score this is the perfect post-Disney representation of this monumental work that never gets stale no matter how many times you listen to it.
i love this piece and you did a really really good job. this goes for all of your videos really but it's so nice to have a rolling graphic score like this, it really helps me pick out the different voices and see recurring motifs and notice changes of scale and really zoom in on all these details. i love it!
its no substitute to score study but it still helps _immensely_ with understanding orchestration too
This is the 1st time I've been able to appreciate this work by Stravinsky. By watching the visualization of his music, I can finally understand the organization is this chaotic sounding piece. Thank you!
This really helps me appreciate the music even more.
Even more astonishing than the incredible visualisation is the expressiveness of the synthetic performance. The capability and subtlety of MIDI has come such a long way.
As a composer on RUclips pointed out, this must be viewed in the context of being a theatrical piece. It is all about setting moods...it isn’t random.
THANK YOU! This is actually how I have seen this piece (and all modern music) in my head for years, decades now, but could never quite describe.
Thank you smalin. The graphical representation mirrors the art of the music itself, and for me makes this beautifully complex piece more accessible. Tonal complexities that are difficult for me to hear are easy to see, and thus I hear more of the music while watching your wonderful animation.
the more notes, the less complex and the more random. this is not complex, this is the orchestral equivalent of a child banging on their keyboard
This has to be one of the most amazing and most beautiful pieces ever written.
Thank you much for this recording & visual of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring". A good day your way, :-)
This is wonderful! I wish visual scores like this could accompany live performances. I think they are incredibly helpful in understanding the music, as well as creating a fuller sensory experience.
All this work you've done is beautiful. Thank you.
This is beautiful. I appreciate that you never stop adjusting the way it looks. This is probably one of my favorites so far.
Fantastic! Glorious! The greatest symphonic work of modern music era, in a way never seen before.
Rogério Dec. It is actually ballet music.
This is hypnotizing.. An X-Ray into one of the most ambitious and path-breaking orchestral works ever written. Hats off to you Sir !! I think this should be used to teach the structure of the Rite in music schools.
I’ve used this to teach elements of music, staccato, legato, sustain...etc as well as dynamics. I’ve asked students to list descriptive words as the sections change as well as using movement to do the same. It’s a brilliant piece of art. Possibilities are endless.
I'm delighted to hear you're using it this way. Where do you teach?
This is an astonishingly brilliant rendition and video "score" as well. I would never have guessed that the music was not done by a top-flight orchestra. The score is mind-blowing and beautiful. If only there were a "market" for such matchless brilliance and beauty.
What kind of "market" do you have in mind?
smalin A populist market. One that would bring in the kind of money that it deserves. Popular music often brings in millions of viewers, and rakes in big bucks. Too bad your video rendition can't match that, due to the dumbing down of most culture in our society.
Tom Furgas
Millions of people have watched my videos, and millions of people have seen The Rite of Spring. (I don't know how "dumbed down" my viewers are ...)
smalin As a sidenote I love how you always try to offer different perspectives in the comment section in a very respectful and accommodating fashion.
it's hard to differenciate computers and real people when the only way to play this nonsensical garbage is by playing like a computer.
This is brilliant. A shame the Disney Fantasia animators will never see it. It would blow their minds. The "performance" is very convincing. I thought it was a real orchestra until I read the notes. I am most impressed by the MIDI "performance" and the animation.
I am simply astounded. I first heard The Rite Of Spring in 1958, instantly fell in love with the music and have listened to many different recorded versions over the years - and, of course have got to know the music very well.
As a non-musician who can't read the dots I think this is a very exciting way to follow the music.
I would say more but I'm running out of characters.
Thank you, smalin!
Can we just appreciate Stravinsky’s intricate pattern designs.
For sure! 👍🏻I can't imagine composing something like this! It's definitely very intricate. 🙂
"intricate" below basic levels*
I think Stravinsky must rank as maybe the greatest in his mastery at making amazing use of the particular sound characteristics of each orchestral instrument. His orchestrations are as amazing as his music.
Aaah, Stravinsky .... Love your graphical scores. Love both hearing and seeing music. Wow! For a moment 3:17 reminded me of the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
Goosebumps, and even tears. So moving. Thank you for this wonderful work of art!
The mutiple layers and compexity of this virtuoso piece is astounding!
WOW woo, I really love this music combined with animated screen notation. Gives music listening a new perspective.
Glad you like it.
Your videos are amazing! Thank you. I am a music teacher and I show your videos in class. They are such a good representation of complex musical elements like melody, rhythm, tempo, texture, form... you name it. They are so thoughtfully done! Keep making more videos- you clearly have a talent for it. I just wanted to let you know how much of an impact your videos have!
This piece is beautiful, the chaotic sounds, the offbeat percussions, it all comes together to create a delightful and lively interpretation of chaos.
lmao your delusions cause you to look at chaos in a "beautiful" light, it is just chaos and random noise, nothing more, nothing less.
@@Whatismusic123 what you think of my RUclips channel
@@Whatismusic123 if the story tells about the ritual of pagan tribes, what did you expected? Some classical ballet just like Tchaikovsky?
@@plaierdifortnaiti9955 this person you're replying to is off their meds... There is another thread of him/her arguing about how awful this piece of music is.
Yes! I've been eagerly anticipating this since I was first made aware of this channel.
And Good Lord, it looks like it was a huge amount of work!
Simply said, this is amazing.
A great aid to listening, and beautiful to look at. Congratulations to all concerned.
This is really helpful to understand the flow of the music and is quite lovely to look at while listening. I am surprised there is so much BREATH in the graphics. Really nice. I would suggest also more detail than "Jay Bascal" -- I don't know the orchestra nor the date of the performance and if there was a dance troupe as well, they should be credited. Thanks for this!
Jay Bacal is a master at making synthetic recordings (see the FAQ). I've made animated graphical scores for four of them. See ruclips.net/p/PLtj_HurkS7ZwWZ9V-au8-4ynLC2VnUrAU
Oh, my - this is absolutely riveting! I will be checking out more of these videos. Fantasia gave me fascinating associations many decades ago, but this is putting the musical experience into the stratosphere for me. So amazing how the visual lets my brain easily separate, then re-unite the voices, while hearing them all play together in a much more conscious manner.
I love it. I love the mean tempered grand staff. It distinguishes the minor and major thirds. I saw this a few years ago and I was pretty sure it was smalin. But I had a hard time. I couldn't find one of them. Finally at the end of Bach Cantata and fugue in D minor there was an in-video link near the very end. It showed this staff for rhapsody and blue. The link went to rhapsody and blue but without this effect. I was aggravated but finally followed on to this piece which has it. Wow thank you. Keep it simple.
this is simply amazing, honestly this is the best way my eyes have ever tried to actually watch music, simply remarkable work. I bet Stravinsky would cry of joy if he could see this. Great Work, keep on it til the end of your days.
good song, and totally an optical illusion, the room started moving when the piece ended!
Bravo!!!!! I have been waiting for this day. Spring is here a 100 years later and its animated. Thank you so much for providing this enriching content.
I love your music animations! Since I was young, I'd see, in my minds eye, music much like how you perform it on these videos. They're fascinating. Thank you from bringing my imagination into such vivid focus!
You're quite welcome. I hope you subscribe (and click the 'bell' for notifications) so that you can see my latest animated graphical scores as I post them.
Goodness gracious, this is fabulous. I'm taking about 87 fourth graders to see a symphony orchestra concert next week, and (part of) this piece is on the program. Your visualization really helps them to understand things like accents and texture that can otherwise be somewhat hard to grasp for young kids. Thank you SO MUCH for all of the time and effort that you obviously put into this amazing work!
how could this channel hide from me for so long. this is amazing
Please help me out by telling your friends!
smalin doing so already. Thank you for the nice videos
Thank you to everyone involved! A great way of seeing the architecture in Stravinsky's magnum opus.
unbelievable
structures, both graphical and musical
Yes, I agree. If I had hired Stravinsky to make something that was visually effective with my style of animated graphical score, I would have been more than satisfied with the result.
Wow, wow, wow, any scores should gleam like this! That's absolutely genious!
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I was listening to some late symphonies of Mozart just before listening to this. Not to diss Wolfie, but Stravinsky is like a quantum leap ahead in orchestral sophistication, at least in my mind.
You sound like some preppy dumbell who just got into classical music yesterday and wants everyone to know how much better she suddenly is than everyone else because of it and how into Mozart and Beethoven she is while never listening to anything even remotely challenging or out of the ordinary. Mozart is easy listening because that was his intent. A ten year old with a slightly above average IQ can appreciate Mozart. I imagine Stravinsky takes a little bit more concentration for most people but if you can't see the merits then that's your defect, not Stravinsky's. Just stop embarrassing yourself, you come off as a thirteen year old who was "born in the wrong generation" and listens to nothing later than Beethoven for about a year before tiring of posing and going back to listening to Radiohead and My Chemical Romance.
Dude, I listen to the rites like every other day, its one of my favorite pieces, before this i never fully realized how intricate it is. This helps you to see it in a completely different manner lol
I never understood why people find this ugly. It's very evocative, and almost jazzy in a way.
На вкус и цвет товарищей нет. Так по-русски говорят. Мне такая музыка неприятна и ничего, кроме раздражения не вызывает.
Man, it's metal! I love every moment of it!
well jazz is ugly, sooooo
It influenced Bernstien's jazzy/world score to "West Side Story."
A lot of the great jazz musicians loved Stravinsky, and vice versa. There’s a story about Charlie Parker spotting Stravinsky in the audience at one of his gigs. Parker told his band to play “KoKo,” and during the second chorus he quoted the intro to The Firebird in Stravinsky’s honor. “Stravinsky roared with delight, pounding his glass on the table, the upward arc of the glass sending its liquor and ice cubes onto the people behind him, who threw up their hands or ducked.”
I didn't think I was gonna watch the whole 15 minutes, but that was mesmerizing. Excellent!
Stravinsky marches to the beat of a drummer on acid...and makes it work.
Just wanted to thank you smalin for all these wonderful videos. You've inspired a lot of people to change their view of music, and others to maybe pick back up their instrument they haven't touched in years. Whatever the case, I'm sure everyone agrees, you've done the world some good, even if a small portion of it.
You helped me love this music.
this is like 30 different musical pieces chopped up and stuck together randomly. that's what I love about it.
The Spring Rounds used to be my least favorite part of this piece, but somehow, especially after learning it on piano, it has grown a lot on me. I used to HATE the brass glissandos and the clashing of the bimelodic bitonal parts, but it is now my absolute most favorite section of the rite.
Amazing how that happens, huh?
Indeed. I heard the piece live for the first time a few months ago. I was expecting to be able to hear more than I heard in various orchestral recordings I'd listened to, and I did, but there were still things that I'd heard in Bacal's rendition that were obscure even "ideal" concert circumstances.
Fantastic! This music is like entering a total new world.
I'm happy to hear you say that. I agree, completely. And I'm glad that you've been able to enter this world. Many aren't.
Over the years, I've rewritten it many times, in different languages, on different platforms. I do it in whatever language I'm most comfortable with at the time, on whatever hardware I have at the time. It really doesn't make much difference.
I remember being in my music history class last semester and being introduced to this piece with the dancing.
Everyone literally said "What the fuck is this"
Hell, even I did.
But the more I kept listening to it, the more I fell in love with it.
People hate what they don't know, and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is truly out of this world and unordinary
I get why people don't like this, so I don't judge them for it.
But I, adore this piece, a lot.
I'm really into Bach's fugues and stuff so getting attached to something as eccentric as the Rite of Spring wasn't too difficult.
It was really the dancing that made me so confused.
You guys should take a look at it.
it's really easy to fool yourself into enjoying shit just from the fact that you wanted to belive it was not actually shit.
After watching that, everything I look at is slowly moving to the right.
Fantastic visualisation, and a very crisp/accurate rendition of Part 1. Thankyou for putting this together. It was very enjoyable!
I feel like I've heard passages from this piece in a ton of movies/games/tv shows
I have been waiting for this one for quite some time now, and I surely wasn't disappointed. On the contrary, I think you absolutely outdid yourself. Congratulations on a fantastic piece of work! Looking forward to part II.
聆聽 Stravinsky 這首交響樂曲，讓我直接聯想到為電影｢大白鯊｣、｢超人｣、｢星際大戰｣系列
配樂的美籍作曲家 John Williams 的配樂作品，John 的配樂明顯有 Stravinsky 的影子！
Translation:
Listen to Stravinsky's symphony, I think it inspired the movie "Superman", and "Star Wars". The sound track of American composer John Williams is shadowing Stravinsky's.
I think that's what it says, my Chinese is not perfect.
Smalin, I don´t know if you hear this often, but your videos are a service to all humanity!
Keep this amazing work for as long as you can!
I´m sorry I can´t congratulate you enough.
A KISS OF THE EARTH
This is incredible, I believe you have found the perfect tune for your work. I have become deeply in love with the Rite of Spring so I owe you. Thanks
This was released in 2013 and I'm only seeing it 7 years later, thanks youtube
I think this is the most ambitious animation I have seen you do ! Absolutely superb, and I can only imagine the amount of work that went into this. Thank you.
Dont know why people did not liked it. For me, this piece and stravinsky is completely new and i loved this piece!
I understand that they at the premier did not like the dancing! A year later Stravinsky conducted in Paris just the music and the audience heartedly applauded.
it's unique, that is all, a child bangin on a keyboard and being presented as music is the exact same as this.
Probably the best composer ever for reeds and woodwinds.
Although the entirety of this song’s unique, I especially love the 5:16-5:46 part. It’s so mysterious.
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