I didn't realize that practicing scales could be so much fun! These variations reflect the many shades of Nathan -- straight-forward, serious, complicated, playfully creative! Truly a delight!
It's not sophisticated, when you puzzle random pieces together, that simply do not fit, and your process of coice is simply what you like the most. As a whole, this piece is just a gimmick, a complete joke.
@@Whatismusic123 WIM (@Whatismusic123) is a notorious troll who leaves hate comments (such as this one) on videos of mostly modern music, but also some Classical and Romantic music like Beethoven and Liszt. They also leave hate comments on lots of original compositions from RUclipsrs (including myself), even though they ignore criticisms of their own compositions. WIM also makes up lots of "music theory" "concepts" to justify theur hate comments and completely distorts the reality of music. "Arguing" with them is completely useless, as they will not accept a single thing. -TheMobiusFunction
I don't know where you studied music but this is not a fugue, the fugue involves a tonal or real subject which is transposed in the response to the dominant, to the third voice to the tonic and in the fourth to the dominant to finish the exposition and the countersubject must also be transported
Love the Mozart piano concerto 23 theme and that this delightful piece was dated on my bday. XD absolutely fascinating work of art. So important to love your scales and the structure they bring to your art on any instrument. Bravo!!!
Very clever composition, and brilliantly played! Well done! - felt like a small walk through musical history. Hints of two-note harmonies, baroque elements, classicism, romanticism, modernism and contemporary elements, all within a short 10 minute composition. Love the textures and ideas at 5:55 and 8:05
I specifically hear homages to Mozart's piano concerto no. 23, mvt. 3 (Var. VIII) and Chopin's funeral march (Var. X). I heard a few other variations that I kind of recognized but couldn't place. Could you hear any homages to famous masterworks that I missed?
I heard some burgmuller maybe (etudes op100) and a little too much out of the box perhaps with some handel sarabande. But then I'm only talking about the rhythmical form
Wow! I am genuinely blown away by this. What a brilliant idea to do variations on something seemingly so mundane in music (a scale). And boy they were some variations. Bravo!
WIM (@Whatismusic123) is a notorious troll who leaves hate comments (such as this one) on videos of mostly modern music, but also some Classical and Romantic music like Beethoven and Liszt. They also leave hate comments on lots of original compositions from RUclipsrs (including myself), even though they ignore criticisms of their own compositions. WIM also makes up lots of "music theory" "concepts" to justify their hate comments and completely distorts the reality of music. "Arguing" with them is completely useless, as they will not accept a single thing. -TheMobiusFunction @@Whatismusic123
Truly truly genius composition. Respect where respect is due. It’s good to see there are other composers in the postmodern world who have their heads on right. Cheers! Looking forward to more from you.
@@Whatismusic123 WIM (@Whatismusic123) is a notorious troll who leaves hate comments (such as this one) on videos of mostly modern music, but also some Classical and Romantic music like Beethoven and Liszt. They also leave hate comments on lots of original compositions from RUclipsrs (including myself), even though they ignore criticisms of their own compositions. WIM also makes up lots of "music theory" "concepts" to justify theur hate comments and completely distorts the reality of music. "Arguing" with them is completely useless, as they will not accept a single thing. -TheMobiusFunction
I never listen to these all the way through, but I stayed for this one. Awesome work! Good pattern of tension and release makes it compelling to keep listening
Amazingly constructed from beginning to end. All the references to different composers and eras came through, but were so well knit into the whole of it that they didn't disrupt the natural course of the piece. Great pianism as well!
@@ajmaltaujoo4277 Yeah, someone else already mentioned that in a comment below, which is why I dind't say anything. But I didn't see anyone mention the Beethoven reference. ;)
Nathan, your playing is magnificent and your compositions are so very intriguing. I am an elderly piano teacher and always searching for examples of living composers. Is there any way that you would be comfortable sharing any biographical information. I would love to share your magic with my students. Thank you for all the joy that you bring and best of luck in all of your endeavors! BRAVO!!!!
Please don't poison your students with garbage pieces like this, even if you like the fictional idea that there are any good classical composers alive.
@@KrisSucksAtLife Enaudi is a poster child of pandering. His pieces are awful, he just uses chord progressions and techniques which are popular in "sad music" or "exciting music" and puzzles them together, regardless of how well they fit together. He's also simply not a classical composer at all, he composes pop music.
@@Whatismusic123After looking at the "music" you put out on your channel, I think it's really cute that you think you're entitled to criticize anyone else's compositions, especially in such a scathing way. You are utterly insufferable and even if you were actually talented, it wouldn't justify treating others in the way that you do.
Not really ? Variation in A major scale variation on the scale not they key. This means the pattern of the scale (ascending and descending) keep appearing and changing. The trick to see the scale appearing in this variation is to look for A in the start of a phrase in where the melody is.
very impressive!! great imagination, a fertile inventiveness and technically assured. both in the composing and the performance. well done sir - from some one with a composition degree but so completely demoralized that i can no longer compose
You know it's bound to be terrible when it starts on a 14 bar phrase 4+4+4+2(needs to be 4) Also the time signature is 2/2 not 2/4 2:20 is this even the same piece? Nice standalone idea, but it doesn't fit in the slightest. Don't forget that variation pieces need form.
@@bennyksmusicalworld Haydn is great. There's a great deal of difference between an incomplete phrase, and an uneven one. The one presented in this video is incomplete.
@@joshtheviolinist variations music is a piece where there's an incomplete theme presented, then a series of variations progress and make up the form of the piece. In this case, the "variations" don't do anything, they're just different ideas based on the same concept.
what is it that makes you dislike it? I'm genuinely interested. (As a side note, I don't think these variations were intened to be a masterpiece, so no need to be rude.)
I didn't realize that practicing scales could be so much fun! These variations reflect the many shades of Nathan -- straight-forward, serious, complicated, playfully creative! Truly a delight!
I expected a gimmick, but many of the later variations are remarkably sophisticated. An excellent performance of a fun composition!
It's not sophisticated, when you puzzle random pieces together, that simply do not fit, and your process of coice is simply what you like the most. As a whole, this piece is just a gimmick, a complete joke.
@@Whatismusic123 WIM (@Whatismusic123) is a notorious troll who leaves hate comments (such as this one) on videos of mostly modern music, but also some Classical and Romantic music like Beethoven and Liszt. They also leave hate comments on lots of original compositions from RUclipsrs (including myself), even though they ignore criticisms of their own compositions. WIM also makes up lots of "music theory" "concepts" to justify theur hate comments and completely distorts the reality of music. "Arguing" with them is completely useless, as they will not accept a single thing.
-TheMobiusFunction
he's just mad that this piece is actually good @@themobiusfunction
@@themobiusfunctionhe's just mad that he makes bad compositions while other people make compositions that are even better than his 😂😂😂
I absolutely love the fugue. This is the absolute work of a genius, on A Major Scale!
I don't know where you studied music but this is not a fugue, the fugue involves a tonal or real subject which is transposed in the response to the dominant, to the third voice to the tonic and in the fourth to the dominant to finish the exposition and the countersubject must also be transported
@@E.Vecchini Var. 6.
@@rhys8878 I imagine you understand something about music and harmony 🤣😂
@@E.Vecchini could be a fugato
There’s no fugue.
But to all those replying, don’t be rude music snobs
1:35 fugue?? Brand new idea on an beautiful scale!
Love the Mozart piano concerto 23 theme and that this delightful piece was dated on my bday. XD absolutely fascinating work of art. So important to love your scales and the structure they bring to your art on any instrument. Bravo!!!
Nice piece! This is really quite well done.
Very clever composition, and brilliantly played! Well done! - felt like a small walk through musical history. Hints of two-note harmonies, baroque elements, classicism, romanticism, modernism and contemporary elements, all within a short 10 minute composition. Love the textures and ideas at 5:55 and 8:05
I specifically hear homages to Mozart's piano concerto no. 23, mvt. 3 (Var. VIII) and Chopin's funeral march (Var. X). I heard a few other variations that I kind of recognized but couldn't place.
Could you hear any homages to famous masterworks that I missed?
I heard some burgmuller maybe (etudes op100) and a little too much out of the box perhaps with some handel sarabande. But then I'm only talking about the rhythmical form
@@esrabemelmans Timestamps?
What a piece, my friend! I am glad such a composer lives.
Found you again
Omg rachmanjohn
Wow! I am genuinely blown away by this. What a brilliant idea to do variations on something seemingly so mundane in music (a scale). And boy they were some variations. Bravo!
Terrible variations, and an incomplete scale. Not sure how you're blown away
WIM (@Whatismusic123) is a notorious troll who leaves hate comments (such as this one) on videos of mostly modern music, but also some Classical and Romantic music like Beethoven and Liszt. They also leave hate comments on lots of original compositions from RUclipsrs (including myself), even though they ignore criticisms of their own compositions. WIM also makes up lots of "music theory" "concepts" to justify their hate comments and completely distorts the reality of music. "Arguing" with them is completely useless, as they will not accept a single thing.
-TheMobiusFunction
@@Whatismusic123
@@Whatismusic123those "terrible variation" Are better than anything that you have made
@@darrellaldrige3909 egotistical, braindead contrarianism won't get you anywhere
@@Whatismusic123... which applies more to you than anyone else here
Wow. This is extremely well crafted. I smiled at all the references. The performance is remarkable. This should be an encore on many a program.
This is brilliant! Var 15 is incredibly creative and novel! Playing is fantastic as well! 🎉🎉
Perfect work!!
Truly truly genius composition. Respect where respect is due. It’s good to see there are other composers in the postmodern world who have their heads on right. Cheers! Looking forward to more from you.
To a headless chicken, everyone who has lost their head looks the same. He doesn't have his head on right, he's just as headless as you.
@@Whatismusic123 WIM (@Whatismusic123) is a notorious troll who leaves hate comments (such as this one) on videos of mostly modern music, but also some Classical and Romantic music like Beethoven and Liszt. They also leave hate comments on lots of original compositions from RUclipsrs (including myself), even though they ignore criticisms of their own compositions. WIM also makes up lots of "music theory" "concepts" to justify theur hate comments and completely distorts the reality of music. "Arguing" with them is completely useless, as they will not accept a single thing.
-TheMobiusFunction
Love jazz variation 15!
This is a masterpiece! Kudos!
Muito bem. Criativo. Obrigado.
this is great. It's interesting how an entire universe is born from something so simple.
Amazing, both the written and execution! Would love to hear more of your compositions
Incrível! Gostaria se mais composições assim
Very interesting and innovative piece of music! Keep up the good work!
Excellent! Fantastic.
Variations 15 was my favorite, a very jazzy feeling!
Interesting work
As a true lover of musical fantasies or variations I'm absolutely amazed by your composition!!
Well done and keep it up!!!
I never listen to these all the way through, but I stayed for this one. Awesome work! Good pattern of tension and release makes it compelling to keep listening
Its marvellous
Reminds me of a more modern take on Ut Re Mi variations by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. Really well done!
Amazingly constructed from beginning to end. All the references to different composers and eras came through, but were so well knit into the whole of it that they didn't disrupt the natural course of the piece. Great pianism as well!
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This is incredible!
This is a lot of fun! Love the many nods to various classical composers, particularly the quote from Mozart’s A major Piano Concerto! ❤
Beethoven reference in var. 9, love it.
Mozart reference in 8 ;)
@@ajmaltaujoo4277 Yeah, someone else already mentioned that in a comment below, which is why I dind't say anything. But I didn't see anyone mention the Beethoven reference. ;)
Nathan, your playing is magnificent and your compositions are so very intriguing. I am an elderly piano teacher and always searching for examples of living composers. Is there any way that you would be comfortable sharing any biographical information. I would love to share your magic with my students. Thank you for all the joy that you bring and best of luck in all of your endeavors! BRAVO!!!!
Please don't poison your students with garbage pieces like this, even if you like the fictional idea that there are any good classical composers alive.
@@KrisSucksAtLife Enaudi is a poster child of pandering. His pieces are awful, he just uses chord progressions and techniques which are popular in "sad music" or "exciting music" and puzzles them together, regardless of how well they fit together.
He's also simply not a classical composer at all, he composes pop music.
@@Whatismusic123Self-burn from a fellow composer?
@@Whatismusic123After looking at the "music" you put out on your channel, I think it's really cute that you think you're entitled to criticize anyone else's compositions, especially in such a scathing way. You are utterly insufferable and even if you were actually talented, it wouldn't justify treating others in the way that you do.
6:56 rach 3 reference?
amazing
Very good!
Oh my dear heavens, this is beyond incredible!
Very imaginative. A good introduction to composition and the necessary emulation of styles.
Damn this is such a cool idea. Good work on both the composition and the playing!! Keep it up :DD
Very useful for honing compositional skills.
All very beautiful craftsmanship. Is there a specific reason why you did not write Variation 11 in 6/8?
What a counterpoint
At 3:00, mozart concerto 23 reference? XD
Congratulations
I'm going to to this on my harp
Bravooo 👏👏👏👏👏
Haha love this! Are the first few variations just first/second species counterpoint lol
I thought the same
Actually, it goes all the way up to 5th species, and then florid counterpoint.
Why didnt you change the time signature in variation XI? Would be much easier to read I think
Love this!! A great experience listening
Bravo!
Can somebody please help me, the first notes of the var. VIII (3:00) sound like a very famous sonata, but I can't remember which one ...
someone said Mozart concerto no 23
on what piano was this played?
Wonder is there a reason you choose A major but not another key?
This is awesome!
Like the old masters did with the hexachord fantasias! Nice!
Isn't every piece in A major a variation on the A major scale?
Not really ? Variation in A major scale variation on the scale not they key. This means the pattern of the scale (ascending and descending) keep appearing and changing. The trick to see the scale appearing in this variation is to look for A in the start of a phrase in where the melody is.
Here's one to fan the flames for the Schenkerians and their hotly contested 8-line Ursatz.
Wow! Great work!
Amazing composition, but your piano chops are insane too! What killer repeated notes!!
i really love var 12 is really unique
You are an amazing pianist
Wherr is humppa? It is not right if not humppa
very impressive!!
great imagination, a fertile inventiveness and technically assured. both in the composing and the performance.
well done sir - from some one with a composition degree but so completely demoralized that i can no longer compose
this is so epic
This is incredible
Guys, this isn't just a major scale . . . it's A major scale, LOL
Interesting
It is the whole history of the western music
>8D
var. 8 reference to mozart piano cto. 23?
OMFG
I kinda agree with WIM sometimes, but his attitude is what ruins it every time
I really like Var. 11
You know it's bound to be terrible when it starts on a 14 bar phrase 4+4+4+2(needs to be 4)
Also the time signature is 2/2 not 2/4
2:20 is this even the same piece? Nice standalone idea, but it doesn't fit in the slightest. Don't forget that variation pieces need form.
Oh my dear elitist friend, you must hate Haydn…
@@bennyksmusicalworld Haydn is great.
There's a great deal of difference between an incomplete phrase, and an uneven one. The one presented in this video is incomplete.
cringe.
Didn’t Dvorak write his symphonic variations specifically because the theme had an irregular bar phrase, 7+6+7?
@@orangemandarin7925 yeah, and dvorak is terribly incompetent.
A cute exercise
i do not like bar 30
It's less of a "variations on the A major scale", and more of a "compilation of ideas, based on the A major scale."
WHY
Yea I don't understand the difference, explanation please?
@@joshtheviolinist variations music is a piece where there's an incomplete theme presented, then a series of variations progress and make up the form of the piece.
In this case, the "variations" don't do anything, they're just different ideas based on the same concept.
@@Whatismusic123in my opinion, some of these variations do fit well in making the form of the piece, but I see your point in some parts
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Damn, the counterpoint is a joke too.
not you being complete knob again 😭
Ok make your own version
@@Jwellsuhhuh he will if you're not careful
what is it that makes you dislike it? I'm genuinely interested.
(As a side note, I don't think these variations were intened to be a masterpiece, so no need to be rude.)
@@amiapsychopatThis person is a troll has been commenting on random classical music videos for years now. Ignore them.