The Celesta - The Sound of Heaven?
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2024
- A history of the construction and usage of the 'heavenly', celestial instrument, the celesta, also known as the celeste!
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Narrated by Oscar Osicki
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Hope you enjoy the holiday season, and this video!
I know, irritating.
Man I can’t hear the sound with you talking over it! Let it play uninterrupted for a second at least.
Yeah lmao, usually youtubers are not in a hurry that much lmao
exactly that! good information in the video but so frustrating to watch. please just let the video be 2 minuted longer so we can experience the sound that you are describing!
Seriously!!! Like slow down a bit Jesus
Agreed. I found it very frustrating that he talked over every example so I couldn't hear the music.
Most RUclipsrs seem to try and drag their videos out, but this guy seems to be in a hurry to get through it and just waterboards the audience with a deluge of exposition.
dude, could you like, let the instrument play without like, talking over it for like 30 seconds. feels like your in a hurry to finish the video, but that feeling is just the whole video
It's probably legal reasons, since he doesn't own any of the music, he'll get a copyright strike if any of it plays without him talking.
@@samsanimationcorner3820 surely you could compose and record your own celesta piece, even a simple one, and using a high quality sampler (kontakt) instead of a physical one if unavailable
You should really edit this and put in a section where you are NOT TALKING over the instrument.
It would have been nice to have actually heard a piece played by this instrument in this video.
thank you, now i can click off
Actually you were listening to Clair De Lune by Debussy played on a Celesta & it actually works.
Maybe next time you could show samples of the concept you're talking about, in between explanations, instead of talking over the sound. . I really wanted to get a feel of what you were talking about, but the speed of the video didn't let me appreciate it
The celesta in the 3rd movement of Shostakovich symphony no. 5 is so haunting and beautiful. I love the instrument!
Shostakovich combines it with harp harmonics which sound completely "frozen" together. An absolutely brilliant moment of orchestration.
Same in the last minutes of the 4th with the low thirds
Seeing my cover used in a serious video about the instrument is a pleasant surprise :)
I wish I had access to this instrument still, it was great playing it. The touch is so piano like for how little piano there is inside
So weird to hear a Touhou track in this kind of video lmao.
Touhou hijack!
That touhou sneak attack was a nice surprise
Many of us wish we could have heard it!
I would really love to actually HEAR THE INSTRUMENT WITHOUT TALKING
Fantastic video, but please leave more space to the music during the video so that i can hear what you’re talking about without having to search for every single song. As it is right now i can barely listen to these melodies because you’re talking over them.
Apart from that, i love you’re videos, they’re a great way to spend some time on youtube.
Honestly the celesta has an *amazing* soundfont and i love it so much
@W soundfont is the quality and features of a sound, whether digital *or" physical
I literally couldn’t appreciate the timbre of the instrument whatsoever because you didn’t stop talking at any point while it was playing.
Did you really create a video piece about the Celesta and then not actually let us hear the damn thing because you're talking so much?
Would have been nice to actually hear it
Speaking of its use for children's music, Johnny Costa, Mr. Rogers' music director and pianist, played the celesta regularly during the show, most often in the Neighborhood of Make Believe segments.
I was in a production of the Magic Flute in Pittsburgh and we used that celesta. Lovely little thing.
Dude, you're chitchatting all the time with no gaps to hear what you are essentially talking about..
"What do you think of when you hear this instrument?"
I don't know, because I couldn't hear it, because you never stopped talking over it. Maybe just stop talking for a bit and let us actually hear the music you're talking about?
For me, at tender age of 4 or 5 years old, the celesta was a beautiful kind of arp made of pure glass or ice. It's really a magical instrument.
When I heard that excerpt from Mahler’s 8th, it felt like my body turned to crystal or something like that. That’s how beautiful it was. I have been trying to stay away from listening to that symphony on my own and instead waiting to hear it live in a concert hall. It therefore sounds like you spoiled it, and you did, but that’s OK. There’s so much more to hear from Mahler’s 8th.
By the way, let me say that the rarity of the celesta is beyond unjust.
Amazing video but seriously man, let us listen to the pieces. You’re talking above music all the time.
"What do you think when you hear this instrument"
Me trying to listen to it but can't think and listen to it with his voice talking over it:
Tchaikovsky utilizó la celestia en el poema sinfónico El Voyevoda, que destruyó después de su estreno. Luego la usó en El Cascanueces.
Un dato curioso es que su descontento en El Voyevoda se debió a que trató la celesta como si fuera un piano, y después se dio cuenta de que el timbre de la celesta no funciona bien con muchas notas simultáneas, pasajes rápidos o cambios bruscos de armonía. Para El Cascanueces sin embargo escribió una pieza limpia y sencilla gracias a la cual se pudo apreciar el potencial sonoro del instrumento.
Video producer breathlessly never stops speaking for beyond the first minute of a video about an instrument. Never allowing them instrument to speak for itself and simply be heard by itself for over a minute of the video.
Being so expensive and rare it saddens me that that so many never get to play a real celesta, myself included. A magical instrument that has captivated me since my first orchestral experiences. :) Lovely to see it featured here with such love and reverence :)
There are beautiful digital versions that sound extraordinary. Roland produced their Classics series of keyboards which came in many variations. The C-180, C-190, C-200, C-230 were really nice, portable digital keyboards that gave you exceptional sounding pipe organ, harpsichord, forte piano, chimes, and of course Celesta. The C-30 specializes in harpsichord but has two positive pipe organs, an amazing forte piano sound, lute, and more. Roland didn’t do very well with these and eventually sold off their recently acquired Rodger’s Organ division and stopped producing these keyboards. I own all these (except the C-190) and can attest to their excellence.
Great video, thank you. A few corrections though: at 3:00; Yamaha, Kolberg and Edmund Handy also produce celestas, not only Schiedmayer. And at 6:30; those parts are played on a keyboard glockenspiel, not a celesta.
Thank you for pointing out how oblivious I have been. Liked.
The combination of celesta and vibraphone, is also very beautiful,as in Vaughan Williams 8th symphony. And the passage for horn 2 piccolos and celesta in Ravel's Bolero, makes that work worth listening to.
Joyously lovely!
Thanks for sharing, shared.
Anyone interested in celesta music, especially if you're an anime fan, track down "Sailor Moon: Orgel Fantasia". It was my first exposure to celesta music and among the first experiences with the original Japanese soundtrack of the anime, which is way different from the original American release from the 90s.
Respighi's Fountains of Rome and Pines of Rome are indeed a blessing. Go listen to it!
Love the real life recording of the song of the nightingale which Respighi included in his "Pines of Rome" specifically the pines of the Villa Borghese.
The most magical of all. That's for sure.
Immediately evokes that heavenly atmosphere.
For everybody who wants to hear the celesta without someone talking over it, you might want to check out Celia García García who recorded an actual album with piano music on celesta.
So the Fender Rhodes is basically an electric celesta.
Yes, that's the subject of the next video
@@InsidetheScore great, so would you please pause for at least half a second to allow us to actually hear it without you motormouthing the entire video??
6:27 Are you sure this isn't a jeu de timbre (keyboard glockenspiel)? It's a bit smaller and has a clearer sound.
Yes- the instrument used in Mozart's time was a keyboard with bells inside, so effectively an older relative of celesta. I think it's a common misconception that they used glockenspiels with mallets for that piece lol
An eye (ear) opener for me. thanks
Gotta go fast!
Hopefully this video puts a spotlight on the Celesta, its personally my favorite instrument to experiment with.
Amazing video. Another instrument I've never heard about but I'm so glad I just did!
Why haven't I heard of this instrument?! It's awesome🤩
What a magical instrument🎹🪄
I remember playing one of these in our Big Band's rehearsal room and I had to be careful with it, but damn it sounded nice.
As a bassoonist, I would greatly appreciate a video like this for the gentleman and fool of the orchestra, the bassoon.
luv me sum farting bedpost
*_The Celesta has a hauntingly beautiful sound. Not sure it is 'Heavenly', but definitely not the opposite._*
Now I know which instrument was played in Nutcracker. It is so unique that only need to hear a few notes and immediately can point to Nutcracker's magical instrument.
Pretty sound. Light.
You deserve way more views because the quality of your content is outstanding
It would be the case if he'd shut up at least for a moment, no gaps for music, lol
@@Distagon76 but 3784 views doesn't feel right
the dude hasn't made an original video in months, all of their scripts have been outsourced
John Williams is a genius
You keep referring to “Harry Potter”, “E.T.”, and “Home Alone”. You did discover who composed those themes, yes? John Williams. One cannot mention those three pieces without mentioning the composer.
I mean, the guy did plenty of videos about John Williams, so he is aware for sure. I also found it strange he never mentioned him here but maybe he assumed _everyone_ watching his videos knows these three soundtracks are the work of John Williams, lol.
@@TheAngelsHaveThePhoneBox Oh, see! This is the first of this guy’s videos the algorithm has put in front of me. I was unaware he had other videos on Williams’ works. I’ll have to go through his archive and watch those. Thanks for sharing!
My favorite piece featuring the celesta is "On the Trail" from "Grand Canyon Suite".
Totally agree. Such a beautiful solo. Made me fall in love with the celesta in the first place.
TAKE A BREATH ONCE IN A WHILE, FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE !!!
Your narrative is relentless and merciless. Good God, man, do you ever even take a breath?? You speak of all these marvelous instruments and then you talk right over them as if we were not here to hear any instrument but the one in your throat! Put a damper on your ego and let the instruments speak, for crying out loud. Give us at least a couple of seconds of the sound of the instruments!
Hermoso instrumento.
This instrument deserves this video! Well done.
it also deserves to be heard... this video talks all over the celesta
The celesta never did anything wrong to this guy...I don't know what the celesta did to deserve this video.
I loved the sound of a celesta in high school. Heavenly, indeed.
And Mozart BTW wrote a lovely piece for Glass 'Armonica. It would also sound excellent on Celesta.
There's some important differences between the celesta and the glockenspiel. Not only is the method of playing different, which will affect the nature of the music composed for either,but the Glock is louder and more incisive, appropriate for fairly loud,thick passages,while celesta is appropriate for much thinner,delicate scoring.
what is the website at 1:00 that shows the list of composers?
I would also like to point out the keyboard Glockenspiel is not the same in it's construction as the Celesta.
The Celesta is more equivalent to a keyboard vibraphone with felt hammers, the glockenspiel has no felt hammers I believe (please correct me if I'm wrong I have only theoretical knowledge on that subject).
ruclips.net/video/uVYxQ_CcBW8/видео.html Here you can hear the difference.
For example I prefer "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" from the Magic Flute played on a Glockenspiel, much more percussive.
I completely agree. Some conductors consider that glockenspiel and celesta are interchangeable (specially in The Magic Flute), but the truth is that they're not intended for the same kind of work. The lack of felt hammers and wood resonators makes the glockenspiel a completely different instrument with different purpose and results.
If you don't mind sneaking in a little rock, the original "Everyday" by Buddy Holly features the celesta. At about the one minute mark of the track (see on RUclips) there is a celesta "solo" used as the bridge. If you've never heard this old track before you may think it is a missing track from "The Nutcracker." It charted high back in the day.
Also charting high (number one in several countries) in the rock world way-back was "Rhythm of the Rain" by the Cascades. The celesta is used for the sound of water as in rain drops. Try a listen. Cute!
At 2:37 your comment concerning the size and weight of hammers on a piano is totally incorrect.
The the bass hammers are 4-5 times the mass of the treble hammers and the size and weight is
graduated across the entire scale of the instrument. The writer of this scrip should take a look inside
a piano sometim
Schnittke also makes use of the celesta a lot, often in solo passages.
3:31 I understand it's just non-illustrative video, but the idea that Tchakovsky wrote to his friend in Russia in Arabic...
Merci.
2:29 what music is this? very appreciated if you can tell me.
Here you go. ruclips.net/video/u7WE_wbnrrE/видео.html
" the possibilities on the Celesta are much more varied for example this keyboard allows not only single strokes but also entire scale runs, glissandi, arpeggios, as well as large-scale chords"
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The way you pronounce Ильич makes me cry.
Hard to say but it's kind of disappointing that some of us are unable to know how it really sounds although we may have heard it before without knowing its real name...
If only you'd give a few minutes to let us hear one or two examples of how it sounded without any interruptions, then this documentation would be perfect.
What? No mention of Everyday by Buddy Holly? How a Celesta found its way to Norman Petty's studio in Clovis is a mystery.
think of trying to listen to a quiet and delicate instrument while an overloud announcer quizzes you while eating a microphone......
Can someone tell me the name of the piece that starts at 2:26. Thanks
It's Junko's theme from the video game Touhou 15: Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom
What is the difference between a Celesta and keyed Glockenspiel?
Whenever I hear about the celesta, Tchaikovsky's The nut cracker comes to my mind, not that Potter you mention.
So, St.Saens' Aquarium is a Celesta as well
There is no celesta in the score of Aquarium, but since glass harmonica is an even rarer instrument, it is replaced by the celesta in some recordings. The high notes at the beginning are just a piano, though.
Stravinsky also, missed a mention
2:06 “in 1886, Victors son - Auguste”
/shows picture of Alphonse/
celestial indeed
Suena..como una cajita de musica
Nice info, keep up your work ^^!
Se la Celesta è il suono del Paradiso... allora preferisco andare all'inferno!!
Scherzo, dai! È fantastica!!
How much does it cost?
mozart's fulte and harp concerto sounds like heaven and pinao sonatoa 21 does as well
Williams definitely put the celesta to use in many of is scores, notably to me would be the score to Always, an unfortunately lesser-appreciated score from 1989.
Shostakovich 4!
The opening of the theme to "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" also makes good use of the celesta.
I wonder if I could make one.
Nice video!
One suspects that he perceives his voice is the sound of heaven.
Before I lost my hearing I heard ice shattering and breaking. It sounded a lot like the celesta. Of course, it was small pieces of ice.
Love this instrument!
wow😍 It's like a xylophone on the piano!
it's literally NOTHING like that
I just think of the dance of the sugar plum fairy. You can imitate it with a glockenspiel.
3:33...Apparently Tchaikovski wrote to his friends in Arabic....
Bloody hell he can talk
... and talk and talk . .
yo. I got at start. Beautiful video.
Oh, hello there Touhou!
Plz make a video on Respighi. His musical and orchestral genius should be more popular.
c'est moi ou c'est une musique de touhou project à 2 min 53 ?
Doesn't Saint-Saëns use the Celesta in the carnival of animals Aquarium movement?
Ravel was just the best orchestrator of all time.
Very entertaining video. I didn't even know this instrument existed and I always wondered how the sound was produced in 19th century music.
"The Heavenly Instrument"...funny, I always thought that was the harp