Are The Beatles Avant-Garde?
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- Опубликовано: 29 апр 2019
- In this episode of 'Listening in', I explore how The Beatles were inspired by Avant-Garde contemporary music, and, in particular, the work of Karlheinz Stockhausen. I look at how The Beatles used the techniques that had been developed by the Avant-Garde to create completely new sounds in their music and to produce songs the likes of which had never been heard before in the mainstream.
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FURTHER WATCHING
Karlheinz Stockhausen : Momente: • Karlheinz Stockhausen ...
Paul McCartney Breaks Down His Most Iconic Songs | GQ: • Paul McCartney Breaks ...
FURTHER READING/RESEARCH
Crackle goes pop: how Stockhausen seduced the Beatles - www.theguardian.com/music/201...
Excellent website about all The Beatles' albums and songs: www.beatlesbible.com/
MUSIC
Thomas Adès: In Seven Days - • Thomas Adès: In Seven ...
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Gruppen - • Video
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Studie II - • Stockhausen Studie II
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Gesang der Jünglinge - • Gesang Der Junglinge 
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I genuinely think you’re the best music video essayist on RUclips. Really hope your work reaches the audience it deserves!!
I like it as well, it would be cool that the channel open its horizons to music beyond the Anglo Saxon / classical music. Everyone have talked about the Beatles for long time, and there are a lot more outside that deserves to be seen.
I concur
As soon as I heard that avant garde piece I thought about the similar piece in A Day In The Life
You convinced me to take the journey through The Beatles discography
Excellent. I hope you enjoy it!
So how was the journey through the Beatles music?
@@corneliusmaze-eye2459 they're overrated
I never realized that the Beatles were so much more than 'just another rock band'!
Yep. Their music was diverse and experimental. In a few short years they created a renaissance in pop music. They completely transformed it. That's why they've been so influential.
They wrote 300 songs in about 8 yrs. Their rate of development was shocking. They took old forms and made new out of them whilst also creating sounds that nobody had ever heard before. Their compositions were also stunning in beauty and all this with barely any music education. What they achieved will probably never be beaten which is why they are globally considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century. To put it bluntly they were far and far away more than just another 60s pop group.
@@MICKEYISLOWD And on top of that, the songs were beautiful with lyrics so meaningful - and sometimes nonsensical - that they still invoke emotion and imagination to this day.
@InventorZahran - Your comment reminds me that when I was in school in the mid-60s, much of the daily chitchat was on the theme of "Who do you like best: Beatles or Stones?" In a way they were equally famous for a while, but come on - musically it's No Contest!!!
The Beatles and Frank Zappa certainly introduce the avant-garde to modern popular music. Much to music's benefit.
And the Beach Boys
don't forget early Pink Floyd!
Don't forget John Lennon plagiarized Frank Zappa's song King Kong as his own and relabeled it "Jamrag"
This channel is brilliant. Well considered language, nuanced rather than sweeping statements, actual detail. Thank you so much for this - don't stop!
A friend sent me the Kandinsky video and I haven’t been able to stop seeing your videos. The completeness of your explanations, the themes, even your tone, every single aspect of your videos draws me to want more and more. I’ll be sure to keep sharing your videos, you deserve a very broad audience.
Thank you much Alfredo - I really appreciate you sharing my videos! I'm so pleased that you're enjoying them. For the time being, I'm not bothered that I don't have a huge audience. I'm just appreciating the really kind comments (like this one) - that's what's keeping me going. Lots more to come.
Definitely the best video of The Beatles music artistic review I’ve ever seen. You are a master. Congrats 👏👏
i love sound collages i've made a few like ''revolution 9''with my primative home equipment like on my old reel to reel machines.
this is one of the best video essays ive ever seen
please do more of this. Maybe something like Rick Beato's "What makes this song great". Great content!
Man this channel is amazing, the videos are so well put together, I hope it gets more popular
I absolutely loved this video and this channel, you deserve a lot more subscribers with your great content!
Blownnn away once again. There are no words to describe your videos. Fascinating analisis!
Thank you! I'm really glad you're enjoying my videos.
Oaah such an amazing video, thanks a lot !! I will spread the good word !!
Please do! Thank you!
Great video! It deserves much more views. I hope you grow up as a channel.
I'm blown away. It's just amazing and deeply inspiring. Thank you.
I know - their songs are overwhelming sometimes. I was so inspired when researching this essay. I'm really glad you enjoyed it.
This explains why later Beatles music feels like some kind of acid trip...
Well, a simpler explanation is that they were tripping balls.
@@hickorymccay2994 I would go so far as to say that if they never did acid they would be remembered kind of how Herman's Hermits are remembered. As just another 60's pop group of no great importance. LSD is one substance I have no regrets at all about. I loved every trip I took.
They'd still be remembered for Beatlemania if not for lsd@@satinbarbi
this is surprisingly helpful for my a level revision. would love to see more from this !
Gosh - do they still call them A levels? I thought the name had changed long ago (did mine in '68 when all this groovy music was happening). Good luck with yours!
I've never really known what the term avant-garde even means (beyond a vague sense of it being 'out-there', cutting edge, and/or strange), but it seems I've always been a fan - as A Day in the Life is also my favorite Beatles song, Revolver is my favorite Beatles album (with Tomorrow Never Knows my favorite song on the album), and Revolution 9 is my favorite part of the White Album. You managed to touch on all of the highlights of my lifelong Beatles fandom in 11 minutes.
wonderful video! Thank you for sharing! It is excellent! :D
My pleasure! Thank you for watching.
This is a wonderful deep dive
This video should have more attention.
love it!!
Your channel has stellar content ! I hope it will be a brief matter of time before you reach 100k+ subs, and you will have deserved it. Keep it up!
Thank you so much Mehdi! I will definitely keep it going!
I would advice listening to other bands from the same era to understand how the influences from different sources created this artístic environment. I would recommend The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Zombies, the Hollies, the Mamas and the Papas and the albums Present tense by Sagittarius and Begin by Millenium.
How about Zappa and the Mothers?!?
Odd how he choses mainly John song when even John and George Martin acknowledge it was Paul that was most into this stuff.
He mentioned Paul McCartney's Eleanor Rigby and the orchestral crescendo from A Day in the Life being Paul's idea. Actually, he doesn't mention George Harrison at all.
@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 George wasn't into avant garde music, he called it "avant garde a clue"
@@kevinb7789 Yeah, I don't either. But that's besides the point. I was replying to the first comment that stated that the video favoured George's and John's interest in avant garde over Paul, which I find to be a falacy since beside his small contribution to Revolution 9, the video mainly mentions Paul and John.
@Jay Absolutely.
Well Paul didn’t use many avant garde techniques in his songs aside from Eleanor Rigby. He was however responsible for many of the avant garde aspects in John’s songs like Tomorrow Never Knows (tape loops) and A Day in the Life (atonal improvised orchestral crescendo). Paul also did an avant garde piece before John’s Revolution #9, which was Carnival of Light. Paul has been trying to get it released but Ringo, Yoko, and George’s estate have blocked it
What’s the beautiful Eb major backround piece in 2:29?
Class Composer best of 21st century. 👏
good video
They expanded their minds
Here you go internet, using a set of words I’ve never heard and making a RUclips video about it.
this saved me from a school prodject
I'm an orchestra musician and an arranger, and I've also conducted a few times and I can confirm that orchestra musicians just _can't_ play something if it's not written down, no matter how simple, and that's so, so frustrating.
Short answer: no
Long answer: sorta
Why did u leave me 😭😭😭😭😭
no!
want a short answer to the title? no.
And the Beatles actually saved ‘classical’ music from their avant garde atonal/chance “end-of-music” direction to which modern composers were heading.
Can you elaborate on this, what do you mean by "saved" classical music?