As a Data Scientist, Bach continues to blow my mind. To see parallel structure between his music and the mathematics or transformation of data is so amazing. The inversion can be any form of a mathematical transformation - pick whatever you want. The lag or delay in the start of the inverted canon is precisely a dynamic feature used in time series machine learning. Lag features of t minus n that are used in our models.
There will never be another like him, and there never was the likes of him before. And if you were surrounded by people who barely held their knuckles from their gait, with this in your mind all day and all night, you would also be short tempered.
This 'afterthought' by Bach on the last page of the printed Goldberg Variations leaves one completely speechless. Gerubach, your presentation is simply outstanding - worthy of the sublime subject.
Walter Bushell "The Fourteen Canons (BWV 1087): Foundation or Culmination? A re-evaluation of their position among Bach‟s late works" by Elise Crean bachnetwork.org/ub5/crean.pdf
He did it for fun, like doing crossword puzzles. He wrote all sorts of musical riddles for Anna Magdalena and his sons to solve. In fact Bach is holding an actual riddle (a canon triplex) in his hand on his famous painting. You can unpack the hidden 3 voices from it.
Many think that such inversions can only be found in these riddles and musical games. But in the Sonata in C major for Solo Violin, the fugue contains the most beautiful inversions, including a hidden melody in a part for single voice before a 3 voice culmination of string crossings. Then, there is an al riverso, and the string crossings repeat, with an al stretto afterwards.
SapereAude1490 A quote from the Art of Fugue! Just another one of Bach's genius. As if the Goldberg Variations were not already genius, he goes and writes 14 canons on the bass line!
Let's add a few 14th ;) - he became the 14th memeber of the Mizlersche Societät (maybe he planned that) - he added some notes to particular chorale melodies so that they contains 14 notes - 14 contrapuctus in the art of the fugue (Contrapunctus 14 might be doughtfully, but it the theme on the notes Bb-A-C-B which in German transcribes to B-A-C-H) - the manuscript of the musical offering was handed to Friefrich on the 14th of Juli ...
14 is also the number you get when you add the numerical values of the surname 'Bach' (A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4, E=5, F=6, G=7 and H=8). Therefore, 2+1+3+8= *14* Some study finds that Bach knew this, so it might not be a coincidence that he stopped number of canons at 14.
Not clear at all. In fact, he only wrote quite a few of them. So, if he had developed an "automatic" method for doing that, he would do it everyday, casually, and we would have a ton of them rn, in my opinion. I think it is likely that he did have some kind of method of thinking and counting, but, still worked a lot inside his head and didn't write those masterpieces effortlessly.
He most probably did! A marvelous book has been written upon this very subject by the italian composer Giancarlo Bizzi - it is called "Specchi invisibili dei suoni", and I really do not know whether it has been translated in other languages (if that's actually the case, it's a true shame) - where he analyzed a number of canons from both the Musical Offering and the Goldberg Variations, either coming up with new methods of composing a canon or researching such methods in old treatises. By doing this, he demonstrated in the second part of the book that the theme of the Goldberg Variations was composed according to the principles of Athanasius Kircher's "Tabula mirifica omnia contrapuntisticae artis arcana revelans" (Astonishing table showing every secret of counterpoint), a number square that shows every moment at which an imitation should enter in order for a melody to be canonizable to itself at every interval... Really marvelous stuff. He also utilizes latin squares at length as construction device: given the extremely important presence of both canon and latin squares in the music making of Luigi Nono and Bruno Maderna, one might wonder how one could renew musical paedagogics by relying more on seemingly antiquated resources, which, although objectively out of date for some elements, can still show essential tools for developing a fluent and sound musical thought... Nonetheless, I want to present a last, fundamental point: these methods are mere tools, not magic wand. They can help realize something, but they still need to be used - wisely, I might add. Knowing how to use Kircher's square won't make you magically write the Goldberg Variations; yet, it is certainly an important tool in order to research with more ease and conciousness the right expression of one's musical thought.
Molto ben fatta la descrizione di tutti i canoni. Bach rimarrà per sempre un mistero. All'interno delle sua composizioni c'è sempre un'alchimia. E' inutile dirlo ma è il padre di tutti i musucisti!
Very nicely done. I did notice one mistake in the score - the inversus in the bass clef for the prolation canon at 13:30 indicates A instead of G at the dominant resolution. Though what Bach did is impressive, it is actually deceptively simple if you know the right techniques and organizational principles. I am currently writing a book that will be posted for free as a PDF online that goes into depth on how to do this, and even goes further in complexity. For those of you interested in the text, please feel free to reach out. Another great text that discusses this (and is the first to do so in English to my knowledge) is Kendall Durelle Briggs’s “Craft of Tonal Counterpoint.”
What's equally amazing is that Bach wrote and actually PLAYED these canons on a simple clavichord most likely. How a human mind created #14 is pretty much a wonder of the world.
World is a better place with video makers like you. I watched this one when I was in senior high, and at that moment, I was astonished how devoted one can be in putting efforts into visualizing Bach's music. This is priceless, I can't imagine how many who genuinely love music would be enlightened by your videos.
"Wow! Thanks to you, I was able to catch a glimpse of the minds of musical geniuses for a short while. I learned a bit about the music structure and theory that I was curious about. Thank you for the great video!"
This video is truly a work of art, a masterpiece! A real treasure, especially for musicians. Thank you very much, with the utmost respect and admiration. ✨🙏✨👍
@@steffen5121 There is a wonderful unison between Mathematics and Music, just as there is between Mathematics and Art. Have you heard "The Musical Offering"?
Kok Weng Leong - One big difference is that Bach actually produced something connected to reality in a realized manner; whereas Einstein produced nothing connected to reality by fumddidling in fantasy. Another big difference is that Bach fathered multiple intelligent children and, as far as we know, remained with his wife; whereas Einstein sired multiple retarded children and abandoned them and their mother when he gained the first hint of celebrity. Another big difference is that Bach, I feel confident, loved his people; whereas Einstein expressed in vile and vulgar fashion his absolute hatred for those same people and desired that be destroyed to the uttermost. Perhaps Einstein should not be held in comparison to Bach at all or to even be mentioned at all.
14 canons and number 14 is Bach's signature... amazing! GERUBACH excellent work with all your videos, especially with this one... Bach's last musical words!
Robert J. Brownlow I would say however that it would be even better if the canons were displayed in treble or bass clef rather than the movable C clefs used here. Many students will be lost and not really be able to grasp the brilliance.
+Robert J. Brownlow Teach them the C clef! Show them the beauty in it! Life in music should not be a succession of "readers digest" experiences! It's easy to learn and there are many exercises (Bach Chorals for instance)
Toda esta clase de curiosidades y ejercicios intelectuales de formar los canones, las inversiones, etc. me recuerdan a lo que hacia Leonardo da Vinci con su escritura. Otro genio mas!!
This is so cool! It reminds me of something I saw here on RUclips presented by John Eliot Gardiner regarding the notes on the sheet music in the portrait of Bach. I thought I had heard these before. Way back in the early '80s I purchased a CD by Don Dorsey entitled "Bachbusters." I had to go to Amazon to verify it, but these were in the CD. It's taken all day to remember where I heard it. I lost the CD years ago.
The newly discovered canons and your sequencing and presentation is now one of my favorite videos. Thank you so much! Brilliant and inspiring for my work on the Goldberg V.!
L. Sebastião A. Castro kinda true, I did a research paper on Mozart and most of his later works resembled the complexity of Bach. If only Mozart lived 20 more years...
@@Thelaretus Possibly, though I think that without Bach, Mozart could not have reached the heights that he did reach. "Singet dem Herr ein neues Lied" was a revelation for Mozart.
Normies would've said Beethoven was the greatest, simply because he was deaf and creating a lot popular tunes. I wouldn't be surprised if they aren't aware about the fact that Beethoven wrote an opera.
Well, this is the best guide to understanding Bach's counterpoint that I've ever found ... and it's not close. If the definition of genius is the ability to make the complex simple(r), gerubach is a true genius. Now to watch it every day for about 5 years.
Hindsight is the best foresight, but... Notice how most ot those notes form part of a broken chord (an arpeggio); any "lagging" within the context of that arpeggio will sound alright because it's almost the same as doubling. The key then becomes how the transitions between chords are handled, because the lagging note would be playing a note from the previous chord and potentially clash with the current chord. Which means that the lagging note needs to play a note that is "shared" by both chords. Like just in between the repeat (8th/9th) note Bach uses D for the lagging/leading note, which is both shared by the previous chord (G: I, as the fifth) and the current chord (G: V(b), as root). And so forth for every chord change. This also forms part of the reason why 16ths - four notes needed to express an arpeggio for every potential chord change (each quarter). But thinking about that as he was composing it... I'm sure I couldn't have cooked up something like that.
Bravo, gerubach - if Johann Sebastian himself could see this, you know he would be delighted! These miniatures contain the sounds of molecules and galaxies performing their appointed rounds -
Thanks for sharing. I was looking for Bach to write canons. Actually I was looking for inspiration for my own canon - and then I found this... Johann Sebastian Bach was a counterpoint genius and a form aesthete. As if God as Creator had personally lent a hand, Bach writes his pieces seemingly playfully, as if they were spontaneous creations and ends with "etc.", as if he could easily write 14 canons as well. Simply unbe-f...ing-leavable ! And now? What am I supposed to write another canon...
I'm pretty sure Bach would have been a multiple Nobel Prize winner if he had lived in the 20th century. Or he would found the cure for cancer or invented time travel or something. His brain and imagination worked at the highest level possible for a human being.
che fortuna poter vedere gratuitamente queste cose! Prima te le dicevano ai corsi di composizione e occorreva pagare corsi su corsi perchè venissero insegnate.
Amazing! Bach had maths and music sussed well before the Minimalists of the 20th century. And the amazing thing is that it doesn't sound contrived. Unless the intricacies of the maths is pointed out, you wouldn't know. Still sounds like music.
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Because writing the Goldberg variations wasn't quite enough
Bjorn Rossby You have my award for the best comment on this video
Great comment.
The Golderberg variations,just was a warming for Bach.
What really blows my mind is that Bach writes "Etc." at the end, like he could do this all day but just ran out of space on the page. o_O
Blazingstoke I love the comment you made so much. I really do xD
I do because I feel the same way
Blazingstoke How do you know it is an etc etcétera? I dont read it clear, is it reslly stated?
The scan used here doesn't quite pick up all of the "E" at 0:37. It's clearer in the facsimile copy published by Bärenreiter (BA 5153).
"I have came up with a truly marvelous canon on the base notes of the Goldberg Variation, which this margin is too narrow to contain." haha
Bach, early pioneer of data compression. Fit a full recital of music on one page.
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I come back to this video every now and again just to have my mind blown
Same!!
Canon 1: 1:48
Canon 2: 2:24
Canon 3: 3:05
Canon 4: 3:49
Canon 5: 4:28
Canon 6: 5:15
Canon 7: 6:12
Canon 8: 7:02
Canon 9: 7:50
Canon 10: 8:33
Canon 11: 10:16
Canon 12: 11:13
Canon 13: 12:40
Canon 14: 13:34
Has the most likes; still isn't at the top. Thanks, RUclips.
it is
Martijn Pieterman
Canon 10 (alternative): 9:33
You, are a saint.
Thanks for your effort :-)
When Brahms said, "Study Bach. There you will find everything.", He wasn't kidding.
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Yeah lol, and Mendelssohn said: study Brahms studying Bach, you will find everything there and more... ;)
Jop Mens how? Mendelssohn was before Brahms
@@Ekvitarius I'm sure he meant it as a joke, but, yeah, I'm not sure if he realized that Mendelssohn died when Brahms was 14 lol
Eorzat Now I feel stupid for not getting that
Amazing that Bach could describe all this with short notations. The way the video expands the canons is just great.
The editing on this video is phenomenal.
Bach's version of playing with a Rubik's cube.
True
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Yes, but Bach's plaything was of exponentially more dimensions.
Funny and true at the same time.
Rubik's cube in 6 dimensions
As a Data Scientist, Bach continues to blow my mind. To see parallel structure between his music and the mathematics or transformation of data is so amazing. The inversion can be any form of a mathematical transformation - pick whatever you want. The lag or delay in the start of the inverted canon is precisely a dynamic feature used in time series machine learning. Lag features of t minus n that are used in our models.
I never knew the depth of Bach's genius.
Thanks for the clear illustration.
Stunning!
If you ever get the chance, read "Godel, Escher, Bach". It is absolutely mind-bending.
How does this man stay calm with these kinds of music floating around in his head? I mean these music are full-fleshed masterpieces... Oh, Bach!
Fun fact: he actually was known to be very short-tempered, so he actually didn't stay calm at all
@@entemusicarchive I guess he wasn't very Well-Tempered.
There will never be another like him, and there never was the likes of him before. And if you were surrounded by people who barely held their knuckles from their gait, with this in your mind all day and all night, you would also be short tempered.
@@xmvziron🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 What the hell ah hahahaha. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Im racist
This 'afterthought' by Bach on the last page of the printed Goldberg Variations leaves one completely speechless. Gerubach, your presentation is simply outstanding - worthy of the sublime subject.
Or was it forethought - has anyone investigate if these are the key to the Goldbergs?
Walter Bushell "The Fourteen Canons (BWV 1087): Foundation or Culmination? A re-evaluation of their position among Bach‟s late works" by Elise Crean bachnetwork.org/ub5/crean.pdf
@@JFman00 Very interesting, thanks !
@@walterbushell7029 He probably did something like this with every theme just to warm up for the main composition.
gerubach. wow. you do SUCH a great job with all these videos. Your work needs to be in every college music composition class in the country.
I actually can't deal with this. Bach transcended humanity. He is an actual musical diety.
Well. Perhaps not a deity himself. However, very much had a direct musical connection with deity.
you're delusional.
He did it for fun, like doing crossword puzzles. He wrote all sorts of musical riddles for Anna Magdalena and his sons to solve.
In fact Bach is holding an actual riddle (a canon triplex) in his hand on his famous painting. You can unpack the hidden 3 voices from it.
Yes, the Canon for 6 voices, though with only 3 parts.
The canon triplex for 6 voices is the 13th canon here, for anyone wondering.
Many think that such inversions can only be found in these riddles and musical games. But in the Sonata in C major for Solo Violin, the fugue contains the most beautiful inversions, including a hidden melody in a part for single voice before a 3 voice culmination of string crossings. Then, there is an al riverso, and the string crossings repeat, with an al stretto afterwards.
The animations are a brilliant touch!
the 9th Canon at 7:50 is just lit af
Yeah
It's very beautiful 😭
frfr
Mas allá de lo impresionante Bach no solo fue uno de los mas grandes músicos si no también uno de los mas grandes matemáticos.
legend has it that Bach could sing all the parts simultaneously
While dancing a jig and rubbing his head and tummy in opposite circular directions!
@@williamhinson8305 thank you
Absolutely amazing. It is unbelievable how brilliant Bach was. Thank you gerubach for taking the time to make this video.
Bach did the MIDI flip challenge 300 years before we did...
... Fuck! :|
RacinZilla003 He's even done the double flip.
don't forget to inverse his comment
Han Yolo 92 So we should enter at the (...) mark?
How about he did a triple flip even.
@@Thelaretus Okay. You got me.
Bach would be an awesome programmer nowadays..
Haha that’s so true!
That would be an utter waste of his talent.
John Desiderio no reason why he can’t program AND compose.
John Desiderio in fact I study cs and agree with you completely :D
Erlik Quadros no, Bach is a genius, a programmer only have technique
Your videos really illustrate the genius of Bach for us; the "musical youth desirous of learning".
SapereAude1490 A quote from the Art of Fugue! Just another one of Bach's genius. As if the Goldberg Variations were not already genius, he goes and writes 14 canons on the bass line!
Bach= 14.
B A C H. 2+1+3+8
14 canons :)
My god Bach have a Huge Brain
Let's add a few 14th ;)
- he became the 14th memeber of the Mizlersche Societät (maybe he planned that)
- he added some notes to particular chorale melodies so that they contains 14 notes
- 14 contrapuctus in the art of the fugue (Contrapunctus 14 might be doughtfully, but it the theme on the notes Bb-A-C-B which in German transcribes to B-A-C-H)
- the manuscript of the musical offering was handed to Friefrich on the 14th of Juli
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how in the world you have figured that out lol
B -...
A .-
C -.-.
H ....
10 dots and 4 lines, what a coincidence
Bach's musical genius is well over my head. Great video.
14 is also the number you get when you add the numerical values of the surname 'Bach' (A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4, E=5, F=6, G=7 and H=8). Therefore, 2+1+3+8= *14*
Some study finds that Bach knew this, so it might not be a coincidence that he stopped number of canons at 14.
Because of course he fucking did. Bach is still flexing on us feeble humans hundreds of years after he died.
Unfortunately his name isn't "zzzz"
It is clear that Bach had developed a method for automating the writing of canons
How can you tell this?
maybe so...
Not clear at all.
In fact, he only wrote quite a few of them. So, if he had developed an "automatic" method for doing that, he would do it everyday, casually, and we would have a ton of them rn, in my opinion.
I think it is likely that he did have some kind of method of thinking and counting, but, still worked a lot inside his head and didn't write those masterpieces effortlessly.
You might look up Mozart’s musical dice game, where you roll for each of four parts of a melody.
He most probably did! A marvelous book has been written upon this very subject by the italian composer Giancarlo Bizzi - it is called "Specchi invisibili dei suoni", and I really do not know whether it has been translated in other languages (if that's actually the case, it's a true shame) - where he analyzed a number of canons from both the Musical Offering and the Goldberg Variations, either coming up with new methods of composing a canon or researching such methods in old treatises. By doing this, he demonstrated in the second part of the book that the theme of the Goldberg Variations was composed according to the principles of Athanasius Kircher's "Tabula mirifica omnia contrapuntisticae artis arcana revelans" (Astonishing table showing every secret of counterpoint), a number square that shows every moment at which an imitation should enter in order for a melody to be canonizable to itself at every interval... Really marvelous stuff.
He also utilizes latin squares at length as construction device: given the extremely important presence of both canon and latin squares in the music making of Luigi Nono and Bruno Maderna, one might wonder how one could renew musical paedagogics by relying more on seemingly antiquated resources, which, although objectively out of date for some elements, can still show essential tools for developing a fluent and sound musical thought...
Nonetheless, I want to present a last, fundamental point: these methods are mere tools, not magic wand. They can help realize something, but they still need to be used - wisely, I might add. Knowing how to use Kircher's square won't make you magically write the Goldberg Variations; yet, it is certainly an important tool in order to research with more ease and conciousness the right expression of one's musical thought.
Mathematics + the best music = J.S.Bach ... Great !!!
Molto ben fatta la descrizione di tutti i canoni. Bach rimarrà per sempre un mistero. All'interno delle sua composizioni c'è sempre un'alchimia. E' inutile dirlo ma è il padre di tutti i musucisti!
Very nicely done. I did notice one mistake in the score - the inversus in the bass clef for the prolation canon at 13:30 indicates A instead of G at the dominant resolution. Though what Bach did is impressive, it is actually deceptively simple if you know the right techniques and organizational principles. I am currently writing a book that will be posted for free as a PDF online that goes into depth on how to do this, and even goes further in complexity. For those of you interested in the text, please feel free to reach out. Another great text that discusses this (and is the first to do so in English to my knowledge) is Kendall Durelle Briggs’s “Craft of Tonal Counterpoint.”
Your videos have helped me understand the incredible structure behind some of Bach's amazing music. Thank you so much for making these.
Check out Gerubachs newest Video about the Canons on a Christmas Hymn, it is crazy!
Can you explain the “structure”
What's equally amazing is that Bach wrote and actually PLAYED these canons on a simple clavichord most likely. How a human mind created #14 is pretty much a wonder of the world.
World is a better place with video makers like you. I watched this one when I was in senior high, and at that moment, I was astonished how devoted one can be in putting efforts into visualizing Bach's music. This is priceless, I can't imagine how many who genuinely love music would be enlightened by your videos.
Who would have thought that the first 8 bass notes of the magnificent Goldberg Variations hold the key to the origins of life in the universe?!
iCancrizans I, uh, wouldn't go quite that far
+Stephen MacLellan "another D sharp" about la campanella you comennt??
nope, Strauss' C-G-C holds the meaning of life, universe, and everything
the riddle of the world unfolded by the Ubermensch in the Zarathustra fanfare
"Wow! Thanks to you, I was able to catch a glimpse of the minds of musical geniuses for a short while. I learned a bit about the music structure and theory that I was curious about. Thank you for the great video!"
Thanks for sharing, very instructive video. These canons make the Goldberg variations even more dazzling.
This video is truly a work of art, a masterpiece!
A real treasure, especially for musicians.
Thank you very much, with the utmost respect and admiration. ✨🙏✨👍
Miraculous!!! It sounds like music but looks like math!
I know right? As someone who likes math and music equally this like a wet dream to me, haha.
its the other way around
It also sounds like Math and looks like music.
@@steffen5121 There is a wonderful unison between Mathematics and Music, just as there is between Mathematics and Art. Have you heard "The Musical Offering"?
The language of nature is math, and music is an expression of what is beneath the visible nature.. sort of 🤔
Bach is like the Einstein of Baroque music!!!
On the contrary, Einstein was the Bach of physics!
Kok Weng Leong - One big difference is that Bach actually produced something connected to reality in a realized manner; whereas Einstein produced nothing connected to reality by fumddidling in fantasy.
Another big difference is that Bach fathered multiple intelligent children and, as far as we know, remained with his wife; whereas Einstein sired multiple retarded children and abandoned them and their mother when he gained the first hint of celebrity.
Another big difference is that Bach, I feel confident, loved his people; whereas Einstein expressed in vile and vulgar fashion his absolute hatred for those same people and desired that be destroyed to the uttermost.
Perhaps Einstein should not be held in comparison to Bach at all or to even be mentioned at all.
GD Dyno - "OG"? What's that?
Kok Weng Leong original gangster , fool
Kok Weng Leong I even think Bach goes beyond Albert Einstein brilliantly mind.
14 canons and number 14 is Bach's signature... amazing! GERUBACH excellent work with all your videos, especially with this one... Bach's last musical words!
Stunning! And so beautifully illustrated!
This is highly educational. Well done. Bach is as good as music gets.
He's fucking genious.
This presentation woke me up from a dissociative state. Thank you for piquing my curiosity.
This blew me the F away. Really. The man was tesselating music, he could mirror this stuff in his mind, it's hard to believe he was real!
This ... is ... awesome.
Robert J. Brownlow I would say however that it would be even better if the canons were displayed in treble or bass clef rather than the movable C clefs used here. Many students will be lost and not really be able to grasp the brilliance.
+Robert J. Brownlow Usually they would be shifted when performed and the performer would use the treble/bass clefs.
+Robert J. Brownlow Teach them the C clef! Show them the beauty in it! Life in music should not be a succession of "readers digest" experiences! It's easy to learn and there are many exercises (Bach Chorals for instance)
Toda esta clase de curiosidades y ejercicios intelectuales de formar los canones, las inversiones, etc. me recuerdan a lo que hacia Leonardo da Vinci con su escritura. Otro genio mas!!
This is a level of genius where one can only ascribe such a feat to dictation from God.
That he is able to write all these different canons on fundamentally the same theme is mind blowing.
13:34 is my fav piece of all music
Great stuff in a wonderful presentation. There is so much to learn from Bach.
This is so cool! It reminds me of something I saw here on RUclips presented by John Eliot Gardiner regarding the notes on the sheet music in the portrait of Bach.
I thought I had heard these before. Way back in the early '80s I purchased a CD by Don Dorsey entitled "Bachbusters." I had to go to Amazon to verify it, but these were in the CD. It's taken all day to remember where I heard it. I lost the CD years ago.
The newly discovered canons and your sequencing and presentation is now one of my favorite videos. Thank you so much!
Brilliant and inspiring for my work on the Goldberg V.!
Fantastic! I adore Bach's music!
Who disliked this? Well.... this displays perfectly why this man is called a genius. Thank you!
This is one of the best music videos out there!! Thank you geru bach for the wonderful work and supplementing our musical education :)
.... when a genius gets bored.....
Literally,literally.
So well laid out and so beautifully demonstrated. Thanks!
I don't know how we could ever thank you for all this hard work. THANK YOU.
In case you ever had any doubt as to who the greatest was...
L. Sebastião A. Castro kinda true, I did a research paper on Mozart and most of his later works resembled the complexity of Bach. If only Mozart lived 20 more years...
@@Thelaretus Possibly, though I think that without Bach, Mozart could not have reached the heights that he did reach. "Singet dem Herr ein neues Lied" was a revelation for Mozart.
Normies would've said Beethoven was the greatest, simply because he was deaf and creating a lot popular tunes. I wouldn't be surprised if they aren't aware about the fact that Beethoven wrote an opera.
Mozart and Bach are simply superior talents, but had Mozart lived longer, he would've surpassed Bach.
Vtheman PP I don’t think Mozart would be greater even if he lived longer
Well, this is the best guide to understanding Bach's counterpoint that I've ever found ... and it's not close. If the definition of genius is the ability to make the complex simple(r), gerubach is a true genius. Now to watch it every day for about 5 years.
Unfortunately the link in the description seems to want a login, but the video itself will keep us busy.
Long Life to GeruBach!
Bach is just amazing. This is pure genius and there is so much to learn in this!
Your explanations and graphics are amazing. I enjoyed watching as much as listening. THANKS.
Absolutely beautiful
Jesus! I just can say that.. Thank you. Thank you GERUBACH!!!
the 9th one got me all stunned
following through the 16th note? seriously? who could do that in real life?
Its easy. Use broken chords
Hindsight is the best foresight, but...
Notice how most ot those notes form part of a broken chord (an arpeggio); any "lagging" within the context of that arpeggio will sound alright because it's almost the same as doubling. The key then becomes how the transitions between chords are handled, because the lagging note would be playing a note from the previous chord and potentially clash with the current chord.
Which means that the lagging note needs to play a note that is "shared" by both chords. Like just in between the repeat (8th/9th) note Bach uses D for the lagging/leading note, which is both shared by the previous chord (G: I, as the fifth) and the current chord (G: V(b), as root). And so forth for every chord change.
This also forms part of the reason why 16ths - four notes needed to express an arpeggio for every potential chord change (each quarter).
But thinking about that as he was composing it... I'm sure I couldn't have cooked up something like that.
Bach el Mago! Gracias por el vídeo, fantástico.
Bach was a genius. This music is genius. Maths merges with art. I want to hear more of this.
No. 5 and 9...!!! so beautifoul....BNK
Amazing how You put this video editing together...so many talent,passion and work.Thank You Geru!:)
Bach was the nearest any human is ever going to get to God.
Wow. You have a truly excellent mind to be able to represent your analyzations this well. Keep trucking, Gerubach!
Bravo, gerubach - if Johann Sebastian himself could see this, you know he would be delighted! These miniatures contain the sounds of molecules and galaxies performing their appointed rounds -
I am
get a grip on reality.
@@Whatismusic123 Bor-rrinnnggg!
Excelent animations my friend! Congratulations and thank you for your didactics collaborations!
Exelente material gracias por compartir.
Just WOW! Thank you so much for this video!
Thanks for sharing.
I was looking for Bach to write canons. Actually I was looking for inspiration for my own canon - and then I found this...
Johann Sebastian Bach was a counterpoint genius and a form aesthete. As if God as Creator had personally lent a hand, Bach writes his pieces seemingly playfully, as if they were spontaneous creations and ends with "etc.", as if he could easily write 14 canons as well. Simply unbe-f...ing-leavable !
And now? What am I supposed to write another canon...
Really enjoyed this analysis of a very enterprising JSB x
Wow, the 12 is incredible.
Great video; thanks, master. Thanks for help me to understand and discover to this genius a bit more.
Спасибо большое, прекрасный анализ и метод
Canon 13: 12:40 the one from the famous painting
I'm pretty sure Bach would have been a multiple Nobel Prize winner if he had lived in the 20th century. Or he would found the cure for cancer or invented time travel or something. His brain and imagination worked at the highest level possible for a human being.
what a genius.
Thanks so much. I really need to know things like this.
che fortuna poter vedere gratuitamente queste cose! Prima te le dicevano ai corsi di composizione e occorreva pagare corsi su corsi perchè venissero insegnate.
Canon 12 sounds so wonderful.
Yo creo que Bach tenía un pc con finale escondido por ahí XD
¡¡Es un genio!!
This video is great!!! It's made with love... congratulations!
Beautiful presentation!
Bsch was s huge grnius, and this video is a didactic must-have.
Video di grande didattica. Bravissimi
I dont why some people choose mozart when bach is everything a complete package
I love me some Mozart. I was listening to his music last night. But nothing gets me like Bach!
This is something a modern computer might have trouble doing. And he wrote this as an afterthought ._.
Royce Zaro, hey there "Byrdy".
Some funky clefs
Amazing! Bach had maths and music sussed well before the Minimalists of the 20th century. And the amazing thing is that it doesn't sound contrived. Unless the intricacies of the maths is pointed out, you wouldn't know. Still sounds like music.
MOST IMPRESSIVE ! SEEING IS BELIEVING !!
Gracias por tu aporte a la música