Happy sixty-eighteenth birthday, Howard Shore! If anyone wants to play this stuff at a friend’s birthday party, Patreon has sheet music of these transformations for solo piano as a set of Lord of the Rings style variations for personal use. Over on Patreon, you can also grab my Mozart-style variations on Happy Birthday if you prefer to keep your silliness Classical.
Just discovered your channel. Gosh this is utter perfection - your music mastery, teaching style, soundtrack samples and the effort for those cool animated presentations. YT should double pay you! Thanks so much!
Great video! I especially like the Valinor rendition of the theme. One scale naming issue, though: If you say the Valinor version is melodic minor, then c would have to be the root of the theme as it is originally. But then your numbers below the notes of the scale suggest that g is to be seen as the root. So that does not match. I do hear g as the root of the theme, but then it is not melodic minor (also doesn't feel like it) but it is major with the flat 6th scale degree as a "borrowed note" from the minor scale.
Absolutely! I refer to that one as the fifth mode of melodic minor, not the standard melodic minor. There’s probably a clearer way to articulate that, though!
@@GalenDeGraf Ah ok! I'm just not sure what the benefit of deriving it from the melodic minor scale is. This way you could also argue that normal major is lydian (fifth mode) etc. Where lies the melodic minor part? That the original root was c and keeping the melody "as is" (not transposing) but with a new root note? Thinking of it, it actually seems promising.
That sounds like a good train of thought to keep exploring! For this channel, I mainly think about how to convey technical material while minimizing jargon, but that doesn’t always lead to the most theoretically precise descriptions in my videos. At the same time, I think it is what makes my youTube videos-compared to academic articles-have the potential to resonate with a wider audience. But at some point I may try to look for using more precise terms.
I think both melodic major and aeolian dominant are other angles to describe the same pitch collection. Still not sure between those and fifth mode of melodic minor, which is most intuitive for an audience of non-theorists.
Question: What makes the dorian example dorian? It starts and ends with a C major rather than C minor, and also includes the flat and natural of E,A, and B across different chords. To me, the mode seems kind of ambigous (or at least not obvious). It sounds very good and I love the video, but I dont get this.
This is part of a series about compositional technique rather than just "how it sounds". In this case, the mode refers only to the MELODY notes as a starting point, which then can be harmonized in various ways that might change the overall character of the music. This is only a demonstration and I have longform explanation videos. I recommend starting with "How to make a musical theme fit any context"
@@erikgruber9736 Thanks for following up! If orienting to G as the root/tonic that would absolutely be aeolian, but I was thinking about it as oriented toward C for that example.
@@maurovalentini2530 I had a request a while ago to do a Lord of the Rings style Happy Birthday. I don’t like violating copyright law, and I also released this on Howard Shore’s birthday. If you’re still unsatisfied with the video, I will give you a full refund.
@GalenDeGraf the copyright is not a problem. I was Just wondering that Happy birthday was just maybe off topic with the epicness of Lord of the Rings even although in the video there is a proof and the demonstration that everything can be re-arranged in a new concept style
@GalenDeGraf no is very nice Easy. I just saw the video wondering that it was Just an interesting re-arrangement of a Lord of the Rings theme. Not knowing exactly which is the theme because I m more Expert in other movies it was weird to me hearing that Lord of the Rings had this Happy birthday vibe and I thought that is not possible that the composer did that. So I Just did not know that yours was not just a re-arrangement of a lord of the Rings theme but a mix betwenn this with the second element added (the Happy birthday) or a totally different composition from a rip-off but just a re-arrangement of a different thing like the Happy Birthday in the Lord of the Rings style creating many variarions based on different vibes, scales, mode and atmospheres everyone based on a character or scene as the Leitmotiv philosophy teaches. So I got the point no problem and your job was good
Happy sixty-eighteenth birthday, Howard Shore!
If anyone wants to play this stuff at a friend’s birthday party, Patreon has sheet music of these transformations for solo piano as a set of Lord of the Rings style variations for personal use. Over on Patreon, you can also grab my Mozart-style variations on Happy Birthday if you prefer to keep your silliness Classical.
Excellent harmonization ! I'll hear all the rest as i can !! Thanks !
I mean lyrics in quenya deserve the like on it's own.
Just discovered your channel. Gosh this is utter perfection - your music mastery, teaching style, soundtrack samples and the effort for those cool animated presentations. YT should double pay you! Thanks so much!
All i can say is your a very clever man to be able to transpose that song into so many different modes😊😊😊😊😊
This was awesome! Super informational and creative !
Loved the Fellowship one! As a composer who doesn't understand too much about theory (sadly), I can only envy your skills!
Best content out there as usual
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Would be awesome if you do a video on Darkest Dungeon Soundtracks :o
Great video! I especially like the Valinor rendition of the theme. One scale naming issue, though: If you say the Valinor version is melodic minor, then c would have to be the root of the theme as it is originally. But then your numbers below the notes of the scale suggest that g is to be seen as the root. So that does not match. I do hear g as the root of the theme, but then it is not melodic minor (also doesn't feel like it) but it is major with the flat 6th scale degree as a "borrowed note" from the minor scale.
Absolutely! I refer to that one as the fifth mode of melodic minor, not the standard melodic minor. There’s probably a clearer way to articulate that, though!
@@GalenDeGraf Ah ok! I'm just not sure what the benefit of deriving it from the melodic minor scale is. This way you could also argue that normal major is lydian (fifth mode) etc. Where lies the melodic minor part? That the original root was c and keeping the melody "as is" (not transposing) but with a new root note? Thinking of it, it actually seems promising.
That sounds like a good train of thought to keep exploring! For this channel, I mainly think about how to convey technical material while minimizing jargon, but that doesn’t always lead to the most theoretically precise descriptions in my videos. At the same time, I think it is what makes my youTube videos-compared to academic articles-have the potential to resonate with a wider audience. But at some point I may try to look for using more precise terms.
I could be wrong, but I think it could be from the melodic major scale, which has either a G# or Ab when in C, if I remember correctly
I think both melodic major and aeolian dominant are other angles to describe the same pitch collection. Still not sure between those and fifth mode of melodic minor, which is most intuitive for an audience of non-theorists.
Question: What makes the dorian example dorian? It starts and ends with a C major rather than C minor, and also includes the flat and natural of E,A, and B across different chords. To me, the mode seems kind of ambigous (or at least not obvious). It sounds very good and I love the video, but I dont get this.
This is part of a series about compositional technique rather than just "how it sounds". In this case, the mode refers only to the MELODY notes as a starting point, which then can be harmonized in various ways that might change the overall character of the music. This is only a demonstration and I have longform explanation videos. I recommend starting with "How to make a musical theme fit any context"
@@GalenDeGraf That makes much more sense! This is the first of your videos I have seen, and I do intend to watch more of them. Thanks!
The one that imitates the fellowhip is not dorian, but eolian.
C aeolian has an Ab. C dorian uses A-natural. (I will note however that Howard Shore’s original fellowship melody is aeolian though!)
I mean the one at 4:31, where there is a G scale with Bb and Eb
@@erikgruber9736 Thanks for following up! If orienting to G as the root/tonic that would absolutely be aeolian, but I was thinking about it as oriented toward C for that example.
@@GalenDeGraf Thanks for answering
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The theme is happy birthday. Are you kidding me?
@@maurovalentini2530 I had a request a while ago to do a Lord of the Rings style Happy Birthday. I don’t like violating copyright law, and I also released this on Howard Shore’s birthday. If you’re still unsatisfied with the video, I will give you a full refund.
@GalenDeGraf the copyright is not a problem. I was Just wondering that Happy birthday was just maybe off topic with the epicness of Lord of the Rings even although in the video there is a proof and the demonstration that everything can be re-arranged in a new concept style
@@GalenDeGraf anyway refund for what? I bought nothing
@@maurovalentini2530 This seems to be an example of Schrödinger's joke: you both got it and didn’t get it at the same time.
@GalenDeGraf no is very nice Easy. I just saw the video wondering that it was Just an interesting re-arrangement of a Lord of the Rings theme. Not knowing exactly which is the theme because I m more Expert in other movies it was weird to me hearing that Lord of the Rings had this Happy birthday vibe and I thought that is not possible that the composer did that. So I Just did not know that yours was not just a re-arrangement of a lord of the Rings theme but a mix betwenn this with the second element added (the Happy birthday) or a totally different composition from a rip-off but just a re-arrangement of a different thing like the Happy Birthday in the Lord of the Rings style creating many variarions based on different vibes, scales, mode and atmospheres everyone based on a character or scene as the Leitmotiv philosophy teaches. So I got the point no problem and your job was good