Tchaikovsky's Arabian COFFEE Dance (from Nutcracker) - Analysis

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  • Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024

Комментарии • 21

  • @MosesM514
    @MosesM514 Год назад +11

    I wouldn't be introduced to all these interesting concepts and pieces without your channel. Thanks so much! These oriental pieces have a sort of earthly sound to me.

    • @SonataSecrets
      @SonataSecrets  Год назад +2

      Yeah, that's true...

    • @ciararespect4296
      @ciararespect4296 Год назад

      Haha they would call the racist now by trying to emulate the sounds of other cultures
      The world's gone mad

  • @WondrousHello
    @WondrousHello Год назад +4

    Really nice piece. Makes me wanna see the nutcracker.

  • @caterscarrots3407
    @caterscarrots3407 Год назад +1

    I prefer pedal for Tchaikovsky as well. In general, I avoid pedal outside of a few pieces for like Beethoven or anybody before Beethoven. Even Schubert, like it depends whether you're talking the pieces with more Beethoven influence(ex. the C minor impromptu) or the pieces without much Beethoven influence. I'm less likely to use the pedal in the more Beethoven influenced pieces by Schubert.
    In Bach, I resort pedal to arrangements of organ pieces. In Mozart, I resort it mostly to the fantasias. In Beethoven, I don't use it at all unless it's marked(Moonlight Sonata and symphony transcriptions being the main pieces with pedal use).
    But Chopin and beyond, I err on the side of "Pedal, even when it's not marked."

  • @simongross3122
    @simongross3122 Год назад +2

    What a wonderful piece. Thanks for your excellent demonstration and analysis.

  • @kennyfrien-i
    @kennyfrien-i Год назад +3

    Appreciate this kind of analysis, glad to have discovered your channel!

  • @joelphillips8363
    @joelphillips8363 Год назад +2

    Thank you so much for your insightful videos👌🏼

  • @bayareaconsult4115
    @bayareaconsult4115 Год назад +2

    What a beautiful piece and very talented explanation 🙏👏👍

  • @john_demartini
    @john_demartini Год назад +1

    Cross-relation! My favorite thing

  • @PeterMHanna-wl6rh
    @PeterMHanna-wl6rh 10 месяцев назад

    wow ! wonderful !!

  • @emanuel_soundtrack
    @emanuel_soundtrack Год назад +1

    2:20 , this is a Vorhalt chord, or whatever you call it in english, for most theorists . The modal, minor dominant relationship is , however, the relavant sound there. This si a typical case of jazz notation: i guess you prefered this notation because is the easiest one to notate, not the more correct? Because the g´ is without doubt ht etonic there, not d´.

    • @SonataSecrets
      @SonataSecrets  Год назад +1

      I assume "Vorhalt" is German? Pretty close to our Swedish "förhållning." English would be "suspension," but I've grown hesitant recently to use that for chords like this because in English suspension might have a narrower meaning (as in only being prepared and tied over), in contrast to an appoggiatura which is accented on the beat. I would probably use the Vorhalt equivalent in Swedish but I'm not really sure in English!
      I don't think the G is necessarily the root because it's a pedal point present at all time, but you're right that it's a kind of elaboration (suspension) that resolves to a Gm the next bar, and maybe not a structural dominant. Interesting how Tchaikovsky makes it so hard to talk about! :)

    • @emanuel_soundtrack
      @emanuel_soundtrack Год назад +2

      @@SonataSecrets yes suspension is unfortunately not so clear, however correct. I don’t know better translation . Unfortunately some german terms are key to understand the common practice period , to not say others :/ like zwischendominant. My opinion is to force a direct translation when other one is not possible. I have this problem in portuguese , my mother language! But we all HAVE words;it lacks use

  • @garydmcgath
    @garydmcgath Год назад

    It's interesting that Tchaikovsky's best-known use of the "Hungarian Minor" is in March Slav. Composers in the 19th century and earlier often weren't clear on which ethnicity went with which music.

  • @spiegel311
    @spiegel311 Год назад

    Just discovered your channel and I loved it immediately. Thanks for the awesome explanations!

  • @joyfulfishman5445
    @joyfulfishman5445 Год назад +1

    I love your videos so much!

  • @groucho915
    @groucho915 Год назад

    I played this piece this summer, I found it really fascinating and hypnotizing. Happy you just did a great analysis of it!

  • @markandrewpiano
    @markandrewpiano Год назад

    Thanks for sharing this analysis!

  • @pyjparte6510
    @pyjparte6510 Год назад

    This is great! Thankyou!