I know people are joking about the percussionist (it _is_ funny), but, speaking as a percussionist myself, this is actually a very, very difficult piece of music to play for the percussionist. Imagine having to play the same rhythm for 18 minutes, all the while making it a perfectly even crescendo, all played with painstaking consistency. That is _really_ difficult.
You're absolutely right. Playing the same pattern over and over consistently is extremely difficult. I've played guitar almost 60 years and have played many styles from the classics to swing jazz and 60's, 70's and 80's rock.
I would imagine so! I've been listening to recordings of this obsessively and admiring how, despite the gradual crescendo, the percussionist is the one who holds the piece together and away from becoming a runaway train.
You have a very good ear! Ravel knew that a piccolo Flute tended to get out of tune when it played higher notes. So in order to keep the audiance's "ear" entertained he scored the 2nd Piccolo Flute & 1st Horn to play the theme while the Celesta joined in at an interval of a Major 4th (in octaves) and the 1st Piccolo joined in at an interval of a Major 6th. (In other words: an 2nd inversion of a C chord). A bizarre treatment of a simple theme. Truly genius!
I think that the instruments are actually playing the overtones/harmonics of the melody. The french horn plays the 1st harmonic, and the celesta plays the same melody one and two octaves up with each hand, playing the 2nd and 4th harmonics respectively. One of the piccolos plays the same melody an octave and a fifth above, playing the 3rd harmonic of the melody, and the other piccolo plays the melody two octaves and a major third above, playing the 5th harmonic of the melody. This part is particularly interesting because it's the only part with a celesta. The celesta plays no where else, not even at the end. This is also the only part with two piccolos playing at the same time as well.
+Juan Bonnett I wish I didn't have to memorize which line was which instrument. I prefer regular scores where it has the parts divided by instrument, and it has initials for the instruments at the beginning of each line.
This was originally considered to be the main tune for the first Legend of Zelda. The tune which we know as the Zelda main theme only came to be because Bolero was still copyrighted.
+ContraZombie4 Honestly the first thing I thought when I heard this was that it sounded so like Zelda. This gives me such relief knowing that it actually was going to be included
i saw this live when i was a little kid and i hummed it for weeks so now its ingrained in my brain and itll come back to me and get stuck in my head at random times its kinda nice that this piece has been with me through so many years in the back of my mind
You can't imagine how much I would love to animate Holst's the planets but I'm afraid I can't do without funding. At the moment all of Bach's works are free but other composers / requests I'd have to charge for. It is a harsh reality but I'm trying to make a buck like everyone else and scrolling Bach is my way of presenting my skills to the world in order to get some kind of work. Please forgive me.
This is is my first expeience with a scrolling score and I agree. Not only to folks with reading challenges. This type of display could be of inordinate value for any musician. The leadijng edge of the vertical pink bars is almost always synchronized to the beat. Outstanding!
My hat is off to you sir, a brilliant idea and your graphic realization was so precisely in sync with the music! When congratulated on the success of Bolero by one member of the press (reviewer, critic?) Ravel said "Yes, I seem to have a hit, too bad there is no music in it." This, for a work that is performed live every 15 minutes somewhere on this 3rd rock from the sun.
Ravel said of Bolero, among other comments (unfortunately negative), "I issued a warning to the effect that I had written was a piece lasting seventeen minutes and consisting wholly of 'orchestral tissue without music' - of one very long, gradual crescendo." Nevertheless, I believe he vastly underestimated both orchestration and crescendo, the very reasons for its permanent place in time. And that sudden modulation, impossibly dramatizing and increasing the crescendo, is, in my opinion, unparalleled. Thank you to Gerubach's Scrolling Score. Introducing the entrances of the instruments by name is fabulous here. (And no, it's no polyphonic in the least.)
I first heard Bolero when I went to see Blast! live as a kid. Loved this piece, and actually learned to play the main riff on trumpet by ear, which I often used to warm up before band class in high school. This is a highly impressive visualisation of the piece, and from your comments you seem to have an excellent knack for the intricacies of music. Excellent work :D
My first exposure to Rave's Bolero was in a Music History Class I took in college. I was an engineer and had to take an art class, this one was the only one available in my time slot. It changed my life and made me appreciate music and developed a very high respect for musicians. Ravel, like all the other composers blew my mind in ways that I had never known existed. I listen to this Bolero often and this Scrolling Score gets one involved with all the instruments. I love it.
Great! I always wished to see the entire Boléro score, and now I had it! Very pleasant to listen to this piece - seems that something is winding up until explodes (6 last measures). Thanks, gerubach!
A musical interval is simply the difference between two pitches. The 1st Horn plays the melody in the key of G and the Celesta plays it in the key of C. So the interval between G and C is called a Perfect 4th. The 1st Piccolo plays the melody in the key of E and the interval between G and E is a Major 6th.
Well to put it simply: If Ravel's Bolero was a salad, the "out of tune" part that you heard was pretty much the "blue cheese" crumbs you tasted. Some people love those bitter blue cheese crumbs because if you just had cranberries, strawberries, walnuts and cherry tomatoes in your salad, it would be a boring salad! (I wonder if the Tenor Sax solo would have been the bacon bits?).
Still one of my favorite pieces to listen to. Something so hypnotic about the whole thing. Favorite moments...mine has always been @8:37 when Ravel has the 2nd violins and violas (cellos get a little as well) playing pizzicato arpeggios based on the snare rhythm. It's so subtle and barely anyone notices it, but it's pretty bold and only happens for one theme. I always sing those arpeggios when it happens. And those are some wide arpeggios! Follow that up with one the best trombone solos @9:37 with the accompaniment resetting and I'm completely sold. I know Ravel thought this piece was a joke, but it's a masterclass in orchestration and I love it!
@TheBlackbelair yes, and I think there's an account of a woman at the premiere complaining it was rubbish and Ravel saying "yeah, she gets it." Happy new year!
wow. teaching myself orchestration with piston's book but your run through and focus of solo and combinations during this piece with all of its repetitions teaches me more than a days lesson.Daphne and chloe is hard to read but you made bolero (which is also tricky) a fun enchanting lesson.Thankyou so much.i will be coming to this everyday.I thought i didnt need to buy this score now I want it desperately. what a good soul you have !
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The clarinet at 3:47 sounds a bit sharp. Ha, perfect pitch is wonderful. I would say that this is one of Ravel's best works. Great interpretation with your score!
bonjour, pour moi, cette vidéo est plus q'amusante, elle est géniale .. il y a longtemps que je voulais jouer ce morceau , seul avec mon clavier, mais n'ayant jamais appris la musique, ne la lisant pas et ne jouant que d'oreille, il m'était impossible de faire quelque chose de correcte, vu la complexité du morceau... là, je vais arriver à me débrouiller je pense, en pouvant déjà comprendre qui joue quand et appréhender nettement mieux le morceau . :) cordialement
I might add that Ravel is using not a TONAL duplication of the melody at different intervals, but an EXACT one. The harmonies are therefore not of the same key, but follow the overtone series. Much easier to show on the piano. If you have a series of 3rds beginning on c and, using only white keys, go up to C,you will get Major,Minor, Minor,Major, Major, Minor and Minor intervals diatonic to C. If you keep the 3rds Major you must add 3 sharps at F G and C, which belong to A not C.
Thanks for Uploading this version. Call me archaic, but I prefer this orchestral version of this to the Syntheziser Moog or Midi Versions. A matter of taste that's all. Just learning about the Ravel and Debussy rivalry while studying Experssionism. Now THATS a movie or show I dare any actor or writer to tackle.
That's correct. But what gives it the flavor, is that the intervals are not adjusted to conform to C, they are not diatonic.. You therefore have an early example of polytonality, actually a form of polychordalism since the C tonality is never lost to the ear (hard to miss the tonality with a 15 minute pedal point). These harmonies also emphasize the overtone series.
Because it brings the "dark" Side of the circle of 5ths. It's a different sound to all the naturals and sharps, and the occasional B flat. There's E flat and D flat, where that sense of " C minor in a C major piece" really hits.
everybody interested into the story behind this, google "unraveling bolero", click on the radiolab link and listen to their podcast. They tell an amazing story.
Probably the most overrated musical piece of the 20th century. Ravel himself didn’t think much of it. He said it was an "orchestral tissue without music". It was just an experimental study in orchestration.
It's a compositional technique known nowadays as harmonic parallelism. Here you have the original melody shape doubled exactly on different notes of the scale. French horn and celesta are playing the melody starting on C (key of the piece). The two piccolos are causing all the trouble above with one playing in G major and the higher one playing in E major. So we are hearing parallel major thirds and fifths. Some passing notes sound weird Esp. the Emajor because they are literally out of key.
Daniel Hartnett Because we're getting paid. Very few symphony players would name it among their faves. The sopranino saxophone is a hateful instrument (yes, I've played it). Terribly hard to keep in tune, as several have noted here. I've seen members of the saxophone section draw straws to see who was going to have to play it.
It's not about the repetition necessarily, although it is known among musicians and listeners alike to be a very repetitive piece, it's more about the buildup to the finale, at least in my opinion.
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I know people are joking about the percussionist (it _is_ funny), but, speaking as a percussionist myself, this is actually a very, very difficult piece of music to play for the percussionist. Imagine having to play the same rhythm for 18 minutes, all the while making it a perfectly even crescendo, all played with painstaking consistency. That is _really_ difficult.
so it's not like Pachelbel at all?
You're absolutely right. Playing the same pattern over and over consistently is extremely difficult. I've played guitar almost 60 years and have played many styles from the classics to swing jazz and 60's, 70's and 80's rock.
Or Music for Pieces of Wood
I would imagine so! I've been listening to recordings of this obsessively and admiring how, despite the gradual crescendo, the percussionist is the one who holds the piece together and away from becoming a runaway train.
It is true. It's so hard.
You have a very good ear!
Ravel knew that a piccolo Flute tended to get out of tune when it played higher notes. So in order to keep the audiance's "ear" entertained he scored the 2nd Piccolo Flute & 1st Horn to play the theme while the Celesta joined in at an interval of a Major 4th (in octaves) and the 1st Piccolo joined in at an interval of a Major 6th. (In other words: an 2nd inversion of a C chord). A bizarre treatment of a simple theme. Truly genius!
I think that the instruments are actually playing the overtones/harmonics of the melody. The french horn plays the 1st harmonic, and the celesta plays the same melody one and two octaves up with each hand, playing the 2nd and 4th harmonics respectively. One of the piccolos plays the same melody an octave and a fifth above, playing the 3rd harmonic of the melody, and the other piccolo plays the melody two octaves and a major third above, playing the 5th harmonic of the melody. This part is particularly interesting because it's the only part with a celesta. The celesta plays no where else, not even at the end. This is also the only part with two piccolos playing at the same time as well.
7:50
Ravel: **yeets functional harmony out the window** HERE HAVE A DOMINANT SEVENTH PARALLEL HARMONY FOR 18 MEASURES!
Genius
It's because of the car crash lol
I wish I could understand this slang
I think it's supposed to reinforce the 7th harmonic.
Music rules are not broken but discovered.
It’s imitating organ stops
This type of score visualization is perfect for understanding better how the music is written!
+Juan Bonnett I wish I didn't have to memorize which line was which instrument. I prefer regular scores where it has the parts divided by instrument, and it has initials for the instruments at the beginning of each line.
Cellist in pachelbel's canon vs. drummer in Bolero
But the cellist only has to endure 4 minutes, the drummer has to do 18
Or cellist in both cases
D-A-B-F-G-D-G-A-
VS
Ta TadadaTa TadadaTa Ta
Ta TadadaTa Tadadadadadadadada
There's no vs if they both lose
Shostakovich's development of the 1st movement of the 7th Symphony (Leningrad) can compete as well for the drum part.
This was originally considered to be the main tune for the first Legend of Zelda. The tune which we know as the Zelda main theme only came to be because Bolero was still copyrighted.
I'm glad that it is copyrighted. The Zelda theme now is amazing!
+ContraZombie4 Honestly the first thing I thought when I heard this was that it sounded so like Zelda. This gives me such relief knowing that it actually was going to be included
It's public domain in most countries, but it's still under copyright in the US until 2025.
But they still used in Ocarina of Time in the Bolero of Fire theme!!
I love it how the flute's breathing technique in the beginning comes out as triads, so well fitting the rhythm
i saw this live when i was a little kid and i hummed it for weeks so now its ingrained in my brain and itll come back to me and get stuck in my head at random times its kinda nice that this piece has been with me through so many years in the back of my mind
You can't imagine how much I would love to animate Holst's the planets but I'm afraid I can't do without funding. At the moment all of Bach's works are free but other composers / requests I'd have to charge for. It is a harsh reality but I'm trying to make a buck like everyone else and scrolling Bach is my way of presenting my skills to the world in order to get some kind of work. Please forgive me.
the drummer of this piece and the cellist of Pachelbel's canon must be good friends, sharing a beer at the feels bar
This is the perfect song to listen to while taking a math test. And the scrolling score adds a whole new visual dimension to it. I love it!
Piece not a song
I love that Ravel told Swiss composer Arthur Honegger, “I’ve written only one masterpiece - Boléro. Unfortunately, there’s no music in it."
I've always seen "Bolero" as outlining the harmonic overtone series -- but that's just me.
6:58 the sopranino saxophone goes over a quarter-step sharp... ouch!
So that wasn't my imagination then!
yes, so much yes.
I noticed it but was not bothered
I'm bothered by it as well
It’s jazz
This is is my first expeience with a scrolling score and I agree. Not only to folks with reading challenges. This type of display could be of inordinate value for any musician. The leadijng edge of the vertical pink bars is almost always synchronized to the beat. Outstanding!
Thank you for posting this. I enjoy Bolero very much and it's nice to be able to follow along with the score and see the intricacies of the music.
My hat is off to you sir, a brilliant idea and your graphic realization was so precisely in sync with the music! When congratulated on the success of Bolero by one member of the press (reviewer, critic?) Ravel said "Yes, I seem to have a hit, too bad there is no music in it." This, for a work that is performed live every 15 minutes somewhere on this 3rd rock from the sun.
Thank you very much for the wonderful video. May Jabba rest forever beyond the rainbow !!!
This video was dedicated to Jabba, the Hut ( 17:20 ).
May the force be with him.
Ravel said of Bolero, among other comments (unfortunately negative), "I issued a warning to the effect that I had written was a piece lasting seventeen minutes and consisting wholly of 'orchestral tissue without music' - of one very long, gradual crescendo." Nevertheless, I believe he vastly underestimated both orchestration and crescendo, the very reasons for its permanent place in time. And that sudden modulation, impossibly dramatizing and increasing the crescendo, is, in my opinion, unparalleled.
Thank you to Gerubach's Scrolling Score. Introducing the entrances of the instruments by name is fabulous here. (And no, it's no polyphonic in the least.)
Oh dear that saxophone is so very sharp...
The woodwinds,metals,strings, piccolos all in beautiful harmony, Ohhh Ravel.
Performed on my birthday!! AWESOME!!
I first heard Bolero when I went to see Blast! live as a kid. Loved this piece, and actually learned to play the main riff on trumpet by ear, which I often used to warm up before band class in high school. This is a highly impressive visualisation of the piece, and from your comments you seem to have an excellent knack for the intricacies of music. Excellent work :D
Yes! Ravel is a master indeed!
Gerubach, thank you so much. For once, I can go along with huge scores with ease. You're the best!
My first exposure to Rave's Bolero was in a Music History Class I took in college. I was an engineer and had to take an art class, this one was the only one available in my time slot. It changed my life and made me appreciate music and developed a very high respect for musicians. Ravel, like all the other composers blew my mind in ways that I had never known existed. I listen to this Bolero often and this Scrolling Score gets one involved with all the instruments. I love it.
¡Fanatástico! Exelente trabajo. Saludos desde Querétaro.
Great! I always wished to see the entire Boléro score, and now I had it! Very pleasant to listen to this piece - seems that something is winding up until explodes (6 last measures). Thanks, gerubach!
A musical interval is simply the difference between two pitches. The 1st Horn plays the melody in the key of G and the Celesta plays it in the key of C. So the interval between G and C is called a Perfect 4th. The 1st Piccolo plays the melody in the key of E and the interval between G and E is a Major 6th.
This is a fantastic way to enjoy the music, thank you!
Well to put it simply: If Ravel's Bolero was a salad, the "out of tune" part that you heard was pretty much the "blue cheese" crumbs you tasted. Some people love those bitter blue cheese crumbs because if you just had cranberries, strawberries, walnuts and cherry tomatoes in your salad, it would be a boring salad! (I wonder if the Tenor Sax solo would have been the bacon bits?).
But I'm bluer than the blue cheese. And I'm also cute.
@@ene4538 But you aren't cheese :/
I love that analogy! Brilliant work you've done with this scrolling score project!
Brilliant presentation. A glimpse into the future of the conductor's score!
The 2 piccolos playing in unison literally sounded like satan.
It kind-of sounds like the Pipe organ stop "Nazard 22/3" and like other mutation stops.
I'll be googling that.
Genericide Did you find out anything?
nope
Genericide Too bad. :( Nothing came up?
This must have been a nightmare to work out how to animate, given there are up to 36 different staves in use (17:01) simultaneously...
only if you are noob
I clicked on this with the volume still on high and died within a fraction of a second of eardrum rupture, thank you
@@flyingpenandpaper6119: Well, did you learn anything?
Fantastic scroll score of Bolero! Congratulations!
One word: formidable!! Gerubach you simply don't seize to amaze me!!! Congratulations once again my fren!!!!
All instrumentation alternating 2 melodies. Brilliant!
This was almost the Zelda theme, but the copyright didn't expire in time.
Still one of my favorite pieces to listen to. Something so hypnotic about the whole thing. Favorite moments...mine has always been @8:37 when Ravel has the 2nd violins and violas (cellos get a little as well) playing pizzicato arpeggios based on the snare rhythm. It's so subtle and barely anyone notices it, but it's pretty bold and only happens for one theme. I always sing those arpeggios when it happens. And those are some wide arpeggios! Follow that up with one the best trombone solos @9:37 with the accompaniment resetting and I'm completely sold. I know Ravel thought this piece was a joke, but it's a masterclass in orchestration and I love it!
I think he said it was his "masterpiece, but unfortunately there's no music in it".
@TheBlackbelair yes, and I think there's an account of a woman at the premiere complaining it was rubbish and Ravel saying "yeah, she gets it." Happy new year!
Thank you so much Gerubach. Your videos are amazing, and so helpful. :-)
Carmine DeStefano yes this is one of the best channels on RUclips.
You are welcome. Hope to post more that you'll enjoy.
wow. teaching myself orchestration with piston's book but your run through and focus of solo and combinations during this piece with all of its repetitions teaches me more than a days lesson.Daphne and chloe is hard to read but you made bolero (which is also tricky) a fun enchanting lesson.Thankyou so much.i will be coming to this everyday.I thought i didnt need to buy this score now I want it desperately. what a good soul you have !
R.I.P Drummer
¡Si tan solo pudiera darle un millón de likes!
(watch?v=HlXDJhLeShg)
The scrolling you see isn't done by only one particular software but five!
Adobe Photoshop: Used for fine alignments to graphics.
Adobe Fireworks: Used for graphics / secondary alignments.
Adobe Flash: Used for scrolling graphics
Sound Studio: Used for audio editing.
Quicktime Pro 7.7: for the final video production to upload.
Aww poor kitty, may it rest in peace indeed!
So this is where all the experts spend their time
fantastique une des plus belles musiques que j'ai jamais écouté:)
"Romantic composers cannot repeat a motif." Ravel: "Hold my baton."
Ravel wasn't romantic.
Große Arbeit von Ihnen, danke!
Thanks gerubach magnifique!!!!!!
Very good! I like that way to present the scores. It's a very clear method!
this song become so majestic after the half part :D feels like welcoming the King
The clarinet at 3:47 sounds a bit sharp. Ha, perfect pitch is wonderful. I would say that this is one of Ravel's best works. Great interpretation with your score!
hahahah :) now that cleared everything! thank you for your work and "double" explanation. cheers and warmth from istanbul.
Best version. Most of the videos are a Lil bit fast. This is just perfect tempo
Best. Video. Ever.
Amusante video pour un Bolero toujours à redécouvrir..
bonjour, pour moi, cette vidéo est plus q'amusante, elle est géniale .. il y a longtemps que je voulais jouer ce morceau , seul avec mon clavier, mais n'ayant jamais appris la musique, ne la lisant pas et ne jouant que d'oreille, il m'était impossible de faire quelque chose de correcte, vu la complexité du morceau... là, je vais arriver à me débrouiller je pense, en pouvant déjà comprendre qui joue quand et appréhender nettement mieux le morceau . :) cordialement
gindou46 Tant mieux ! Bonne chance !
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I might add that Ravel is using not a TONAL duplication of the melody at different intervals, but an EXACT one. The harmonies are therefore not of the same key, but follow the overtone series. Much easier to show on the piano. If you have a series of 3rds beginning on c and, using only white keys, go up to C,you will get Major,Minor, Minor,Major, Major, Minor and Minor intervals diatonic to C. If you keep the 3rds Major you must add 3 sharps at F G and C, which belong to A not C.
Thanks for Uploading this version. Call me archaic, but I prefer this orchestral version of this to the Syntheziser Moog or Midi Versions. A matter of taste that's all. Just learning about the Ravel and Debussy rivalry while studying Experssionism. Now THATS a movie or show I dare any actor or writer to tackle.
Visually this is sublime. thank you !
That's correct. But what gives it the flavor, is that the intervals are not adjusted to conform to C, they are not diatonic.. You therefore have an early example of polytonality, actually a form of polychordalism since the C tonality is never lost to the ear (hard to miss the tonality with a 15 minute pedal point). These harmonies also emphasize the overtone series.
AT AROUND 17:05 THE SNARE PLAYS SOMETHING DIFFERENT!!!, wait, that’s the end of the song, r.i.p. snare.
Many thanks for your work. Wonderful!
very good never read score before thanks
that's a very very good example, i never thought it that way before, thanks =)
Oh God, so beautiful
9:37 Trombone solo
Kanrry Kang I was waiting it. Thanks.
Kanrry Kang do you know the clef for trombone solo?
Tenor clef
thank you, I was actually trying to look for it.
+moseleych The solo for bassoon is also in tenor clef and let me tell you that high d flat ain't easy to play
Thank you very much! It is wonderful work! Music by M.Ravel it is magical!
That sopornino is really sharp!
Ranks with the theme from "Where Eagles Dare" for the coolest snaredrum part!
for jabba!
what beautiful!
Soo happy I found this~
My Favorite song :D Thank you for scrolling -/\-
I don't know why but i think the part from 3:07 to 3:18 and later in the piece where it repeats is my favourite part of the whole piece
Because it brings the "dark" Side of the circle of 5ths. It's a different sound to all the naturals and sharps, and the occasional B flat. There's E flat and D flat, where that sense of " C minor in a C major piece" really hits.
I played contrabassoon in this.
C, G, C, G, C, G, C, G, C, G, etc. 🎵
I think this amazing creation is in 6/4 time not 3/4, - anyone??
It was great !!
Cellist in pachabell's Canon= precussion in bolero
I like the melody...
everybody interested into the story behind this, google "unraveling bolero", click on the radiolab link and listen to their podcast. They tell an amazing story.
Maurice Ravel was an exceptional composer and arranger.
Evidently clear from this score.
I think the instruments that follow snare drum's rhythm should be displayed along with the snare drum.
by far, ravels best piece
no
It's very cool!!!!!!!!!!!! Many thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mi profesor de musica nos mostro estas hermosa canción y no paro de esucharla
7:00 sopranino sax is sooooo sharp!!!!
Probably the most overrated musical piece of the 20th century. Ravel himself didn’t think much of it. He said it was an "orchestral tissue without music". It was just an experimental study in orchestration.
I can appreciate it for what it is as a masterfully orchestrated piece, but the repetition is maddening
It's a compositional technique known nowadays as harmonic parallelism. Here you have the original melody shape doubled exactly on different notes of the scale. French horn and celesta are playing the melody starting on C (key of the piece). The two piccolos are causing all the trouble above with one playing in G major and the higher one playing in E major. So we are hearing parallel major thirds and fifths. Some passing notes sound weird Esp. the Emajor because they are literally out of key.
MERAVIGLIOSO
Thank You ! :)
Brilliant fantastic clever yours peter kinsey
Microtonal music at 7:51
no it's polytonal, utilizing the harmonic series, it's pretty cool
I love this section!!! It sounds like a star wars organ with the Celesta and horn piccolo combi
8:38 when I gave up keeping track of what instruments were playing.
I don't know how anyone can bare such repetition for so long.
+Daniel Hartnett Some people listen to pop songs only for their whole life, i think that is more impressive
Or worse: Country western.
Daniel Hartnett Because we're getting paid. Very few symphony players would name it among their faves. The sopranino saxophone is a hateful instrument (yes, I've played it). Terribly hard to keep in tune, as several have noted here. I've seen members of the saxophone section draw straws to see who was going to have to play it.
abc zyx how so?
It's not about the repetition necessarily, although it is known among musicians and listeners alike to be a very repetitive piece, it's more about the buildup to the finale, at least in my opinion.
thank you for the explanation. though i have a good ear i am not familiar with musical terminology. :) i want to educate myself on this.
6:58 Ouch, ese clarinete piccolo está muy sostenido.