every eric whitacre piece ever
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Chords (Not by Eric Whitacre)
A tribute to the most Instagrammable composer of all time, Mr Eric 'Flowing Locks' Whitacre.
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I've gotta say--I attended a workshop Eric Whitacre did about ten years ago, and he was very self-deprecating, joked that he looked like a "surfer dude," and said he couldn't seem to stop writing cluster chords. So, he's aware!
His songs may all be the same but like…. They sound good so 🤷🏻♂️
The thing is, it and this *are* gorgeous.
The one where he talked about sacred geometry? I think I went to one of those XD it was a blast
I Mmmmmmmm kk
I was at his clinic at Midwest this past year and he was like.. "yeah, somehow I became the cluster guy..."
The ending “ch” does it for me 😭😭
Spoiler alert!!
@@DrewLevitt Whoops, sorry!!
@@DrewLevitt Only for the person who wasn't watching.
@@alarson1799 In the Android app, the top comment shows up underneath the video, so it's easy to inadvertently see it.
That and the first fff breath. We all know it.
How can someone "ironically" write such a good piece!?
Ask PDQ Bach
@@MackerelSkyLtd Amazing.
Amazing!
They just followed the formula
@@MackerelSkyLtd yes
“my falsetto doesn’t do soprano”
*proceeds to sing a high g just fine*
This is far too short to be an Eric Whitacre piece. 😉
My thought exactly. Although This Marriage probably has roughly the same run time
@@edwardjohn5 I think that his shortest
@@WilliamFord972 Sounds like a bad omen. Or maybe it chronicled a first, failed marriage?
That’s cause it’s only the first half, the rest is exactly the same but there will be a really weird part that’s not like the rest
Just repeat certain parts for a more floaty affect
This is a direct lunge at “Sleep,” and I live for it.
Yes! I heard Sleep and Lux Aurumque
@@aidanchantel4264 I think "Lux" starts almost exactly like this!
@@aidanchantel4264 Those are the only two pieces by Whitacre I know, so the video was spot on for me.
@@BodywiseMustard I definitely recommend listening to "When David Heard", it's his masterpiece, in my opinion.
I want to see Eric’s response to this, because this is totally something he’d respond to, probably laughing his ass off.
What a delightfully perfect parody - if it were in the background and I weren't paying attention, I would immediately assume it was one of those apparently infinite Whitacre choral pieces that sound like this.
Also, you sang that high G pretty well for someone who can't "do soprano" :)
It is true that there's way too much choir music now that sounds just like this, right? I guess Whitacre's influence is that strong
@@josephalvarez5315 Are you sure Whitacre is the source of it? This parody piece reminded me a lot of Michael McGlynn too - most of "Deep Dead Blue" for instance, but particularly "The Sea", and that's from 1996.
@@Mnnvint I doubt anyone claims "Whitacre" as the source. More as the pinnacle. It *does* sounds like trademark Whitacre. Whenever a composer makes something a signature sound you'll get that, not because (checks notes) lydian modal harmony hasn't been seen before (I bet is was found in the 17th century)
Love that cut of "Chord" at the end, really great touch
So subtle and accurate. The mortification is tangible.
Lux Aurumque hasn’t been sung since it was reworked as “Chords.”
Have you heard the stretched version someone made? Eric loved it so much that he featured it on his Facebook page.
"Luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuux Aruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuumque?"
We actually just sang Lux Aurumque in my choir, so I will now only call it chords.😂 It might come up on our RUclips channel soon.
@@jeremylandig2069 Close, but sing the word “Lux” 4x (with a soprano high C between 3&4), then follow up with a grand entrance of the word “calida,” and yeah a lot of what you already heard. This parody was spot on
Amazing, you nailed it! Besides being a parody and a bit funny, I also think it really works as a tribute. I mean, like him or not, Whitacre has a distinct style, that while maybe a bit cliché now (due to his works being sung by _every_ choir for the last decade and a half, and imitated by other composers), was really unique when his music first started making the rounds. To formulize this style to me at least suggest that, even in the form of a parody, there's real interest in and admiration for Whitacres music underlaying it. Imitation is the purest form of flattery, after all.
There’s a great video doing a parody of Rutter FOR Rutter at a concert floating around. It’s worth going on the hunt to find it. It’s as accurate as this parody.
Honestly, while it's a bit cliche now, it says a hell of a lot about Whitacre that his style managed to become a cliche.
I honestly think he's one of the most influential living composers, and I don't like to throw around the word 'influential'
The reason his stuff is constantly sung, in my opinion, as someone who studied composition at a high-falutin' conservatory, is that he's really good at making things that aren't too difficult for relatively unskilled choral singers to pull off but sound amazing. He has a great sense of how to use each vowel harmonically as well as lyrically, how to make use of the full range of voices, and how to create intensity with methods other than getting louder and higher. So yeah, I'm down with it.
Here’s the Rutter parody I mentioned: ruclips.net/video/RO357asBTgA/видео.html
"you're so popular your style has become cliche" is a good problem to have XD
Oh my God, this is brilliant. You could absolutely throw this in as an interlude between Cloudburst and Sleep, and no one would ever notice.
The worst part is how many goosebumps this gave me, it's still so powerful even if I know the secrets
This was really funny to me, since I’ve heard a bunch of Eric Whitacre pieces, so I quite agree with this rendition. However, the only Eric Whitacre piece I’ve ever actually performed is Godzilla Eats Las Vegas, which is the silliest and most fun piece I’ve ever done and completely different from his other works. If you’ve never heard it, I’d 100% recommend you go listen to it right now, especially the one where Whitacre himself conducts with a real choir
He has also written Ghost Train, which is not quite as over the top but still very different from this style.
I have just come scross this channel and it makes me laugh in awe? Is like "This sounds so good" with " yeap that is totally Mr. Whitacre"
This could become a series: Every Ola Gjeilo/Stopford/Piper/Don MacDonald/Pärt piece ever
Tavener Palestrina Byrd etcetcetc
Whitacre is trash
It's only a matter of time before he finds this. Great job!!
I wonder if he has already!
As always, incredible! I'm actually impressed how good your voice sounds singing all of the parts. When I tried it it never sounded good - even when the pitches were on point 😅
Great job!
Thank you! All you need is lots of takes, and lots of reverb 😂
I’m 99% sure I’ve sung this piece in one of my chorus concerts 😂
Really nice.
The final about "Someone not watching " reminds me a fifth Allelujah at the end of Haendel's one: the is always someone not watching! (Nor counting, reading ...).
In reharsal the choir director said (better cried, shouted really): first, look! [crescendo with suspense] second ... understand!!!
I was young!
Sorry for my english, I write from Italy.
Way back when I was a lad rehearsing the Hallelujah Chorus, we would all hold up our hands and count the "Hallelujahs."
"Hallelujah!" (one finger)
"Hallelujah!" (two fingers)
"Hallelujah!" (three fingers)
"Hallelujah!" (four fingers)
Then we would all shout, "Rest! Rest!"
We were sorely tempted to do that in performance but we didn't dare.
"End on cue (but there's always someone not watching...)" Yeah, that someone is usually me :D
As a person who has sung from the songs of Eric Whitacre, I can say that this is absolutely hilarious!
i love when musicians get meta like this. having listened to whitacre for years this couldn't be more accurate
This reminded me of the time my high school choir was singing “seal lullaby” and the choir teacher kept telling the sopranos to sing louder because we were too quiet (a real rare event I know) and she said we were the melody which is just, not the truth? All of us looked at each other and we sang it louder the next time but all silently agreed to not to do it ever again because it completely drowned out the other parts (because of course it did, if you know that piece at all the soprano part can easily smother everything g else) and it was wild. This woman have multiple degrees in music but that was one of the most completely wrong things I ever heard her say.
i’ve performed his rendition of depeche mode’s enjoy the silence in a show choir before and we would always struggle with the cutoffs (and don’t even get me started on the clashing soprano parts or cluster notes)…thank you mr whitacre for making incredibly difficult but beautiful music
Yall sang whitacre in show choir??
@@selfloathinggameing yeah! it was definitely a challenge especially with it being a capella but once we got it down it sounded mesmerizing (if you want to hear it, look up minstrel magic 2022 at show choir nationals, that was our last performance of it)
As always, brilliant! It's immediately recognisable as Whitacre with those big cluster chords! I'd love to hear his reaction to this!
If someone had written a parody like this (with lyrics) to describe every major musical form, it would’ve reeeeeaaally helped me in undergrad!!! Plus fun.
*war flashbacks to the sonata form song*
Ontological Fugue (his first video) is perfect for that!
I particularly appreciated the gratuitous use of the vocal pause in 2/4 time (measure 16). It was well worth choking on my coffee to 'hear' that. (Enjoyed the composition, by the way!)
Whitacre has become a meme of himself and he is absolutely aware of it.
Brilliant! You’ve truly captured this all-pervading choral style of the 2000s in your fabulous parody!
We’re singing Seal Lullaby right now in choir and this is literally the most accurate thing-
“October” is one of my all time favorite songs of his!
I've heard that one performed live!
That’s the music I was trying to write when I was 19… So happy to hear and see someone succeed at it ! And, by the way, these chords progressions and voicings defy any attempt to play or sing it in equal temperament without an inner ear headache ! I can’t wait to be 19 again, and hopefully this will help me succeed, thanks ! 😇
A parody that is simultaneously beautiful and funny. Don’t know how to feel about this
I’d also say the angularity of a lot of the melodic motion that connects the chords together is distinctive. His setting of ‘i thank You God for most this amazing day’ is one of my all-time faves
Hope to see a parody of Ola Gjeilo, Dan Forrest, Kim André Arnesen and Ērik Ešenvalds.
Is that four pieces, or one?
@@jeremylandig2069 POV: you cant decide if someone is being snarky or not. >_
This Channel yet started as one of the absolute best, and it still is furtherly improving. Genius 👏👏.
As a music teacher myself, I really love what you’re doing! Please keep it up!!!
Can't wait for this!
I have never heard this Whitacre piece. It helps me understand his genius because of his internal explanation. So self aware.
*facepalm* LOL
beautifully written and absolutely hilarious, well done!
This is absolutely beautiful! I’ve only done Water Night but its my favorite choir piece for sure, this is a great parody
haha! including that " one who isn't watching". at the end. made me smile - well done!
This is exceptionally brilliant.
Love it!!!! Spot on ...
I like how the name of the soprano staff changes into Trumpet in the middle of the sheet music
LOL- it's "treble," actually. That term's typically used for kids 8-16 or so
Beautiful piece and very informative!
If for some reason I find myself directing a choir, I’m gonna do this as a spring concert piece after doing another Whitacre for contest.
This is the best analysis ever.
Ah, this took me back to choir. I sang so much Eric Whitacre when I was in choir, and this is scary accurate
It really does sound like Eric Whitacre!
I used to go to the ACDA conventions. EW would do an autograph signing...there would be a line of lovesick adolescent girls wrapped around the entire display area.
I haven’t even thought about any choir piece in literally a decade and I recognized whitacre’s style immediately.
I dont care if a lot of tunes are like this.
I'm all for it! This was beautiful!!!
I wish this type of choral piece would go out of vogue soon, every time I see a new piece for choir it sounds like this
Amen to that, and I'm tired of playing the shitty piano parts that go along with them.
Well, I'm just discovering I really like this style but I don't know many composers who do this. Can you give some names?
my school's choir is actually doing seal lullaby this year
Nailed it with the first page.
Spot on!
Simultaneously hilarious and gorgeous.
Chords.
Chords.
Same chords,
@@segmentsAndCurves Repeated Chords.
Dissonant chords,
Striking melodic phrase in octaves
Very witty and skilled
I've sung a lot of Whitacre. This is too accurate!
Sublime , but very , very naughty Freddy🤣.
This is like a drag and a tribute at the same time; it's fantastic.
Jeeeeez...that's awesome!
Doing the lords work over here
Thank you
Why is this unironically something I’d listen to on a regular basis?
Oh this has to be glorious!
Extremely, wonderfully, musically nerdy!
I could see this being the festival go-to for the next 5 years easily! This is amazing!!
this is the best thing I've seen online in ages
Love the little deliberate mistake!!!
AND that's why I like his music so much 😎
honestly this is the best drag i've ever seen
You sir, are my new hero!!!! this is too funny and too true!!!
This is brilliantly done. Every whitacre piece ever except “Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machine…”
G with F# , Beautiful
THE FORTISSISSIMO BREATH, genius from the start
I love singing Whitacre like nothing else, but this had me laughing my ass off 🤣
I sang exactly one Eric Whitacre song in chorus in highschool and yep, checks out.
I like how much more blended this sounds than your announcement video.
Brilliant and funny! 🤣
Thanks. I'm glad it's not just me.
Unironically well done
This is one of the funniest things I've ever listened to. Incredible
2:58
This made me exhale slightly harder through my nose than usual. Bravo!
Glorious.
Another absolutely wonderful composition! Easily one of my favourite channels on youtube... Keep up the good work!
Immediately subscribed
I feel like with any other instrumentation those close chords would feel very discordant, but it works well with a choir
He does concert band versions of many of his pieces and somehow that works too! But you have to have very in-tune oboes
This is hilarious and brilliant, and I think Eric Whitacre would approve!
This is a new level of savage.
Hmmm, sounds familiar…
I’ll bet if you do Morten Lauridsen it would just be one first inversion suspended chord after another with a super disjunct melody
Hilarious!!! Thank you so very much. I have to share this with my choir. They love Whitacre. And Ticheli. And Giello.
Funny how this pops up after my district honor band just performed Sleep
I don't know Eric Whitacre but I do now lol
Great piss-take 👍🏼
This is brilliant.
I really want to see Eric's reaction to this
This was brilliantly executed!!! 😂😂😂❤️
I love it!