lili boulanger is sublime

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  • Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
  • Lili Boulanger's 'D'un Matin de Printemps', although being one of the very last works she completed before her untimely death, is an absolutely stunning display of colourful instrumentation and orchestration. Written in 1918, her harmonic vocabulary is comparable to the great jazz artists that came later like John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Bill Evans. This is a brief analysis of one of my favourite segments, where her talent is on full display. If you enjoy this content please consider liking, and subscribing!
    #20thcenturymusic #jazzharmony #liliboulanger

Комментарии • 38

  • @Emiliasooo
    @Emiliasooo Месяц назад +23

    I see a video with Lili in the thumbnail, I click it

  • @samaritan29
    @samaritan29 2 месяца назад +16

    lilli boulanger is incredible

  • @joshua_warner
    @joshua_warner  2 месяца назад +26

    Lili Boulanger is just absolutely sublime. Which one of her pieces would you like to see covered next?

    • @officalpotus
      @officalpotus 2 месяца назад +2

      In honesty I tend to favor a private engagement with music, even when analytical, but if you had to, Pie Jesu and Cortège represent to me a great oeuvre level disparity and contrast. Though it would seem odd to annotate someone's deathbed score onto social media…

    • @febilogi
      @febilogi 2 месяца назад +1

      @@officalpotus hmm interesting perspective. Not everyone has this thought.

    • @DomFileoreum
      @DomFileoreum 2 месяца назад +2

      D'UN JARDIN CLAIR PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

    • @joshua_warner
      @joshua_warner  2 месяца назад +7

      While private engagement with this music certainly has its merits, and respecting the intimacy of a composer's final work is understandable, there's also significant value in the shared musical experiences and continued public discourse about this sort of music. These videos are being made so that this type of music can be more accessible to a wider audience, and to demystify the compositional process. 'Pie Jesu' was not on my list of analyses but even if it were, sharing an analysis of it on RUclips would only serve to try and foster a community of music enthusiasts, and encourage continued discussion about this music.

    • @DomFileoreum
      @DomFileoreum 2 месяца назад +5

      @@officalpotus As a Lili Boulanger die hard fan, I humbly disagree. The more we talk about and appreciate her work, the more her legacy is continued and respected. Pie Jesu is a very interesting work and her last composition, not talking about it would be a crime.

  • @user-ce8ut8hr9k
    @user-ce8ut8hr9k 2 месяца назад +13

    “Do not cry because they are past! Smile, because they once were!” - Ludwig Jacobowski, or be grateful for what she left us.

  • @danielmireles2744
    @danielmireles2744 Месяц назад +1

    Muy bien, que éste sea el primer video de muchos por venir. Saludos.

  • @DomFileoreum
    @DomFileoreum 2 месяца назад +5

    > Wakes up
    > Realizes she didn't live enough to write La Princesse Madalaine
    > Sadness

    • @officalpotus
      @officalpotus Месяц назад +2

      *Maleine, but humbly, I don’t really think that was all that worthy a play, although Pelléas had something.

  • @SuonoReale
    @SuonoReale Месяц назад +2

    0:19 this sounds so much like Florent Schmitt…

  • @MrRicksStudio
    @MrRicksStudio 23 дня назад

    Someone mentioned Scriabin. I’m getting strong Berg Sonata vibes - especially after seeing the other video where you expanded the idea. And that was intended as a compliment. Good that you left this video up, so people can see the evolution. Composer here too, but I specialize in pedagogical music.

  • @febilogi
    @febilogi 2 месяца назад +3

    Oh man i love your videos! Your taste of music is just like my taste ❤ keep up the good work. If i may request, more of the (post) impressionist like this please!

    • @joshua_warner
      @joshua_warner  2 месяца назад +1

      Thanks so much, I'm glad you enjoyed! Absolutely, there's a lot more to come...

  • @juanmariomonroy2038
    @juanmariomonroy2038 Месяц назад

    Maravillosa música 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @martakor
    @martakor 8 дней назад +1

    I don't understand why, but this style remember me music from Star Wars. There's is some similarities, but I don't understand what they are

  • @officalpotus
    @officalpotus 2 месяца назад +1

    This is nicely done. The notes are fair enough and out of the way, although I never verified the harmonies, and they didn't provide a tonal analysis. But one of the greatest climaxes in classical music. I love many of the comments here that are not in a platitudinous spirit. She was known to be jolly and humored when well - sometimes when unwell!

    • @joshua_warner
      @joshua_warner  2 месяца назад +1

      Thank you for the feedback. I'm glad you enjoyed!

  • @manuel.roesler
    @manuel.roesler 2 месяца назад +1

    More!!!!

  • @AndreyRubtsovRU
    @AndreyRubtsovRU 2 месяца назад +3

    If she were sublime we'd regularly see her on concert posters 😂😂. I'm all for discovering and rediscovering but... She seriously lacks. Has her moments, though and is important as a female name

    • @joshua_warner
      @joshua_warner  2 месяца назад +6

      Interesting perspective. Curious as to why you think she lacks? I believe she's not performed as often as she should be because of the complexity of some of her larger-scale works (especially her Psalms). She's definitely not as accessible as Debussy or Ravel to the casual listener, but maybe that's a result of her circumstances... Interested to hear your thoughts!

    • @officalpotus
      @officalpotus 2 месяца назад +5

      Popularity isn't a faithful metric of delicacy; there are socioacademic limiting factors to once young lady’s being forwarded on a classical music scene which remains 'great man'-centric, so to speak-faced while she was alive as well (though not with Alma Deutscher, but her style is highly conservative). But as yet it's only been a century and a few, Monteverdi and Bach were revived in force after longer.
      Further points may be:
      • the intensity of her musical themes are not always immediately palatable to the average concertgoer-as with metal, say-and most of her orchestral works are not secular.
      • Debussy often spoke very highly of her precocious expertise, and not only _"for_ someone so young."
      • _Faust et Hélène,_ for an example, quite defies your last statement-being half an hour of 'moments' executed in the most riveting and masterful of ways.
      • an extraordinary but small oeuvre doesn't necessarily garner a wide spread of performative stock.
      So, yeah, I don't know where you heard this or on what superficial statistics you concluded them, but it does seem sexist and close-minded despite your qualifications, I'll admit-I couldn't help but assume.

    • @late8641
      @late8641 Месяц назад +2

      Her music is performed pretty regularly in Finland. The Radio Symphony Orchestra is performing D'un Soir Triste on May 16.

  • @shadmium3471
    @shadmium3471 2 месяца назад +7

    lilli boulanger is incredible

    • @joshua_warner
      @joshua_warner  2 месяца назад +2

      She really is!

    • @shadmium3471
      @shadmium3471 2 месяца назад

      @@joshua_warner wasnt that the title of the video originally