I always enjoy the story aspect within of your videos as it helps to solidify history of music into my thoughts. Observing the melodic-ness (?) of languages as people speak it... Yes, I Love it too !!
I love this channel. I went to music school a LONG time ago (decades). Heather, you are refreshing my mind and I'm learning completely new things as well. You're my new favorite professor!
Thank you for the history lesson, especially about Caccini and that crowd. Am I correct in stating that they suggested making the rhythm of the music fit the rhythm of the words? For the most part each syllable gets one note, and each note has one syllable? With some obvious exceptions of course.
I do think you are right, for a large part. This was definitely part of the Recitativo style, which was basically sung speech. Though I am thinking that someone with Monteverdi's creative genius would not be bound by such a rule. Time to go look at some scores....
ive always wondered where did they take all those dubious names for classical songs from. i would like to be wrong in this one, but bachs music seems to be interpreted ever so impersonally in this and previous century. im always so excited to witness when somebody is trying to get to the original "meaning" (i dont know how to call it) of bachs music. could you make a video about how did they learn/teach playing/composing music back in the day ?
I think a lot of the impersonal interpretations in the last 50 years or so come from people trying to move away from the Romatic period, and from playing Bach in a Romantic style. I think in that effort there were some misplaced ideals, at the same time as some of the very Romantic notions that were kept. I would like to make a video about that one day... As for your other question, honestly you have no idea how interesting that question is!! It is partly answered in the performance notes for our edition of the Sonatas and Partitas. The way music was taught then is VERY different from how it is taught now. I will put some thought into making a video about it. If you look at my tutorial for the G minor fugue BWV 1001, you will get an introduction.
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I always enjoy the story aspect within of your videos as it helps to solidify history of music into my thoughts. Observing the melodic-ness (?) of languages as people speak it... Yes, I Love it too !!
I love this channel. I went to music school a LONG time ago (decades). Heather, you are refreshing my mind and I'm learning completely new things as well. You're my new favorite professor!
Thanks Marc! That is really nice to hear. Very best from Vancouver Island, Canada
Thank you for the history lesson, especially about Caccini and that crowd. Am I correct in stating that they suggested making the rhythm of the music fit the rhythm of the words? For the most part each syllable gets one note, and each note has one syllable? With some obvious exceptions of course.
I do think you are right, for a large part. This was definitely part of the Recitativo style, which was basically sung speech. Though I am thinking that someone with Monteverdi's creative genius would not be bound by such a rule. Time to go look at some scores....
ive always wondered where did they take all those dubious names for classical songs from. i would like to be wrong in this one, but bachs music seems to be interpreted ever so impersonally in this and previous century. im always so excited to witness when somebody is trying to get to the original "meaning" (i dont know how to call it) of bachs music. could you make a video about how did they learn/teach playing/composing music back in the day ?
I think a lot of the impersonal interpretations in the last 50 years or so come from people trying to move away from the Romatic period, and from playing Bach in a Romantic style. I think in that effort there were some misplaced ideals, at the same time as some of the very Romantic notions that were kept. I would like to make a video about that one day... As for your other question, honestly you have no idea how interesting that question is!! It is partly answered in the performance notes for our edition of the Sonatas and Partitas. The way music was taught then is VERY different from how it is taught now. I will put some thought into making a video about it. If you look at my tutorial for the G minor fugue BWV 1001, you will get an introduction.
@@sonatasandpartitas very interesting, thanks !