I liked this pattern enough that I considered having it printed onto a silk scarf. I went as far as a sample print ... www.musanim.com/img/BWV244ScarfSample.jpg ... and then decided that it looked nicer on a computer screen.
Normally I listen to my favorite works with score in hand, but you’ve created something so astoundingly beautiful, a veritable feast for eye and ear, that I’m beginning to prefer your dazzling creations to the notes. Thank you for this unique and sublime art.
He was a higher being of humans created by a Triune God! If this is Godlike, then imagine how much more higher God himself actually is? It is immeasurable. All of his creation is always by category lower than himself, just as the animals are lower than us. It is the priority of his creation & therefore shall not be mixed or confused within eachother, thus everything is perfectly synchronized to coexist with eachother in the balance of something called life.
I seem to recall that Bach expert on BBC explaining how this composition was much more harmonically advanced (dissonant) than any of his more diatonic contemporaries like Handle.
@@josephlevine3045 That's what I hear myself but of course Beethoven fans march out his late Quartets and their influence on Bartok. But Bach while he actually established many of the methodologies of functional tonality I'm pretty sure because of his incredible facility with counterpoint as well as his familiarity with the music of pre tempered composers allowed him to circumvent many of the presidents he established. But his most chromatically dense passages are you know subsumed by the counterpoint they're indispensable building blocks of. That's what happens when you combine incredible genius with hard work .
@@paxwallace8324 I think it's fair to say some of Beethoven's later works are indeed even more advanced, but the majority of his works (and I say this as a huge fan of Beethoven) don't rise to this level.
Amazing work as always! I especially liked the use of voronoi patterns outside and inside irregular shapes for the voices. My only gripe is that this effect can sometimes lead to overcrowding in the middle-high register, obscuring other parts of the animation.
Fantastic! Beautiful! - a multi-dimensional presentation of sound and light - "Musight"? I want a Virtual Reality where I am surrounded by and floating in this stuff . .
I really like it when you add lyrics to vocal pieces like you did with the introit of Mozart's Requiem. It would have made this amazing animation even better. Just a thought.
The composition is the best moment of Bach's invention in Matthew's Passions and maybe Bach's art at all. This was impossible to create something inferior. I wish you all the best in your continuing work. (I'm looking forward to the next.) Perhaps you are the pioneer of future 3D projections full of transforming shapes, rays, and beings. For example, something like a movie but bound to individual notes as elements that in total create a story or a form (a statue) that expresses the main point of the composition. Something like a complex form of art. In any case, your work proves how rich the classical music is because most of pop music would reveal as a beggar here.
@@smalin Smalin I just want to say I think your visualisations are brilliant,and actually help you to identify detail you otherwise wouldn't, and your choice of music is great! Thank you
@@tarquin161234 I'm so gratified to hear you say that. They say "the devil's in the details" but you might just as well say "God is in the details" --- which is true for Bach.
Great work as always. You're responsible for 8 friends of mine getting into classical music. What you're doing is priceless. Anyway, I've got one question. Can ask you what's your opinion about subtitles (either edited in the video or with the RUclips toggle function)? I've noticed that sometimes you put them and sometimes you don't: what is your criterion?
There are a lot of factors. If not knowing the words makes a huge difference in understanding what the music is about, I'm inclined to display them (and an English translation if necessary). If the animation is complex, I'm less inclined (since I'd rather not distract the viewer). For music with standardized lyrics (like the movement of a mass), I tend not to include them. For this piece, I think I'd rather that people familiarize themselves with the words ahead of time and then watch the video without being distracted by seeing them.
For those who wish to familiarise themselves with the words (and then watch the video without being distracted by them, as Stephen suggested) - the English translation, followed by the actual German: Come, you daughters [of Zion], help me lament. Behold! Whom? The Bridegroom! Look at Him! How? As a Lamb. Behold! What? Look at the patience. Look! Where? At our guilt. Behold Him, out of love and graciousness Bear the wood for the Cross Himself. [Sung in parallel with:] O innocent Lamb of God, Slaughtered on the trunk of the Cross, Always found to be patient, Even though You were scorned. You have borne all sin, Lest we would have to despair. Have mercy on us, O Jesus. Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen. Sehet! Wen? Den Bräutigam! Seht ihn! Wie? Als wie ein Lamm. Sehet! Was? Seht die Geduld. Seht! Wohin? Auf unsre Schuld. Sehet ihn aus Lieb und Huld Holz zum Kreuze selber tragen. [Sung in parallel with:] O Lamm Gottes unschuldig, Am Stamm des Kreuzes geschlachtet, Allzeit erfunden geduldig, Wiewohl du warest verachtet. All Sünd hast du getragen, Sonst müßten wir verzagen. Erbarm dich unser, o Jesu. (The words are not simply sung in this order; Bach's arrangement is quite complex, in a very beautiful way.)
In Bach's time, church choirs in (what is now) Germany did not include women, so the soprano and alto parts were sung by boys and male sopranos and altos.
wait a minute but which voice is it in here, i see this red = bass dark orange = tenor light orange = alto yellow ( hollow one at the top ) = soprano Am i wrong? Which voices do boys represent
Very beautiful :) amazing work :) The only thing that I don't like is that the tempo is too fast and it doesn't have time to reach the real deepness of this master work. I prefer the tempo of Karl Richter. Just an opinion :) good Job :)
Have you ever considered to do videos to modernist repertoire? The Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta or some works from Schoenberg, Webern, Boulez and the like must produce some really interesting visualizations (I know there are already visualizations of the op. 27 variations, a movement from bartók's quartet, rite of spring and some nowadays composers, but there's just so much to explore...) Anyways, great video as always, although it's a bit visually crowded. Your channel is one of the best for music lovers in youtube
I sometimes do that, but here, I think it's better to familiarize yourself with the lyrics ahead of time (www.gbt.org/music/St_Matthew_text.pdf) then pay attention to the music when you're watching the video (rather than distracting yourself by reading the words).
smalin thanks Stephen; it's great anyway. Well... I don't think it would distract much; I mean, to most of us it is very (in a pristine way: from Latin verus, truely!) complex to follow the instrumental part together with the voices ON it; there could be may be the chance of using the subtitles option of RUclips (?) to turn them off or on ? But I don't think they would be very synchronized then. I think it would be perfect if done by you :-) (and in fact ... it would be musically also very interesting since we could see sometimes may be the play of music with the words that Bach did, like... when he mentions the cross X , or the sorrows with chromatic descends, the word Bach that happens to appear... it would be GREAT in my opinion!! :-) (It could be like a new layer; that you could even use to do some didactic explanations... (modulations, special points, words B-A-C-H , don't know, many things; an enrichment rather than a distraction to me; we all assume... Bach and we Bach lovers are complex!:-) [other idea: i love the shape of the voice part -those irregular circles are somehow very natural to voices to me- ; and I love it all together ON the music msking us see the complexity of Bachs polyphony; but it could be soso very interesting to have the voices in a different frame over , separate from music (so that both polyphonies/counterpoints could be seen clear) Just ideas!:-) thank you so much for your work and all your visuslizations . I think you Stephen Malinowski, Gerubach, and Andrew Aaron Hunt, will pass to history of music as musicians followers of Bach , like Krebs did. That's a price! (postume:? -) as Bachs music it self:-) Abrazos desde España . Me encanta y agradezco tu trabajo. Gracias
I hope to do more at some point. The recording is from here: allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-244/ (An issue is that I asked the Netherlands Bach Society whether they'd like to collaborate with me, and they said no, so I'm not sure whether they're okay with me using their recordings.)
@@smalin I hope so because they released it on RUclips, they should have notice others are using it. BTW I am a fan of yours, especially for your work on Beethoven Great Fugue, kudos for you 👍👍👍
@@HivusLibrevilleThiephyst Thanks for the kind words. The way it stands now between me and the Netherlands Bach Society is that I don't know whether they will let my videos remain on RUclips. They have neither given me permission nor told me to take them down. As a result, I am only making animated graphical scores in cases where I would do them regardless of whether I could publish them. Until they give me explicit permission, I'm not likely to do the entire St. Matthew passion (or all movements of other larger works).
I can't understand how, but even after listening to the same Bach piece a thousand times, one still discovers new notes and nuances
Thats Bach. We can listen a piece hundred time and it can be hundred differents experiences.
Depends where we are listening to 😉
One of the greatest creations of mankind
Pure heaven
"In music, there is one God. That is Bach." Murray Perahia
Более трогательной и мощной одновременно музыки я не встречал!
perhaps one of my favorite choral masterpieces by Bach
Absolutely astounding! A sublime tapestry of harmonic jewels!
There is no other music that sound so intense like this! Nothing!
I agree
Beautiful animation. As ever, giving me a way into the music that I wouldn't otherwise have seen. Bravo!
I liked this pattern enough that I considered having it printed onto a silk scarf. I went as far as a sample print ... www.musanim.com/img/BWV244ScarfSample.jpg ... and then decided that it looked nicer on a computer screen.
Normally I listen to my favorite works with score in hand, but you’ve created something so astoundingly beautiful, a veritable feast for eye and ear, that I’m beginning to prefer your dazzling creations to the notes. Thank you for this unique and sublime art.
Thank you for the kind words. (I too am a fan of conventional notation.)
Taking care after such a dense piece Will sure have not been an easy task. Congratulations, the result is wonderful.
This is a masterpiece of an animation. It just fits perfectly with the emotion of the music. Mind boggling how you have achieved this...
Thank you
@@smalin The genius himself replies! By the way, this video should have WAY more views than it has...
It’s so beautiful
I love the effect of the ‘misty cloud’ behind the whole animation. It gives, to me at least, a chilling feel...
particularly enjoyed seeing the Ripieno so glowing and golden!
Genial trabajo !!
Aquí se aprecia la complejidad del genio de Bach
Thank you for uploading this beautiful piece! Great as always, smalin.
Sometimes I don't believe he was human. Perhaps he was a god and we don't know.
He was a higher being of humans created by a Triune God! If this is Godlike, then imagine how much more higher God himself actually is? It is immeasurable. All of his creation is always by category lower than himself, just as the animals are lower than us. It is the priority of his creation & therefore shall not be mixed or confused within eachother, thus everything is perfectly synchronized to coexist with eachother in the balance of something called life.
Это моя самая любимая композиция из всех произведений Баха👍👍👍👍
amazing
you actually did it.
And the description is quite exquisite too.
Mesmerizing!
I seem to recall that Bach expert on BBC explaining how this composition was much more harmonically advanced (dissonant) than any of his more diatonic contemporaries like Handle.
There are sections of the Matthew Passion that are more harmonically advanced than Beethoven.
@@josephlevine3045 That's what I hear myself but of course Beethoven fans march out his late Quartets and their influence on Bartok. But Bach while he actually established many of the methodologies of functional tonality I'm pretty sure because of his incredible facility with counterpoint as well as his familiarity with the music of pre tempered composers allowed him to circumvent many of the presidents he established. But his most chromatically dense passages are you know subsumed by the counterpoint they're indispensable building blocks of. That's what happens when you combine incredible genius with hard work .
@@paxwallace8324 I think it's fair to say some of Beethoven's later works are indeed even more advanced, but the majority of his works (and I say this as a huge fan of Beethoven) don't rise to this level.
The Matthew Passion ends with a dissonance.
No words.
Amazing work as always! I especially liked the use of voronoi patterns outside and inside irregular shapes for the voices. My only gripe is that this effect can sometimes lead to overcrowding in the middle-high register, obscuring other parts of the animation.
You might want to watch the "plain" version of the animation (see the FAQ for a link).
Fantastic! Beautiful! - a multi-dimensional presentation of sound and light - "Musight"? I want a Virtual Reality where I am surrounded by and floating in this stuff . .
Maybe in the future. For now, you'd need to take drugs to get that effect.
Ha!
@@smalin If my memory serves me right, isn't that what you did that started this?
Som en sørgemarch, trist og mørk i tonen, men meget smuk og følsom.....
I really like it when you add lyrics to vocal pieces like you did with the introit of Mozart's Requiem. It would have made this amazing animation even better. Just a thought.
Beautiful, awesome, thanks.
Barcelona's Sagrada Familia in motion
That's the best compliment my work has ever gotten.
The composition is the best moment of Bach's invention in Matthew's Passions and maybe Bach's art at all. This was impossible to create something inferior. I wish you all the best in your continuing work. (I'm looking forward to the next.) Perhaps you are the pioneer of future 3D projections full of transforming shapes, rays, and beings. For example, something like a movie but bound to individual notes as elements that in total create a story or a form (a statue) that expresses the main point of the composition. Something like a complex form of art.
In any case, your work proves how rich the classical music is because most of pop music would reveal as a beggar here.
@@smalin Smalin I just want to say I think your visualisations are brilliant,and actually help you to identify detail you otherwise wouldn't, and your choice of music is great! Thank you
@@tarquin161234 I'm so gratified to hear you say that. They say "the devil's in the details" but you might just as well say "God is in the details" --- which is true for Bach.
Yes! The Organic Cathedral.
Perfection. Makes most other music sound shit.
Very good, this a sound panorama picture, a sound cathedral, painted by smalin. I think Bach would it like also this animated picture.
Great work as always. You're responsible for 8 friends of mine getting into classical music. What you're doing is priceless.
Anyway, I've got one question. Can ask you what's your opinion about subtitles (either edited in the video or with the RUclips toggle function)? I've noticed that sometimes you put them and sometimes you don't: what is your criterion?
There are a lot of factors. If not knowing the words makes a huge difference in understanding what the music is about, I'm inclined to display them (and an English translation if necessary). If the animation is complex, I'm less inclined (since I'd rather not distract the viewer). For music with standardized lyrics (like the movement of a mass), I tend not to include them. For this piece, I think I'd rather that people familiarize themselves with the words ahead of time and then watch the video without being distracted by seeing them.
smalin
Thanks for the comprehensive answer
For those who wish to familiarise themselves with the words (and then watch the video without being distracted by them, as Stephen suggested) - the English translation, followed by the actual German:
Come, you daughters [of Zion], help me lament.
Behold! Whom? The Bridegroom!
Look at Him! How? As a Lamb.
Behold! What? Look at the patience.
Look! Where? At our guilt.
Behold Him, out of love and graciousness
Bear the wood for the Cross Himself.
[Sung in parallel with:]
O innocent Lamb of God,
Slaughtered on the trunk of the Cross,
Always found to be patient,
Even though You were scorned.
You have borne all sin,
Lest we would have to despair.
Have mercy on us, O Jesus.
Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen.
Sehet! Wen? Den Bräutigam!
Seht ihn! Wie? Als wie ein Lamm.
Sehet! Was? Seht die Geduld.
Seht! Wohin? Auf unsre Schuld.
Sehet ihn aus Lieb und Huld
Holz zum Kreuze selber tragen.
[Sung in parallel with:]
O Lamm Gottes unschuldig,
Am Stamm des Kreuzes geschlachtet,
Allzeit erfunden geduldig,
Wiewohl du warest verachtet.
All Sünd hast du getragen,
Sonst müßten wir verzagen.
Erbarm dich unser, o Jesu.
(The words are not simply sung in this order; Bach's arrangement is quite complex, in a very beautiful way.)
Great work! Is this the beginning of a St. Matthew Passion series?
I don't know (which means: I'm not making plans, and it's possible I would do more).
Waouh great animation !
Could you do the kyrie from the mass in b minor please ? I think it could be one of the greatest video on your channel !
www.musanim.com/Requests/
are the bright yellow/whiteish voices that appear at 2:45 mezzo soprano?
For a key to the graphics, see www.musanim.com/BWV244/
boy's choir? wow i didn't know that composers would put them as a unique addition to their music,thanks for the info.
In Bach's time, church choirs in (what is now) Germany did not include women, so the soprano and alto parts were sung by boys and male sopranos and altos.
wait a minute but which voice is it in here, i see this
red = bass
dark orange = tenor
light orange = alto
yellow ( hollow one at the top ) = soprano
Am i wrong? Which voices do boys represent
The boy's choir is separate from the two SATB choirs (as shown in the key www.musanim.com/BWV244/bwv244m1key.png ).
5:09
i think the "erbarm' dich unser" chorale phrase is missing
Who is performing this interpretation ? It's the best one I've heard besides Gardiner's.
It's from here: allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-244/
Very beautiful :) amazing work :)
The only thing that I don't like is that the tempo is too fast and it doesn't have time to reach the real deepness of this master work. I prefer the tempo of Karl Richter. Just an opinion :) good Job :)
Have you ever considered to do videos to modernist repertoire? The Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta or some works from Schoenberg, Webern, Boulez and the like must produce some really interesting visualizations (I know there are already visualizations of the op. 27 variations, a movement from bartók's quartet, rite of spring and some nowadays composers, but there's just so much to explore...)
Anyways, great video as always, although it's a bit visually crowded. Your channel is one of the best for music lovers in youtube
With more-modern music, there are copyright issues, so I tend only to do it when the composer is alive and can give me permission personally.
There are two versions of the animation; if you want to study the piece, try the other one; this one is for basking.
You might enjoy this Bartok quartet movement: ruclips.net/video/jySFYoTu0Oo/видео.html
Is this performed by herreweghe? I recognize this recording
allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-244/
Would be great to have the lyrics written down below synchronized; probably not much bigger effort after this WHOLE WONDER, thanks!
I sometimes do that, but here, I think it's better to familiarize yourself with the lyrics ahead of time (www.gbt.org/music/St_Matthew_text.pdf) then pay attention to the music when you're watching the video (rather than distracting yourself by reading the words).
smalin thanks Stephen; it's great anyway. Well... I don't think it would distract much; I mean, to most of us it is very (in a pristine way: from Latin verus, truely!) complex to follow the instrumental part together with the voices ON it; there could be may be the chance of using the subtitles option of RUclips (?) to turn them off or on ? But I don't think they would be very synchronized then. I think it would be perfect if done by you :-) (and in fact ... it would be musically also very interesting since we could see sometimes may be the play of music with the words that Bach did, like... when he mentions the cross X , or the sorrows with chromatic descends, the word Bach that happens to appear... it would be GREAT in my opinion!! :-)
(It could be like a new layer; that you could even use to do some didactic explanations... (modulations, special points, words B-A-C-H , don't know, many things; an enrichment rather than a distraction to me; we all assume... Bach and we Bach lovers are complex!:-)
[other idea: i love the shape of the voice part -those irregular circles are somehow very natural to voices to me- ; and I love it all together ON the music msking us see the complexity of Bachs polyphony; but it could be soso very interesting to have the voices in a different frame over , separate from music (so that both polyphonies/counterpoints could be seen clear)
Just ideas!:-) thank you so much for your work and all your visuslizations . I think you Stephen Malinowski, Gerubach, and Andrew Aaron Hunt, will pass to history of music as musicians followers of Bach , like Krebs did. That's a price! (postume:? -) as Bachs music it self:-)
Abrazos desde España . Me encanta y agradezco tu trabajo. Gracias
Great animation! Are you still planning to do more of the St. Matthew Passion like it says on the description page? And who is performing here?
I hope to do more at some point. The recording is from here: allofbach.com/en/bwv/bwv-244/ (An issue is that I asked the Netherlands Bach Society whether they'd like to collaborate with me, and they said no, so I'm not sure whether they're okay with me using their recordings.)
@@smalin I hope so because they released it on RUclips, they should have notice others are using it. BTW I am a fan of yours, especially for your work on Beethoven Great Fugue, kudos for you 👍👍👍
@@HivusLibrevilleThiephyst Thanks for the kind words. The way it stands now between me and the Netherlands Bach Society is that I don't know whether they will let my videos remain on RUclips. They have neither given me permission nor told me to take them down. As a result, I am only making animated graphical scores in cases where I would do them regardless of whether I could publish them. Until they give me explicit permission, I'm not likely to do the entire St. Matthew passion (or all movements of other larger works).
Where is the hapsichord?
I customarily leave out the harpsichord because it's not in the score that Bach wrote (and is improvised by the performer).
the harpsichord is played with the continuo
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