"Die Chaconne ist mir eines der wunderbarsten, unbegreiflichsten Musikstücke. Auf ein System für ein kleines Instrument schreibt der Mann eine ganze Welt von tiefsten Gedanken und gewaltigsten Empfindungen. Hätte ich das Stück machen, empfangen können, ich weiß sicher, die übergroße Aufregung und Erschütterung hätten mich verrückt gemacht." -Johannes Brahms "For me, the Chaconne is one of the most wonderful, inexplicable pieces of music. On one staff for a small instrument the man [Bach] writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I had believed that I could make or conceive the piece, I surely know that the immense excitement and shock would have driven me crazy." -Johannes Brahms
nsmc99 it would be just the zigzag if it were merely the appegios. Clever thing is that the latent polyphony is shown by the vertical lines. Great idea
Bach weaves together grief and consolation (and a whole range of emotions) . This excellent visualization shows it happening right before my eyes, but I still don't know how Bach did it.
@@smalin That is a very good question - to which I do not know the answer. I'm a words person, and not musically literate. I know that my emotions when I read a poem are at least approximatly what the poet intended, and I suppose it may be similar with music. Why is it that a musical illiterate like myself "knows" that Bach is the greatest?
Music is the most subjective of the arts, we will never know what bach "intended" his audience to feel, but one thing is sure, what we feel is both determined by bachs subectivity inmortalised in this piece and our own subjectivity acting on the piece when we listen to it, and that is for me one of the most beautiful aspects of music.
The great example of Bach's 'Absolute Music' which generated a huge and growing number of elaborations for almost every possible combination of instruments (and even voices!). And all from a single melodic line, as this animation so clearly shows!
I was forced to pick one musical instrument to learn in school and I randomly chose violin. Needless to say, I was (and am) terrible at it and never pick up again after that two-year period. However, the courses made me appreciate classical music more, especially those with violin. Chaconne is my favourite piece. The range of emotion in this not-so-long movement with only a single violin is unmatched. Thank you for reminding me how awesome it is by showing its structure in a clear and animated way. I always love your videos but this is one of the best for me.
Thank you for the suggestion! It's a beautifully played Chaconne. Hilary Hahn's is my favourite but Lara St. John is pretty close. I'm an aphantasic synesthete , so your videos are really wonderful as they allow me to "see" the structure.
The long, filling tubules of each note evoke the image of an interconnected chain of balloons, with the violin breathing air into each note. Great visualization as always.
When I was a kid, I studied violin for little while. I never pass the basic level, my finger are too clumsy. Playing only two strings was an impossible task for me (still is). The level of difficulty of Chaconne is beyond everything else I could picture myself. Your graphical animation shows the intense practice and virtousity a violin soloist must achieve to play this.
Was listening to Ricecar6, and then appeared your graphic. Was listening to Art of the Fugue and your graphics started appearing. Last week was revisiting all versions I have of the Chaconne ( I first heard played by Segovia in 1965!) (Actually all the unaccompanied Partitas)... And here we are... Wonderful coincidence. Wonderful
Inclusive en esa bellísima Chacona de Bach escuchamos en un violín la oración de nuestro Señor Dulce Jesucristo Bendito por esta humanidad sufriente, gracias a los que publicaron esa original animación.
After I told you that I was working on a more ambitious version of the Chaconne (www.musanim.com/Chaconne/), I remembered that my license to St. John's recording allows me to publish as many versions of the animated score as I want, and since I agreed with you that it would be nice to see the Chaconne with the "spline ribbon" (www.musanim.com/Renderers/) animation, I decided to do that now (and continue working on the other version).
Fantástica e inmortal pieza de J.S. Bach e inmenso trabajo tuyo. Una delícia disfrutar los gráficos elegidos....gracias por compartir tu gusto musical.🤩😍
Absolutely fascinating to watch. Great job! I remember a conductor making a similar animation from Bach's WTC. He assigned a color to each interval, and a wonderful rainbow like pattern unexpectedly appeared, showing some deeper structure in the composition.
since this is a dance, the tempo should be more rigid, but the violinist (Lara St. John?) does excellently in phrasing and, early on especially, articulating the original theme in its variations
@@sameash3153, this is the age of information. Anyone can search "chaconne" on any search engine and quickly discover that this is a dance form. It should be performed as such.
@@musicalmather1160 A chaconne is not necessarily a dance. A chaconne by definition is a piece that repeats variations over a consistent chord progression made firm by the consistent basslines, which is why it is a chaconne here since the chord progressions remain constant while the variations continually run. A chaconne can be danced to, but it is not strictly a dance. As a solo piece which shows off a single player's virtuosity, it is unlikely to have been danced to, as neither are the cello suites considered dance suites. Don't tell me to Google a chaconne by the way, I'm a composer and have written chaconnes before, I know what they are.
@@sameash3153 It's very cool that you're a composer. But I disagree with your stylistic interpretation of this piece. I have been working on this piece for awhile and all research indicates that Bach intended to draw on the dance form. I favor the interpretation of Heifetz in his masterclass on this piece (available on YT), reflected in a notated score from George Enescu (available on IMSLP). The piece is also obviously from the Baroque Era, and should not be played so romantically anyway. I did not intend to be rude. I'm sure there are chaconnes are intended to be more romanticized, and not at all tied to the dance form, such as the ones you may compose; and I did not know this, as the only chaconnes I have taken any interest in are this one and Vitali's. But chaconnes were purely dance form until the early 18th century (which happens to be when this piece was written). I would think the form would still be intended to be rooted in that style by composers (including Bach) until after they went rather out of style in the 1800s.
I can kind of see it, but there are so many pieces with huge orchestras, which don't use the orchestra to a maximum or to the entire power, not because it lacks power, but because the piece doesn't need or even want it. If you as an example listen to War Requiem by Benjamin Britten, he only utilises specific parts of the orchestra to underline certain parts, but if he needs to imply strength or power, the orchestra can deliver without any problem. And there are many pieces that only have a few accents, many pieces even just try to be a gentle ride, without any 'breaks'. And others go full power from start to finish. This piece is amazing none the less and as stated before, I can see your point, but the comparison is kind of not fair.
Patrick Abraham I meant ‘powerful’ more in the sense of delivering emotional depth, but your point is well taken. For example, Vivaldi’s Winter is exquisitely beautiful, whether played by a small chamber or a full modern one, but the Chaconne can somehow display even more depth (e.g. 13:35). All of these pieces are beautiful, but it’s the Chaconne’s emotional depth which stands out the most for me. I suppose I should have used depth instead of power in the first place.
Did the artist who made the music for the movie Cars get inspiration here? I could of sworn I’m hearing themes from that movie here, with this the original...
Bach made a few similar pieces ... so did a bunch of other composers ... And yes a lot of modern film-music is inspired by classic and romantic music, especially Disney music ... And in the early era of Disney it wasn't just inspired, but actually just was music by Modest Mussorgsky or Johann Sebastian Bach, even Igor Stravinsky, Paul Dukas and Sergei Prokofiev, hell even opera pieces were used. I would love to see some more ... composing in modern music.
How do you get these ideas, like the animations of the arpeggiato sections? How Bach could concieve this mind blowing piece to start with? Amazing work Smalin.
I've been thinking about how this piece would be visualized since the 1970s. The real question is: given how much time I've poured into it, why don't I have more ideas?
Wonderful interpretation by both the violinist and you, smalin! What do the difference between the last two notes mean? The second one has a second outer stroke.
I don't know where you get this software, or how you did this but i realy like it, it showed me a few things that i should improve but i also heared a few things that i wouldn't do like that, this video helped me alot. also, if you made this software, i think you should reduce it to a bit less details and do something about the colors and the shapes of the note blobs
The colors are based on this: www.musanim.com/HarmonicColoring/ The shapes are based on the loudness of the audio track. How would you suggest I change this? How many of my videos have you watched?
There are over 500 of my videos on this channel. Before you suggest I do something differently, you might want to look at more of my videos and see whether I've already done it.
Just some friendly input, this visual style was messing with my brain, because when the notes were going down, the line would curve up, and vice verse. I couldn’t watch it, but I really enjoy your work and always watch your videos.
The curve I use (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spline_interpolation) anticipates the future. If the path needs to change direction drastically to intersect a future note, it sometimes needs to backtrack (go in the opposite direction) to get a "running start," which can lead to the path dipping down before going up or humping up before going down. With practice, your eyes will get used to this, and you'll experience the movement of the curve as telling you about how notes further in the future are going to move.
Just wanted to mention. (Besides smiling ear to ear seeing somebody not only mention that there is some interpolation done, but actually what kind of interpolation.) I actually like this way of communicating the change to happen in the near future. It feels like the difference between whitenoise and simplex noise to me. You know what to expected, instead of some harsh changes.
Beautiful performance, great video! One of my favorite pieces. One question: have you ever considered a global color code for all your videos? For instance, asign blue to C, purple to G, etc. That way one could memorize the colors as one watches your videos and at some point start "reading" them. If i'm not mistaken, each pitch has a color according to the vibrations of the corresponding light they emit (please correct me if i'm wrong). I don't know, it sounds interesting. Thank you for your uploads!
The strings may be tuned to pure 5ths which you may not be used to. A lot of bowed string players tune their fifths pure or at least a little "narrow," especially for Baroque music and especially for solo music because there aren't other people to be out of tune with. I have always wanted a "ring" when I play notes in tune, so I tune my E and D to be as perfect as I can, with the G a little tighter cuz its gets squirrely. If you are hearing that string or pitches played on it (the G string) as out of tune, it's possible that they just seem that way. I sat with a tuner for 45 minutes yesterday trying to decode why what sounded out of tune to me was in tune according to my tuner. You will probably notice it most with thirds/sixths and the leading tone not being quite what your ear usually hears. Unfortunately, even in 2020 the videos on temperament and tuning are seriously lacking.
If you play guitar you'll also notice your G string often sounds out of tune even though your tuner says it's perfect. It tunes to 12 tone equal temperament which isnt always the best for everything.
The two answers above are great, but it can also be a stylistic choice. Like in the G minor fugue, at the second to last line there is an F# that I like to be quite high so it stands out and adds even more tension. What I hear in this recording is definitely some of that, but it also might be just the style of tuning this particular violinist used like said in the previous comments. Either way I hear it as intentional and it really adds to the personal touch or signature this artist leaves on the recording.
Maybe it is. Not all violinists have good intonation, particularly with double or triple stops. Usually if something *sounds* out of tune, it *is*. (And yes, many things here do sound out of tune to me too.)
Some do, but not this one. Here's the channel that has the 3D ones ... ruclips.net/user/musanim3D ... and here's a page about them ... www.musanim.com/Chromadepth/
XanthinZarda jest aside. Bach wrote this after he returned home to find his wife dead, and buried. Word did not reach him when he was away. Bach and the violin walk alone on this one.
Oh, Mighty Bach. Turn it over to MOZART. And you won't be so lonely. I remember Bach's Am Concerto for Violin. God gave me American technology. And I played. Oh God. I played. Maestro Bach's lonely Violin hit America and is lonely no more. God bless America. American technology gave me 4 guitars across Maestro Bach's Am Concerto. Look me up
"Die Chaconne ist mir eines der wunderbarsten, unbegreiflichsten Musikstücke. Auf ein System für ein kleines Instrument schreibt der Mann eine ganze Welt von tiefsten Gedanken und gewaltigsten Empfindungen. Hätte ich das Stück machen, empfangen können, ich weiß sicher, die übergroße Aufregung und Erschütterung hätten mich verrückt gemacht." -Johannes Brahms
"For me, the Chaconne is one of the most wonderful, inexplicable pieces of music. On one staff for a small instrument the man [Bach] writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I had believed that I could make or conceive the piece, I surely know that the immense excitement and shock would have driven me crazy." -Johannes Brahms
this piece is my religion
If you'd like to make an offering ... www.patreon.com/musanim
@@smalin I'd love to if I knew how to use those cards, sadly, I'm not 18 yet:(
I love the way that you animated the arpeggios. It really brings out the ingenious voice leading.
Why didn't I see this before?
It's easily my favorite solo violin piece and I was dying for an animation.
www.musanim.com/Chaconne/
4:57 That's a very clever way of showing the arpeggios!
nsmc99 it would be just the zigzag if it were merely the appegios.
Clever thing is that the latent polyphony is shown by the vertical lines. Great idea
Great graphics and OMG that decrescendo at 7:36
Bach weaves together grief and consolation (and a whole range of emotions) . This excellent visualization shows it happening right before my eyes, but I still don't know how Bach did it.
Why do you think the emotions you experience listening to Bach's music are the ones he intended his audience to feel?
@@smalin That is a very good question - to which I do not know the answer. I'm a words person, and not musically literate. I know that my emotions when I read a poem are at least approximatly what the poet intended, and I suppose it may be similar with music. Why is it that a musical illiterate like myself "knows" that Bach is the greatest?
I asked because grief and consolation are not emotions that this music suggests to me.
Stephen Lee he did it with God
Music is the most subjective of the arts, we will never know what bach "intended" his audience to feel, but one thing is sure, what we feel is both determined by bachs subectivity inmortalised in this piece and our own subjectivity acting on the piece when we listen to it, and that is for me one of the most beautiful aspects of music.
Finally the amazing orchestra of four strings is here!! I have waited for so long.... years....
The great example of Bach's 'Absolute Music' which generated a huge and growing number of elaborations for almost every possible combination of instruments (and even voices!). And all from a single melodic line, as this animation so clearly shows!
What the hell is wrong with the 21 people who disliked this? Fantastic work.
this piece makes me realize i need to listen to more bach
I was forced to pick one musical instrument to learn in school and I randomly chose violin. Needless to say, I was (and am) terrible at it and never pick up again after that two-year period. However, the courses made me appreciate classical music more, especially those with violin. Chaconne is my favourite piece. The range of emotion in this not-so-long movement with only a single violin is unmatched. Thank you for reminding me how awesome it is by showing its structure in a clear and animated way. I always love your videos but this is one of the best for me.
:-)
Thanks.
Given your history with the violin,
that means a lot to me.
Thank you for the suggestion! It's a beautifully played Chaconne. Hilary Hahn's is my favourite but Lara St. John is pretty close.
I'm an aphantasic synesthete , so your videos are really wonderful as they allow me to "see" the structure.
Gosh! time flies
The long, filling tubules of each note evoke the image of an interconnected chain of balloons, with the violin breathing air into each note. Great visualization as always.
I see all words and lines swinging on my screen after staring at this visualization!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_aftereffect
really cool visual algorithm for this one!
Ikr
4:59 You can read "AAAAAAAAA"
When I was a kid, I studied violin for little while. I never pass the basic level, my finger are too clumsy. Playing only two strings was an impossible task for me (still is). The level of difficulty of Chaconne is beyond everything else I could picture myself. Your graphical animation shows the intense practice and virtousity a violin soloist must achieve to play this.
I can only imagine how much work you've put into this. Thanks, great video!
I like how the thingies get thicker as the notes get louder , brilliant touches like that are what makes your animations good !
Was listening to Ricecar6, and then appeared your graphic. Was listening to Art of the Fugue and your graphics started appearing. Last week was revisiting all versions I have of the Chaconne ( I first heard played by Segovia in 1965!) (Actually all the unaccompanied Partitas)... And here we are... Wonderful coincidence. Wonderful
Chills. Just chills. I've never heard Lara St. John's interpretation before but it's beautiful. My fave is Hilary Hahn, this comes close!
I'd love to see a video showing how these videos are prepared.
I haven't made a video, but here's some background material on this project: www.musanim.com/Background/
Sublime! This, and the Art of Fugue videos are true masterpieces. Thanks for taking your work to a higher level every time.
Inclusive en esa bellísima Chacona de Bach escuchamos en un violín la oración de nuestro Señor Dulce Jesucristo Bendito por esta humanidad sufriente, gracias a los que publicaron esa original animación.
So incredible!!!!!!! A zillion thanks to you for sharing!😘❤❤💖💖💞💕💓💋🌹💐👏👏
4:57 to 6:33 is just amazing! I just added this to my favorites.
amazing work smalin!
Thanks!
This is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. Thank you for posting this!
If you'd like to catch up on my recent work, this page might be useful: www.musanim.com/RUclipsHighlights/
What a fascinating notion! Thank you for for this intriguing vid!
Like DNA fragments in this music of soul
Yeah, impressive. The music of J.S. Bach is perfection.
really brilliant performance - the articulation on the arpeggios is something i havent heard before this
Hah! I got my wish! Thank you so much for this wonderful video!
Me too!
After I told you that I was working on a more ambitious version of the Chaconne (www.musanim.com/Chaconne/), I remembered that my license to St. John's recording allows me to publish as many versions of the animated score as I want, and since I agreed with you that it would be nice to see the Chaconne with the "spline ribbon" (www.musanim.com/Renderers/) animation, I decided to do that now (and continue working on the other version).
I love your work. This one is hypnotic.
:-)
Very beautiful Bachian snake.
Currently playing this piece. Having met Lara st. John, I think this is one of her best recordings or performances.
Fantástica e inmortal pieza de J.S. Bach e inmenso trabajo tuyo. Una delícia disfrutar los gráficos elegidos....gracias por compartir tu gusto musical.🤩😍
Absolutely fascinating to watch. Great job! I remember a conductor making a similar animation from Bach's WTC. He assigned a color to each interval, and a wonderful rainbow like pattern unexpectedly appeared, showing some deeper structure in the composition.
好棒的影像。我甚至可以看到飛躍在絃上的弓。
這是我最喜歡的巴哈無伴奏小提琴。感恩。
since this is a dance, the tempo should be more rigid, but the violinist (Lara St. John?) does excellently in phrasing and, early on especially, articulating the original theme in its variations
It is not a dance and should not be played as though it were
@@sameash3153, this is the age of information. Anyone can search "chaconne" on any search engine and quickly discover that this is a dance form. It should be performed as such.
@@musicalmather1160 A chaconne is not necessarily a dance. A chaconne by definition is a piece that repeats variations over a consistent chord progression made firm by the consistent basslines, which is why it is a chaconne here since the chord progressions remain constant while the variations continually run. A chaconne can be danced to, but it is not strictly a dance. As a solo piece which shows off a single player's virtuosity, it is unlikely to have been danced to, as neither are the cello suites considered dance suites. Don't tell me to Google a chaconne by the way, I'm a composer and have written chaconnes before, I know what they are.
@@sameash3153 It's very cool that you're a composer. But I disagree with your stylistic interpretation of this piece. I have been working on this piece for awhile and all research indicates that Bach intended to draw on the dance form. I favor the interpretation of Heifetz in his masterclass on this piece (available on YT), reflected in a notated score from George Enescu (available on IMSLP).
The piece is also obviously from the Baroque Era, and should not be played so romantically anyway.
I did not intend to be rude. I'm sure there are chaconnes are intended to be more romanticized, and not at all tied to the dance form, such as the ones you may compose; and I did not know this, as the only chaconnes I have taken any interest in are this one and Vitali's. But chaconnes were purely dance form until the early 18th century (which happens to be when this piece was written). I would think the form would still be intended to be rooted in that style by composers (including Bach) until after they went rather out of style in the 1800s.
what did i just walk into?
Able to stretch and clear my head I enjoyed this immensely!😎🌵
Qu'est ce que c'est beau
Personal favorite
Playing this tomorrow, w cello ensemble.
This fellow cellist envies you. :)
Thanks so much for this, Smalin: in it’s own way as powerful as any of those big concerti with their huge orchestras, wouldn’t you agree?
I can kind of see it, but there are so many pieces with huge orchestras, which don't use the orchestra to a maximum or to the entire power, not because it lacks power, but because the piece doesn't need or even want it.
If you as an example listen to War Requiem by Benjamin Britten, he only utilises specific parts of the orchestra to underline certain parts, but if he needs to imply strength or power, the orchestra can deliver without any problem.
And there are many pieces that only have a few accents, many pieces even just try to be a gentle ride, without any 'breaks'.
And others go full power from start to finish.
This piece is amazing none the less and as stated before, I can see your point, but the comparison is kind of not fair.
Patrick Abraham I meant ‘powerful’ more in the sense of delivering emotional depth, but your point is well taken. For example, Vivaldi’s Winter is exquisitely beautiful, whether played by a small chamber or a full modern one, but the Chaconne can somehow display even more depth (e.g. 13:35). All of these pieces are beautiful, but it’s the Chaconne’s emotional depth which stands out the most for me. I suppose I should have used depth instead of power in the first place.
interesting! certainly easier to capture the picture of the music than a partitura of the Chaconne. reminds also of an electroencephalogram
Did the artist who made the music for the movie Cars get inspiration here? I could of sworn I’m hearing themes from that movie here, with this the original...
Bach made a few similar pieces ... so did a bunch of other composers ...
And yes a lot of modern film-music is inspired by classic and romantic music, especially Disney music ...
And in the early era of Disney it wasn't just inspired, but actually just was music by Modest Mussorgsky or Johann Sebastian Bach, even Igor Stravinsky, Paul Dukas and Sergei Prokofiev, hell even opera pieces were used.
I would love to see some more ... composing in modern music.
How do you get these ideas, like the animations of the arpeggiato sections? How Bach could concieve this mind blowing piece to start with? Amazing work Smalin.
I've been thinking about how this piece would be visualized since the 1970s. The real question is: given how much time I've poured into it, why don't I have more ideas?
13:36 👌🏽
Wonderful interpretation by both the violinist and you, smalin!
What do the difference between the last two notes mean? The second one has a second outer stroke.
Rafael Ronzoni It’s being played on two strings.
Oh! Simple like that! Thanks.
this is so beautiful, thank you
I don't know where you get this software, or how you did this but i realy like it, it showed me a few things that i should improve but i also heared a few things that i wouldn't do like that, this video helped me alot. also, if you made this software, i think you should reduce it to a bit less details and do something about the colors and the shapes of the note blobs
The colors are based on this: www.musanim.com/HarmonicColoring/
The shapes are based on the loudness of the audio track.
How would you suggest I change this?
How many of my videos have you watched?
only this one, yet
but i realy like what you did there.
There are over 500 of my videos on this channel. Before you suggest I do something differently, you might want to look at more of my videos and see whether I've already done it.
ok, i just wanted to help. x)
You appear to have incorporated the audio waveform into the notes. Very clever!
Is there any way we could see the whole picture of the piece that was drawn?
You have a superb nickname 👏
YES WE SHOULD SEE THE WHOLE PICTURE! That would be dope.
Mulțumesc! Splendid! O radiografie a sunetelor , parcă ne jucăm cu ADN-UL armoniilor! Felicitări!
Thank you!
Love Lara St John
Vibrato is kept to a minimum like as it should be for authentic Baroque style. Now if only the Partita in B minor was made a video like this :-)
Just some friendly input, this visual style was messing with my brain, because when the notes were going down, the line would curve up, and vice verse. I couldn’t watch it, but I really enjoy your work and always watch your videos.
The curve I use (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spline_interpolation) anticipates the future. If the path needs to change direction drastically to intersect a future note, it sometimes needs to backtrack (go in the opposite direction) to get a "running start," which can lead to the path dipping down before going up or humping up before going down. With practice, your eyes will get used to this, and you'll experience the movement of the curve as telling you about how notes further in the future are going to move.
Just wanted to mention. (Besides smiling ear to ear seeing somebody not only mention that there is some interpolation done, but actually what kind of interpolation.)
I actually like this way of communicating the change to happen in the near future.
It feels like the difference between whitenoise and simplex noise to me. You know what to expected, instead of some harsh changes.
BEAUTIFUL !!!
Is there a reason why the colored waveform doesn't go all the way? It's really jarring to just see it stop when the borders are still going.
It stops when the note stops playing (but continues in your imagination).
smalin Okay, that makes a little more sense. Thanks!
Beautiful performance, great video! One of my favorite pieces. One question: have you ever considered a global color code for all your videos? For instance, asign blue to C, purple to G, etc. That way one could memorize the colors as one watches your videos and at some point start "reading" them. If i'm not mistaken, each pitch has a color according to the vibrations of the corresponding light they emit (please correct me if i'm wrong). I don't know, it sounds interesting. Thank you for your uploads!
See the FAQ.
I prefer grumiaux but this is still lovely :)
Glorious!
Intense ♥
Always Bach. Just it!
12:10
Can you please do the gigue from the same partita?
chillé
You should make more animation to this piece
See www.musanim.com/Chaconne/ ...
Fascinating, thanks for the insight into your way of thinking!
Serenidad .
Biss !!!
I have an idea - do this with Ligeti's Artikulation next >:D
www.musanim.com/Requests/
I'm sure you're aware of this: ruclips.net/video/71hNl_skTZQ/видео.html right?
The beginning chords remind me of "Variations on an original theme" by Weinawski.
Yuchen Li I know the piece from the TwoSet video :D
7:47, how Every Malinowski Video Makes me FeeL.
Wat een dubbele beleving,: muziek voor blinden én doven
Oscilloscoping.
And lo I see dinosaurs, DNA graph, pin worms swallowing balls, and later on, vertebral structures and spine
All that, and so much more as hidden from you, as dinosaurs and DNA from JSB! The Galumphin' spiinnybeast of Omicron 5, for instance? See! Told you!
Why does the violin sound so out of tune?
The strings may be tuned to pure 5ths which you may not be used to. A lot of bowed string players tune their fifths pure or at least a little "narrow," especially for Baroque music and especially for solo music because there aren't other people to be out of tune with. I have always wanted a "ring" when I play notes in tune, so I tune my E and D to be as perfect as I can, with the G a little tighter cuz its gets squirrely. If you are hearing that string or pitches played on it (the G string) as out of tune, it's possible that they just seem that way. I sat with a tuner for 45 minutes yesterday trying to decode why what sounded out of tune to me was in tune according to my tuner. You will probably notice it most with thirds/sixths and the leading tone not being quite what your ear usually hears. Unfortunately, even in 2020 the videos on temperament and tuning are seriously lacking.
If you play guitar you'll also notice your G string often sounds out of tune even though your tuner says it's perfect. It tunes to 12 tone equal temperament which isnt always the best for everything.
The two answers above are great, but it can also be a stylistic choice. Like in the G minor fugue, at the second to last line there is an F# that I like to be quite high so it stands out and adds even more tension. What I hear in this recording is definitely some of that, but it also might be just the style of tuning this particular violinist used like said in the previous comments. Either way I hear it as intentional and it really adds to the personal touch or signature this artist leaves on the recording.
Maybe it is. Not all violinists have good intonation, particularly with double or triple stops. Usually if something *sounds* out of tune, it *is*.
(And yes, many things here do sound out of tune to me too.)
Wat een dubbele belevenis; muziek voor doven èn blinden ,,,
those dots on white background remind me of a certain monika sprite... send help
Someone told me these videos require special glasses to get the full experience. Is this true?
Some do, but not this one. Here's the channel that has the 3D ones ...
ruclips.net/user/musanim3D
... and here's a page about them ...
www.musanim.com/Chromadepth/
I see. Thank you so much for the links. This video is wonderful by the way!
Unaccompanied? Well someone should find a chaperone for it.
XanthinZarda Haha. Lol. 😂
XanthinZarda jest aside. Bach wrote this after he returned home to find his wife dead, and buried. Word did not reach him when he was away. Bach and the violin walk alone on this one.
Stainlessfights4u, oh, interesting. That's... heartbreaking.
Oh, Mighty Bach.
Turn it over to
MOZART.
And you won't be so lonely.
I remember
Bach's Am Concerto for Violin.
God gave me American technology.
And I played.
Oh God.
I played.
Maestro Bach's lonely Violin hit America and is lonely no more.
God bless America.
American technology gave me 4 guitars across Maestro Bach's Am Concerto.
Look me up
You would have been able to listen Bach even without ""American"" tech.
Presuming you were watching this on a cell phone: It was invented in the soviet union