Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, 1. Allegro
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- Опубликовано: 18 ноя 2011
- The first movement of Bach's third Brandenburg Concerto in G Major, BWV 1048, accompanied by a graphical score.
FAQ
This concerto is unusual in that each of the three violins, three violas, and three violoncellos have solo parts.
This is one video in a series of experiments described here:
www.musanim.com/bwv1007m1/
Q: Where can I see the score for this piece?
A: The score that the bar-graph score is based on is here:
www.musanim.com/pdf/brand3mvt1...
The first page of Bach's original manuscript is here:
www.musanim.com/img/BachBrande...
Q: Who is playing this piece?
A: The Advent Chamber Orchestra. I got this recording from the Wikimedia Commons:
tinyurl.com/brand3m1
This recording is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 License:
creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
Q: This hurts my eyes.
A: You might prefer the original, bar-graph version:
• Bach, Brandenburg Conc...
Q: What about the rest of the Brandenburg Concertos?
A: I've made animated graphical scores for all of them:
www.musanim.com/BrandenburgCo...
Q: Could you please do a video of ______?
A: Please read this:
www.musanim.com/requests/ 
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My orchestra class in high school played an abridged version of this song. Thank you for bringing back some good memories from then.
A feast for the eyes and the ears, and a very good version of this piece.
@LeTinctoire I experimented with this. RUclips is presenting the videos at 30 fps (or less), regardless of the framerate of the original I upload. If I make it in 60 fps, it looks worse because RUclips mixes two frames into one, so it looks blurry AND jittery.
I love bach because frequently your musics seem tell us a history when some parts there is happiness, other thriller, drama, etc.
This is amazing. Thankyou for giving me a reliable source for great classics. Keep posting these videos.
@1GunKnight In 1979, I took an "introduction to computer programming" course in college (we learned to write FORTRAN programs on punch cards). In 1982, I bought an Atari 800 and taught myself how to program it out of books (BASIC, FORTH, and 6502 assembly language) so that I could write this program. As a result of what I learned doing that, I was able to get a job in 1984 as a programmer. I learned the C language at my first job. I taught myself C++ many years later.
Thanks for that. One of my favourite animations.
Je redécouvre Bach!!! Quel génie!! Après plusieurs années d'étude du heavy metal, je retourne à mes sources et cet homme en fait partie. Merci.
De Québec city, Canada!
@nghung90 The most time-consuming parts for this video were done as part of earlier versions of this piece and in service of other videos. For example, I wrote the "calligraphy" effect in about a week, to use in solo violin music, so I only had to spend a few hours customizing it for this piece. The score preparation took many hours, but I didn't have to change it much for this. The work that was specific to this video took less than a day (and much of it, like rendering, was mindless).
The phrasing really is visible here, and one can see Bach's mastery of it, and that of his use of counter point. KEWEL!
I love this music so much, I bliss out in a way that must be comical to an outside observer... but the complexity and structure just. Feel. So. Right.
Be sure to check out the other versions of this movement ... www.musanim.com/BrandenburgConcertos/
Excellent, particularly in illustrating the bariolage.
Yet another beautiful visualization from you. I love your work! Thank you for sharing.
These are actually a WONDERFUL resource for those who wish to learn to read music, but don't know how to start.... THANK YOU for these wonderful videos, especially these WONDERFUL versions of Bach!!!
have watched your vids for a long time now! i know most of the music, but your vids gives a very different perspective to it. please continue doing this great work. cheers, great fan of yours.
@drive83 I put the barlines in the other one because there was a place where the notes you tend to hear as the downbeat don't actually fall on the downbeat, and I thought it was interesting to see that.
This is probably the most spectacular visualization up-to-date.
this is my new favorite one of your videos
Wonderful as always!
dude, this is just amazing.... genious work!
Really breathtaking, the video's you are able to make!
one of my fav. pieces, thank you for giving so much joy. Keep up with your work:)
Love the visualisation style.
just splendid... great program.. fantastic music.. bravissimo
@Dreadnoughtification The visual perception mirrors the auditory perception. If the 'cellos and violin played in unison all the time, you'd find it very difficult to hear that there were two instruments, but in Baroque counterpoint, that doesn't happen --- two parts can share a note briefly, but they must arrive and/or leave from it in a way that allows the listener to make sense of it. The same is true with the animation; the connecting lines tell you what's going on when two parts meet.
un agasajo en verdad como disfruto de esta pieza, y de los videos en general
@cubanbach I think one's enjoyment depends on what you know and don't know about the piece, and what you learn about it from watching the video. A person without much experience listening to contrapuntal music might be learning how to keep track of more than one melodic line at once, and might be thrilled by that, whereas a person who knows this piece well as a listener but hasn't studied it might learn more about how it is constructed and be thrilled by that ... (cont.) ...
Oh wow, didn't see this graphic on any of your videos before. I have to say, it's by far the most interesting one to look at!
@costep I've done that in some of my videos; I include it when I think it is more helpful than distracting.
@Dreadnoughtification Sometimes I do. In this, the instruments either play in groups of three (3 violins, 3 violas, 3 violoncellos), or solo; when they play together, you have the fat line with a primary color, and when they separate out into solos, you have thin lines with variations on that group's color.
@jeannypoo It only loops when it changes from up to down or down to up; if it goes down and stays down, or goes up and stays up, or goes up or down after staying on the same note, it doesn't loop.
The Smalin Evolves! Haven't been by for a while. Nice to see the graphic development. Very Nice
@ThisMetalGuy There are problems with that. I don't have much experience with it, so I usually am not the right person to perform it myself. The music is often not notated, which makes it hard for me to make the animation. The composition and the performance are protected by copyright, which means I can't use them in a video without permission (which often costs money). I've tried a few times, but I've learned that it's not worth the trouble unless I know the composer and performer myself.
I think all your work is brilliant.
@yourBALDneighbor For music with only a single instrument playing (where it's easy to measure the loudness of individual notes), I have done some videos (recently) that depict the loudness.
I had just a wee bit of trouble following at first as it is a new system for me. Got the hang of it quickly though. Even if our 'ear' couldn't hear the beautiful simplicity of this, your application makes it so clear. Whilst into my first listening I saw that the basso continuo would make beautiful embroidery so... I am going to copy that an create the Brandenburg Embroidery. It will make a quite beautiful edging on anything I should choose to use if for. Thank you so much.
@ZucchiniSky Good question. I don't know.
@jeannypoo It loops when the direction changes from down to up or up to down.
@turk1559 If that's what the question means, the answer is no. But if adtuna1192 looked at all my Bach animations, it would be obvious that I'm not using a single style, which made me doubt that it meant that.
@beatchef This visualization only shows the contrabass line (at the played pitch, which is an octave lower than written). The harpsichord plays from that part, but improvises everything except that (bass) note; it is not notated. Since what I'm showing is sort of like a score (and I'm not willing to spend time transcribing the harpsichord part), I've omitted what the harpsichord plays. Where does the contrabass part seem simplified?
hey thanks, the virtualization is beautiful.
Great work!!
4:24 It begins building a few seconds earlier but here it shows. One of the most intense musical moments in history. It literally crushes you but you love it. Bach's the man...
@Dreadnoughtification No good reason. I mean, there's a reason (a side-effect of something), but it wasn't something I intended. If I were more of a perfectionist, I would have fixed it before releasing this video. There are lots of things which aren't exactly the way I wanted; I'll probably get to them eventually.
@smalin Oh, now I'll may attention. Appreciate you work. Thank you.
After 2 mins you already feel like you are in nirvana. This is one fantastic recording.
@xValeify It depends. The fastest take a few hours; the most complicated ones take a few weeks.
this is amazing
@zaalism If you go to the recent video of a violin piece using this style, you'll see a lot of viewers writing something along the lines of "your best so far." If I were to base what I did on the majority of viewer requests, I would have to move in that direction --- not back to the bar-graph style. However, that's not how I do it; I pretty much ignore the wishes of my viewers, and either use the style of animation I think works best for a given piece, or an experiment I'm curious about.
Please make this videos on top of channel, i also found this new version by accident just cause wanted to listen some bach.
@smalin THANK you for your response, SMALIN. I think you are correct on all accounts. :) It was really thrilling to "watch" the venerable old Bach Brandenburg 3-a go by so delightfully. You can't please everyone, I always say. But you've pleased me greatly. Thanks again! :)
Aahh! Wonderfull. excellent work.
GENIUS.
this is amazing i realy like the aniamtions
awesome!
Thank you very much! is really interesting to actually "see" it =)
Love it!
There are a few Bach pieces for solo violin that use this, plus some of the other concertos. You might want to look on my "alternate/overflow/remake" channel (musanim), too.
@LeTinctoire If the neighbors of a note are both higher than it or both lower, the path loops; otherwise not.
Lovely animation!
I remember playing this last year for school. Now we are working on Mendelssohn's tenth symphony in B minor...
Thanks, many thanks.
Amazing job. You are a genius.
This style of animation (not sure what it's called?) is absolutely incredible! Well done. Looking forward to your future work.
Ich sehr viele liebe diese Musik von mein guter Freund, Bach. Und dies neues Design ist sehr schön, mir gefällt.
BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was so much fun and I bet KNOWING the piece as well as I do might help but I wonder if people if DO NOT know it enjoy it as much?
Great!!!
ART
3:25 is actually visually exciting. The weaving is so pretty.
This is graphically the more beautiful rendition of the piece, though it is a simple change. I have always enjoyed this ver. 2 far greater.
mind blown.
@khetnhio The notes that are surrounded by either lower notes or by higher notes get the circle.
very cool. Though harder to follow thatn the normal bar animations. Though visualy this new stile es very good. The music as always is sublime.
this design is so pretty
Well, thanks, this floral result of the logic made my day!
I have an idea for an exercise in college. Students could try to notate one of your pieces, using one of your videos as a guide. It would require that students listen carefully, to be able to hear each voice in isolation. Your videos are so valuable pedagogically, that I as a teacher want to come up with some ways to use them.
Reminds me of Longwood Gardens if anyone's ever heard of it. Beautiful place, that.
@ScarlettsLog No (and I'm not likely to make plans to).
@alf9q I don't know.
ohh xD i played this during my freshmen year in high school. awesome piece!
@Keladan1337 I've considered pretty much every piece by every well-known composer.
@compaq1275 I would like to do all the Brandenburgs, but I'm holding out until I can get permission to use the Rinaldo Alessandrini recording (his group is called Concerto Italiano), my favorite.
@Anathiron I've tried lots of things ...
@smalin I think there should be something like that for single notes to show the volume.
@guyboy625 Well, I guess they can't all be your favorite.
@adtuna1192 Sorry, I don't understand the question.
@smalin Okay, thanks. I thought that, but there are places in the lower parts where it changes direction but doesn't loop around, so I thought maybe I'd misunderstood. lol. I like this animation, though, it's one of the prettier ones visually. :D
Great work!
Thank you very much!
BTW, it's much better without vertical lines.
I would love to see this for BWV 78
@wnrostro Many viewers have asked "where's the Donate button?" Maybe I will make one ...
When will the revised Music Animation Machine be available for download? I can't wait to see these animations for any MIDI I'd like.
@smalin But what about when the cellos and a solo violin meet? At 1:06 (more or less), you had the violin get the dot, while the cellos looped around. Sure, that's what they're supposed to do, but what if both were supposed to loop? Blending the colours, or dividing it half-half just seems to reduce the importance of the note, which can be interpreted as a diminuation of importance. Given how this is more contrapunctal in nature, this seems to especially be important.
Great as always. I am wondering whether you would consider drawing vertical light grey lines to depict the bars?
@smalin i think he means will the animation for all bach pieces be this annimation, while beethoven for instance would have a different one
It is weird that this is easier to understand than music. Could be because of my mild asd. I've always understood music in different kinds of patterns like this.
Emily Samuels It’s not unusual to be able to apply one’s pattern recognition skills more easily to visual patterns than aural ones. That’s why I make these videos. People sometimes make aural analogues of visual data, but they usually don’t help as much.
@POKIWOKI3 I would like to, but I'm having trouble getting permission for the recording I'd like to use. I would like to use Rinaldo Alessandrini's recording. Maybe you could help me contact him?
@CPLains Uh, I always thought the videos stuttered because of firefox (I have around 80 tabs open), I never knew youtube limits the framerate.
I just watched the video in internet explorer where it stutters, too (firefox closed).
have you (or will you do) the 3rd movement? This video is amazing
Love the video!
Is there any chance you could do the third movement as well?
I think you should blend colours when the same pitch is hit by more than one instrument, or something similar.