And to be perfectly honest, professional musicians don't get a lot of rehearsal. Certainly not enough to memorise a whole symphony. I used to gig on cruise ships and I would literally get my music for the sound check and do the first show an hour later.
@@whoami6601 they’re not in any orchestras anymore as they’re you tubers now. Where would they find the time to play whole symphonies when making videos so often?
Steps to TwoSet answering questions: 1) Sarcastic answer 2) Joke at any instrument not violin 3) Nah, but seriously the answer is... *Gives comprehensive and interesting answer*
I feel bad for Editor-San because few weeks ago I commented about how she loves putting Prokofiev's 1st Symphony at the end, and ever since then she's changed music in each video... RESPECT for editor-san, expecially when she had to do the "O fortuna" with toys, or the 5th symphony...
Gergiev uses a toothpick because he lost a bet. He was so sure that he was right, that he said that if he's wrong he will conduct with a toothpick for the rest of his life. He lost. He once conducted with the back of a plastic spoon because he couldn't find a toothpick. My sister is at the mariinsky and apparently gergiev's hand movements are quite easy to understand when you're in the orchestra.
Can you offer a source? The only explanation I'd ever heard is that he prefers to conduct with his hands, but people criticized that he didn't use a baton, so he started using a toothpick instead.
“Because when there’s music there’s electricity and when there’s electricity you need to conduct it” *you can really tell he got an A+ in high school physics*
I'm still in my old school's chamber music orchestra and we had to do this once at a school festival because our conductor was busy conducting the brass orchestra on the other side of the school😂 but surprisingly it went pretty well.
We actually did that in choir both high school and college level (so prob common practice for voice?). It was really a unique way to manipulate the sound... with an entire orchestra??... epic?? 😉☺️👍
Question _liszt_ 0:13 : Why do orchestras need conductors? 3:26 : Why do orchestras tune to oboe? 4:06 : Why do orchestras tune to a440? 5:16 : Why do orchestras need sheet music? 6:26 :Do orchestral musicians get paid? 8:03 :Why are orchestras arranged the way they are? 9:57 : Why do orchestra conductors use batons? 11:24 :Why is the concertmaster -an- a violinist? 13:15 :Why does the conductor walk in and out so many times in a symphony concert? Best answers out there😎❤️
Any other person would have looked up the answers to the questions beforehand and presented it as one's own knowledge. But they admitted to not knowing the answers and looked it up on spot. Respect increased for that honesty.
What's wrong with looking it up beforehand? I'd rather people do that than try to make up something and that's nonsensical rather than admitting they don't know or to just look it up.
I know a girl that used to have a crush on my brother when he was senior year indeed... Seeing it from the outside is very *INTRESTING* especially for 3rd, 4th grade me at the time. But one thing I'll never get is how thirsty this community is for the two I mean I see nothing relationshipable about them But I won't start asking questions around so I'll never know.
10:00 In the Baroque period, the predecessor of the baton was a long conducting staff that would be struck on the floor on every beat to keep time for the orchestra. It all changed when composer Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) accidentally pierced the staff through his foot and later died from refusing to treat it.
Also, modern drum majors (sort of military conductors) use a mace or a staff when conducting. Same with the baroque-era staff they are inspired from the mehtaran (Ottoman military band), which traditionally uses such a staff for conducting.
A percussionist in a professional, well-known orchestra said in an interview that "the percussionists yield so much energy that if they came at the wrong time, they would blow up the entire performance. They could screw up their colleagues' hard work in a matter of time". Kind of imagine if the hammer blow in the Mahler 6 was late, man, the whole performance would suck.
I really like TwoSet because they roast fake classical performances and bad classical music depiction in mainstream media and give valuable information about classical music, while also being funny and entertaining at the same time.......Hope you guys have a long and successful career as RUclipsrs.......👍
The choir getting slower and slower because everyone waited for the moment to progress in the piece and it just gets relayed more and more. No conductor in sight to scream at them that they should stop falling asleep…
Or...even with a Conductor...the people who won't take their eyes off their music - even though they have been singing it for decades, and know it backwards and forwards - and never watch the Conductor, so no one ends at the same time.
9:15 I think it's for a few reasons. At the back, the back resonating walls help amplify the percussion section so that quiet notes will still have effect. Along with this, try to imagine setting up percussion anywhere else in the orchestra (or in a wind ensemble) and it working. Marimba, xylophone, snare drum, crash cymbals, bass drum, tam-tam, etc; percussion needs a LOT of horizontal space to move between instruments, especially for contemporary music.
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I'm so happy for you! I really want their merch,but my parents say that twoset apparel is too expensive,and that there's a site called redbubble where I can get their merch...........I'm in India,and I don't know about the authenticity of redbubble. Do you know anything about it,by any chance?
@@annapoornap5664 i mean yeah, there are some stuffs on redbubble, but its not their official merch, if u want it, u can go for it, but just that its not official twoset merch. twoset apparel is the only site of official merch. im from india too and its my bday in july, so they cant say no to me haha, even they said its expensive, but they also know how much i love twoset, so they'll buy me :) i hope u get yours too someday :) keep asking haha :) they'll agree :) ps: try it on your bday
@@ButterflyHeartFly i hope u get yours too really soon :) even my brother said that i should put that money in my music theory books, but i said no! XD i can buy the books anytime and im definitely going to get them in the future, but i can't replace merch for anything!!!!
Sorry guys, but the reason the Oboe is used to tune is not because of the penetrating sound, but because it has the most stable pitch of all instruments in the orchestra (supposedly). It's true that the volume also helps when an entire section is tuning, but if you wanted a penetrating sound, you would use a trumpet, or a flute; however, because of the overtones (harmonics)/color, it's harder for musicians to match their instruments to the correct pitch, because of the way the ear perceives it (kind of fluctuating between higher and lower). And yet, some wind ensembles will use the clarinet instead of the oboe to provide the reference pitch, but this could be because winds in general tune to a Bb, or F (because most of them are transposing instruments)
"Why are orchestras arranged the way they are?" To add a little to the answer, it actually didn't become standardized until the 20th century! Historical seating charts before 1900 are all over the place. For example, Brahms preferred to have the 1st and 2nd violins opposite each other, the violas in the center, and the cellos up on the risers next to the woodwinds. Even now, there are two common arrangements: 1st-2nd-viola-cello is still referred to in some parts of Europe as "American" seating because it originated in the US, and 1st and 2nd violins opposite one another is commonly called "Vienna" seating because it is used by the Vienna Philharmonic. The reason some orchestras prefer Vienna seating is that many composers like to pass melodic material back and forth between the 1st and 2nd violins, and putting them opposite each other creates an antiphonal effect where the audience hears the melody from the left, then from the right, then from the left, and so on.
I’m from Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. We have one of the very few youth symphonies that are completely free for all students, you just have to audition to get in. We’re able to join for free through donations and such, and it’s so cool. I really hope this kind of program can spread to other places as not everyone has that luxury.
@@sebbisdee2177 as a pianist I can tell you.. we don’t memorise “all the notes” (or at least people without perfect pitch like me lol) we have our muscle memories do the thing if anything xD
The conductor going on and off stage during applause is called a „curtain“ in lieu of a real curtain as there would be in the theater. Counting the curtains used to be an important measurement for the success of a performance. Like „Shostakovich‘s 4 th received 56 curtains“ (such numbers did happen!). So doing this is still relevant to give the applause phase of the concert a certain structure. It is the stages masters job (if there is one) to decide if to continue curtains.
I have a nagging suspicion that because conductors need to stand up all the time and they are often a bit older people, they've introduced this tradition of walking out just so they can sit down for a second.
I knew a pianist in my high school who memorized the sheet music for a musical. All the entrances. I had so much respect for her. (Esp after taking her place after she graduated; I tried playing for memory just for fun but it was impossible.)
I memorized basically the whole of my part in Handel's Messiah (as a soprano in a large community choir), but it wasn't exactly by choice! 😅 I had super-bad RSI/OOS in both arms at the time, so couldnt hold up the music book, and there simply wasn't enough space to wedge a music stand into that crowd of packed chairs... Would've been way harder to manage as an alto, tho! Thankfully, sopranos generally carry the melody line. This was also the era in which I typed out several uni papers on an electric typewriter using pencils held between my toes...🙄 The voice-to-speech software of that era was really crappy, so I kinda ran out of options! Let me highly recommend doing lots of stretches, & avoiding repetitive + heavy-lifting jobs if you possibly can!! 🤦🏻♀️
Really good answers. Conductors have to be able to read every orchestral part, rehearse with the orchestra, interpret the piece of music. They deserve every penny. Also, the oboe is usually the best paid member of the orchestra. My roommate at university was an oboist and it's an incredibly difficult instrument to learn. I'm a cellist and she would remark that I made funny faces when I practiced. I didn't tell her that she sometimes sounded like a duck when she practiced.
About the sheet music question, I realized the stark contrast between, as an Indian classical music artist, how much we guys play impromptu and how much Western classical musical artists have to play every single note perfectly. There is a very famous saying (translated): "The music isn't right or wrong until you show it's wrong." Most of our music, obviously it's not a huge ensemble like the orchestra, but still, even when we are playing together in massive groups, our second nature is to memorize rather than read from sheets of paper, because most of the music is built upon each other and made on-the-spot
The coming in n out thing happens on ballets as well. The curtains will raise and dancers will come back out to bow as long as the audiences are still clapping. This happens for as long as the people are clapping. Kinda like “these people won’t leave so let’s bow again to tell them we wanna go home” jk it’s to thank the audiences’ love and support. But it do get awkward coz when u bow audiences will start clapping again so its like an infinite loop
Oboe here! I’ve been told by my teachers that it’s actually kind of a gift from the orchestra because it’s difficult for us to tune 🤔 Its easier if everyone else matches to us. I think I like your Googled explanation more though.
Answering to "Why orchestra conductors use a baton?", the most common reason is because the baton imitates the bow of the string players (mostly violins) and the motion they do resembles the bowing so everyone is "synced", it's also more noticeable when there's a big orchestra. That's also the reason why choir conductors don't use one :)
And also said by another commenter: in the Baroque period the "conductor" used a staff and would strike it on the floor on beat but it ended when "Jean Baptiste Lully" Pierced his foot and later died due to him refusing to treat it.
And if I remember correctly Lully was one of the first to increase the size of an orchestra and was known for his "Vin quatre violons du roi" which translates to "24 king's violin"
Alternative title: The violin is great guys I'm here for Brett and Eddy educating us though. Plus Brett looking sharp in that shirt and Eddy with his new haircut.
I strongly believe that the official reason for using a baton is feeling like a wizard which is cooool Also be careful with this freaking thing last concert I had it slipped the conductor's hand and it landed on the violas during the concert😂
apparently Mahler was called back to the podium like 12 times after the premiere of his third symphony (my fav symphony btw) and there was a 15 minute standing ovation.
Interesting answer related to A440 - a concert pitch was actually in the Treaty of Versailles. Yes, WWI was fought primarily to bring forth the tuning of 440. Actually, the Treaty of Versailles states 435. But it was the first attempt at establishing the concert pitch. In 1936, the American Standards association selected A440 - Americans..... (Act of defiance against the Treaty of Versailles?) Prior to this point, tuning was established by the largest organ in town - because of all of the instruments in the orchestra, the hardest one to tune is an organ.
Once i had the experience when the conductor “lost” the tempo and the concertmaster immediately saved the whole orchestra and the choir. I was the singer and even the choir struggle to sing in tempo.
Orchestra tune to oboe because oboe can't manually adjust their intonation with a slider or button. So it's better for the rest of the orchestra to adjust for them.
Thank goodness - this is also what I was always taught to understand -- you tune to the oboe because it is so difficult for an oboe to tune itself. "Everybody match the oboe..."
I don't know what frequency they use, but the Vienna Philharmonic is notorious for tuning very high. Plus, the concertmaster and not the oboist plays the tuning note for the orchestra. I know a couple of RUclipsrs who will be delighted to hear that! And there has been a lot of change over the centuries. A friend of mine had been listening to a lot of baroque music recordings, then went to hear a concert where the group (not using historical instruments) played a piece in A major. It nearly drove him crazy because it sounded to him like B-flat major.
0:54 funny thing here. You literally have audible delay between two sides of an orcestra. So seeing the conductor will be how you actually keep time because using your ears will not really quite work.
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@Hamza Mzali come on
"Why do orchestras need sheet music?"
So that they can print it out on a shirt and wear it....
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And to be perfectly honest, professional musicians don't get a lot of rehearsal. Certainly not enough to memorise a whole symphony. I used to gig on cruise ships and I would literally get my music for the sound check and do the first show an hour later.
Love how the title specifies “ex-orchestral violinists” instead of “ex-orchestral musicians” because this video is peak violinist energy 😂
Really? They don't play in an orchestra anymore?
@@whoami6601 im pretty sure they’re soloists now or play in quartets, but im not sure
@@whoami6601 they’re not in any orchestras anymore as they’re you tubers now. Where would they find the time to play whole symphonies when making videos so often?
@@whoami6601 yea they quit their orchestra jobs in I think 2016? to become full time youtubers and do their own tours
@@澄-j4k Ah, I didn't know! Stumbled upon their channel just recently. Thanx for the info!
“Because when there’s music there’s electricity and when there’s electricity you have to conduct it”
*a truer word has not been spoken*
LMAO
Eddy chen master of words 😌
Hahaha, I understand now. Should make that my new bio
Two-Set PLEASE do a merch for that, I'd he the first one to buy it.
It actually is a good analogy
Steps to TwoSet answering questions:
1) Sarcastic answer
2) Joke at any instrument not violin
3) Nah, but seriously the answer is... *Gives comprehensive and interesting answer*
True😂😂
300th like pog
You forgot step 2.5: Go off-topic for a bit 😂
Hahahahah yes 😂😂
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Conductors are only there to keep the violinists and violists from fighting. That's why he has a stick.
And also throwing the stick at anyone that messes up
The stick is also used for executing the worst punishment ever...
*singling you out*
@@Megan4434 You win the Internet.
🤣
😂😂😂😂
This is a mix between twoset being serious and sarcastic at the same time
I’m terrible at sarcasm too, so I was stressed every time they started joking around! Hahaha 🤣
Ikr it’s perfect.
Editor-san saved them every time though.
So, pretty much like every other Twoset video, then?
Is it ever not?
Let’s appreciate that editor-San has to edit everyday 40 hours 🙌
RESPECT *1000*
@@samhan8016 YES
Respecc editor-san!
I feel bad for Editor-San because few weeks ago I commented about how she loves putting Prokofiev's 1st Symphony at the end, and ever since then she's changed music in each video... RESPECT for editor-san, expecially when she had to do the "O fortuna" with toys, or the 5th symphony...
A correcting, it should be editor-san "has" to edit everyday but yeah mad respect
Eddy:"Violinists have a lot of notes to remember".
Me, a pianist: *laughs quietly*
💯
Laughs in Liszt
Laughs in piano HOW DID YOU MISS THAT GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY 😂
#pianogang
I thought of that as a pianist
Someone: hey i have a question about orchestra
Twoset: go ahead
Someone: Why does-
Twoset: VIOLIN SUPERIOR
At least they are consistent in their response.
@@susanbryant6516 LoL true
EPIC! LOL.
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which makes them almost unqualified to answer non violinist questions esp the conductor ones
Gergiev uses a toothpick because he lost a bet. He was so sure that he was right, that he said that if he's wrong he will conduct with a toothpick for the rest of his life. He lost. He once conducted with the back of a plastic spoon because he couldn't find a toothpick.
My sister is at the mariinsky and apparently gergiev's hand movements are quite easy to understand when you're in the orchestra.
Ohmygod really?!?
Now I need to know what the bet was about
@@MsLm97 I believe there's a written interview somewhere where he talked about it, but I don't know if he actually revealed what the bet was
isn't it because he lost his grip oftenly and accidentally threw the baton when using it?
I can’t believe he respects the bet so much that he used a spoon
Can you offer a source? The only explanation I'd ever heard is that he prefers to conduct with his hands, but people criticized that he didn't use a baton, so he started using a toothpick instead.
"the more attractive instruments are in the front"
me a flute player: 😤
"flutes have a stand so you can see them more than the violas"
me: 😃
As a violist this makes me sad XD
Hey there Katie, love you and your vids
Flute gang 😍
the fact you wanted to be a viola and chose flute instead makes this funnier to me 🤣
Flutes are the most atractives 😍😍
“Because when there’s music there’s electricity and when there’s electricity you need to conduct it”
*you can really tell he got an A+ in high school physics*
I can imagine him getting A+ for literature instead, so metaphorical. 😂
what is my school broken we learned this in 5th grade 😭😭😭
If you can generate energy slowly, you can generate energy quickly
pretty sure the orchestra without a conductor would devolve into loud, angry wasp sounds within at least 30 seconds lol
Le dissonance
Sounds a lot like flight of the bumblebee speedruns
I dance flamenco (and play castanets while dancing), and this is what happens whenever we don't have thw music/our teacher clapping the tempo😂😂
So pretty much anything Iannis Xenakis has written then! 😂
I'm still in my old school's chamber music orchestra and we had to do this once at a school festival because our conductor was busy conducting the brass orchestra on the other side of the school😂 but surprisingly it went pretty well.
Eddy’s hairstyle is very confusing
He looks 12, and yet I know he’s in his late 20s
yeeees
It takes me back to the olden days of twoset
I love his hairstyle 🥰
@@saraadler9664 Yes, so do i😊
12?? Come on he looks at least 25, as he should
New Ling Ling Challenge: Randomly mix the orchestra so that the instruments are not devided by sections anymore and try to play together beautifully!
We actually did that in choir both high school and college level (so prob common practice for voice?). It was really a unique way to manipulate the sound... with an entire orchestra??... epic?? 😉☺️👍
oh we did that in my junior high and m an, talk about chaos at its finest
I think it's a great idea
To make it even harder, get rid of the conductor and make the person who happens to land in the concert master's seat the concert master
We actually tried that as an exercise to really concentrate on the parts of other sections. It was really instructive !
I remember once when our oboist was sick and I had to tune the orchestra as a flute. That was the loudest I’ve played in my entire life.
Wao
How was it XD
@@abigail40 it was kinda fun, but I was very glad when the oboe was back
@@CaoimheViola XD
Wao must hv been quite an experience ;v; I’ll never experience that I’m a violinist
@@abigail40 lucky! I always have to sit by myself ㅜ.ㅜ
@@CaoimheViola ooof the pain felt ;v;
Tho I don’t mind ever learning flute in my life o>O
Question _liszt_
0:13 : Why do orchestras need conductors?
3:26 : Why do orchestras tune to oboe?
4:06 : Why do orchestras tune to a440?
5:16 : Why do orchestras need sheet music?
6:26 :Do orchestral musicians get paid?
8:03 :Why are orchestras arranged the way they are?
9:57 : Why do orchestra conductors use batons?
11:24 :Why is the concertmaster -an- a violinist?
13:15 :Why does the conductor walk in and out so many times in a symphony concert?
Best answers out there😎❤️
Thank you!
Liszt...
I've been trying to question Liszt for quite some time.... 😎
@@politikilter6446 I thought there were no more necromancers left after the Purge
2:41 Eddy looks twice as big as Brett, looking like he could crush Brett like an ogre.
clicked faster than eddy could flex his perfect pitch
Wow, but Brett never flex his perfect pizz, why?😅
@@emilydeangelis5382 he does but eddy does more 😂
@@GrandNoteGallery Yes, at least once a month🤣
@@emilydeangelis5382 yeaa
That click was an F#
I like how they explain why conductor is needed but at the same time absolutely confident that everyone is familiar with the concept of concertmaster.
Any other person would have looked up the answers to the questions beforehand and presented it as one's own knowledge. But they admitted to not knowing the answers and looked it up on spot. Respect increased for that honesty.
What's wrong with looking it up beforehand? I'd rather people do that than try to make up something and that's nonsensical rather than admitting they don't know or to just look it up.
Brett looks SO FINE in that shirt!
I get you😍
ikr!
yes
Yes!
Eddy’s haircut plus his intelligence giving me that school senior you have a major crush on vibes 🥲
Eye glasses too ☺️
And that pen
Omg yes I’m now going to cry about the fact that I will never be able to have him brb
I know a girl that used to have a crush on my brother when he was senior year indeed...
Seeing it from the outside is very
*INTRESTING*
especially for 3rd, 4th grade me at the time.
But one thing I'll never get is how thirsty this community is for the two
I mean
I see nothing relationshipable about them
But
I won't start asking questions around so
I'll never know.
I meeeeeeean.... you aren't lying
please do most asked questions about Brett and Eddy next !
Yeah
Yes qna pls :)
Yeah like Wired Autocomplete
Yes spill the tea 👀
Oh yeah that would be so cool
10:00 In the Baroque period, the predecessor of the baton was a long conducting staff that would be struck on the floor on every beat to keep time for the orchestra. It all changed when composer Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) accidentally pierced the staff through his foot and later died from refusing to treat it.
arghhhhhhhhhhh nice
ah. classic jean-baptiste
I was hoping that they'd mention this so I'm glad I'm seeing it in the comments! I think he was in the Baroque era though.
@@monicazheng529 oh you’re totally right, my bad, I’ll fix it
Also, modern drum majors (sort of military conductors) use a mace or a staff when conducting. Same with the baroque-era staff they are inspired from the mehtaran (Ottoman military band), which traditionally uses such a staff for conducting.
Please do a "twosetviolin answers the most googled questions about twosetviolin"!!
SECONDED!!
this is actually a really cool idea!
boosting this
BOOST!!! :”]
Yess!!!!
"is this even english?"
I spit out my tea before Brett even opended his mouth hahaha
Man, every video I keep falling more in love with Editor-san
I love professors Chen and Yang, I adore them. This non-musician plebian appreciates your explanations
Ditto..
me: yeah i'll go to sleep, im sleepy
twoset: **posts**
me: maybe im not sleepy anymore
Sameeeee
I've never left twosetviolin so fast to watch a new twoset video
🤣🤣🤣
A percussionist in a professional, well-known orchestra said in an interview that "the percussionists yield so much energy that if they came at the wrong time, they would blow up the entire performance. They could screw up their colleagues' hard work in a matter of time". Kind of imagine if the hammer blow in the Mahler 6 was late, man, the whole performance would suck.
What orchestra?
I would really like to like your comment but it has 69 likes, and I just can't ruin that.
I always assumed that conductors use batons to secretly feel like wizards who magically make music, so it's nice to feel validated.
It's not supposed to be a secret. Their publicists want everybody to think they actually are wizards. (And indeed a few are.)
Brett smiling more just brights up my day
I really like TwoSet because they roast fake classical performances and bad classical music depiction in mainstream media and give valuable information about classical music, while also being funny and entertaining at the same time.......Hope you guys have a long and successful career as RUclipsrs.......👍
They also roast us violas😔 (just kidding of course, I know it's all in good fun)
As someone who's been singing a lot in choirs, I love the conductor question. Now I'll have nightmares about conductor-free concerts.
But don’t you find on the day of the concert the conductor forgets your existence?
The choir getting slower and slower because everyone waited for the moment to progress in the piece and it just gets relayed more and more. No conductor in sight to scream at them that they should stop falling asleep…
Or...even with a Conductor...the people who won't take their eyes off their music - even though they have been singing it for decades, and know it backwards and forwards - and never watch the Conductor, so no one ends at the same time.
9:15 I think it's for a few reasons. At the back, the back resonating walls help amplify the percussion section so that quiet notes will still have effect. Along with this, try to imagine setting up percussion anywhere else in the orchestra (or in a wind ensemble) and it working. Marimba, xylophone, snare drum, crash cymbals, bass drum, tam-tam, etc; percussion needs a LOT of horizontal space to move between instruments, especially for contemporary music.
not me thinking dads wouldn't drop a video tonight
Same
it’s currently the morning in America
omg lol same.
Ikr!
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“Because when there’s music there’s electricity and when there’s electricity you have to conduct it.”
Uh huh. Uh huh. *takes notes*
I love how twoset never run out of contents.
i learned more on this 15 min video than the 10 month long study of music in my zoom class
i finally talked with my mom for getting the merch!!!!! and guess what! she said yes!!!!!!!! it'll be the best birthday gift of my life!!!!!!! nooooooooo!!!!!!!! i'm screaming, jumping, dancing!!!!!! imagine my reaction when it'll be in my hands!!!!!!!!
my heartbeat is popping off!!!!!
yayyyyyyyy
I'm so happy for you! I really want their merch,but my parents say that twoset apparel is too expensive,and that there's a site called redbubble where I can get their merch...........I'm in India,and I don't know about the authenticity of redbubble. Do you know anything about it,by any chance?
@@annapoornap5664 i mean yeah, there are some stuffs on redbubble, but its not their official merch, if u want it, u can go for it, but just that its not official twoset merch. twoset apparel is the only site of official merch. im from india too and its my bday in july, so they cant say no to me haha, even they said its expensive, but they also know how much i love twoset, so they'll buy me :)
i hope u get yours too someday :)
keep asking haha :) they'll agree :)
ps: try it on your bday
I think I have seen you post on Reddit as well! Your excitement is infectious, very happy for you
@@Janina8134 ohh yess! hello lingling wannabe :)
@@ButterflyHeartFly i hope u get yours too really soon :) even my brother said that i should put that money in my music theory books, but i said no! XD i can buy the books anytime and im definitely going to get them in the future, but i can't replace merch for anything!!!!
Sorry guys, but the reason the Oboe is used to tune is not because of the penetrating sound, but because it has the most stable pitch of all instruments in the orchestra (supposedly). It's true that the volume also helps when an entire section is tuning, but if you wanted a penetrating sound, you would use a trumpet, or a flute; however, because of the overtones (harmonics)/color, it's harder for musicians to match their instruments to the correct pitch, because of the way the ear perceives it (kind of fluctuating between higher and lower). And yet, some wind ensembles will use the clarinet instead of the oboe to provide the reference pitch, but this could be because winds in general tune to a Bb, or F (because most of them are transposing instruments)
"Why are orchestras arranged the way they are?"
To add a little to the answer, it actually didn't become standardized until the 20th century! Historical seating charts before 1900 are all over the place. For example, Brahms preferred to have the 1st and 2nd violins opposite each other, the violas in the center, and the cellos up on the risers next to the woodwinds.
Even now, there are two common arrangements: 1st-2nd-viola-cello is still referred to in some parts of Europe as "American" seating because it originated in the US, and 1st and 2nd violins opposite one another is commonly called "Vienna" seating because it is used by the Vienna Philharmonic.
The reason some orchestras prefer Vienna seating is that many composers like to pass melodic material back and forth between the 1st and 2nd violins, and putting them opposite each other creates an antiphonal effect where the audience hears the melody from the left, then from the right, then from the left, and so on.
yeah. i was actually anticipating them to answer this. I read something about this before in our history class
This channel attracts me like magnets. Where my piano gang at?👀
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@@anaprado5271 😁
Here
Present!
Hehe the piano gang's here 😆
Eddy and Brett have been uploading a lot lately. Thank you very much! I love you two! 😘❤
Thank you twoset for Edu-ma-cating us ❤️
My crush on eddy was just started to calm but then he had a haircut and this video came out. I'm gonna die single.
Trueeee
I'm not even straight and I have a crush on Eddy now that he has a new haircut
I've been crushing on him for months, and I don't think I'm getting over it anytime soon.😔
Y’all need to chill.
I’m from Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. We have one of the very few youth symphonies that are completely free for all students, you just have to audition to get in. We’re able to join for free through donations and such, and it’s so cool. I really hope this kind of program can spread to other places as not everyone has that luxury.
Edu-ma-cate...
A new word I learned today
Violinist : "we have a lot of Notes, we need shee- "
Pianist who play a whole piano concerto : "oh."
I mean violinists that play violin concertos also memorise their music...
And likewise, rarely you see collaborative pianist play without sheet music
Yeah but solo pianists got to memorise double the notes than any other soloist
@@sebbisdee2177 as a pianist I can tell you.. we don’t memorise “all the notes” (or at least people without perfect pitch like me lol) we have our muscle memories do the thing if anything xD
@@lynnnalee9866 MUSCLE MEMORY HAS SAVED ME AND FAILED ME A LOT
Actually, memorizing a whole concerto is easier because you are always playing the main melody.
The conductor going on and off stage during applause is called a „curtain“ in lieu of a real curtain as there would be in the theater. Counting the curtains used to be an important measurement for the success of a performance. Like „Shostakovich‘s 4 th received 56 curtains“ (such numbers did happen!). So doing this is still relevant to give the applause phase of the concert a certain structure. It is the stages masters job (if there is one) to decide if to continue curtains.
"who looks at the percussion?" Excuse me?! Percussion is by far the most fun to watch!
Exactly!
TwoSet honestly makes great podcast content
Alternate title Twoset talking about how great the violin is for 15 minutes straight.
5:39 captions
"you're playing _pasta_ not the melody."
we have a new instrument to rival the mayonnaise
_Getting educated with professor Brett and Eddy_
I have a nagging suspicion that because conductors need to stand up all the time and they are often a bit older people, they've introduced this tradition of walking out just so they can sit down for a second.
I love how Editor san puts Minuet every time twoset explains something.
Alternative title: Eddy violently bullying percussion players, but based.
Can you do a most asked questions about twosetviolin next 😳
Violinists: "Let's look at this as cents per note"
Pianists: OKAY!
Brett's math ability: not being able to read numbers anymore XD
My 2 favorite music teachers
Fax XD
NGL every concert I’ve been to the Cellists are the most beautiful people. Like a bunch of glamorous secret agents all under cover.
Yessss we stan the mix between serious and educational and funny content
I knew a pianist in my high school who memorized the sheet music for a musical. All the entrances. I had so much respect for her. (Esp after taking her place after she graduated; I tried playing for memory just for fun but it was impossible.)
I memorized basically the whole of my part in Handel's Messiah (as a soprano in a large community choir), but it wasn't exactly by choice! 😅 I had super-bad RSI/OOS in both arms at the time, so couldnt hold up the music book, and there simply wasn't enough space to wedge a music stand into that crowd of packed chairs... Would've been way harder to manage as an alto, tho! Thankfully, sopranos generally carry the melody line.
This was also the era in which I typed out several uni papers on an electric typewriter using pencils held between my toes...🙄 The voice-to-speech software of that era was really crappy, so I kinda ran out of options!
Let me highly recommend doing lots of stretches, & avoiding repetitive + heavy-lifting jobs if you possibly can!! 🤦🏻♀️
12:46 "and the violence is the best most important instrument"
subtitle - san leaving cryptic codes
Really good answers. Conductors have to be able to read every orchestral part, rehearse with the orchestra, interpret the piece of music. They deserve every penny. Also, the oboe is usually the best paid member of the orchestra. My roommate at university was an oboist and it's an incredibly difficult instrument to learn. I'm a cellist and she would remark that I made funny faces when I practiced. I didn't tell her that she sometimes sounded like a duck when she practiced.
absolutely love the slightly longer videos
About the sheet music question, I realized the stark contrast between, as an Indian classical music artist, how much we guys play impromptu and how much Western classical musical artists have to play every single note perfectly. There is a very famous saying (translated): "The music isn't right or wrong until you show it's wrong." Most of our music, obviously it's not a huge ensemble like the orchestra, but still, even when we are playing together in massive groups, our second nature is to memorize rather than read from sheets of paper, because most of the music is built upon each other and made on-the-spot
The music note cover button down is just wonderful
A lot of people don't seem to consider that a large percentage of a conductor's work is done before the performance.
The coming in n out thing happens on ballets as well. The curtains will raise and dancers will come back out to bow as long as the audiences are still clapping. This happens for as long as the people are clapping. Kinda like “these people won’t leave so let’s bow again to tell them we wanna go home”
jk it’s to thank the audiences’ love and support. But it do get awkward coz when u bow audiences will start clapping again so its like an infinite loop
The conductor walks off of the stage, so often at the end of a concert so that he can check if the money has arrived at his bank account yet. 😂😂😂
Recorder Gang appreciates the use of Bach Brandenburg 4 in the background. Holla Recorder Gang!
I’ve already learned enough from twoset skits from like 2018 or 2019
Oboe here! I’ve been told by my teachers that it’s actually kind of a gift from the orchestra because it’s difficult for us to tune 🤔 Its easier if everyone else matches to us.
I think I like your Googled explanation more though.
I especially loved Eddy's description of conducting
This actually feels like a Master class by Eddy And Brett.....
4:02 Brass gang, we've been attacked. But he's not wrong
thank you Editor-San for this gold content, amazing
Not me watching Twoset every day and then feeling bad for not practicing but still not practicing
Answering to "Why orchestra conductors use a baton?", the most common reason is because the baton imitates the bow of the string players (mostly violins) and the motion they do resembles the bowing so everyone is "synced", it's also more noticeable when there's a big orchestra. That's also the reason why choir conductors don't use one :)
And also said by another commenter: in the Baroque period the "conductor" used a staff and would strike it on the floor on beat but it ended when "Jean Baptiste Lully"
Pierced his foot and later died due to him refusing to treat it.
And if I remember correctly Lully was one of the first to increase the size of an orchestra and was known for his "Vin quatre violons du roi" which translates to "24 king's violin"
Alternative title: The violin is great guys
I'm here for Brett and Eddy educating us though.
Plus Brett looking sharp in that shirt and Eddy with his new haircut.
And Eddy in the Venus shirt too!
@@susanbryant6516 controversial opinion: I'm not a big fan of the Venus shirt 😅 but yes Eddy does look good in it.
I strongly believe that the official reason for using a baton is feeling like a wizard which is cooool
Also be careful with this freaking thing last concert I had it slipped the conductor's hand and it landed on the violas during the concert😂
apparently Mahler was called back to the podium like 12 times after the premiere of his third symphony (my fav symphony btw) and there was a 15 minute standing ovation.
Interesting answer related to A440 - a concert pitch was actually in the Treaty of Versailles. Yes, WWI was fought primarily to bring forth the tuning of 440. Actually, the Treaty of Versailles states 435. But it was the first attempt at establishing the concert pitch. In 1936, the American Standards association selected A440 - Americans..... (Act of defiance against the Treaty of Versailles?) Prior to this point, tuning was established by the largest organ in town - because of all of the instruments in the orchestra, the hardest one to tune is an organ.
Once i had the experience when the conductor “lost” the tempo and the concertmaster immediately saved the whole orchestra and the choir. I was the singer and even the choir struggle to sing in tempo.
Orchestra tune to oboe because oboe can't manually adjust their intonation with a slider or button. So it's better for the rest of the orchestra to adjust for them.
yes!!!!! i was looking through the comments to see if someone wrote that
Thank goodness - this is also what I was always taught to understand -- you tune to the oboe because it is so difficult for an oboe to tune itself. "Everybody match the oboe..."
So thankful for these two here. Love you guys
I don't know what frequency they use, but the Vienna Philharmonic is notorious for tuning very high. Plus, the concertmaster and not the oboist plays the tuning note for the orchestra. I know a couple of RUclipsrs who will be delighted to hear that!
And there has been a lot of change over the centuries. A friend of mine had been listening to a lot of baroque music recordings, then went to hear a concert where the group (not using historical instruments) played a piece in A major. It nearly drove him crazy because it sounded to him like B-flat major.
Appreciated TW shown and explained the trade secret of Orchestral! Kindhearted! 😘🎉
ironically as an oboist i’ve always wondered why orchestras tune to the oboe
these are still my favourite kind of twoset video ^-^
4:12 The "WHAT" KILLED ME LMFAO
I know it’s been quite a while but every time I pop in twoset new vids I be like:
DAMN EDDY’S HAIRCUT🔥
Let us please appreciate Brett's shirt
Heart this and i will again start playing mine 6 months untouched violin chan.
Can't believe they put Croatian Baroque Ensemble as an example😍 #gocroatia 🇭🇷🇭🇷
We have to be proud of our musicians!
0:54 funny thing here. You literally have audible delay between two sides of an orcestra. So seeing the conductor will be how you actually keep time because using your ears will not really quite work.