Thank YOU< dear May Xanh!:) Enjoy plaing this most beautiful, romantic piece! I have loved it all my life! And thank you so much for writing! Please stay in touch!
I started to learn playing piano after 41 years old and I am studying this piece at the moment. I loved your playing and especially the way you express the emotion of the parts..💕
Thank you ever so much Elif! I just love this beautiful waltz! I'm so happy that you are playing it! You are now at intermediate level and an ocean of beautiful music has opened up for you to play. This is your just reward for starting piano at 41 and persevering. God bless you! Now enjoy your reward! You will find lots of Intermediate level pieces on my more recent videos:) Thank you for watching and subscribing, and above all, thank you for your comment!!:)
Thank you so much, dear Panos !:) (Add an I after P and your name would be Pianos !:) I love your name. I wish it were mine!:) Please leave comments on videos your like and also suggestions on how I can make my channel more useful to YOU personally. I look forward to hearing from you :)
@@pianolessonsboulder1894 hahaha I have never thought of that with my name.It is a Greek name,by the way. I will watch your videos because I find your playing amazing. ohhhh I just wish I could play like that... I also like the sound of your piano. It has something in it like an old fine whiskey unlike the modern pianos which sound to my amateur ears at least with a much brighter sound.
So beautiful. I never heard that piece before. Your hands create magic on that keyboard. I’d love to hear more of your life story someday. Have a great day beautiful lady. 💕
What impressed me when listening to this piece is that it starts with a V chord, so initially you'd think its in major (I), And from this perspective you'd expect the major scale and chords, but it quickly goes to a minor iv (which is really the tonic minor i), and the melody hits that minor 6th scale degree (which in reality is the minor 3rd scale degree). And the next "shocker" is when the melody is revealing the b2 (flat 2 degree) which in reality its just the minor 6th degree playing over the subdominant section. Anyways, that first chord/harmony is doing the trick of this whole harmonic shifting / reinterpretation. And the complementing theme/section where it goes to the major/happy part feels nice, both harmonically, and its decent from the perspective of rhythm. Because it ends on the beat 4 of the measure (of the hyper-measure, because this is where the melody is placed), while the initial tune was ending on the normal beat 3. And it also changes by placing the middle point between the "start" and the "stop" of the musical sentence. (while the initial theme had this middle point (the "and1" as I call it) excluded, so it feels refreshing that it "straightens the syncopation" in this aspect, but then tricking you by delaying the "stop" of the phrase - so revealing its own syncopation).
WOW! Hats off to you, Theoretically Dan, and a deep bow! You are aptly named ! I have always enjoyed the beauty of this waltz, without seeing a fraction of the harmonic complexities that you have revealed with your deep knowledge of music theory. If Ivanovici were alive to0day, he too would have appreciated your letter very much, as will all those who read it. Thank you for writing !:) You are quite a music theory wizard! Your love and passion for music theory make me hope that you teach!
@@pianolessonsboulder1894 Thank you. By the way, "Your love and passion for music theory make me hope that you teach!" is one the most spiritual statements i've heard. Let me do a short "score analysis" since you're the composer of the phrase. I like that you wrote "love and passion". I'm Romanian and we have 2 words for love, making a distinction between the spiritual love (which is really identifying with someone, thus a form of altruism), and material/biological love meaning to want someone as your mate or to pair with something, thus a selfish or at least egocentric impulse (nevertheless much needed for the "hardware support" that is our natural bodies). There's a lot of this spiritual identifying going on in your statement since there's no personal gain for you if I help people learn music. If anything that would be a competition to you. But "you" seems to represent the interest of the people more than you personally. This also shows / contains the knowledge that children spot what other people are passionate about and then adopt the passion, thus continuing it. (otherwise, they spot the "I'm your teacher and I tell you what to do" situation, from which they mainly learn the pleasure of being a boss/giving orders). Anyways, putting aside my admiration for your spirituality, I'm not a teacher, nor do I have any formal music training. I like music a lot, played with music creation software, but I'm not too talented at melody, so I focused on understanding how it works by making my own theories. Regarding instruments, i didn't got to play too much with them, but I did made some controversial theories which possibly come into conflict with the general theory. For example I'm not a fan of using a metronome to increase speed, since (I think) speed comes from a detailed understanding of what is played. So this means playing at an extremely slow tempo until the details become an automatism (played unconsciously). Also I'm not a fan of technical exercises - with meaningless harmony because there's a lot of harmonic knowledge which is also technically challenging, and by passing through it slowly - because of the harmonic aspect, you automatically "assimilate" the technical/movement part. (though you still have to be aware and make sure to play correctly). Again I'm fairly new to playing the piano keyboard so I shouldn't speculate too much, but I get a feeling that there isn't really a hand independence like the name suggests. Its not like one hand is controlled by a separate part of the brain. Instead, I view it just like it's written on a piano roll, or a music score. Meaning as a rhythm pattern combining 2 hands. Thus even if I improvise melodies with the right hand, I still imagine the outcome of the improvisation together with the left hand accompaniment, not "independently". Speaking of imagining the outcome, I also find it interesting that its easier to sing in tune when doing silly voices. At least this works for me. I think there's a trap in recalling a recording of the melody which you sing (with your voice). This could lead people to sing in an uncomfortable octave, or even worse, they know an upcoming part is very high and they settle at singing the fifth (because its somewhat manageable by their voice and it feels in harmony). But of course they soon realize they have to tweak the intervals in order to stay in key or sing a false melody line. So I guess ideally we should imagine the next notes the way it would sound sung by us. Anyways, enough speculation for one comment. 😂 All the best.
My Dear TeoreticallyDan, How wonderful that you are Romanian! Romanians are the most gifted natural musicians in the world. Nine years ago, a Romanian mother brought her eight year old daughter to me for piano lessons. I saw at once how musically gifted she was. She is now 17 and she loves music and playing the piano. At 14 she went boy crazy, and right now music and piano playing is the only good, positive beautiful thing in her life. She has passed all the examinations of the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto with Distinction and I am currently preparing her for her degree exam :) You have raised so many interesting points in your reply, that I an only address one of them now (but will address the others, one by one, later). And that is what you wrote about Love. In Latin there are three words for love. The first is Agape. That is the most unselfish form of love. For example, what parents feel for their children, or Mother Theresa, or dedicated teachers etc. That is, as you said, wanting nothing in return. That also includes the love that God (or jesus, or whoever you believe in) feels for us. The second is Philia of brotherly Love. It includes Friendship Love and love for kindred souls, like between you and me. It is two people walking side by side and looking at and enjoying the same things together. The third is the most dangerous form of love. Sometimes it is even lethal. resulting in suicide or murder. It is called Eros. Romantic Love. It includes a desire to touch the other, and a longing for the other, (Sehnsuchend in German - Searching to See the other) and physical union with the other. But it also is the source of grear Music, poetry and Literature. For instance, Schumann's great Fanatasie (Opus 17) in which he pours out his longing for Clara, or Eichendorf's Dichterliebe (A Poet's Love) or Dumas (fils) l "La Dame au Camelias" So you are very right in distibguishing Unselfish Love ( the first two = Agape and Philia) from Possessive Love or Romantic Love (Eros). But let us also remember that we all experiences Eros when we were young !:) Which of us has never been "in love"? And let us also remember that much great Art would never have seen the light of day if their creators had not experienced the fierce and the terrible power of Eros. One last word - the opposite of Eros is Thanatos ( Emptiness, ) perhaps you and I now experience Eros for the piano and for Music ? :)
@@pianolessonsboulder1894 I admit I have trouble seeing Philia as a meaningful category. I'm mainly distinguishing between spiritual and material. By spiritual I mean virtual - just like a software that runs on multiple hardware units. (Thus I consider God to be the Human Spirit, which runs on (multiple) human brains. This also makes sense scientifically, because the Universe started with simple matter which gathered to form complex mater, then what appears to be life (but its still physics/chemistry. Humans have replicated simple life in the lab). < This would be the "Universe 2.0", but and when life evolved into humans, they gathered to form the human spirit, thus the "Universe 3.0) - virtual entities. We haven't evolved mentally for at least 30 000 years, yet we're not living in caves. This is NOT natural anymore.. nature works through natural selection ..and no monkey would fly to the Moon using natural evolution. (This requires "extra-natural" aka spiritual development). But because the word spirit sounds hocus-pocus (the bible says that the spirit of god was floating above the waters.. that's clearly a material entity regardless if it has power to transport/change forms/etc), I should give a simple example of a spirit, like the spirit of the law. Because it doesn't reside in the letter of the law (one can follow the letter and still act against the spirit), it resides in the (human) reader). One interesting thing I noticed about friends is that they are physically compatible - the way lovers attract each other. One is tall and skinny and the other is short and fat, etc. So there's a biological attraction going on, even if it doesn't go into sexuality. Just like marriage/relationships it works by people having the same values (or goals), but contrasting/compatible qualities in order to get there. This is where US movies get it wrong.. they see skinny guy with glasses and they think his soulmate is a skinny girl with glasses (not even realizing the obvious, the last thing you want is someone with the same flaws). While the material part is identifying with the genes or at least with your own persona. Thus one would identify with one's children, parents, extended family, ethnicity, race, nation. You can see how this is leading to the conflicts / wars. But a mother might lack any spiritual development and see the child only as an extension of her genes, ignoring the psyche - the fact that he's his own person, thus become controlling, etc (a negative mother). So for me, ultimately it comes down to having spirituality vs lack of spirituality. I do agree at one point that music comes from Eros, but not necessarily in the sense that we fall in love and make art about it. I'm afraid art itself is a mating language. All those intelligent things that the melody is doing, is making us want to pair up with it. Even if that's indirectly, I still categorize it as part of the mating system, or at least at the material level. A boy doesn't have sex with a car, but he can pair up with it if he things that would increase his chances of mating (you can replace the car with shoes, dresses, going to fancy locations, etc.. They have nothing to do with spirituality but rather self promotion). Practically even if I hear a piece of music that I wrote, thus it represents an emotional part of me, I simply think "Ok, I was happy then". Or sad/etc. But I don't listen to it if it doesn't have some intelligent aspect of the form. (I'm not sure in English how to translate "forma versus fond" like the visible form versus the idea behind that art-form). But since I'm "TheoreticallyDan" even in music, - i'm interested in the theory behind music (thus i'm interested in the potential of what music can be), you might be more on the Eros side compared to me. 😁
You are quite right :) Artists are intense. To master the unruly torrent of life, the saint meditates, the artist quivers. Thank you so much for writing ! You can write to me at my personal email address nostalgic21@comcast.net on all NON-musical matters.Thank you :)
Brilliantly done. It’s a beautiful piece of music. Thank you for sharing your video with us.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊 Patrick from Canada.
Thank you, dear Patrick from Canada! :) You made my day!!:) Wish you happy piano playing!:)
Nghe bản " sóng Danuyp " này tôi có cảm giác rất đặc biệt, và sống động 😍😘💝❤🌞
Thank you so much for your tutorial.
Thank YOU< dear May Xanh!:) Enjoy plaing this most beautiful, romantic piece! I have loved it all my life! And thank you so much for writing! Please stay in touch!
Thank you for your wonderful stories and insightful tutorial on this beautiful waltz.
Thank you for the precious feedback :) it encourages me to keep working :)
I started to learn playing piano after 41 years old and I am studying this piece at the moment. I loved your playing and especially the way you express the emotion of the parts..💕
Thank you ever so much Elif! I just love this beautiful waltz! I'm so happy that you are playing it! You are now at intermediate level and an ocean of beautiful music has opened up for you to play. This is your just reward for starting piano at 41 and persevering. God bless you! Now enjoy your reward! You will find lots of Intermediate level pieces on my more recent videos:) Thank you for watching and subscribing, and above all, thank you for your comment!!:)
I am currently studying this waltz and this is a beautiful tutorial, showing the real beauty of the piece!
Thank you, Maggie :) Wish you a lifetime of beautiful hours with this waltz :)
What a wonderful performance of this beautiful Waltz.I really loved it :) 👏👏👏
Thank you so much, dear Panos !:) (Add an I after P and your name would be Pianos !:) I love your name. I wish it were mine!:) Please leave comments on videos your like and also suggestions on how I can make my channel more useful to YOU personally. I look forward to hearing from you :)
@@pianolessonsboulder1894 hahaha I have never thought of that with my name.It is a Greek name,by the way.
I will watch your videos because I find your playing amazing.
ohhhh I just wish I could play like that...
I also like the sound of your piano.
It has something in it like an old fine whiskey unlike the modern pianos which sound to my amateur ears at least with a much brighter sound.
So beautiful. I never heard that piece before. Your hands create magic on that keyboard. I’d love to hear more of your life story someday. Have a great day beautiful lady. 💕
Dear Soulful Spinning, I am so happy that you too love this romantic walzt! I have loved it all my life!:) Enjoy playing it !!:)
What impressed me when listening to this piece is that it starts with a V chord, so initially you'd think its in major (I), And from this perspective you'd expect the major scale and chords, but it quickly goes to a minor iv (which is really the tonic minor i), and the melody hits that minor 6th scale degree (which in reality is the minor 3rd scale degree).
And the next "shocker" is when the melody is revealing the b2 (flat 2 degree) which in reality its just the minor 6th degree playing over the subdominant section.
Anyways, that first chord/harmony is doing the trick of this whole harmonic shifting / reinterpretation.
And the complementing theme/section where it goes to the major/happy part feels nice, both harmonically, and its decent from the perspective of rhythm. Because it ends on the beat 4 of the measure (of the hyper-measure, because this is where the melody is placed), while the initial tune was ending on the normal beat 3. And it also changes by placing the middle point between the "start" and the "stop" of the musical sentence. (while the initial theme had this middle point (the "and1" as I call it) excluded, so it feels refreshing that it "straightens the syncopation" in this aspect, but then tricking you by delaying the "stop" of the phrase - so revealing its own syncopation).
WOW! Hats off to you, Theoretically Dan, and a deep bow! You are aptly named ! I have always enjoyed the beauty of this waltz, without seeing a fraction of the harmonic complexities that you have revealed with your deep knowledge of music theory. If Ivanovici were alive to0day, he too would have appreciated your letter very much, as will all those who read it. Thank you for writing !:) You are quite a music theory wizard! Your love and passion for music theory make me hope that you teach!
@@pianolessonsboulder1894 Thank you.
By the way, "Your love and passion for music theory make me hope that you teach!" is one the most spiritual statements i've heard. Let me do a short "score analysis" since you're the composer of the phrase.
I like that you wrote "love and passion". I'm Romanian and we have 2 words for love, making a distinction between the spiritual love (which is really identifying with someone, thus a form of altruism), and material/biological love meaning to want someone as your mate or to pair with something, thus a selfish or at least egocentric impulse (nevertheless much needed for the "hardware support" that is our natural bodies).
There's a lot of this spiritual identifying going on in your statement since there's no personal gain for you if I help people learn music. If anything that would be a competition to you. But "you" seems to represent the interest of the people more than you personally.
This also shows / contains the knowledge that children spot what other people are passionate about and then adopt the passion, thus continuing it. (otherwise, they spot the "I'm your teacher and I tell you what to do" situation, from which they mainly learn the pleasure of being a boss/giving orders).
Anyways, putting aside my admiration for your spirituality, I'm not a teacher, nor do I have any formal music training. I like music a lot, played with music creation software, but I'm not too talented at melody, so I focused on understanding how it works by making my own theories.
Regarding instruments, i didn't got to play too much with them, but I did made some controversial theories which possibly come into conflict with the general theory.
For example I'm not a fan of using a metronome to increase speed, since (I think) speed comes from a detailed understanding of what is played. So this means playing at an extremely slow tempo until the details become an automatism (played unconsciously).
Also I'm not a fan of technical exercises - with meaningless harmony because there's a lot of harmonic knowledge which is also technically challenging, and by passing through it slowly - because of the harmonic aspect, you automatically "assimilate" the technical/movement part. (though you still have to be aware and make sure to play correctly).
Again I'm fairly new to playing the piano keyboard so I shouldn't speculate too much, but I get a feeling that there isn't really a hand independence like the name suggests. Its not like one hand is controlled by a separate part of the brain.
Instead, I view it just like it's written on a piano roll, or a music score. Meaning as a rhythm pattern combining 2 hands. Thus even if I improvise melodies with the right hand, I still imagine the outcome of the improvisation together with the left hand accompaniment, not "independently".
Speaking of imagining the outcome, I also find it interesting that its easier to sing in tune when doing silly voices. At least this works for me. I think there's a trap in recalling a recording of the melody which you sing (with your voice). This could lead people to sing in an uncomfortable octave, or even worse, they know an upcoming part is very high and they settle at singing the fifth (because its somewhat manageable by their voice and it feels in harmony). But of course they soon realize they have to tweak the intervals in order to stay in key or sing a false melody line.
So I guess ideally we should imagine the next notes the way it would sound sung by us.
Anyways, enough speculation for one comment. 😂
All the best.
My Dear TeoreticallyDan, How wonderful that you are Romanian! Romanians are the most gifted natural musicians in the world. Nine years ago, a Romanian mother brought her eight year old daughter to me for piano lessons. I saw at once how musically gifted she was. She is now 17 and she loves music and playing the piano. At 14 she went boy crazy, and right now music and piano playing is the only good, positive beautiful thing in her life.
She has passed all the examinations of the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto with Distinction and I am currently preparing her for her degree exam :)
You have raised so many interesting points in your reply, that I an only address one of them now (but will address the others, one by one, later).
And that is what you wrote about Love.
In Latin there are three words for love.
The first is Agape. That is the most unselfish form of love. For example, what parents feel for their children, or Mother Theresa, or dedicated teachers etc. That is, as you said, wanting nothing in return. That also includes the love that God (or jesus, or whoever you believe in) feels for us.
The second is Philia of brotherly Love. It includes Friendship Love and love for kindred souls, like between you and me. It is two people walking side by side and looking at and enjoying the same things together.
The third is the most dangerous form of love. Sometimes it is even lethal. resulting in suicide or murder. It is called Eros. Romantic Love. It includes a desire to touch the other, and a longing for the other, (Sehnsuchend in German - Searching to See the other) and physical union with the other.
But it also is the source of grear Music, poetry and Literature. For instance, Schumann's great Fanatasie (Opus 17) in which he pours out his longing for Clara, or Eichendorf's Dichterliebe (A Poet's Love) or Dumas (fils) l "La Dame au Camelias"
So you are very right in distibguishing Unselfish Love ( the first two = Agape and Philia) from Possessive Love or Romantic Love (Eros). But let us also remember that we all experiences Eros when we were young !:) Which of us has never been "in love"? And let us also remember that much great Art would never have seen the light of day if their creators had not experienced the fierce and the terrible power of Eros.
One last word - the opposite of Eros is Thanatos ( Emptiness, ) perhaps you and I now experience Eros for the piano and for Music ? :)
@@pianolessonsboulder1894 I admit I have trouble seeing Philia as a meaningful category. I'm mainly distinguishing between spiritual and material. By spiritual I mean virtual - just like a software that runs on multiple hardware units. (Thus I consider God to be the Human Spirit, which runs on (multiple) human brains.
This also makes sense scientifically, because the Universe started with simple matter which gathered to form complex mater, then what appears to be life (but its still physics/chemistry. Humans have replicated simple life in the lab). < This would be the "Universe 2.0", but and when life evolved into humans, they gathered to form the human spirit, thus the "Universe 3.0) - virtual entities. We haven't evolved mentally for at least 30 000 years, yet we're not living in caves. This is NOT natural anymore.. nature works through natural selection ..and no monkey would fly to the Moon using natural evolution. (This requires "extra-natural" aka spiritual development).
But because the word spirit sounds hocus-pocus (the bible says that the spirit of god was floating above the waters.. that's clearly a material entity regardless if it has power to transport/change forms/etc), I should give a simple example of a spirit, like the spirit of the law. Because it doesn't reside in the letter of the law (one can follow the letter and still act against the spirit), it resides in the (human) reader).
One interesting thing I noticed about friends is that they are physically compatible - the way lovers attract each other. One is tall and skinny and the other is short and fat, etc. So there's a biological attraction going on, even if it doesn't go into sexuality. Just like marriage/relationships it works by people having the same values (or goals), but contrasting/compatible qualities in order to get there.
This is where US movies get it wrong.. they see skinny guy with glasses and they think his soulmate is a skinny girl with glasses (not even realizing the obvious, the last thing you want is someone with the same flaws).
While the material part is identifying with the genes or at least with your own persona. Thus one would identify with one's children, parents, extended family, ethnicity, race, nation. You can see how this is leading to the conflicts / wars.
But a mother might lack any spiritual development and see the child only as an extension of her genes, ignoring the psyche - the fact that he's his own person, thus become controlling, etc (a negative mother).
So for me, ultimately it comes down to having spirituality vs lack of spirituality.
I do agree at one point that music comes from Eros, but not necessarily in the sense that we fall in love and make art about it. I'm afraid art itself is a mating language.
All those intelligent things that the melody is doing, is making us want to pair up with it. Even if that's indirectly, I still categorize it as part of the mating system, or at least at the material level. A boy doesn't have sex with a car, but he can pair up with it if he things that would increase his chances of mating (you can replace the car with shoes, dresses, going to fancy locations, etc.. They have nothing to do with spirituality but rather self promotion).
Practically even if I hear a piece of music that I wrote, thus it represents an emotional part of me, I simply think "Ok, I was happy then". Or sad/etc. But I don't listen to it if it doesn't have some intelligent aspect of the form. (I'm not sure in English how to translate "forma versus fond" like the visible form versus the idea behind that art-form).
But since I'm "TheoreticallyDan" even in music, - i'm interested in the theory behind music (thus i'm interested in the potential of what music can be), you might be more on the Eros side compared to me. 😁
You are quite right :) Artists are intense. To master the unruly torrent of life, the saint meditates, the artist quivers. Thank you so much for writing ! You can write to me at my personal email address
nostalgic21@comcast.net
on all NON-musical matters.Thank you :)
I hear this music in my dreams!
Then you must have beautiful dreams :)
WOW!! So cool
Thank you !!!:) I love this piece! I hope that you have a wonderful time playing it!:)
Nice Teacher.
Why, Lonely Guitar, Thank you !!:) What a lovely thing to say! You made my day! Wish you happy piano playing :)
what a beautiful lady
And what a beautiful soul YOU are :) Thank you :) Keep playing the piano and thank you for watching my videos:)👌💖👍👍😊❤💕🌹
I like the unhurried tempo.
Thank you!:)