Beethoven, Symphony 5, 1st movement
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2009
- Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony 5, first movement, with a graphical score.
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Q: Where can I get free sheet music for this piece?
A: Here:
tinyurl.com/beetop67
Q: What do the colors in the bar-graph score mean?
A: The colors show which instruments are playing. Here's a chart:
www.musanim.com/pdf/Instrument...
Q: How did you make this video?
A: There were a lot of steps; here's a short summary. I found a recording I could license and made the arrangements to use it. I found a MIDI file that was fairly complete, and imported that into the notation program Sibelius. I compared it to a printed copy of the score from my library and fixed things that were wrong (b5_fullscore.pdf is a snapshot taken during this process; note that there was a piano part in the MIDI file --- not something in the real score). Then, I listened to the recording and compared that to the score, and modified the score so that the timings were more like what the orchestra was actually playing (see b5_timings_adjusted.pdf). I exported this as a MIDI file and ran it through my custom frame-rendering software. Then, I made a "reduction" of the score (b5_reduction.pdf) and colored it to match the colors I was planning to use in the bar-graph score (b5_reduction_color.pdf). Unfortunately, when I squished the bar-graph score enough to make room for the notation score, too much detail was lost, so I ended up deciding not to use the notation. Then I put all the pieces (rendered frames, audio, titles) together in Adobe Premiere and exported the movie as a QuickTime file. Then, I used On2 Flix to convert the final file into Flash format (so that RUclips's conversion to their Flash format wouldn't change it in unpredictable ways), and uploaded the result. The PDFs mentioned in this description are in this ZIP file:
www.musanim.com/pdf/b5_scores.zip
Q: You seem to have uploaded many versions of this piece ... what's going on?
A: I started out with this one in 2009:
• Beethoven, Symphony 5,...
When RUclips supported higher resolution videos, I did a remake:
• Video
Then, I started experimenting with other graphics; this one uses a fisheye effect:
• Beethoven, 5th Symphon...
This one shows dynamics, using an "egg" design:
• Beethoven, 5th Symphon...
This one shows dynamics, using a "triangle" (rhombus) design:
• Beethoven, Symphony 5,...
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I have been making youtube videos on my youtube channel.
I loved watching this because you can actually _see_ how complex this piece is. It has made me more grateful for this music ^.^
Rebbie Ada that's what I've always said about games like Rock Band. I was always a major Beatles fan ever since I heard Sgt Pepper's and Abbey Road as a young teenager, but 5 years later when the Beatles RB game came out, I could appreciate the arrangements so much more vividly with both senses. Great experience :)
same here!!😃
Try looking at the sheet music for this piece instead.
Complex = good.
this is also a very great performance of this movement and somehow the visualization helps you hear the textures and layers to the sound.
This is his 5th symphony. The roman numeral for 5 is "V". In morse code, "V" is • • • -. That's how this piece starts!!
Cool fact:
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, 1808
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._5_(Beethoven)
Morse Code, 1836
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code
Do you have any evidence that a code system invented prior to Morse Code assigned • • • - to the letter V? Everything I've ever seen has said that it's either a coincidence, or that Morse chose the code based on Beethoven. (www.cmuse.org/beethovens-fifth-symphony-and-morse-code/) Why would Beethoven's audience be "well versed in morse code" decades before Morse developed the telegraph? It sounds to me like you're just making stuff up.
Did you not see this in the Wikipedia article for Morse Code: Some thirty years after this piece was written, the rhythm of the opening phrase - "dit-dit-dit-dah" - was used for the letter "V" in Morse code, though this is probably also coincidental."
smalin It's just what my music history teacher/phd said. Maybe he was wrong. haha :)
Yes, upon further review, it appears you are definitely right. I'll tell him and see what he says!
There, I have changed my comment only to include the cool thing and not what my professor told me. Sorry if I offended you.
Many people don't understand how beautiful this is. As I commented on one video before, all his music is so deep and filled with feelings of joy and sorrow... So beautiful.
It's amazing how seeing the graph allows me to hear each note better. Outstanding!
I'm so glad you find it helpful. This is why musicians enjoy following scores when they listen to music.
That is brilliant. It really helps you appreciate how complex that piece is and how talented Beethoven was.
Listening to this for music appreciation and Beethoven really popped off with this one it's a banger
real bc same
Notice the Contrast at 0:50 this rapid Moodchange brings so many Emotions into this Masterpiece. OMFG it's just AAAAaaammaaaazzzing!!!!!!!!
I love how you can see all the various parts of the piece. It's so amazing that a human being can create something so perfect!
The most famous and one of the best pieces by Beethoven. Amazing!
This is arguably one of the highest, if not the highest at all, musical expressions of the Western civilisation.
European.
no fisheye effect. no fancy obfuscation. pure visualization. that's the way you do it.
This is a whole new way to listen to music.
Fantastic .
You can get deep inside the rhythm and the harmony.
now go look at his whole back catalog. you're going to enjoy yourself
@@RIXRADvidz
I'm humming along to the bass lines.
Fun.
This is an incredible graphic to accompany the music. Bravo!
The complexity and beauty of this music is truly astounding. It's baffling that some people can't appreciate this amazing piece. Great work putting together the animation as well. It goes very well with the piece.
Listening could be considered a skill or talent with many components, that varies in individuals with a number of factors, and one that can be refined and enhanced through practice, chemistry, etc. And yes -- Beethoven kicked ass and took names. The climaxes following 06:09 are awe-inspiring.
This is one of my favorite video's from this series, it's just as simple and determined as the movement itself
Nothing can describe how much great this orchestra is!
I have enjoyed this for so many years. Just returned to it again, and it's like an old friend. Genius work, Smalin!
This is my favorite symphony. The fall and rise is so interesting. Awesome watching the video and seeing the colors light up. 🎷🎸🎹🎺🎻🎤🎼♪♫♬♩🎶🎵📯
This is honestly my absolute favorite version of this song. Great work, Smalin!
It's not a song. It's perhaps the greatest symphony of the Western culture :)
Graphical score! What a great idea to show the complexity, intricacy, number of different instruments - alignment and speed needed for perfect harmony. Genius.
What's amazing is the fact that Beethoven was completely deaf, and yet he wrote some of the most beautiful compositions ever in the history of music.
I would put it differently: some people are amazed by the fact that musicians can hear music in their heads by looking at a score (the same way that non-musicians can hear poetry in their head when they read it). Beethoven often wrote music away from the piano (before he lost his hearing), and so did many other composers. Not being able to imagine what written music sounds like (without hearing it being played) is the same kind of limitation for a composer that not being able to imagine what words mean (without hearing them read aloud) would be for a writer.
@@smalin Anyway, Beethoven's hearing started to deteriorate in 1801 when he was 31; in 1804, when he started to compose the 5th, he had hints of deafness but wasn't completely deaf; actually there are account that the almost total loss of hearing was around 1814-16, so he could hear when he composed the 5th. He was pratically deaf when he composed the 9th, rather, though he was never completely deaf, keeping a small bit of hearing.
"Great", is such a small word for compliment. What a tremendous visual presentation of greatest composition ever in the history of mankind. Thanks. May your creativity flourish and lives on!
irfan khan :)
Thank you so much for posting this. Very exciting to see such an amazing work graphically depicted this way. Made my morning.
Oh my word, so this my assignment for the week. i have listened to this before now i have to say somrthing about it
This is a great video because you can see all the notes.
I love the video......what a great way to visually represent the unbelievable complexity of the music.
overwhelming... this sound ran unfiltered through my body and actually put two tears in my eyes...
Thank you so much !! this really help to understand the complexity of this masterpiece and what a genius he was...
This is how I listen to music. I hear all the layers. It's so colorful !
Colourful literally?
yes colorfullll......
Do you mean figuratively, or do you actually see music as colour?
I mean it figuratively. I don't know what other way to explain it. Not trying to sound like a weirdo lol.
Lol, don't be daft, you said it fine, I just wanted to clarify. I thought you might have had a form of synesthesia, and that that was why you described it as colourful. My bad. :P
enjoyed the animations. Bet it was a LOT of work to get it all syncranized . good work and good music
Work? Yes ... it's my life's work ...
BEAST OF A TUNE. What a fucking drop. Beethoven's the OG
Dude, Baroque is just Metal written before electric instruments were invented. Look up Dark Moor's version of Vivaldi's Winter.
When learning about composing techniques (eg sequence, augmentation etc) my music teacher showed us this video about 4-5 months ago.
This Classical music is captivating, emotionally stimulating, and astounding in the First Movement of the 5th Symphony. Beethoven is a genius to bring and write together notes and instruments to sound wonderful. Thank you Smalin for putting together the graphics view of the music. It is a neat way to see how the notes from the instruments work and the patterns of the notes play out. This style is cool.
Jonathan Sciano
I love Beethoven's pieces, this one is no exception!
I absolutely love what you do with these videos. Tracking the indivudual instruments along these lines gives a real sense of the complexity and brilliance of the music. I"ve listened to the 9th a lot; in fact I'm writing a book on it, and it truly helps to see the music in this way. Thank you!
Thank you so much. This is such a treat. Brilliant music + Understanding the structure thru visualization = Heaven.
Watching this for music class
Me too
Sane
Same*
12 years ago... Wow... It's a wonderful and today too. Hard, but very interesting. And beautiful. I love music of Beethoven like this sonata or not more famous "Für Elisa". Because they just so gorgeous. Hard and gorgeous. And long, that make me to feel...how this was hard to write and play. And you're work make me feel something like that too. I would like to say you: "And 12 years ago, Thank You!"
Thank You.
Unn.
04.03.22, 22:33, Russia, Izhevsk.
amazing how he can go from high explosive sounds to so calm, so smoothly.
I was watching the video and following parts to see the movements of the melody. Then I suddently stopped watching and only listened to it, and I felt the emotions so much that I almost cried.
It's ok to understand a song and to be able to follow every melody, but sometimes you just have to let the mind flow on the music to really get it's beauty!
Genre - Symphony
Form - Sonata
Meter - Duple
Cant get enough of this.
No one can
This piece is so amazing. It moves me in ways I can't even explain.
i love watching this because it shows all the complexity of this symphony!
There are probably several instruments playing the different parts in a orchristra.
I think.
An immortal masterpiece from an immortal genius !
thx !
exquisite channel. A gift to music.
You are amazing.
It is so wonderful to be able to see the components that make up such beautiful music.
Yeah I just saw it actually. It's so nice because you can easily separate the different instrument groups, and see exactly who plays exactly what. I find myself studying your videos over and over again, focusing on different instruments each time and listening to what roles they play and how they affect the texture. Now when I look at a regular score I automatically see colored bars scrolling past my eyes.
Este video es tan relajante... Excelente!
Absolutely awesomeeeee!
Incredible doesn't describe this enough !!!!! RIP Beethoven you creative genius !!!!
I love ever note and it never gets old.
This is brilliant.
Sorprendente come Beethoven parta da una banale cellula tematica e vi costruisca un capolavoro...
I love this symphony. Simply spectacular!
Symphony no. 5 in C minor, Opus 67 is my best Beethoven symphony for me. The 1st movement is a supermasterpiece to me with its ominous four-note motif at the beginning of the piece with a powerful and a heroic emotion and the 2nd movement, which is light and calm but has a romantic emotion then the 3rd movement, which has the main theme played by the horn that resembles the four-note motif from the 1st movement and its notable for segueing into the 4th movement without a pause. The 4th has a bright and a radiant emotion played in the key of C major. In the end, it has a long coda repeating many chords of the C major and a bursting loud coda lasting about 7 to 10 seconds is heard at the end of the symphony.
Wow beethoven.. how could a human think all those harmonies simultaneously?
Because God exists.
@@John-Adams REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Esta sinfonía refleja la personalidad y carácter de Ludwig, 06:14 : Maestro de maestros!
They are like digging down till the evil comes up
3:00 is my favorite part i think, it starts of soft and gradually crescendos to this awesome huge climax... and then leads into call and response
Amazing! This is how I "see" music when I hear it! No matter what kind of. Can't thank you enough.
Happy 250th, Luddy Van!
6:15 is the best part for me
0:52 my fav part xd
I just listened to this for an assignment in class. I absolutely loved it, I'm so glad i looked at this. Liked and Favorited, a true masterpiece.
this supper good and ralaxing. I absalotly love it!!!!
5:54 RIP trombone
who else is here doing homework
7 years later and this is still a homework assignment
This graphical representation is the best: the simple lines. Bravo!
Incredible song that keeps on giving. Thanks for sharing!
When you pause it after staring for long it looks like it's going in reverse
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_aftereffect
Yeah it does
Fantastic!
Visualizing the music adds a new dimension to the enjoyment of the 5th.
Keep up the great work!
Thanks! Great visual representation of the genius of Maestro Beethoven...
Truly a freking genius both smalin and beethoven
I might've misread smalin for stalin thousands of times now.
Best version yet.
Extra Alt account lol
Perfect speed, and a brilliant performance in my opinion. Bravo!
Listened to it so many times over ... It kind of reminds me of battle themes from star wars ... Love what you do
This is great.
this is great.
EDUCATIONAL !!! Out of this World.
absolutely beautiful
Fantástico 👏
3:03 till 3:20
This argument is killing me
This is absolutely stunning, great work putting this together
If you like this, you might want to try some of my more recent work, like this: ruclips.net/video/mJZR91YggAw/видео.html
I LOVED THIS SONG SO MUCH
5:59 when that one kid reminds the teacher that there was homework
I’m sorry this too late for your exam; I hope you did well! You can’t tell from the visual, but crescendo means the volume gets higher as the note is being played. Forte means loud; piano means soft. It’s too bad the colors can’t get more intense as the volume increases; pastels for soft, and dark, intense colors for higher volume. Anyway, this is an interesting way to experience the music!
The problem with "pastels for soft, and dark, intense colors for higher volume" is that our perception of sound and our perception of light don't match up in a straightforward way. If I mapped loudness directly to color intensity, most of the meaningful differences in loudness (accents, crescendos, etc.) would be invisible. There's probably a way to do this, but I haven't figured out how to do it yet.
Easily my favourite symphonic work of all time. Just classic and iconic.
Thank you for the graphical score. Love that!
Magnifique
I’m watching this for school Lmao
what class?
Music
same
Same
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Wonderful, absolutely wonderful
I really enjoy this colour scheme. Has this Startrek feels. Or an 80s Italian comedy movie intro. Or a late 70s
BBC programme.
the most epic part starts from 6:08
Ah, I see you too are a person of culture. It is the part that many orchestras never get the power and conviction into that the part really needs.
When the opening motive is not a clear part of the main musical idea..as is the case, for example, at 0:53 and 2:20, where and how might a related musical figure still be present?
@AlphaX bruh I still dont know how have you figured it out yet?
Oh, my god!!!!!! I saw this like 13 times and it's NOT boring!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will never forget this!!! Beethoven is a awesome writer!!!
I just randomly found this looking for classical music for myself. and thought wow. This is awesome to send to my friend, who is deaf, and possibility would be able to enjoy this. Thank you so much :)
who are the people disliking these vids lol like why you gotta diss the man like 213 years after it came out
Probs people who need to do this for school
this go crazy CRAZY
It is wonderful!-and it's a short and little bit word to this masterpice-for this symphony I cannot find the good word'fantastic and great!!a Genius'work it is!!
That’s how destiny knocks on your door.