I was trying to squeeze so much in to 10 minutes that I seem to have rather neglected the 20th Century :-0 I will have to remedy that my making another video JUST about the 20th Century I think!
You guys are insane, David did a phenomenal job trying to condense 1000 years of musical history into a single 10 minute video and everyone is just like what about Satie, what about Shostakovich, what about Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Bartok, Prokofiev, Mahler? But honestly I would really love watch a 30, 40 or even 60 minute version of this where you could go into way more detail!
"tuning into a river of sound that's always there" "sublime form of expressions which is both humble and grand at the same time" Very well written script. You covered the important aspects of each era much better than your average Music 101 teacher, especially given the short attention span of many people like me. Thanks David.
?? Yo man you left out da dopest ballerz ,what bout: Lil Woah? Young Sleazy? MC Bama? Jell E. Gel? Whoop Diggy Dig? Smackdaddy? DJ Schwarznigga & Klint Beastwood? DJ Cancun & Uncle Tomb? DJ Whiteside & $panish Main? DJ Mixxxedbot & Lite$kin Jerome? DJ Oprah Wi'f'ey & Docta Feeel? DJ Wu Masta & Voodoo Yu? DJ Glock/Chain & B.I.G. Tech? DJ Wild Flava & Pill Cosby?
I was just making the case for Rachmaninoff a minute ago in another comment. Satie is another example.Not sure of Paganini because of his contribution to music is more that of a virtuoso composing to showcase his ability.
lil pump doesn't count. He doesn't have enough brain capacity like the others mentioned. Yes, yes, yes he has money and women, fast cars. But money can't buy him a new brain.
Shrip Rai hahahaha haha I’m dying, I can just imagine a few classical musicians searching up the latter part of the list then turning around with a horrified look on their face
My gratitude to you for educating us to the basic history of Western Classical Music. I have been a student of Indian Classical Music, and despite having tremendous respect and fascination for Western Classical music (especially the Baroque and classical era), I never got an opportunity to learn Western Music, and there are thousands like me in India. Your video is extremely valuable to us. Looking forward for many more from you.
This is unfortunately however the traditional approach to music history survey courses - omitting the many women and black composers and basing the entire arc in European culture as if it’s music’s highest expression.
Everyone needs to chill on the composers. It's a BRIEF history, you couldn't possibly cover all the composers that everyone is asking for in such a short amount of time. You especially couldn't do them any justice either in just 10 minutes.
Complex topics like this can only be presented so briefly. At some point, it becomes too brief aka too American in approach, and no longer serves any educational purpose.
Beethoven's Ode to Joy movement in his 9th symphony is where western music made a huge pivot. It was the first mainstream pop sing-a-long. The gap was bridged between lower class folk music and aristocratic classical music.
I don't think so. Considering that Bach's cantatas were all part of the regular church service and incorporated traditional hymns that the congregation sang along with. And he wasn't even the first to do this. What we call classical music was mainstream music back then.
What might take a 100 years to listen and understand, at an individual level - is being discussed and edited here under 12 minutes. One can never tell what the purpose or value of all such nugget size crap is .. Oh yes Patreon and hope based labor must precede the content itself...
After many years of loosely listening to classical music, since my dad spun them on his turntable, your video has helped me sort out where do all these people fit in chronologically, and style wise. Good pace for your presentation allowing me to absorb a great deal. Thanks David!
Would be interesting to have an accompanying video about the history of "folk" music or the emergence of "popular" music genres in the late 19th / early 20th century.
I really enjoyed your video! I know you can only do so much in 10 minutes but it was really nice to watch an overview and remind myself of what's going on in music history rather than just reading about the sonata allegro form for 30 pages before I move to something else lol. Helps to put everything in the right place. Thank you!
Great video. The music enhances the narrative. Choice of excerpts are excellent. It gives classical music novices a historical thread which will stimulate them to look further. You include all of the basic concepts that describes the evolution.
Fauré is a personal favorite - his Requiem has some really beautiful moments. The solo during the second movement (Offertoire) is so beautifully simple. And the 6th movement (Libera Me) is pretty evocative, too.
I really enjoyed this brief survey of musical history. It put some things into perspective for me that weren’t there before. I’m glad you thought of Handel in the end because he’s one of my favorite. I definitely would be interested in more videos focusing in on specific composers or specific periods of time. Very interesting!
This was a very wonderfully done introductory video of classical music history. And you did it in under 12 minutes. That's amazing. I enjoyed watching the timeline video slide of composers. Would enjoy a little more detailed video on individual composers or group them by Era to go along with this video. But this was a great intro into classical music. Thank you!
Wow! I'm stunned! You really covered a lot of ground in only 10 minutes. Don't forget the most important opera composer of the 20th century was Puccini. Great video!
Gustav Mahler in his later attempts at breaking traditional tonality had a tremendous influence on the second viennese trio Schoenberg, Berg and Webern. At least a little mention somewhere could have been nice. Other than that, it is very well summed up!
?? Yo man you left out da dopest ballerz ,what bout: Lil Woah? Young Sleazy? MC Bama? Jell E. Gel? Whoop Diggy Dig? Smackdaddy? DJ Schwarznigga & Klint Beastwood? DJ Cancun & Uncle Tomb? DJ Whiteside & $panish Main? DJ Mixxxedbot & Lite$kin Jerome? DJ Oprah Wi'f'ey & Docta Feeel? DJ Wu Masta & Voodoo Yu? DJ Glock/Chain & B.I.G. Tech? DJ Wild Flava & Pill Cosby?
WOW--never was so much information given in so little time! Of course, not everyone could be included in 10 minutes, but in a clear and precise way, the general outline of the evolution of Western music is presented. Quite an achievement.
That's what I was thinking, and especially Mahler. I didn't really get Mahler till well after I turned 65, but he does sound to me importantly poised between Romanticism and 20th c.
Very interesting for someone like me that is starting to appreciate classical music more as I get older. I love hearing the examples as you speak , but sometimes they are much louder than your voice. This is the 1st video of yours that I've seen. I'm interested in the history of music, especially classical, so I've subscribed to your channel.
Hello, Thank you for this very informative video. I am 21 years old and I am falling in love with classical music, and I’m fascinated by these composers. I learned a lot from this video. It was well organized and easy to follow!
I'd like to use this to show middle school music students. There were composers left off, but like you said, "A Very Brief history". You hit each era of classical music and with the length of the video it is perfect for 12 and 13 year old students whose attention spans can't handle much more. Thanks for doing this!
For sure your insights are the best thing amongst "Musician RUclipsrs". I'll love to hear more about history, maybe from the instruments and their evolution... thanks
Thanks so much :) It’s truly remarkable how this sets up the stage for what music became ultimately. I mean, if you continue the trend, it seems obvious that the absolute extreme prediction would be what modern pop music is today. Not saying whether it’s a good or bad thing, but it makes sense to me when I reflect on the history of change in music, and how the trend has continued and seemingly accelerated vastly to give a lot of the music we have nowadays. These are VERY broad, blanket statements, to be taken with a tablespoon of salt. I could develop further what I mean but I think most will understand what I’m getting at, and I don’t want to write a whole essay in a comment to explain exactly what I mean...
Very well presented Nick! Looking forward to your 20th Century video...but please don't forget George Gershwin, Ottorino Respighi or Manuel De Falla. Thanks! 😊
I think Beethoven actually deserves *_more_* acclaim, distinctly within Classical, Romantic, and the modern era (with the Great Fugue) as well. Otherwise I think you've nailed this.
This was FANTASTIC. This deserves millions of views. Your effort really helped me geta glimpse of the progression of this incredible and timeless genre.
I think you did a great job giving the A-tier view for the complete novice. I don’t think someone like Satie needs to be in there. I love Buckner, but he wouldn’t make my list of “listen to this first” artists. If I added anything, maybe more opera composers. I think Rossini and Verdi made massive contributions and probably deserve a place in the A-tier. *note: I am not suggesting that all of the “A tier” are the best and you need not go further. Simply that they are most well known and /or provided the best exemplars of a particular style.
Simply excellent, thank you. "All art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself in beautiful harmonies." ~ Baha'i Faith
Looking at that timeline, I can pretty much say that I usually check out at around 1900, because the "Modern Classical Music" isn't my cup of tea. However, I'm glad to see that one of the most recent composers, Alma Deutscher, is continuing the old tradition that music should be pleasant to listen to.
Hey, David - An idea for a different kind of Music History video, possibly in conjunction with another channel: Compare the time frames and natures of the different eras of Musical Art vs. Visual Arts (painting sculpture, etc.). For example, as I recall, the Baroque Era of Painting is typically thought of as a little earlier than the Baroque Era of Music. It would also be very intriguing to compare the famous characteristics of each Musical Era to the famous characteristics of the Visual Arts of that era.
Some people with overly Bach-centric view argue that Baroque period ended in 1750 with Bach's death, yet the fact is, the start of Classical period did not happen simultaneously with the ending of Baroque. Early Classical period overlaps with late Baroque period by a large margin. In fact Mozart (born in 1756) is generally agreed to be a "LATE Classical composer" and if we define the reign of Style Galant, Style Rococo as the Classical era in European music, it began as early as late 1600s. The fact that JS Bach was considered old-fashioned most of his lifetime and Frederick II of Prussia is said to "have liked old fashioned Baroque music" validates this. Opera Buffa, Galant Style composers like Pergolesi (1710~1736) were famous, prominent figures of the Classical Era. If you were to follow your logic classicism didn't start until the mid 1700s, that would mean de-facto Classical composers like Pergolesi lived before the Classical Period began, which doesn't make sense.
“Overly Bach-centric view” seems like a difficult thing to achieve, given his undeniably massive impact on so much important music that came after him. But I agree that the dates should be more fluid than they often are presented.
Certainly, the way we structure the history of academic music often happens to be very limited in terms of styles and the way they evolved through the times...
In history you have do to compromise. ^^ But because Bach has such a massive impact on the evolution of music, I think it is more an homage to him to say that then end of the baroque period is his death.
Music historians have never known what exactly to do with the music between JS Bach and Mozart. CPE Bach was a far bigger deal in his lifetime than his father was in his but now we don’t have much of a way to classify him.This point is very well taken. Also, Bach’s influence wasn’t on his immediate successors so much as on later ones. It was Mendelssohn, left out here, who brought Bach into focus. And it happened again in the twentieth century when Pablo Cassals presented the solo cello sonatas as masterworks rather than as exercises.
2:27 - “like tuning into a River of sound that is always there” - intriguing analogy, especially since that’s kinda like the impression I get of Minimalism too!
Hello David, I'm really enjoying your videos! (Shamelessy binge watching...) I was wondering if you have any experience arranging? Or if you'd do a video on it or allow it in your composing series? :)
A musicologist, ( that I cannot recall his name, as I heard him on the radio), stated his perceived dilemma in modern music. Early music formulated structures upon the basic aesthetic fundamentals. As rules were formed and expanded in later periods the aesthetic aspects became more complex and perhaps less or non approachable to the mind and soul. Perhaps,(he stated) we need to slow down our experimentation with micro tones and strange harmonics, as perhaps some or most of these structures aren’t fundamentally proper and are simply exercises in intellectual justification. He stated that perhaps it’s time to work with and combine all the music theory that we’ve established already, for the permutations are endless. I personally would not look down on any modern composer that composes in the early styles.
I know very little about classical music, but I’m a massive history fan and really loved the easy to follow chronological presentation. Very well done, it looked fantastic and very educative. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I cannot tell you how many vague clouds of semi-knowledge this has crystalised for me. I am also stunned by how far out of my own "remembered" timeline some of the figures you mentioned turned out to be. In the spirit of 'trust but verify' I checked and was even more grateful for this. Thanks!
It doesn’t make sense to you obviously, but your not everyone. To me, his comment is light hearted and humorous. Aside from perfect pronunciation, It reads like this: he didn’t have a good handle on the broke period, Its just a minor break of the handle, no big deal. Not a major B. Oh I know none of it makes perfect sense to you. …its just joking around with word play. Try to relax a little and refrain from being a Mrs know it all. Can you Handel the truth? Or is your sense of humor Baroque? Use a little imagination and then it will make perfect sense. …Then your pride, will be replaced with peace.
@JASON P. Roberts ok you can dislike a composers music, but by no means should you call them an idiot. Shostakovich is more talented than you will ever dream to be. He wrote his first symphony when he was 19 years old and that symphony is performed pretty regularly by world-renowned orchestras. What the hell have you accomplished? Probably nothing. So have some respect.
David, I'm a musician (pianist, teacher and a bit of an arranger) living in Mexico City. I've just found your videos a week ago, seen four of them and I'm really inspired by your approach to music and the way you create this material. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and your enthusiasm.
Great video. I think more composers could have been included (without pictures). Also completely neglected late romanticism (Bruckner, Mahler, Strauss).
Thank you for this! Notable contemporary composers that were not mentioned include Copland, Bernstein, Part, Britten, Holst, Rutter, R.V. Williams, others.
I noticed in a couple of your excellent videos you seem to leave out Mahler. He was the bridge from Wagner to Schoenberg, Webern and Berg who were all Mahler's disciples. Yr not one of those critics who used to maintain that Mahler was derivative program music are you? Mahler's music is very identifiable even apart from Wagner.
No mention of Rossini, Johann Strauss II, and lots of Classical period composers are omitted too. Gluck, Clementi, JC Bach etc. It's still good, but I wish it was longer, and covered a lot more composers
Unfortunately, Scriabin was not (and still isn't) particularly popular. His music was not very influential to other composers (with few exceptions) because of its unique character; not unlike Ives.
That is true, but so was Dvorak, Stravinsky, Holst and Debussy, all of which are more interesting than film music in my opinion. But you simply can't mention everybody, the history of music is much too rich for that.
I didn't say that either. Yeah, but maybe it's a good entry-level overview of music history. It's always good to get your bearings before you go in-depth.
I think Mahler was a huge influence in the "atonal" composers like Schoenberg, Webern, Berg. In a way he pushed to the limit the massive sound of the romantic era and he reached the limits of harmony like Debussy
I really enjoyed this, very original. You have gained a new subscriber just because of your creativity. Thank you, I look forward to more of your work!
This was a pretty god video. Maybe one of the first documentaries that i actually wanted to finish watch instead of sleeping and I'm not even a teenager yet.
I completely agree with this. In fact, film scores were a major gateway into the world of classical music for me. John Williams, Danny Elfman, and Hans Zimmer are definitely amongst the great composers of our time.
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I was trying to squeeze so much in to 10 minutes that I seem to have rather neglected the 20th Century :-0 I will have to remedy that my making another video JUST about the 20th Century I think!
Yes please, this video is amazing. But I love contemporary music as well.
Yup, 20th Century and 21st Century would be great!
Dude...Mahler was 19th century lol
Please do!
That would be Brilliant!
You guys are insane, David did a phenomenal job trying to condense 1000 years of musical history into a single 10 minute video and everyone is just like what about Satie, what about Shostakovich, what about Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Bartok, Prokofiev, Mahler?
But honestly I would really love watch a 30, 40 or even 60 minute version of this where you could go into way more detail!
Right?! I could practically hear the indignant neckbeard cry "How do you forget Handel?!" XDDD
Sure, sure.. but really, what about Prokofiev and Shostakovitch and Rachmaninoff and Ravel..?!;) He just skipped the 20th century.
"tuning into a river of sound that's always there"
"sublime form of expressions which is both humble and grand at the same time"
Very well written script. You covered the important aspects of each era much better than your average Music 101 teacher, especially given the short attention span of many people like me.
Thanks David.
A well composed presentation. I am impressed by the way you made the music examples merge.
Haha, well _composed_
Well composed? Too condensed and too brief to really tell anything.
?? Yo man you left out da dopest ballerz ,what bout:
Lil Woah?
Young Sleazy?
MC Bama?
Jell E. Gel?
Whoop Diggy Dig?
Smackdaddy?
DJ Schwarznigga & Klint Beastwood?
DJ Cancun & Uncle Tomb?
DJ Whiteside & $panish Main?
DJ Mixxxedbot & Lite$kin Jerome?
DJ Oprah Wi'f'ey & Docta Feeel?
DJ Wu Masta & Voodoo Yu?
DJ Glock/Chain & B.I.G. Tech?
DJ Wild Flava & Pill Cosby?
WOw a bunch of simple crossfades! What a genius!
I think it cannot be stressed enough how important Haydn was for the development of western classical music.
The Sleeping Giant of Classical Music honestly
Not a great fan, but absolutely right!
I started the study of music with the violin when I was 10 years old in 1962. This is the best overview I've seen since then. Thank you.
It could be nice to see one of this for the weirdest musicians of each era, the outcasts
Seconded! Great idea!
Luv it!
Suko Pyramid I want to see this.
Satie would definateley take debussy's place.
most of them were all outcasts. As for being "weird",I don't know. What's "weird" ?
Obviously no one can condense 1000 of music history into 10 minutes, but this is a valiant effort!
I love your description of the music of Bach, being grand and humble at the same time expression-wise. That's SO TRUE!
Yes, I thought that descriptively accurate, as well.
What piece of Bach was that?
@@Alphabunsquad Erbarme dich mein Gott, from St Mathew Passion.
Exactly what i felt too! So elegant its almost shiny
Paganini, Rachmaninoff, Satie, Lil Wayne, Lil Pump, 6ix9ine, etc.
I was just making the case for Rachmaninoff a minute ago in another comment. Satie is another example.Not sure of Paganini because of his contribution to music is more that of a virtuoso composing to showcase his ability.
lil pump doesn't count. He doesn't have enough brain capacity like the others mentioned.
Yes, yes, yes he has money and women, fast cars. But money can't buy him a new brain.
I never heard thi etc. Is it any good?
Shrip Rai hahahaha haha I’m dying, I can just imagine a few classical musicians searching up the latter part of the list then turning around with a horrified look on their face
Justin Bieber is missing
Wow! You managed to encapsulate 1,000 years into just over eleven minutes! Terrific video.
My gratitude to you for educating us to the basic history of Western Classical Music.
I have been a student of Indian Classical Music, and despite having tremendous respect and fascination for Western Classical music (especially the Baroque and classical era), I never got an opportunity to learn Western Music, and there are thousands like me in India. Your video is extremely valuable to us. Looking forward for many more from you.
10 minutes is a teaser and a good one. I appreciate the presentation.
I'm interesting in learning about Indian classical music. What would you suggest to get an overview of it's history?
This is unfortunately however the traditional approach to music history survey courses - omitting the many women and black composers and basing the entire arc in European culture as if it’s music’s highest expression.
@@andrewjkm1 Which women or blacks ???
Everyone needs to chill on the composers. It's a BRIEF history, you couldn't possibly cover all the composers that everyone is asking for in such a short amount of time. You especially couldn't do them any justice either in just 10 minutes.
Saka yes, but to be fair he did explicitly say to comment with anyone we felt was missed out.
let us not do brief histories of anything.
@@shnimmuc then dont watch brief histories
Complex topics like this can only be presented so briefly. At some point, it becomes too brief aka too American in approach, and no longer serves any educational purpose.
@@mechantl0up Then don`t present it.
Beethoven's Ode to Joy movement in his 9th symphony is where western music made a huge pivot. It was the first mainstream pop sing-a-long. The gap was bridged between lower class folk music and aristocratic classical music.
I don't think so. Considering that Bach's cantatas were all part of the regular church service and incorporated traditional hymns that the congregation sang along with. And he wasn't even the first to do this. What we call classical music was mainstream music back then.
Very brief and very brilliant!!
What might take a 100 years to listen and understand, at an individual level - is being discussed and edited here under 12 minutes. One can never tell what the purpose or value of all such nugget size crap is .. Oh yes Patreon and hope based labor must precede the content itself...
Comments are just ruthless!
Title says in capital letters "VERY BRIEF...". So chill out if your favorite composer wasn't mentioned!
Or make their own video, complimenting this one.
I agree that these kind of lists will always be controversial, we should focus on composers that contributed to the origin of music.
100 likes i wont ruin it
After many years of loosely listening to classical music, since my dad spun them on his turntable, your video has helped me sort out where do all these people fit in chronologically, and style wise. Good pace for your presentation allowing me to absorb a great deal. Thanks David!
Would be interesting to have an accompanying video about the history of "folk" music or the emergence of "popular" music genres in the late 19th / early 20th century.
David, you did an incredible job of summarizing the history of Western music in barely over 10 minutes! Bravo!
I really enjoyed your video! I know you can only do so much in 10 minutes but it was really nice to watch an overview and remind myself of what's going on in music history rather than just reading about the sonata allegro form for 30 pages before I move to something else lol. Helps to put everything in the right place. Thank you!
Great video. The music enhances the narrative. Choice of excerpts are excellent. It gives classical music novices a historical thread which will stimulate them to look further. You include all of the basic concepts that describes the evolution.
2:06 Wow. 13/64 is a crazy time signature to have mass in lol.
Wait for real?
@@MaxwellKozen He was talking about the year 1364, but the way he said it made it sound like a time signature.
@@johnray6906 Ahh. I see. lol I thought the singing was in 13/64 time looool
Great show, David! Eight centuries in a mere 11-ish minutes is not an easy undertaking! Good on you!
Superb . Thank you for this. I hope many historians and educators use your approach to giving historical context to such derp and important subjects.
Fauré is a personal favorite - his Requiem has some really beautiful moments. The solo during the second movement (Offertoire) is so beautifully simple. And the 6th movement (Libera Me) is pretty evocative, too.
Very nice video. I was thinking about Bruckner and Mahler, but they appeared at the end. Now I am thinking about Ravel and Shostakovich :)
I really enjoyed this brief survey of musical history. It put some things into perspective for me that weren’t there before. I’m glad you thought of Handel in the end because he’s one of my favorite. I definitely would be interested in more videos focusing in on specific composers or specific periods of time. Very interesting!
Handel is My Oppars and Favourite Too!!
Brilliant presentation! Very enjoying as learning should be. Thank you! 👏🏼
Kudos from the Czech Republic for your very nice attempt at pronouncing Antonín Dvořák's name ;)
Dusan Pavlicek ...the British seem to have a genius for mis pronouncing foreign names!
Like Guy-do D’Arezzo ( Guido)
Too many squiggly lines over the letters :p
The last great composer. Everyone after is just trying to not be forgotten.
@@renzo6490 Americans also. Sometimes it seems they are not even trying 🤣
This is an outstanding video! I enjoyed the concept of the “moving timeline”. Thank you very much for this!
this was very informative! The kind of overview I've been needing for years. It puts a lot I already know into perspective, thanks!
This was a very wonderfully done introductory video of classical music history. And you did it in under 12 minutes. That's amazing. I enjoyed watching the timeline video slide of composers. Would enjoy a little more detailed video on individual composers or group them by Era to go along with this video. But this was a great intro into classical music. Thank you!
My favourite modern composer is Messiaen. At least he gets a quick mention at the end.
Me too
Thank you !!! I‘ve missed Mahler ❤️ and Strauss ❤️
Wow! I'm stunned! You really covered a lot of ground in only 10 minutes. Don't forget the most important opera composer of the 20th century was Puccini. Great video!
Congratulations on putting this together. It's an entire semester on classical music squeezed into around 11 minutes.
Gustav Mahler in his later attempts at breaking traditional tonality had a tremendous influence on the second viennese trio Schoenberg, Berg and Webern. At least a little mention somewhere could have been nice. Other than that, it is very well summed up!
Thank You!!.....it's nice having a MUSIC Teacher on RUclips...totally appreciate you!
I'd love to see a longer summary, maybe half an hour to an hour.
I’d like to see a recap in real time.
@@ZenFox0 Very funny!
A long form summary would be awesome! This shorter one was really great.
This is good. Someone needs to make a good 60-90 minute documentary on this topic.
No mention of lil John smh
OR SHOSTAKOVICH!
Based god was also missed
Or Tiffany!
or billy that lives around the corner from me...
?? Yo man you left out da dopest ballerz ,what bout:
Lil Woah?
Young Sleazy?
MC Bama?
Jell E. Gel?
Whoop Diggy Dig?
Smackdaddy?
DJ Schwarznigga & Klint Beastwood?
DJ Cancun & Uncle Tomb?
DJ Whiteside & $panish Main?
DJ Mixxxedbot & Lite$kin Jerome?
DJ Oprah Wi'f'ey & Docta Feeel?
DJ Wu Masta & Voodoo Yu?
DJ Glock/Chain & B.I.G. Tech?
DJ Wild Flava & Pill Cosby?
WOW--never was so much information given in so little time! Of course, not everyone could be included in 10 minutes, but in a clear and precise way, the general outline of the evolution of Western music is presented. Quite an achievement.
You left out the climax of symphonic music... Bruckner, Mahler, Shostakovitch..
Well done though!
Thank you.
I completely agree.
That's what I was thinking, and especially Mahler. I didn't really get Mahler till well after I turned 65, but he does sound to me importantly poised between Romanticism and 20th c.
Congratulations! This video is an extraordinaire brief. Undoubtedly quite practical for studying & research purposes. Thank you very much.
Very interesting for someone like me that is starting to appreciate classical music more as I get older. I love hearing the examples as you speak , but sometimes they are much louder than your voice. This is the 1st video of yours that I've seen. I'm interested in the history of music, especially classical, so I've subscribed to your channel.
Same here to classical music is extremely fascinating musical genre and so beautiful and alluring to listen to.
Hello, Thank you for this very informative video. I am 21 years old and I am falling in love with classical music, and I’m fascinated by these composers. I learned a lot from this video. It was well organized and easy to follow!
I really enjoyed this video. Thank you!
I'd like to use this to show middle school music students. There were composers left off, but like you said, "A Very Brief history". You hit each era of classical music and with the length of the video it is perfect for 12 and 13 year old students whose attention spans can't handle much more. Thanks for doing this!
Alright David, now that we're stuck giving music virtually, I'm using this vid for an assignment to help my exam students , . . .
For sure your insights are the best thing amongst "Musician RUclipsrs". I'll love to hear more about history, maybe from the instruments and their evolution... thanks
Fantastically creative presentation David! But, DUDE! BARTOK!!!!!
I think that de Falla would be an interesting inclusion.
Interesting, but not so relevant.
Not Right Music hell Yeah, Bartók!😃
@@christopherstube9473 Wtf no
Bullshit
Thanks so much :)
It’s truly remarkable how this sets up the stage for what music became ultimately. I mean, if you continue the trend, it seems obvious that the absolute extreme prediction would be what modern pop music is today. Not saying whether it’s a good or bad thing, but it makes sense to me when I reflect on the history of change in music, and how the trend has continued and seemingly accelerated vastly to give a lot of the music we have nowadays.
These are VERY broad, blanket statements, to be taken with a tablespoon of salt. I could develop further what I mean but I think most will understand what I’m getting at, and I don’t want to write a whole essay in a comment to explain exactly what I mean...
Very well presented Nick! Looking forward to your 20th Century video...but please don't forget George Gershwin, Ottorino Respighi or Manuel De Falla. Thanks! 😊
Loved your short History of Music. Please provide more!
I think Beethoven actually deserves *_more_* acclaim, distinctly within Classical, Romantic, and the modern era (with the Great Fugue) as well.
Otherwise I think you've nailed this.
Yah I mean he centered on him a lot but there has never been a more influential person in the world of music ever
This was FANTASTIC. This deserves millions of views. Your effort really helped me geta glimpse of the progression of this incredible and timeless genre.
I think you did a great job giving the A-tier view for the complete novice. I don’t think someone like Satie needs to be in there. I love Buckner, but he wouldn’t make my list of “listen to this first” artists.
If I added anything, maybe more opera composers. I think Rossini and Verdi made massive contributions and probably deserve a place in the A-tier.
*note: I am not suggesting that all of the “A tier” are the best and you need not go further. Simply that they are most well known and /or provided the best exemplars of a particular style.
Simply excellent, thank you. "All art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself in beautiful harmonies." ~ Baha'i Faith
Looking at that timeline, I can pretty much say that I usually check out at around 1900, because the "Modern Classical Music" isn't my cup of tea. However, I'm glad to see that one of the most recent composers, Alma Deutscher, is continuing the old tradition that music should be pleasant to listen to.
Yeah! Alma is quite a refreshing surprise, hope she goes on to do greater things.
Hey, David -
An idea for a different kind of Music History video, possibly in conjunction with another channel: Compare the time frames and natures of the different eras of Musical Art vs. Visual Arts (painting sculpture, etc.).
For example, as I recall, the Baroque Era of Painting is typically thought of as a little earlier than the Baroque Era of Music.
It would also be very intriguing to compare the famous characteristics of each Musical Era to the famous characteristics of the Visual Arts of that era.
Some people with overly Bach-centric view argue that Baroque period ended in 1750 with Bach's death, yet the fact is, the start of Classical period did not happen simultaneously with the ending of Baroque. Early Classical period overlaps with late Baroque period by a large margin. In fact Mozart (born in 1756) is generally agreed to be a "LATE Classical composer" and if we define the reign of Style Galant, Style Rococo as the Classical era in European music, it began as early as late 1600s. The fact that JS Bach was considered old-fashioned most of his lifetime and Frederick II of Prussia is said to "have liked old fashioned Baroque music" validates this. Opera Buffa, Galant Style composers like Pergolesi (1710~1736) were famous, prominent figures of the Classical Era. If you were to follow your logic classicism didn't start until the mid 1700s, that would mean de-facto Classical composers like Pergolesi lived before the Classical Period began, which doesn't make sense.
Darkness RUclips great points. Have you read Evening in the Palace of Reason?
“Overly Bach-centric view” seems like a difficult thing to achieve, given his undeniably massive impact on so much important music that came after him. But I agree that the dates should be more fluid than they often are presented.
Certainly, the way we structure the history of academic music often happens to be very limited in terms of styles and the way they evolved through the times...
In history you have do to compromise. ^^ But because Bach has such a massive impact on the evolution of music, I think it is more an homage to him to say that then end of the baroque period is his death.
Music historians have never known what exactly to do with the music between JS Bach and Mozart. CPE Bach was a far bigger deal in his lifetime than his father was in his but now we don’t have much of a way to classify him.This point is very well taken. Also, Bach’s influence wasn’t on his immediate successors so much as on later ones. It was Mendelssohn, left out here, who brought Bach into focus. And it happened again in the twentieth century when Pablo Cassals presented the solo cello sonatas as masterworks rather than as exercises.
2:27 - “like tuning into a River of sound that is always there” - intriguing analogy, especially since that’s kinda like the impression I get of Minimalism too!
Hello David, I'm really enjoying your videos! (Shamelessy binge watching...) I was wondering if you have any experience arranging? Or if you'd do a video on it or allow it in your composing series? :)
I’m just learning about classical music but this has given me the foundations of understanding! 👏🏻👏🏻
A musicologist, ( that I cannot recall his name, as I heard him on the radio), stated his perceived dilemma in modern music.
Early music formulated structures upon the basic aesthetic fundamentals. As rules were formed and expanded in later periods the aesthetic aspects became more complex and perhaps less or non approachable to the mind and soul.
Perhaps,(he stated) we need to slow down our experimentation with micro tones and strange harmonics, as perhaps some or most of these structures aren’t fundamentally proper and are simply exercises in intellectual justification.
He stated that perhaps it’s time to work with and combine all the music theory that we’ve established already, for the permutations are endless.
I personally would not look down on any modern composer that composes in the early styles.
similar to other genres, as well. take a great idea and run it into the ground and make it all but unlistenable to all but the most diehard fans
Have you checked out Alma Deutscher? She's all about back to basics. I recommend Waltz of the Sirens.
@@humblesparrow ,
I will check her out.
I'm both interested in exploring the new and established styles.
I know very little about classical music, but I’m a massive history fan and really loved the easy to follow chronological presentation. Very well done, it looked fantastic and very educative. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
it's a great video but i think Ravel, Prokofiev, Bartok and Shostakovich are very important composers
Exactly what I was thinking
All four are boring and without spirit. Just ugly music.
@Michael Thoma I hope too...?
@@hungrymikepencetd5686 ???
Yes exactly Bartok is important when I think of it
I cannot tell you how many vague clouds of semi-knowledge this has crystalised for me. I am also stunned by how far out of my own "remembered" timeline some of the figures you mentioned turned out to be. In the spirit of 'trust but verify' I checked and was even more grateful for this. Thanks!
I don't feel like he had a full Händel on the Baroque period.
A minor mistake.
Your pun makes no sense with the anachronistic umlaut - Handel didn’t use it for most of his life - with it, the name is pronounced ‘Hen-del’.
It doesn’t make sense to you obviously, but your not everyone.
To me, his comment is light hearted and humorous.
Aside from perfect pronunciation,
It reads like this: he didn’t have a good handle on the broke period,
Its just a minor break of the handle, no big deal.
Not a major B.
Oh I know none of it makes perfect sense to you.
…its just joking around with word play.
Try to relax a little and refrain from being a Mrs know it all.
Can you Handel the truth?
Or is your sense of humor Baroque?
Use a little imagination and then it will make perfect sense.
…Then your pride, will be replaced with peace.
im studying for a humanities clep and you saved me at least a couple hours buddy tyvm
I always found shostakovich very important and erik satie
Shostakovitch is amazing, one of my personal favourites
DSCH is my favorite Composer, followed closely by Mahler.
@JASON P. Roberts say goodbye to life, saying shostakovich sucked is a death sentence
@JASON P. Roberts for me the joke is the "MuSiC" of Stockhausen and other atonal composers, I like both Shostakovich and Beethoven.
@JASON P. Roberts ok you can dislike a composers music, but by no means should you call them an idiot. Shostakovich is more talented than you will ever dream to be. He wrote his first symphony when he was 19 years old and that symphony is performed pretty regularly by world-renowned orchestras. What the hell have you accomplished? Probably nothing. So have some respect.
David, I'm a musician (pianist, teacher and a bit of an arranger) living in Mexico City. I've just found your videos a week ago, seen four of them and I'm really inspired by your approach to music and the way you create this material. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and your enthusiasm.
Great video. I think more composers could have been included (without pictures). Also completely neglected late romanticism (Bruckner, Mahler, Strauss).
That would be great to have a 10-minute video just on the Romantic Period.
Thanks for posting. Took me back to my music A level in the 70's! So much music to re-explore. Cheers.
Funny for Guillaum de Machaut he used Vivaldi's face!
stellario82 I noticed that! 🤣
Thank you for this! Notable contemporary composers that were not mentioned include Copland, Bernstein, Part, Britten, Holst, Rutter, R.V. Williams, others.
And hundreds others. Not in a 10 minute video about 1000 years of classical music development.
I noticed in a couple of your excellent videos you seem to leave out Mahler. He was the bridge from Wagner to Schoenberg, Webern and Berg who were all Mahler's disciples. Yr not one of those critics who used to maintain that Mahler was derivative program music are you? Mahler's music is very identifiable even apart from Wagner.
He says in the end of the video he missed Mahler among some others
Not at all, love a bit of Mahler. Although my favourite is his 4th Symphony, which is arguably his least Mahlerian, so I don't know what that says!?
One can quibble with what you choose to emphasize and what to neglect, but the timing and choice of examples is really well done and engaging.
No mention of Scriabin, the pioneer of Russian modern music, or Prokofiev or Shostakovich???
No mention of Rossini, Johann Strauss II, and lots of Classical period composers are omitted too. Gluck, Clementi, JC Bach etc. It's still good, but I wish it was longer, and covered a lot more composers
Unfortunately, Scriabin was not (and still isn't) particularly popular. His music was not very influential to other composers (with few exceptions) because of its unique character; not unlike Ives.
This is a VERY BRIEF history of music, remember. Though I wouldn't be opposed to a much more in-depth version with more composers and more music.
That is true, but so was Dvorak, Stravinsky, Holst and Debussy, all of which are more interesting than film music in my opinion. But you simply can't mention everybody, the history of music is much too rich for that.
I didn't say that either.
Yeah, but maybe it's a good entry-level overview of music history. It's always good to get your bearings before you go in-depth.
thank you so much for providing a helpful framework for understanding the history of all of these names i always here but never know how to place
Nice timeline. Point of information: Where did Schubert, and *Mahler*, and John Cage go...?
I like it. Very smooth. Nice horizontal synopsis of music. Not comprehensive, but, enjoyable.
I like it.
I think Mahler was a huge influence in the "atonal" composers like Schoenberg, Webern, Berg. In a way he pushed to the limit the massive sound of the romantic era and he reached the limits of harmony like Debussy
This is really incredible and kind of summarizes the hours and hours of classes I had on music history and theory. Cool! Keep making videos please :)
Beethoven’s personal life is so sad. Despite huge musical success, he couldn’t figure out personal social happiness.
Mozart was burried in a mass grave
@@ireneuszpyc6684 At age 35 no less.
I’m trying out RUclips as an unorthodox prep strategy for a big music history exam - your video’s great by the way. Good job
Is there a list of the songs in the video?? Anyone??
I really enjoyed this, very original. You have gained a new subscriber just because of your creativity. Thank you, I look forward to more of your work!
when it comes to classical remember to start on Debussy and finish on the Bach, never finish on Debussy
I don't get it
I love Debussy, sometimes all I can think about is Debussy😂
Thats disgusting
Lmfaoooo
Fantastic thanks for the help and support Robert Haller
Missed Mahler as the last big gun of the romantic classical era, and also Eric Satie et al that somehow bridged over to jazz in various ways...
Wasn’t rachmaninoff the last romanticist? Made the bridge to early film music as well
arguably Rachmaninoff though
This was a pretty god video. Maybe one of the first documentaries that i actually wanted to finish watch instead of sleeping and I'm not even a teenager yet.
Why is Machaut look like Vivaldi? :D
Loved it! It helped me to make sense of the bigwhigs and why the eras worked and flowed into one another. Thanks!
I think the most predominant composer you left out is Ravel! Great video though!
Fantastic video. Rachminoff is the only one I can think of off the top of my head. But he was known as a brilliant performer at the keyboard
You missed out Gioachino ROSSINI and Giacomo PUCCINI.
In a short review I think he will have to miss many
Thank you so much! You have saved me time over time in giving a concise and beautiful tour of 1000 years of Western music. With love, Ken
The main history of classical music isn’t thru modernism and minimalism!! It’s in film-music! Post-romanticism
Film music deserves its own 10-minute, "brief history of" video
I completely agree with this. In fact, film scores were a major gateway into the world of classical music for me. John Williams, Danny Elfman, and Hans Zimmer are definitely amongst the great composers of our time.
Love the video!!! It is a great brief history. If you do another please add Rachmoninov. But it is very insightful! Cheers!