Beethoven, String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor (opus 132), 3rd mvt. (Heiliger Dankgesang)
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
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The third movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet 15 (opus 132), "Heiliger Dankgesang," accompanied by an animated score.
FAQ
Q: Where can I get free sheet music for this piece?
A: You can download score and parts from IMSLP:
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Q: Where can I learn more about this piece?
A: The Wikipedia article is pretty good
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Q: Who is performing?
A: Sorry, I don't know. I licensed this recording NEO Sounds (dot com), and they don't say who their performers are (other than "New Age Symphony Orchestra").
Q: I don't like this version of the animation; can I see it some other way?
A: There are two versions, a basic scrolling bar-graph (piano roll):
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and one that alternates bar-graph and "balls" with the sections of the piece:
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Q: Is there a way I could make the bar-graph scores myself?
A: The Music Animation Machine MIDI file player will generate this display; you can get the (Windows) software here:
www.musanim.com...
There are lots of places on the web where you can get MIDI files; I usually go to the Classical Archives site first:
www.classicalar...
Q: Could you please do a MAM video of _________?
A: Please read this:
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All Beethoven's music from about 1820 on was composed by a man so ill with jaundice, most other mortals in his place would have given up. Those works include his three final piano sonatas, the Missa Solemnis and Ninth Symphony, the last quartets and the Diabelli Variations. A triumph of the human spirit and its creativity.
Interestingly, fairly recent tests on some of his hair confirm a diagnosis of lead poisoning. As for giving up, deafness might be another reason!
one of those rare pieces that gives me chills and makes me feel both sad and happy at the same time. Life-affirming music.
Absolutely incredible.
One of the purest expressions of pain and hope in all art.
Thank you so much for posting this!!!
I'm sad I wasn't around when this music was being created, but I'm happy I live in a time when I can access this music whenever and wherever I am.
If I were stuck alone on a remote desert island with only one piece of music to hear, the Heiliger Dankgesang would be it.
Beethoven in tune with the infinite. The most spiritual / mystical piece of music I have ever heard.
Thank you Smalin for adding the visual feast.
this is the most beautiful and expressive rendition i have ever heard. the intuitive way the players exchange the leading parts, the nuance of shaping, all divinely perfect.
This is TOO beautiful. I must cry!
I've really never experienced anything more divine, other than maybe love. And I really like what you do visually - I really love the mathematical, modern feel applied to old music, it makes it kind of timeless.
This is one of the most emotional songs I have ever heard, I feel like I lose control of my body and mind when I listen to it.
i loved your MAM transition between the first andante back into the M. adagio.
Beautiful choice. I had a "love affair" with this piece when I was about 17 and for years very few other quartets (or other chamber works) seemed even in the same ballpark. I eventually opened up to other periods (of Beethove), other composers, and other combinations, but this entire quartet will always be my first love! I liked especially how you combined the two major animation types for this movement. Thank you, smalin!
I'm always kinder, more patient, more forebearing, more whole,
after listening to this piece.
wow. this is flat out amazing.
@Kroatek Comprehensive musicianship means knowing how to compose (or, for improvisatory styles like jazz, improvise) and being able share musical ideas fluently with other musicians (like, by being able to read and write music notation or play by ear well enough that reading music isn't necessary). Learning to play the guitar is a step towards that in the same way that learning to recite poetry by listening to recordings of people reciting poetry would be a step toward literacy.
Have been exploring Chamber Music the past while. This piece is from another world. Sublime and elemental. Beethoven has channeled the divine. Thank you so much for posting. Graphics are interesting as well. The web can be good for things it seems.
@PhoenX19 It's a pretty standard chord progression --- descending bass from the tonic to the mediant.
Thanks for the wonderful visuals smalin, they really add another dimension. This is simply wonderful music, I could listen to this all day.
Such a beautiful piece of music
Wow.
I also love how it is possible to create such powerful effects using as a core really simple motifs, long, one step up short, long
This visualization perfectly matches this quartet in beauty and is an instant favorite of mine. Thank you Smalin.
@fcblaugrana0 I think "quality" (in this context) is a subjective thing, and therefore the sense that a work of art has quality is an emotional reaction. There are technical contexts in which "quality" is defined objectively, and there are technical aspects to music, but these technical definitions come after the fact.
@andrezero I did that on the Große Fuge, but for this one, the beats are pretty obvious.
This has been and will go down as one of the best clips you've ever made.
In 'Point Counter Point', the well-known novel by Aldous Huxley, Spandrell, one of the characters, intended that this wonderful quartet proves the existence of God. I do not
think that is so, but in any case is a very spiritual music. Personally, I also
like very much the quartet 131, but any music of the last years of Beethoven is
always extraordinary. Btw, your visual redition is fantastic!
Don't be surprised if you hear this in heaven!🎶🎵
You have introduced me to music I would have never found otherwise. A fan.
Beethoven's such a great composer! I didn't know much about him, but with these pieces, I'm getting to know more and more about him! Thanks Stephen!
I am in the paradise each time I hear this. Wonderful, a miracle!
I like how you can hear the musicians breathing...
@rwelmer There's a continuous performance tradition from Beethoven to the present; if he'd swung his rhythms, we'd know it.
Thanks for reminding me ... I hadn't updated that list for a while.
Sublime.
Wiki: Beethoven wrote this piece after recovering from a serious illness which he had feared was fatal. He thus headed the movement with the words, "Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart" (A Convalescent's Holy Song of Thanksgiving to the Divinity, in the Lydian Mode).
Great job (as usual). Really like the mix in animations.
Two words: Thank you
I feel the slow part of this movement as a farewell. Thanking, yes, but thanking for having lived. Now that ends and he goes to the unknown...
My impression of this section is that the progression is simple but the excitement comes from the rhythmic interplay instead of the harmonic interplay. It is very exciting to imagine what all of the trading back and forth looks like between the four instrumentalists that are working together to weave such intricate rhythms into one cohesive piece.
Two quite wonderful elements struck me. First, the contrast between the Lydian portion and the other in D major is beautifully portrayed visually. Second, the progressive "break up? (rhythmically) of the Lydian portion as it moves from statement to statement is excellently delinated by the break up of the large horizontal blocks into smaller ones. You must really love this movement!
rnitzberg Yes, I do.
I love your graphics - great idea - lovely music too. Thanks for posting
the new circles technique is really awesome... you really can follow the progressions and better understand the sequences since you have a lot of time to anticipate while they go up or down to the next note
and it's brilliant how it works so well to show the intensity of the notes(don't know if it's on purpose but I totally love the long notes that kind of fall behind the action)
I agree: it's a wonderful piece. I hope to do it some day.
Love the use of parallax in your animation, neat idea.
Your vision is becoming more and more refined. I love it! Excellent, beautiful!
Wow. I've subscribed to your page for a long time and I try to listen to all of your updates- this one is fantastic. I mean the music is certainly the main attraction, but I love what you've done with the animations; the transition between bar and ball now depending on the mood/rhythm/speed of the music is pretty great. Anyway, keep it going, you can never have too much classical. Oh, and thank you for the videos, it doesn't seem like anyone really does that.
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THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER.
the variations are amazing
@1GunKnight i'm afraid of that feeling all the time.. thanks for admitting it.. for some reason.. reading that someone else felt that way too might help me to just let go the next time i feel that sensation.
@1GunKnight I mean it's likely that kids who could have become a Beethoven if their only opportunities to excel at something fun were provided by music are these days instead finding video games a more tempting occupation. If you have what it takes to become a Beethoven and you spend 20,000 hours working on it before you're an adult (and the right environment), you'll be a Beethoven. These days, the only thing sucking that kind of time out of kids is video games.
lovely music
@ezrahumane I wrote software myself from scratch.
Beethoven really knew his chords
look at 1:39-2:01
@TheVodKanockers It's a part of life. His music plays like different stages in the human experience. This movement stands out for the transcendental qualities. Maybe for some boring. It's like nature channel, maybe you don't like it but it shows what life is about
Very Nice! Always good to get the notice of your latest creation. And then go enjoy it.
Brahms said this when refering to a piece by Bach, but I think it fits just as well here:
...The man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind.
True, and we all comply, because he spoke of Bach's Chaconne!
@UnggoyWarrior Sure, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about a video game that teaches you enough about music that after you've mastered it you can sit down with a group of musicians and sight-read a string quartet (like this one) with them.
No, that's not what I mean. I mean that people have been playing Beethoven's music continuously since he was alive, and we have a historical record of changes that happened along the way. Unlike for, say, medieval music, which nobody was performing in the 19th century.
A most impressive rendering! I think I'd buy this if it was on a DVD!
I like the colour palette you use for string quartet animations. Its very warm and welcoming - but also slightly fun!
@TheVodKanockers dont be afraid to not like it just because it is beethoven!
Man, you are amazing! Thank you so much for this smalin!
@86proofjm I'm a pianist, so I'm at least passingly familiar with all Beethoven's piano sonatas (played through all of them at least a few times, studied some seriously). It's interesting to me that what we know hear as "jazz-like" couldn't possibly have struck Beethoven that way (since he'd never heard jazz); it makes me wonder: what *did* he hear it as being "like"? What affect, what mood, what feeling, did it have for him?
The section with the ''balls'' reminds me of The Shire's theme in the Lord of the Rings movies
oo i love this movement!!..
'holy song of thanks'...Heiliger Dankgesang.
This is absolutely wonderful. Thank you so much.
@mskl1 The problem is getting the information about note intensity from the recording. I've done it in a few pieces (the first movement of Beethoven's 5th symphony, and some solo violin and violoncello pieces by Bach), but mostly it's beyond what I can do, technically, at the moment.
@Tzsil713 The audio in this video is from a performance by real musicians, not from a MIDI file.
@TheVodKanockers put it aside. Mature and one day when you listen to this again you will completely understand it and fall in love with it.
That's a cool transition between bars and circles
Beautiful.
The cord progression might appear to be simple or corny (which I still want to doubt), Beethoven was able make such a simple thing sooo beautiful and delicious. This Pachelbel Canon Progression you mention from 3:18 has been used in soo many classical and modern pieces, it is universal and always loved to hear in many different variation. To me it is far from corny and cliché.
@snipersEND Actually, oddly enough, Beethoven was intending for elements of the Rondo to be used in the Ninth Symphony at one point ... So I guess you're kinda close. ;-)
Even this slow and a bit romantic piece has some fugal characteristics. You can see a theme played by an instrument and then another and another and the final. Especially in the last part, after the D major part has been played for second time! I'm sure you all can recognise this little theme that is use a million times, even as a bass melody! Beethoven has a few baroque characteristics, although he is definately classical. Of course when talking about baroque I mean ornaments and many voices...
smalin please, please please do your magic on Schubert's quintet in C- its the greatest quintet of them all.
Agree. The adagio is sublime
@smalin definitly agree with you. but as long as their happy im fine with it
@suzukiosaka Let the tears continue ...
I got a little disorientated when the circles showed up and I thought the animation was upside down. Very interesting. Even more interesting was the piece itself!
Fantastic... so amazing :)
@smalin Not so sure we would as interpretations change with tastes over time. People were so baffled by some of his late music that they would've tried to change it to make sense to their ears, just as we do now. In any event, I prefer to hear it swing as my ears can't make more traditional readings sound right. Still debating this stuff going on 200 years later ... gotta love it.
@snoopdogg111000 Don't worry, I will.
@chopper84a Angelo Badalamenti, Craig Armstrong ,Jan a.p. Kaczmarek, Ladies In Lavender by Nigel Hess, Michael nyman , Thomas Newman , Wim Mertens, Wim Mertens , Wim Mertens....
The bars are for the slow sections, the balls are for the fast sections.
You are such a cool dude
sublime. many thanks
İngenious animation! Wonderful! That's all I can say
@smalin Yes of course :D!
@MatchbookD70 It took a lot longer than it should have, because I made various mistakes along the way, and because it takes several hours to render the animation, it took me the long to discover I'd made a mistake. (Some I only caught and fixed in the bar-graph version posted on my musanim channel.) Other than that, it didn't take much extra time for the transitions.
Do you think it was a cliché when Beethoven wrote it?
This is like looking your lover in the eyes at the moment of climax in an auralgasm.
@XnaugahydeX I completely agree with you!
I like this playing, its got the human touch without being technically deficient
@boilzxys i accept your point about shallowness, and of course agree that there are many other worthy composers. However I object to there " is no point in still composing music 'like this', this is more then a century old."
Why would composing music of this idiom, now, be a problem? The primary reason most new art music flops IMHO is because it is overly concerned with origionality and being 'interesting' at the expense of everything else.
@chopper84a People still compose music in the style of Beethoven (especially composition students, for practice), people still compose music of this emotional depth, and a few compose music of this quality, but I don't know any instance of all three. Music in a new idiom is harder to understand, and therefore harder to appreciate (especially on first hearing), so you might have heard something of this quality but not recognized it as such. What's your cutoff date? How about Bartok's quartets?
A virtuous marriage of light and sound.
we're the internet, we can do it!
go to philipglass com and post a blog comment or write to anyone on the "contact" list and ask them to give smalin permission!
GENIAL!
@chopper84a Philip Glass String Quartet No. 5 is beautiful and varied. A perfect synthesis between the modern and romantic! You might like this.
@Kroatek ...to sight read is to play a piece for the very first time....to be able to sight read is to play most pieces relatively competently even when its your very first time playing it. Unfortunately on many instruments this level of proficiency is only reched after around 7 years or more, on the bright side guitar is pretty easy to learn, for me at least, at least compared to the violin, which I've been playing for 10 years....and im 15...lol
awesome videos, keep them coming!
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Remarkable!
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