Principles of Music: Rhetoric Part I

In this video I begin to discuss how to apply rhetorical devices to music. This video is meant to build off my video about Motifs, and should be seen as a continuation of what I set up there.
About the narrator:
My name is Henry Wolfe Carradine, and I'm a composer living in Vienna Austria, so check out some of the original works I've posted on this channel. You can purchase the sheet music to most of the pieces I have written online at www.henrywolfecarradine.com/downloads.
A special thanks as always to musopen.org and imslp.org for offering free public domain sheet music and recordings online.

[@pleadwacky]

Your videos have given me the best overview of musical composition that l have ever come across, anywhere on the internet or in books , and has allowed me to put the detail into better context. Brilliant. Thank you.

[@MusicaUniversalis]

You’re welcome! Always a pleasure to read such comments.

[@millennial8441]

I really love this literary-discoursive effect that the music delivers to us. It seems that the music is "telling a story". But it is just in the 20th century that the music gets freed from literary and rethoric devices and it can be apreciated for what it is: a sonic event in itself. The word is a tool for the Literature, but the sound is the only tool for the Music.

[@juliocanche7822]

A bigger example of an anaphora is Mahler's 4th symphony, 1st movement. The "sleighbell" motif is repeated thrice and each time is followed by a different continuation of the symphony.

[@eltonwild5648]

Thanks for the video Henry!

[@funguyscienceman]

It’s scary how excited I get for a new video

[@rainerzehetbauer6645]

Amazing!

[@cylnx4174]

Ohh yes! A new video !

[@prs_81]

Exactly what I wanted now!

[@chunyitsang4547]

New video 😍 thanks!

[@andresabarca37]

Amazing video!

[@jerzyfryderykwojciechowski]

Great job!

[@caleb-hines]

Can we look forward to any discussion of schemata (like Riepel's Monte, Fonte, and Ponte), and how they relate to a piece's dispositio?

[@lavendelle_swift]

I'm excited for Part II and also another videos.

[@MusicaUniversalis]

There will be more than two parts 😉

[@shirleymccord5896]

Thank you for a most enlightening video. Please advise the music software used to produce the coloured highlights?

[@topherlafata]

Great video. What is that painting of the two figures looking at the Moon?

[@hz6612]

seriously thank you very much , what you are posting is amazing and this is really awaking the world and uncovering many hidden secrets of secret knowledges

[@composingchef]

So, is this just another name to call certain sections when following the period or sentence form? I like it.

[@eltonwild5648]

Will you start to upload weekly?

[@MusicaUniversalis]

I‘ll do my best!

[@scherzo0o]

The Dvorak example is in fact antimetathesis :)

[@stasta9434]

is there an english translation of the lexicon?

[@sauvraelkemtet4359]

What is that painting at 3:14?

[@dulcietorrans]

I wonder what the difference between an ostinato an an anaphora is?

[@caterscarrots3407]

Anaphora only repeats at the start of a phrase. Ostinato repeats throughout the piece. At least, that’s how I understand an ostinato is repetition throughout the piece. So for example Pachelbel’s Canon in D has a melodic ostinato. And Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata First Movement has a rhythmic ostinato.

[@brumeleable]

what is the opening music?

[@cljohnson2405]

I could be wrong, but I believe it's something he wrote

[@MusicaUniversalis]

Many years back I purchased some software instruments for my computer and „wrote“ a short midi track to test out the sounds. The Intro music is a little snippet of that.

[@r.i.p.volodya]

I cannot bear to hear you say "barOWEque" one more time!