Hello! I’m an American on a quest to learn more about history, geography and the universe in general. In this video we continue with the period between 1650-1750 when music took a huge leap forward from small groups of musicians playing mostly stringed instruments, to entire orchestras. We begin with Bach’s counterpoint melodies and end with Handel’s oratorios. If you enjoyed this video, please like and subscribe!
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Be glad…you are learning something everyday. It is impossible to be born with all knowlege.
I've been to several Messiah sing-a-longs, where the audience could sing along with the chorus parts, and that was a lot of fun. I can sing with most of the chorus and baritone-bass solo parts.
If you want to get into military music another good option is watching one of the Edinburgh Tattoo's especially the newer ones as they have more international military bands show casing military music from there home regions.
You might say that Pantomimes are (in a sense) a way for the English to mock opera :-) Though I admit that would be a gross simplification.
14:15 I wonder why I get the feeling this was filmed in London.
I don't think people would link the Hallelujah Chorus to empire now, most weren't even born when there was one.
The March King is Sousa,, Have mentioned Trooping the colour, watching live in 1976 with so many soldiers falling to heat exhaustion. Queen on her horse , the Scots Guards ,Black Bear, marching off down the Mall over the Horse poop was funnt at the time.
A quote from the famous British conductor Sir Thomas Beecham – โThe sound of a harpsichord โ two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm. โ
Your doing it the right way, Using your education for Knowledge, Good on you! :)
Handel and Bach are two composers that I never really enjoyed that much … but Handel has started to grow on me .. and his idea`s with playing notes in many different ways just made me think of Vince Clarke when he was mixing his songs for Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure … and the tunes he has mixed for other Artists too. For Me` the Greatest and most mindblowing person to ever play a piano has to be Jerry Lee Lewis, plus another name that comes to mind for piano and writing music has to be Neil Sedaka … both very talented. Howard Goodall is so talented because most of his music and lyrics are written using the skills and his natural talent for the music of these times. If you watch any of Black Adder .. he did most of the music and research .. and many more wonderful and entertaining programs. The Beatles did loads of crazy mashup stuff on their albums another person who used the same methods was Marc Almond .. of SoftCell Fame … on his solo Marc & the Mambas Album.
Another Great America Artists that springs to mind for his piano skills has to be Fats Domino … I really love his early music. If you really want to talk about one Entertainer who went against the grain and traditional music / Culture and added his own Modern twist .. then you must do a video on Al Jolson … it`s truly amazing how his voice and styles changed to fit into the ever changing world around him.
Any Trooping the Colour video would be OK. The music stays essentially the same from year to year. The main difference is the regimental marches of the regiment whose colour is trooped. (The colour [flag] of a different Army regiment each year is trooped [walked through the ranks] of the regiment). All the troops are inspected by HM the Queen. Depends whether you like military music.
Yet more fascinating stuff. Thanks once again. I really laughed when you mentioned panto because I'd just thought the same thing and then you said it. Panto is where we easily embarrassed Englishmen let ourselves go! (oh no they don't! oh yes they do!) I hope you realise that, if you annoy your friends, they will call you and play harpsichord music down the phone!
I couldn't agree more about the harpsichord, however much I've tried over the years it just grates at my nerves for some reason. However much I've tried to be rational about it, I think for me it sounds more like a machine than an instrument. Anyway, a very interesting upload, keep it up….. Bob
If I recall, episode 3 in this series was brilliant so looking forward to the rewatch. Love these videos.
This is a good video and shows a bit more about equal temperament https://youtu.be/1Hqm0dYKUx4 particularly in relation to vibrating strings, notes, and piano tuning.
Regarding different notes! This is all Western philosophy, from a physics perspective there are 24 thousand ''Frequencies'' we can hear and each of them could be thought of as a ''note''. In the West we found 12 that had some mathematical relations between them and made those our scale basis for all our music. This was not the same in other cultures! Though most of the major cultures are all based on what we call the ''Pythagorean Scale'' so we can relate there are musical cultures that sound totally dissonant to us, like horrible noise. And our music sounds like horrible noise to them! Sound is sound, music is not a universal fundamental it's a cultural invention. And that's why the Piano cannot play ''all'' the notes.
If youโre really into classical music, may I humbly recommend The Portsmouth Sinfonia.
Found it funny how you said about wrapping your head around Transposing a tune. And then he goes and does it again just to rub it in. Bloody showoff :-)
May I suggest Valerie Hartzell on YouTube, to help inspire you with your classical guitar.
May I suggest Suzy Klein, she has made some very interesting tv shows about the history of classical music and some of them are on YouTube.
Good story behind the foundling hospital , it was originally funded as an orphanage for the children of prostitutes and funded by an anti prostitution work called a whores progress privately published illustrated series covering a young woman's arrival in London and death within a decade the children at the orphanage ended up in military and civil service in key prestigious positions
First major pop artist is hard to say arguments can be made for Mozart or Beethoven as well , the part about audience Mozart's work was the first in Vienna he became popular a few weeks before he died sadly
The is also a walking dream
Yes insurrection a British tar . Yes Louis 14th was a fascinating character , he was physically unusual he lived in to his 90s when life expectancy was around 40 , he ate four times as much food as normal people his tolerance for alcohol was huge his sex drive was ridiculous until he found religion in middle age , his mother made his brother Philip wear a dress in public to hammer home he was always second to his brother , she also disturbingly arranged his sex education done in a practical way aged 12 to a middle aged woman to hammer home he will have to marry someone for political reasons regardless of appearance , there is a good I recommend the BBC Versailles documentary or the BBC channel plus Versailles drama series , gives you a sense of him Versailles was a political statement from him
They show horses , it was a cow accidentally knocked over a lantern
Yes I went deep into the Beatles myself once
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