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brilliant analysis... perfect!

brilliant analysis, keep up the excellent work, an analysis of debussys "Voiles" would be sweet as sugar... 🥰😇😊

Impressive!

Just discovered your videos. I’m sorry you seemed to stop making them. What incredible work. Thank you!

Some feedback about the production quality. The voice over volume is way to low and it is a bit mumbly and bassy. Needs to be more infront and in your face.

Any recommendations on materials to study theory in this period? Stuff like octatonic scales and just general harmony here

Super killing analysis!!!

I hope you keep making these kind of videos. They are wonderful ❤

I really hope one day you continue making these videos, they are superb!

This is fantastic. I've always wondered how he uses his modes and this starts illuminating it. As someone who has gone this deep in his music, can you HEAR the individual modes without analyzing them?

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Interesting vid, good musical analysis. I'd like to ask a question that has nothing to do with the music itself. Can you tell me how do you manage to keep your head from interfering with the view of the keyboard in the vid? Thanks.

Great analysis! Would love to see more Ravel videos from you, especially Daphnis et Chloe 1st mvm or Sonatine 1st mvm would be amazing! Keep up the good work! ❤️🎻

Had to come back and enjoy this again. Hope you're doing well Nick!

Thanks!

Great video

As an untrained musician but Scriabin devotee I found this wonderfully informative!👌

Very interesting video! I just want to share a nerdy thought, being a music theory enthusiast. Since I started transcribing the Turangalîla Symphonie (in Musescore), I have started to notice a way of harmonization that Messiaen frequently employs when harmonizing lyrical melodies (most notably in the ”Love theme” from the Turangalîla symphony). The method consists of alternating major #4 (lydian) chords with Dominant 13 omit 5 chords, the melody always being the #4 or the dominant 7 and also doubled in the bass, with all the other chord tones being placed inbetween (atleast in the case of Turangalîla). This creates, in my opinion, a mysterious yet very bright sound. It’s also straightforward enough that it’s easy to play around with yourself. At 19:12 in this video I noticed this technique again. I have been looking for anyone noticing the same thing in many different papers and documents analyzing the Turangalîla or Messian’s music in general, but I haven’t found anything. Maybe it is a bit too niche… Have you ever thought about this? Is there something more to it than just simply being chords drawn from the 3rd mode of limited transposition? That would’ve been too boring.

Really clear, musical analysis - thank you! I have only one issue with your interpretation: I don't think the final Eb chord is intended to be sustained through the end of the piece - it blurs the downward line in a way that does not resemble any earlier passage, and it is clearly notated as a short chord followed by silence in the LH.

beautiful!!!

Excellent analysis

Thank you for thos analysis!

Thank you, Nick!

Thanks for a such detailed analysis!

Played too fast

Incredible explanation and presentation. Hats off! 👏👏👏

Hi, I’d love to know where you found that citation from Messiaen regarding the instrumental imitation. I can’t seem to find it online

Thanks so much for this!!! I love the context at the beginning, and the breakdown of harmony and chords, your analysis is very detailed! Don't know if you're still reading comments, but if you are, could you pls analyse Chopin's waltz in E minor, Bach english suite no 2 prelude, Mozart sonata K332, or Whitlam Rag no 1 "It's time!" by Ian Munro??? Thanks again

Very helpful and insightful analysis into this wonderful piece. Thank you for your effort and clarity.

This is really amazing! Detailed thorough analysis and great playing

Can you do a Video on Joseph Marx's Prelude (and Fugue if you want to make a bigger video!) from his 1916 collection of 6 piano pieces?

Outstanding analysis!

Thank you! Very interesting and inspiring.

So glad to finally see some of the logic in one of my favorite 20th century scores !This is one of the most refulgent scores in all music . Messiaen chronomie and Turangilila,early preludes all unforgettable !

This may be the best TH-cam video I've ever watched! I love Messiaen, I love Noel, and I love your analysis. It is interesting how Messiaen extended his rhythmic technique of added notes to the whole tone scales, adding notes to extend them just beyond their boundaries. All these tricks serve to make Messiaen always sound like Messiaen. I can't think of another composer who always sounds so much like himself and could never be mistaken for anyone else.

Wow ! Hearing you makes the music come alive. I want tocry realizing now why I should have payed attention in harmony class !

Wow! Obukhov I don't think I've read about but he is a fascinating figure !

Thankyou so very much ! I can't wait to see more of your videos ! Your harmony understanding handling is fantastic . So much here I had never seen in study. My harmony theory is too weak !

What is the song from 8:00? Love your channel!

Great explanation.

nice analysis, thanks for the helpful content

thank you so much for this!! i needed it for my piano exam tomorrow

Loved this breakdown. That F#13b9 is like a bread and butter chord in jazz. Super common in gospel too. I'm coming from jazz/gospel and learning classical and it's so cool to see the differences and similarities alike.

Everyting is superb. Only comment...please talk and play more slowly for better comprehension and follow-up.

I’m learning this piece right now! It’s a great early to mid intermediate piece to learn!

Thankyou for your insightful presentation of this remarkable Ravel.

this is excellent

can you analyze beethoven or mozart or schubert or chopin? i love these videos

Très bien....bravo !

Hi! I would love to know where I can buy this sheet music. Thank you and keep up the stellar work!