I remember discovering this at the age of 4 and absolutely being blown away by this. I would go on to start lessons in piano a few months later in July. Today I turn 16 and I have been studying the piano for 12 years and it has truly became my passion, I am currently preparing to go out and study music for a degree and I am immersed in all music I can handle, and I love every minute of it. So I guess this is my thank you in a way for sparking something in me a long time ago.
Ethan P: In 1961, my aunt Peggy (th-cam.com/video/gfNQSfZhrzw/w-d-xo.html), who was visiting my mother, played Bach's Musette in D on the newly-arrived piano in our house. I was about eight, and I'd just started to take piano lessons (my first was on July 11th), and I was thrilled and moved by the music she was playing. Twelve years later, when I was finally getting good enough to get seriously into Bach myself, it felt like I was coming home. You can therefore understand how much your comment means to me. Best wishes in your pursuits.
@@smalin I dont know when you "went over the edge" and started morphing, and convoluting the graphic notes, but I like the straight forward rectangular graphics. I'm sure as an artist you see the need to "grow, so be it, but when I find a new piece of music, I always seek out the plain, straight forward representation of a piece. I dont read or play, and this format really makes the complexity of the music apparent to me. I end up appreciating and respecting the process of composing and playing the piece. Thank you for this representation. I will always seek out the rectangular format. If I cant find it, generally I move onto the next piece
I LOVE THIS MAN ...He knows that the average attention span of most adults is less than 10 seconds....SO HE changes the musical phrases every 10 seconds and we never get bored.
This is one of favorite Scarlatti recordings ever and I’ve listened to a lot. I can’t count how many times I’ve listened to this and how happy it’s made me so many times. Thank you.
@aha97becks Harpsichords were around before anyone heard anything electrical, so it's more accurate to say that electrical things sound like harpsichords.
I forget how much I love Baroque music and the use of polyphony until I hear something as lovely as this and it reminds me why out of all classical music, the Baroque period is my favorite. Thanks for this!
Yes, it's the first TH-cam video I uploaded that's still up ... but I made my first animated score video about twenty years before that, in 1985 (and my first graphical score about ten years before that).
People have said that Vivaldi did one concerto in 500 variations. I spit on them. Dominico here, has done 500 sonati with greater depth and variation than vivaldi, the sonati were actually etudes, and taught incredible keyboard technique used even today. Both the scarlattis were masters of music, and steven's rendition her shows this to be true. A true artist, steven has refused offers of money for more recordings, like he masers of old, they all care more for the art. bravo!
This is a great use of this site- seriously, it's much better than nearly everything else on here. Except the puking videos, those are pretty good too.
Domenico Scarlatti is the original composer from the 1700's in the court of Portugal with 550 plus original sonatas. Master of harmonics, he even has a few sonatas that could be predecessors to rock and roll tunes. Way ahead of his time one might say.
"Song" has long been applied to instrumental music (for example, Felix Mendelssohn's "Lieder ohne Worte"). Some people use the word for any piece of music, but some reserve it for vocal music (certain kinds of vocal music, that is; Beethoven's Ninth would not be called a "song," either). "Song" has come to be the term used for an audio recording that is sold as a unit; this usage will probably be reflected in dictionaries soon (if it isn't already). It's how language goes ...
It is! I've been playing a lot of Scarlatti lately (finally got scores to all 500+ sonatas), and as part of my practice, I improvise in his style (as close as I can get, anyway), and I can tell you: it is really fun. Really, really fun. Seriously.
"His music contains finger-exercises aplenty and more than a touch of the most elevated spirituality. Sometimes he is even a match for Mozart. If I were not afraid of incurring the disapprobation of numerous fools, I would play Scarlatti at my concerts. I maintain that the day will come when Scarlatti's music will often be played at concerts and that audiences will appreciate and enjoy it." -Chopin
this is an amazing work of art it blows my mind i honestly think that you can argue that bach and scarlatti are the greatest composers at least from the baroque
Love the rich timbre of the instrument you have used. I am also delighted by your spirited sense of rhythm, tempo, and rubato that sounds so stylistically attuned to Scarlatti's music. All too often I find myself disappointed by performances of Scarlatti's sonatas because the artist rushes through them as though they are merely a vehicle for demonstrating the player's technical facility on the keyboard, without paying respect to the genuine MAJESTY that Scarlatti has instilled into these pieces. Many of Scarlatti's sonatas seem nearly symphonic to me in the breadth of their expression, and I have long felt that they should be approached with the same attentiveness that is applied to the music of Haydn or Mozart. I have listened to your performance of this sonata over and over again, and it always fills me with joy. Many thanks.
Depends whether you're talking about the period or the style; he was born in the same year as J. S. Bach. The style is certainly more Galante than the Baroque of J. S. Bach (whose music pretty much defines "Baroque"), but it has a lot more in the way of Baroque-esque counterpoint than, say, Rameau (though not in this piece).
I'm glad I'm a canadian, american technology without any of the mentally destructive side-effects. I do enjoy Scarlatti, his works greatly enhance the atmosphere wherever played and I find his music to be excellent ambience for work or leisure activities. Thank you for posting this, smalin.
That has to be one of my favorite Scarlatti sonatas! Morever, that has to be one of my favorite performances of that piece that I've ever heard/watched! Brilliant! Thanks!
@citiblocsMaster And my point was that it wasn't a good analogy, because while there's little to be gained from reading program code in binary, there's a lot to be gained by watching my animations. They're used in music classrooms around the world, and many people report that they understand the music better after watching my videos. Sure, it doesn't show anything about harmony, but it shows other things.
Okay! I really really love this piece. You have really brought this music back to life by making this video. I play it all the time when traveling and all i hav is the internet for a link to this great music. I know what it is like, being pressed for time, it is tuly our most precious commodity. I worked with a relative of Nicola Tesla, he said whn he needed to concentrate, he shut off the pager, cell phone etc, and darn the consequences. I can only wish you as much success!
The Wikipedia "song" entry says "Colloquially, song is sometimes used as slang to refer to any music composition, even those without vocals," and at the Apple iTunes store, the button you click to buy a selection is labeled "BUY SONG" --- even if you're buying the Moonlight Sonata. So, it looks to me like the difference between "song" and "piece" is getting lost (like the difference between "comprise" and "compose," which I was sad to lose).
The music we as humans like depends on the frame of mind, emotion has a lot to do with it, but the appreciation of the beauty of the composition can exist, with or without the emotional attachment. Remember that this the genius minds like jean baptiste biot or antione savart, were also, or perhaps foremost, experimenters in music. The dancing up & down the scales as the baroque musicians do, is a reflection on intellectual enlightenment. It allows a state of mind that makes great leaps
Absolutely. You have to work a little harder than on a harpsichord to get the repeated notes, but it's definitely possible; when I was practicing this piece, I could do it.
It is unexpressable, what scarlatti does to us. i cannot listen to this less than 3 times, minimum. Steven has hit some chord (pardon the pun) with this particular piece, perfection!
Hi John, Scarlatti is definitely in the queue; see the FAQ for this piece for a little more detail on this. The issue here isn't money, but time; I'm way over-booked on non-music stuff, and need to get that finished first. Realistically speaking, I'll probably get to the Scarlatti sonatas in a year or two; if you want them sooner than that, the best approach is probably to get the MAM Player (see the FAQ for that, too).
D. Scarlatti is called the father of modern keyboard technique. What's even more amazing is that these 500+ sonatas were written for his student, the infanta maria barbara, of spanish royalty. think of how gifted she must have been to have learned and played all of these sonati!! Dominico, along with his father Allesandro, are in my opinion the most underrated composers of all time, but there has been a recent resurgence in their popularity thanks to Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante.
Same here. What matters to me is what image they bring to my mind, or in which way they inspire me; sometimes, they don't even inspire me, but just listening to Scarlatti makes me giggle inside and it kind of makes my heart dance. I feel it that way. Oh, and your username is awesome.♥
@Iemanonymous1 Sure, there's a big difference ... in what it feels like, in what aspects of the music you pay attention to when you're performing or listening, and in what kinds of music are written for them. If you learn one instrument and then try to play the other, you'll be able to play the notes (more or less), but there will be a lot missing, because you haven't dealt with the difficulties unique to that instrument.
These days, I'm playing more with my organ+piano combination; I'll probably do K. 531 with that, next. But I may return to the harpsichord for others. Depends on the particular sonata and what I'm into at the time.
I'm a pretty visual guy, and this really adds a dimension to this music for me. I've learned this on piano, but it still takes me way to long to play... (i can't even call it 'playing" yet) but this is so cool and so much fun to bang out. I agree the bass is weak i the recording, but the overall of this is so good, everyone i have played this for is entranced, as if by magic.
Esta es la mejor interpretación de la k 455 en youtube. ¡¡¡Gracias por compartir!!! This is the best performance of the Scarlatti's 455. Thanks for share!!!
@SunBeamsan Actually, that graph is misleading. USA looks like a lot because it based on total views, not percentage of population, and each country in Europe is counted separately. In fact, the majority of views are from elsewhere than the USA.
First off: Absolutely beautiful playing - seriously. Secondly: ......How can someone compose this?! I mean...there so many melodies yet they fit so well to create such a beautiful piece. I just don't get it...I mean to me it's like you have to be beyond a freaking genius to do that. Jeese...
@illegalsmirf Yes, but what forms of electricity did people hear before the harpsichord was invented? There was lightning, but I don't think aha97becks meant that harpsichords sound like thunder. There was static electricity, but I don't think harpsichords sound much like that, either. I don't think people would have thought harpsichords sounded electrical before the 20th century, when there started to be electrical (and electronic) devices for making sound.
Prefer the clavier, if possible, tempo similar to alexis weissenberg's piano rendition on deutche grammaphone. You've made my travels for work much more enjoyable, being able to access this. I may not be the mosy knowledgeable of the old composers, but i know what i like, and know the way to hear more is to support the artists who make the music!!!
Because of its light touch, quick onset, and rapid decay, the harpsichord is unsurpassed in rhythmic clarity and ornamentation. The clavichord tone is dirty and dull by comparison (and the fact that the sound of the performer's fingers hitting the keys is nearly as loud as the notes doesn't help), but it allows dynamic variation --- and vibrato, a feature that was lost with the piano and has only reappeared recently in electronic keyboards.
I was taking a music appriciation class. We listened to some harpsichord performances and I instantly loved them. Just the way it sounds. It's so amazing. Just looking at the screen and listening to the music is relaxing.
@SunBeamsan No, you're mistaken. In the USA, this video is getting about 100 views a day. In Italy, a country with a fifth the population of the USA, it gets about 50 views a day. In Germany, it gets about 30 views a day, same for France, Spain, England ... If you add up all of Europe, it's getting way more views than the USA. And that's even with the USA having a much larger percentage of its population on the internet.
@CarlosIsDown No, what you're describing is more like a mordant or "accent steigend" (see the Wikipedia article on "Ornament (music)"). Ritardando is a slowing.
I believe the point of the parallel emoboi1031 was drawing had to do with virtuosity: Scarlatti and Paganini both made significant contributions to the development of the technique of their instruments (and did things which, at the time, were considered very virtuosic); Vivaldi did not. My point was just that Scarlatti lived before Paganini. You wouldn't usually say, for example, that Vivaldi was the Philip Glass of the Baroque, but rather that Glass was a modern-day Vivaldi.
@Kuroinokaze When I read your comment, I had two thoughts: (1) I'd like to hear it on piano too. (2) Fast? This is nothing --- I'll show him fast! So, yesterday, I make a piano version. See what you think.
I found (oddly enough) organ compositions (or perhaps performances) by a few of these names. I'm not as impressed by the result as i am by the vivaldi/scarlattis, but i can sort of see the evolution from middle age music. I think. Thank you for this information! And as always- his k.455 is just fantastic- i still cannot listen to it less than 3 times !!! It make my fingers want to play so bad, but alas, it still takes genius to play aswell as you have visualized!!!
David Byrne of Talking Heads was famous for his 'poly-rhythm' stuff, this whole piece is a two part poly-... it really is emotionally evokative. I keep trying to convince Stephen to do more Scarlatti. Either Dominico or Allesandro's works were without peer at their best, at worst, merely decent. If you like this, listen to K.159, (Bela Fleck has an INCREDIBLE rendition of this on banjo and lute. Also look for Alesis Wiessenberg on Scarlatti, k450 is stunning!
Hypnotic, especially following the graphics. Very quickly moving up on my top 40 list!! Also mesmerizing, fun, lively, quick, complex, endearing. We have a winner!! Modulation at 1:12 devastating!.....also dramatic.
If you take audience requests and of the fun songs from pictures at an exhibition would be amazing in this form. Thanks for posting all of these, they're wonderful.
Of the pre-baroque composers I listed, I'm only aware of keyboard music by Byrd; if you want to compare apples and apples, you should probably listen to their vocal music. As for playing it the way I do, have you looked into the conductor program (described in an extensive article on my website, with free demo software)?
@citiblocsMaster In one way, your original analogy was backward: to understand binary machine language, you need to learn a complicated code, remember the meaning of a bunch of arbitrary numbers. In conventional music notation, you need to learn a bunch of arbitrary symbols. It's true that this form of my notation doesn't show harmony (other forms do), but it's easier to understand than conventional notation, and you can follow pitch, instrument, themes, counterpoint, and texture intuitively.
You've earned a sub man. I saw you roasting some ignorant jerks on Beethovens symphony no. 5 and you're badass. You're videos are gonna help me through college. Keep doing you 🤙🏻🤙🏻
I remember discovering this at the age of 4 and absolutely being blown away by this. I would go on to start lessons in piano a few months later in July. Today I turn 16 and I have been studying the piano for 12 years and it has truly became my passion, I am currently preparing to go out and study music for a degree and I am immersed in all music I can handle, and I love every minute of it. So I guess this is my thank you in a way for sparking something in me a long time ago.
Ethan P: In 1961, my aunt Peggy (th-cam.com/video/gfNQSfZhrzw/w-d-xo.html), who was visiting my mother, played Bach's Musette in D on the newly-arrived piano in our house. I was about eight, and I'd just started to take piano lessons (my first was on July 11th), and I was thrilled and moved by the music she was playing. Twelve years later, when I was finally getting good enough to get seriously into Bach myself, it felt like I was coming home. You can therefore understand how much your comment means to me. Best wishes in your pursuits.
@@smalin I dont know when you "went over the edge" and started morphing, and convoluting the graphic notes, but I like the straight forward rectangular graphics. I'm sure as an artist you see the need to "grow, so be it, but when I find a new piece of music, I always seek out the plain, straight forward representation of a piece. I dont read or play, and this format really makes the complexity of the music apparent to me. I end up appreciating and respecting the process of composing and playing the piece. Thank you for this representation. I will always seek out the rectangular format. If I cant find it, generally I move onto the next piece
Actually, I wrote the first version of this program on an Atari 800, in 1985.
I LOVE THIS MAN ...He knows that the average attention span of most adults is
less than 10 seconds....SO HE changes the musical phrases every 10 seconds and we never get bored.
This is one of favorite Scarlatti recordings ever and I’ve listened to a lot. I can’t count how many times I’ve listened to this and how happy it’s made me so many times. Thank you.
@aha97becks Harpsichords were around before anyone heard anything electrical, so it's more accurate to say that electrical things sound like harpsichords.
Scarlatti is master of harpscichord as Handel is master of organ. Nobody in history can match him.
I forget how much I love Baroque music and the use of polyphony until I hear something as lovely as this and it reminds me why out of all classical music, the Baroque period is my favorite. Thanks for this!
Yes, it's the first TH-cam video I uploaded that's still up ... but I made my first animated score video about twenty years before that, in 1985 (and my first graphical score about ten years before that).
This is the most fascinating sonata I have ever heard and all done in 2.5 minutes
Can listen to this over and over again and always feel thrilled.
All those notes. Kinda amazes you in how music is actually made. The right notes at the right time/speed.
I like this.
People have said that Vivaldi did one concerto in 500 variations. I spit on them. Dominico here, has done 500 sonati with greater depth and variation than vivaldi, the sonati were actually etudes, and taught incredible keyboard technique used even today.
Both the scarlattis were masters of music, and steven's rendition her shows this to be true.
A true artist, steven has refused offers of money for more recordings, like he masers of old, they all care more for the art. bravo!
This is a great use of this site- seriously, it's much better than nearly everything else on here. Except the puking videos, those are pretty good too.
TwirlingGuy wow 11 year old comment
13 years later, not much has changed...
14-year old comment
17 year old comment (holy shit)
Domenico Scarlatti is the original composer from the 1700's in the court of Portugal with 550 plus original sonatas. Master of harmonics, he even has a few sonatas that
could be predecessors to rock and roll tunes. Way ahead of his time one might say.
"Song" has long been applied to instrumental music (for example, Felix Mendelssohn's "Lieder ohne Worte"). Some people use the word for any piece of music, but some reserve it for vocal music (certain kinds of vocal music, that is; Beethoven's Ninth would not be called a "song," either). "Song" has come to be the term used for an audio recording that is sold as a unit; this usage will probably be reflected in dictionaries soon (if it isn't already). It's how language goes ...
I've done one of Bach's solo 'cello pieces, string quartets, and chamber music that includes 'cello.
It is! I've been playing a lot of Scarlatti lately (finally got scores to all 500+ sonatas), and as part of my practice, I improvise in his style (as close as I can get, anyway), and I can tell you: it is really fun. Really, really fun. Seriously.
"His music contains finger-exercises aplenty and more than a touch of the most elevated spirituality. Sometimes he is even a match for Mozart. If I were not afraid of incurring the disapprobation of numerous fools, I would play Scarlatti at my concerts. I maintain that the day will come when Scarlatti's music will often be played at concerts and that audiences will appreciate and enjoy it."
-Chopin
My favorite part is at 1:13. It just has such a lovely progression!
1:13
It might be one of my favorite passages in baroque music.
It's so oddly contemporary. He was so ahead of his time.
This guy was off his rocker. Holy moly.
@AnyPortInTheStorm That's the first place I heard anybody (besides myself) play this piece. I love the Carlos version.
this is an amazing work of art it blows my mind i honestly think that you can argue that bach and scarlatti are the greatest composers at least from the baroque
Love the rich timbre of the instrument you have used. I am also delighted by your spirited sense of rhythm, tempo, and rubato that sounds so stylistically attuned to Scarlatti's music. All too often I find myself disappointed by performances of Scarlatti's sonatas because the artist rushes through them as though they are merely a vehicle for demonstrating the player's technical facility on the keyboard, without paying respect to the genuine MAJESTY that Scarlatti has instilled into these pieces. Many of Scarlatti's sonatas seem nearly symphonic to me in the breadth of their expression, and I have long felt that they should be approached with the same attentiveness that is applied to the music of Haydn or Mozart. I have listened to your performance of this sonata over and over again, and it always fills me with joy. Many thanks.
I remember watching this in 2008. This is what got me into the harpsichord and Scarlatti. Awesome visuals and music.
I've got a newfound appreciation for Scarlatti. He's so original, and his sonatas are so fun and engaging, full of energy
Depends whether you're talking about the period or the style; he was born in the same year as J. S. Bach. The style is certainly more Galante than the Baroque of J. S. Bach (whose music pretty much defines "Baroque"), but it has a lot more in the way of Baroque-esque counterpoint than, say, Rameau (though not in this piece).
I'm glad I'm a canadian, american technology without any of the mentally destructive side-effects. I do enjoy Scarlatti, his works greatly enhance the atmosphere wherever played and I find his music to be excellent ambience for work or leisure activities. Thank you for posting this, smalin.
It's been done; on one of the "Switched On" recordings by Carlos.
The beginning of a legend.
The best performance I've heard of this piece.
Excellent
That has to be one of my favorite Scarlatti sonatas! Morever, that has to be one of my favorite performances of that piece that I've ever heard/watched! Brilliant! Thanks!
531 FTW!!!
That was the first one I ever learned, like, back in the 1960s.
I always LOVE how the Harpsichord sounds!
i cant stop listening to this! its so simple yet so colorful and expressive
I've done it with one other (see the Series), and I'm planning to do more.
@citiblocsMaster And my point was that it wasn't a good analogy, because while there's little to be gained from reading program code in binary, there's a lot to be gained by watching my animations. They're used in music classrooms around the world, and many people report that they understand the music better after watching my videos. Sure, it doesn't show anything about harmony, but it shows other things.
I'm going to post another one, K 450, pretty soon (like in the next few weeks).
Only one thing is missing: the claps at the end.
Here they go "CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!!!"
Fantastic piece, thanks for sharing !
Okay!
I really really love this piece. You have really brought this music back to life by making this video.
I play it all the time when traveling and all i hav is the internet for a link to this great music.
I know what it is like, being pressed for time, it is tuly our most precious commodity. I worked with a relative of Nicola Tesla, he said whn he needed to concentrate, he shut off the pager, cell phone etc, and darn the consequences.
I can only wish you as much success!
Wonderful! I love the sound of the harpsichord and this is a joyous piece of music. Thanks so much for posting this video!
Good question; I've added the answer to the FAQ.
The Wikipedia "song" entry says "Colloquially, song is sometimes used as slang to refer to any music composition, even those without vocals," and at the Apple iTunes store, the button you click to buy a selection is labeled "BUY SONG" --- even if you're buying the Moonlight Sonata. So, it looks to me like the difference between "song" and "piece" is getting lost (like the difference between "comprise" and "compose," which I was sad to lose).
I enjoy listening to baroque music and love to "watch" it.
The music we as humans like depends on the frame of mind, emotion has a lot to do with it, but the appreciation of the beauty of the composition can exist, with or without the emotional attachment.
Remember that this the genius minds like jean baptiste biot or antione savart, were also, or perhaps foremost, experimenters in music.
The dancing up & down the scales as the baroque musicians do, is a reflection on intellectual enlightenment. It allows a state of mind that makes great leaps
what makes this piece great is the chord progression arround 1:17.
Thanks. The graphic is very instructive and interesting. I prefer Harpsichord music on the harpsichord where is sparkles like the light in cut glass.
Absolutely. You have to work a little harder than on a harpsichord to get the repeated notes, but it's definitely possible; when I was practicing this piece, I could do it.
It is unexpressable, what scarlatti does to us. i cannot listen to this less than 3 times, minimum. Steven has hit some chord (pardon the pun) with this particular piece, perfection!
A very nice rendition of a beautiful piece of music. Thanks for posting!
Nice sample too, not to sterile, not too fussy. You know i like your work, but seriously, Dominico could not help but be proud of you for this.
Hi John, Scarlatti is definitely in the queue; see the FAQ for this piece for a little more detail on this. The issue here isn't money, but time; I'm way over-booked on non-music stuff, and need to get that finished first. Realistically speaking, I'll probably get to the Scarlatti sonatas in a year or two; if you want them sooner than that, the best approach is probably to get the MAM Player (see the FAQ for that, too).
D. Scarlatti is called the father of modern keyboard technique. What's even more amazing is that these 500+ sonatas were written for his student, the infanta maria barbara, of spanish royalty. think of how gifted she must have been to have learned and played all of these sonati!!
Dominico, along with his father Allesandro, are in my opinion the most underrated composers of all time, but there has been a recent resurgence in their popularity thanks to Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante.
Same here. What matters to me is what image they bring to my mind, or in which way they inspire me; sometimes, they don't even inspire me, but just listening to Scarlatti makes me giggle inside and it kind of makes my heart dance. I feel it that way.
Oh, and your username is awesome.♥
@CarlosIsDown Ah, yes, I'd forgotten that term. You are quite right.
Wow, you mean I'm up there with the puking videos? I've made the big time.
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@Iemanonymous1 Sure, there's a big difference ... in what it feels like, in what aspects of the music you pay attention to when you're performing or listening, and in what kinds of music are written for them. If you learn one instrument and then try to play the other, you'll be able to play the notes (more or less), but there will be a lot missing, because you haven't dealt with the difficulties unique to that instrument.
These days, I'm playing more with my organ+piano combination; I'll probably do K. 531 with that, next. But I may return to the harpsichord for others. Depends on the particular sonata and what I'm into at the time.
I'm a pretty visual guy, and this really adds a dimension to this music for me. I've learned this on piano, but it still takes me way to long to play... (i can't even call it 'playing" yet) but this is so cool and so much fun to bang out.
I agree the bass is weak i the recording, but the overall of this is so good, everyone i have played this for is entranced, as if by magic.
Esta es la mejor interpretación de la k 455 en youtube. ¡¡¡Gracias por compartir!!!
This is the best performance of the Scarlatti's 455. Thanks for share!!!
I din't have other word than “Splendid” when I met this combination with the animated
score and k455. Thanks!
This is absolute brilliant stuff!!
@SunBeamsan Actually, that graph is misleading. USA looks like a lot because it based on total views, not percentage of population, and each country in Europe is counted separately. In fact, the majority of views are from elsewhere than the USA.
First off: Absolutely beautiful playing - seriously.
Secondly: ......How can someone compose this?! I mean...there so many melodies yet they fit so well to create such a beautiful piece. I just don't get it...I mean to me it's like you have to be beyond a freaking genius to do that. Jeese...
What a way to present this music. All you need is a key signature and you could play it. Great idea.
I just love the bass of that harpsichord.
Always one of my favorite of all 555 Sonatas! Great Choice!
@illegalsmirf Yes, but what forms of electricity did people hear before the harpsichord was invented? There was lightning, but I don't think aha97becks meant that harpsichords sound like thunder. There was static electricity, but I don't think harpsichords sound much like that, either. I don't think people would have thought harpsichords sounded electrical before the 20th century, when there started to be electrical (and electronic) devices for making sound.
Haha i'm in your first video linked by the history of the music machine. 40º years dedicated by this, amazing. It's very beatifull.
Exquisite harmonies from 1:10 and onwards.
❤❤❤❤❤❤ absolutely, a delight to the mind
A staccato machine gun of pure art!
Prefer the clavier, if possible, tempo similar to alexis weissenberg's piano rendition on deutche grammaphone.
You've made my travels for work much more enjoyable, being able to access this. I may not be the mosy knowledgeable of the old composers, but i know what i like, and know the way to hear more is to support the artists who make the music!!!
Because of its light touch, quick onset, and rapid decay, the harpsichord is unsurpassed in rhythmic clarity and ornamentation. The clavichord tone is dirty and dull by comparison (and the fact that the sound of the performer's fingers hitting the keys is nearly as loud as the notes doesn't help), but it allows dynamic variation --- and vibrato, a feature that was lost with the piano and has only reappeared recently in electronic keyboards.
I was taking a music appriciation class. We listened to some harpsichord performances and I instantly loved them. Just the way it sounds. It's so amazing. Just looking at the screen and listening to the music is relaxing.
@SunBeamsan No, you're mistaken. In the USA, this video is getting about 100 views a day. In Italy, a country with a fifth the population of the USA, it gets about 50 views a day. In Germany, it gets about 30 views a day, same for France, Spain, England ... If you add up all of Europe, it's getting way more views than the USA. And that's even with the USA having a much larger percentage of its population on the internet.
@CarlosIsDown No, what you're describing is more like a mordant or "accent steigend" (see the Wikipedia article on "Ornament (music)"). Ritardando is a slowing.
I have never heard this song until today and it is absolutely wonderful. I love it.
Hello, after 13 years.
@@simpyoungyuk3885 Hello after 1 year, and 14
Scarlatti's music is perfect for this sort of visual transformation. the musical structures are almost like drawings :-)
I believe the point of the parallel emoboi1031 was drawing had to do with virtuosity: Scarlatti and Paganini both made significant contributions to the development of the technique of their instruments (and did things which, at the time, were considered very virtuosic); Vivaldi did not.
My point was just that Scarlatti lived before Paganini. You wouldn't usually say, for example, that Vivaldi was the Philip Glass of the Baroque, but rather that Glass was a modern-day Vivaldi.
@lou9393 Yes, the harpsichord I used didn't go up to G, so I played it a step lower.
Algo me hace volver una y otra vez a Scarlatti
y a Brassens . Son mágicos .
1.10 on ...PURE GENIUS. Wonderful harmonies
mmm, i could listen to this the whole day!
the first of many. so much enjoyment to millions, thank you
@Kuroinokaze When I read your comment, I had two thoughts:
(1) I'd like to hear it on piano too.
(2) Fast? This is nothing --- I'll show him fast!
So, yesterday, I make a piano version. See what you think.
I found (oddly enough) organ compositions (or perhaps performances) by a few of these names.
I'm not as impressed by the result as i am by the vivaldi/scarlattis, but i can sort of see the evolution from middle age music. I think.
Thank you for this information!
And as always- his k.455 is just fantastic- i still cannot listen to it less than 3 times !!!
It make my fingers want to play so bad, but alas, it still takes genius to play aswell as you have visualized!!!
David Byrne of Talking Heads was famous for his 'poly-rhythm' stuff, this whole piece is a two part poly-... it really is emotionally evokative.
I keep trying to convince Stephen to do more Scarlatti. Either Dominico or Allesandro's works were without peer at their best, at worst, merely decent.
If you like this, listen to K.159, (Bela Fleck has an INCREDIBLE rendition of this on banjo and lute. Also look for Alesis Wiessenberg on Scarlatti, k450 is stunning!
No mortality on the mind, you've got music to bring to so many people before you can even start thinking about that!
THIS IS BEATUIFUL AND SO JOYOUS!!!! I WANT TO LEARN THIS NOW! great program and great piece to show it off :)
Hypnotic, especially following the graphics. Very quickly moving up on my top 40 list!! Also mesmerizing, fun, lively, quick, complex, endearing. We have a winner!! Modulation at 1:12 devastating!.....also dramatic.
If you take audience requests and of the fun songs from pictures at an exhibition would be amazing in this form. Thanks for posting all of these, they're wonderful.
And he wrote 555 of them! They're not all of the same quality of complexity ... but they *are* all on TH-cam!
Of the pre-baroque composers I listed, I'm only aware of keyboard music by Byrd; if you want to compare apples and apples, you should probably listen to their vocal music.
As for playing it the way I do, have you looked into the conductor program (described in an extensive article on my website, with free demo software)?
@citiblocsMaster In one way, your original analogy was backward: to understand binary machine language, you need to learn a complicated code, remember the meaning of a bunch of arbitrary numbers. In conventional music notation, you need to learn a bunch of arbitrary symbols. It's true that this form of my notation doesn't show harmony (other forms do), but it's easier to understand than conventional notation, and you can follow pitch, instrument, themes, counterpoint, and texture intuitively.
It was my favorite once too.
I love this piece! I'm learing it right now....it requires such a difficult to achieve perfect, precise touch.
@Laudan08 No, my harpsichord didn't go up to G, so I put it down a tone.
You've earned a sub man. I saw you roasting some ignorant jerks on Beethovens symphony no. 5 and you're badass. You're videos are gonna help me through college. Keep doing you 🤙🏻🤙🏻
Does being ignorant make you a jerk? I ask because I'm ignorant about most things.
@@smalin hahaha, maybe I should've used a different word. I'm not good at insulting other people lmao
Yes, I played it in F instead of in G because my harpsichord only went up to F.
I think I am crazy! I love to watch this over and over again ...!!plz stop me
@lollYpoppY234 The Harpsichord has some killer bass at 0:16! People with good speakers beware...it sounds awesome!
It sounds and looks beautiful!