Who knew happy birthday could be so beautiful?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ย. 2024
- Takashi Yoshimatsu's reharmonisation of Happy Birthday in his "Romance on the birthday" is a lovely and intimate gem of his unusually beautiful harmonic language. Appoggiaturas in the original arrangement are treated as harmony notes (m.73 note B) and original harmony notes become extended harmonies with unexpected chords (m.77 A F# D over G major). These harmonic choices often create repeated harmonies and, as a result, quite static landscapes over which countermelodies and simple imitative counterpoint seem to be comparatively salient. Just comparing the original harmonisation reveals indeed how much fewer harmonic changes there are, and the prevalence of the IV chord which also creates an illusion of G lydian at the beginning. Bar 77 is particularly expressive with its IV9 chord and the expansion in chord voicing prepared by a descending arpeggio in the previous bar.
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This is happy birthday for a loved one who has passed.
I agree, it's so moving it feels more like a dedication than a greeting
No this is mine! Mine, I say! 😭
Eggzackly
Leaves from the vine,
Falling so slow...
@@francisokechukwu2561 pleasee can I use that word in my conversation?
this is one of those pieces where the silence afterwards is 100% part of the music
You're absolutely right
Weirdly specific, but this feels like the version you’d hear in a movie: a really old person that’s grateful to be alive at their age, and quietly enjoys a cupcake and a nice tea while they contemplate on the joy they’ve experienced.
Yes indeed!
My theory teacher would always call it the "fancy version."
More like the “seriously? HBS
Amazingly timed upload on my birthday!
All planned! 😉
Happy birthday!
@@evanever Thanks :D
Happy birthday 🥳🎂
Same for me. xD
Bro really said fuck anacrusis and wrote a single bar of 1/8
It has a reason for this - the time signatures are in the exact sequence on 1967-3-26, which is unsurprisingly the birthday of the pianist this is dedicated to, Kyoko Tabe.
@@lololyoo5091but the last one is 6?
Edit: or is the 8 a typo?
@@brianbrennaman56556 It is 6. Her birthday is on 26th of March
@@brianbrennaman5655 my bad - typo
There is no way, today is my birthday and for a moment I thought someone had dedicated me a video lol. xD
Well I did!
YOSHIMATSU ALWAYS ON TOP BABY
Im glad yoshimatsu is finally getting more recognition these past months
constantly changing time signatures... exactly what i like!
happy birthday just for yourself while you are sitting alone in the quiet and peace of the night at the very beginning of the day
i LOVE the two romances so much its so good to see yoshimatsu get the recognition he has long deserved
Takashi Yoshimatsu
Thanks for making me discover his music it is incredible !!!
With great pleasure!
Love these "breakdown" videos, great work !
Thanks a lot!
Could you make an analysis video for another of Yoshimatsu's work? His compositions are pristine gems.
I just might!
aww, loved this
Yo!! That’s so cool you featured Takashi Yoshimatsu on the channel. He’s underrated. Love his symphonies and concertos. Symphony 4 is so magical.
Thank you very much: moving!
OH MY GOD I LOVE YOSHIMATSU
please do something from Memo Flora or Cyber Bird
Beautiful version to dedicate to our family and friends 😊
I always do it! Love it when the theme creeps in at first then usually by the second or third line everyone starts to realise.
Gorgeous!
this is really good. short and sweet, but heartfelt
Beauty.
Wrote this out for guitar yesterday and it mostly works. Thanks for sharing! 😊
@@Alan-Byrne1987 I'm sure yoshimatsu would've loved to hear it on guitar! Post it on TH-cam sometime
@@skylarlimex Will do Skylar. Thsnks again!
Oh wow brilliant 👏👏👏❤️
I wrote a piano piece that imagines the waves on a beach pictured through a black key glissando. So much you can do to imagine something!
Interestingly enough, this 1967-3-26 sequence of time signatures (actually the birthday of the dedicatee aka the pianist who played this, Kyoko Tabe) is also used in the second movement of the Memo Flora Concerto!
@@lololyoo5091 3-26 you mean? Thanks for dropping that bit of information! Everyone was curious about the strange groupings
@@skylarlimex yes! the name of this piece is literally "birthday romance", and both this and Memo Flora are dedicated to Kyoko Tabe. A very lovely homage by Yoshimatsu-sensei indeed!
@@lololyoo5091 any idea to whom the first piece is dedicated to? Romance on a name.
@@skylarlimex I see (rest)-A-Bb-E so maybe it’s a Tabe reference?
Yoshimatsu is the BOMB!
This has a very old-school feeling to it. Reminds me of like Autumn Leaves or something on piano
that suspension at the end
i feel at peace
О, это же Такаши Йошиматсу!
Я год назад на его 70-летие сделал фортепианную аранжировку его произведения для гитары "Romance for tree"
god that suspension just summoned tears
A simple arrangement, but in that simplicity, the moment @0:35 becomes transcendent.
Would totally love to hear this live!
You already have mate
I swear im not crying rn
Don't fight it
I recently had my birthday and this made me tear up, at 1am
Nice composition.
Played this on my birthday, which is also a funeral. 🙃
Rest in peace grandparents. ❤
awesome
0:33 best part
My only critique is I wanted another harmony in m. 76. Maybe a vi (B minor) harmony to keep it moving.
I find Homebody’s set of variations more beautiful and ingenious personally
Fun fact (sort of): When Happy Birthday went into the public domain, I was asked to play it in the background of a news report. This is the version I played.
I never thought it could be written as a triplet, I was pretty sure it was a dotted quaver and semiquaver
as Vi Hart pointed out in their video on the happy birthday song, it’s almost always sung as a triplet despite always being noted as a dotted eighth and a sixteenth
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG
Yo dude, is there a longer version? Please? I wanna learn it. Thanks 😍
How can you be so experimented in music theory at your age ?
Well for one thing, starting this channel has helped a lot in consolidating my knowledge. Other than that I have and had amazing teachers.
Give credits to the creator of the Happy Birthday song! Teresa Carreño! Un baile en sueños / Un bal en rêve Op. 26
Sounds like a Christmas song
Duuuddeeee you have to analyze cyber bird concerto
His memo flora piano concerto
And the birds are still
You know i study music and this man changed the way i look at birds and music man
Just pure beauty
That suspension needs to be prepared. But very nice. B++
I swear Sarah Mclachlan wrote this, and that passing chord in the sec😅be to last measure 👌🏻👌🏻💯
Cool
I'm partial to having minor 4 chord at 0:44, but this is an excellent harmonization!
It's funny because the minor iv is so used by yoshimatsu yet he avoids it here. It does run the risk of sounding clichéd.
me too- but everything else is in D. i think expressing it in this harmonic vocabulary lends a sort of neo-baroque chorale feeling to the whole thing. if there was a B flat instead of a B, it would sound a little incomplete as it spells a diminished chord instead of a minor iv. there would have to be a fourth voice in order to fill out the chord- but a minor iv sure is beautiful.... dang....
0:34 this arp chord
Hi, I was learning the piece recently and wonder why he write the complex (or detailed) time signatures at the beginning section of the video. Did the composer try to specify the accents of the rhythm and the phrasing? Or is there any other musical theoretical reason for such notations?
Its like cadenza, and every half note have their grouping . You should check the original version to understand this piece
@@jefflokanata Well, I am looking at the original score and wondering why they’re grouping like that.
The more I stare at your profile photo the more I think it looked like a gorilla with a toothpick or a cream coloured owl while listening to the piece in the background like I had some revelation 😭😭😭
“Baby shoes for sale. Never worn.” 😔
Happy Birthday but it's in Minecraft
should do the stravinsky greeting prelude
I haven't heard that in so long that I'd actually forgotten about it!
Who watched this in 2x speed? 👇🏻
Sacrilegious
i guess it is not V64 at the end. Not A major 2nd inversion
Reupload with a jumpscare at the end
Excellent idea
@@skylarlimexThe real hard stuff too, like the old jumpscares where you’re watching a rocking chair rock by itself, and then the with comes outta nowhere
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Why the sheets make it look complicate d 😭
Behining sounds like quotation of memo flora
I thought it was the other way around! I'm not sure though.
@@skylarlimex It is indeed a quotation from Memo Flora. This set of two Romances is published a few years after Memo Flora, in one book with a few other pieces like Regulus Circuit, 3 Waltzes, 4 Little Dream Songs, and Piano Folio to a Disappeared Pleiad.
Also not shown here, but the first Romance also quotes the first movement from Memo Flora. This 2nd Romance quotes the 2nd movement.
Actually my bad, Skylar Lim was right. I read the copyright dates wrong xd. The Romances were marked copyright 1996, and it was reprinted in 2001 along with the rest of the pieces. Memo Flora concerto was from 1997, so just a year after this set of Romances.
0:23 and 0:39 remind me of UP
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Fermata was a little too long for my liking, but it was a pretty version
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i know im literally just a hater but i find this kind of analysis so bizarre. like how is it at all helpful to identify that the second note of the theme is an escape tone or the neighbor tone in the third measure or almost anything in this analyses and most others except the chords themselves? it just seems like putting as many year one music theory terms into the frame as possible for the sake of it
It's particularly interesting in this case because Yoshimatsu treats the birthday theme differently in terms of which notes are harmony notes and which aren't. In the traditional harmonisation, the first note is a neighbour note and non harmony whereas here, it is harmonised, completely changing the feeling of tension and dissonance. Instead the second note becomes non harmony, an escape tone, which sounds rather odd actually and helps to create an almost vague, dream-like atmosphere.
If you think this is beautiful, go listen to Cateen's 12 variations of happy birthday.
Sus4 to 1 as an ending? ..at a party no-one will hear it, they will cheer & toast the Birthday one.. It's all very clever but remember that we play to PEOPLE who love ability but hate a smart alec.
No one's being a smart alec, it's just a piece. I've played it for lots of people on their birthdays and seeing everyone's face light up as the birthday theme creeps in at the end is just absolute gold. Definitely try it some time.
that "lovely open voicing" into the alto countermelody is mismatched and weird
🥱 a pair of missed oportunities.. such a shame
Wow