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.
I also have very specific images pop up in my head about certain pieces of music. Sometimes, different images for the same piece but at different times in my life. I would love to chat with you!
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.
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!
@@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!
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
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.
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....
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
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?
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 😭😭😭
@@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.
@@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
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.
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.
so poorly written... check what Victor Borge did with it. Thats what called composing skill... i know, i know.. you don't need negative energy, everything is fine as it is, no need to learn/develop
this is one of those pieces where the silence afterwards is 100% part of the music
You're absolutely right
One of my teachers always used to say me "silence is also music"
Debussy basically
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?
My theory teacher would always call it the "fancy version."
More like the “seriously? HBS
You're studying music theory? And is it worth it?
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!
I also have very specific images pop up in my head about certain pieces of music. Sometimes, different images for the same piece but at different times in my life. I would love to chat with you!
Amazingly timed upload on my birthday!
All planned! 😉
Happy birthday!
@@evanever Thanks :D
Happy birthday 🥳🎂
Same for me. xD
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
Im glad yoshimatsu is finally getting more recognition these past months
constantly changing time signatures... exactly what i like!
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
What a stupid comment.
0:34 this arp chord
That is the BEST part
YOSHIMATSU ALWAYS ON TOP BABY
i LOVE the two romances so much its so good to see yoshimatsu get the recognition he has long deserved
I'm so happy I heard this! I never knew...❤️
i love these veidos of like, analysing every single note for how it interacts with every other note, apozejhgkljb music theory is *chef's kiss*
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!
Takashi Yoshimatsu
It feels like the moment a newborn enters the world❤ We’re so happy you’re here, Little One🥹
It's my birthday in a few days and I got this as a recommendation. Lucky me🤭Thank you for this enchanting version:)
Thanks for making me discover his music it is incredible !!!
With great pleasure!
Very intriguing. Thanks for analying it!
If I ever get the opportunity to teach music theory, I am 100000% using 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.
aww, loved this
Could you make an analysis video for another of Yoshimatsu's work? His compositions are pristine gems.
I just might!
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!
Too sweet.
Love these "breakdown" videos, great work !
Thanks a lot!
Wow, lovely!
Gorgeous!
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.
this is really good. short and sweet, but heartfelt
Thank you very much: moving!
0:34 that G major 9 chord is so beautiful
Oh wow brilliant 👏👏👏❤️
i feel at peace
Beauty.
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!
Would totally love to hear this live!
You already have mate
god that suspension just summoned tears
Yoshimatsu is the BOMB!
This has a very old-school feeling to it. Reminds me of like Autumn Leaves or something on piano
О, это же Такаши Йошиматсу!
Я год назад на его 70-летие сделал фортепианную аранжировку его произведения для гитары "Romance for tree"
that suspension at the end
Nice composition.
I recently had my birthday and this made me tear up, at 1am
OH MY GOD I LOVE YOSHIMATSU
please do something from Memo Flora or Cyber Bird
i know there’s sheets in the video but is there like buyable ones? so i can print em
awesome
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?
“Baby shoes for sale. Never worn.” 😔
Theory is everything.
I swear im not crying rn
Don't fight it
0:33 best part
I find Homebody’s set of variations more beautiful and ingenious personally
Let's not forget the poor girl called Toyuyu. No one could sing her happy birthday song correctly.
I swear Sarah Mclachlan wrote this, and that passing chord in the sec😅be to last measure 👌🏻👌🏻💯
Wow
My only critique is I wanted another harmony in m. 76. Maybe a vi (B minor) harmony to keep it moving.
Yo dude, is there a longer version? Please? I wanna learn it. Thanks 😍
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
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.
Sounds like a Christmas song
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....
❤️
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
I have never seen 1/8 time
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.
happy birthday but alternative spain intro
Cool
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.
Now check out the version by FUNTWO!
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG
Who watched this in 2x speed? 👇🏻
Sacrilegious
i guess it is not V64 at the end. Not A major 2nd inversion
should do the stravinsky greeting prelude
I haven't heard that in so long that I'd actually forgotten about it!
That suspension needs to be prepared. But very nice. B++
0:23 and 0:39 remind me of UP
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 😭😭😭
Why the sheets make it look complicate d 😭
A simple arrangement, but in that simplicity, the moment @0:35 becomes transcendent.
Contemporary classical music is just as worthy as Romantic or Classical or etc...
5 - 5
Happy Birthday but it's in Minecraft
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.
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
Fermata was a little too long for my liking, but it was a pretty version
Played this on my birthday, which is also a funeral. 🙃
Rest in peace grandparents. ❤
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.
TH-cam stalking me my birthday is tomorrow I haven’t even talked about out loud how the fuck do they know
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
Beautiful you gotta be kidding me depressing and the worst thing I ever heard. please don't quit your day job.
so poorly written... check what Victor Borge did with it. Thats what called composing skill... i know, i know.. you don't need negative energy, everything is fine as it is, no need to learn/develop
You are a bad person.
"Major means happy"
No. Major means bright.