Scarlatti, Sonata in C major (K. 159, harpsichord and organ)
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- "Download?" and other FAQ for Domenico Scarlatti's Sonata in C major, K. 159, performed by Stephen Malinowski on harpsichord and pipe organ, accompanied by a scrolling bar-graph score.
Q: Can I download this video for my iPod/iPhone/iPad/computer/etc.?
A: Yes, you can get it here:
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Q: Is there a way I could make the bar-graph scores myself?
A: The Music Animation Machine MIDI file player will generate this display; you can get the (Windows) software here:
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There are lots of places on the web where you can get MIDI files; I usually go to the Classical Archives site first:
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Q: Could you please do a MAM video of _________?
A: First, check my "to do" list:
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If the piece isn't listed, read the "Could you please do a MAM video of _________?" item on my main FAQ:
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and if you think I'd consider doing it, email me (stephen at musanim dot com).
Q: What instrument are you playing?
A: I'm actually playing two instruments: and Ahlborn-Galanti organ module, and Gerard Atema's "Pristine Harpsichord" (a sampled French harpsichord made by Zuckermann).
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"Gift" makes it sound like it was innate. However, it took me many years of practice to be able to play like this. I took piano lessons for about ten years (starting when I was eight), and when I finished, I couldn't play like this. It was in the forty years of playing since then that I became a decent musician.
Mr. Malinowski makes this Scarlatti look easy, but believe me, it isn't. As an advanced amateur keyboardist at one time, I found that Scarlatti was the most difficult to get to sound right; accuracy and rhythmic sense are all important1
Nice work!
I'm not saying there aren't especially gifted people (geniuses, savants, etc.) --- just that I'm not one of them. I was not as good at the piano as many of the kids I knew growing up. I've just kept working at it longer. I think that most people, if they worked as hard as I did at it, for as long, would get about as good as I've gotten. Sure, there are klutzes, stupid people, people who can't learn ... but I don't think I'm unusual in my ability to gain skill at a keyboard by practicing.
I was pretty happy the day I made this video, yes.
@violatione I took piano lessons for about eight years, then practiced on my own for another forty. If your piano teacher doesn't like my fingering, it's probably because he/she hasn't studied historical fingering practice.
re: light touch
I had the same impression when I first saw the video. The action is a tiny bit lighter than normal for a grand piano of its size, but I think what you're seeing is just that I'm playing it with a very light touch.
This is my favorite graphic musical piece. As per the performance, it never ceases to amaze me how two hands can be so well integrated to perform as one. It's a special gift to have this type of mental and physical coordination. And beyond that, to play the music with sensitivity. Seeing the notes is a real eye-opener.
Oh how Marvelous! Devastating!
@xyaqua Part of sight-reading is knowing what fingering to use. It's almost completely unconscious. Think about reading (text) aloud; do you think about how you move your tongue? Do you think about how to pronounce words? No, you just know ... almost all the time.
My piano has a MIDI out (thanks to a Moog PianoBar I installed) which goes to the sampled pipe organ and harpsichord (I only recorded the organ and harpsichord --- not the live piano). Depending on the pitch and duration of the note, the organ or harpsichord is more noticeable, but every note is played on both instruments.
Stephen, you are a freaking genius. This is way beyond mere amateur hobby, your music animation machine is probably a good teaching tool, and a tremendously engaging interface for us musical neophytes. Good on you.
One of my favorite of Scarlatti's numerous sonatas - very good inerpretation.
Enjoyed listening to and watching this. I will show your videos to my son, the fledgling musician in the family.
AMAZING!!!! :)))
It's actually amazing to find you here Nahre! Your videos are absolutely incredible. Huge fan!!!!
Wow! Nahre’s here. I love your videos
incredible you were here :D
Yes and no. What you're watching is a single take, and what you're hearing is based on that take. However, in a few places I flubbed things so afterwards I edited the MIDI data (which I captured during the performance) and used the edited version (for both the soundtrack and the graphical score). As I recall, the main flubs were the high D (which you can see I'm sometimes overshooting) and some unevenness in the fast downward scale. I'm fairly musical, but my technique is far from perfect.
I still love watching this- you are so relaxed and natural at this. Thanks for all of your indulgences.
@pianonaranja I took lessons when I was a kid, but I developed my relaxed technique as an adult. The keys are weighted, but that's only relevant for piano, not for harpsichord or organ.
I can sightread Scarlatti's sonatas pretty well, but when I'm making a video, I practice first. So, here, I am looking at the music (not my hands), but I'm pretty familiar with the notes.
Gives me an overall medieval vibe, very nice melodies
Oh God, I was looking for this piece long !!!!!
Ask and nobody knew about it !!!!!
Thank you for sharing this!!
Brilliant
It is incredibly beautiful !!!!!
Thanks, I admire you greatly. And I love your channel, thanks for sharing all this!
Great idea for the timbre. Somewhere I heard a recording of a harpsi/organ. It was a very very pleasant sound.
@pianonaranja I've seen enough of this guy;'s works to know he is levels above me in amultitude of ways, if he says he sat down and sight read this rigt off the bat.... heck i'd put money on it.
This Scarlatti is a mere indulgence for him...
I did not mean to downplay the intense work that is required or the dedication. Looking at it from the other side, there are plenty of people who would be incapable of playing as well as you do, regardless of how many years they sat at a keyboard learning technique. I'm very visually oriented, so for me seeing your hands moving so precisely over the keys is thrilling stuff. Mastery is a theme that, like George Leonard, I find highly intriguing.
After reflecting on this for a few years: I do now in fact think there is a certain kind of "gift" involved --- just not the kind you're referring to. What I thank "the universe" for is: my attraction to Scarlatti's music, the circumstances of my life (during which I often had "nothing better to do" than play the piano), and the fact that I didn't have severe physical or mental limitations (that would have prevented me from acquiring the level of skill that anybody without those limitations could have acquired if they'd spent as much time and attention as I did). What I object to is just the idea that the "gift" is specific to me. I am not more mentally or physically coordinated than average (in some ways, I'm more awkward than the average person and, in some ways, less), and I was not innately more musically sensitive than other people (if anything, the opposite --- one of the factors which led to me not pursuing a life as a composer). I'm not saying that what I do isn't wonderful ... just that there's no "magic" in it that came from something special in me. I was just lucky to be in a place where the external factors added up. That's the gift.
@@smalin Shakespeare incarnate
one of my favorite scarlatti pieces. Just dont let Martha Argerich see you post this, she'll top it and add it to her repertoire on every tour.
Smile, smile, happy, impressed. I love this.
Wonderful absolutely wonderful, Harpsichord and Organ really bring this baroque masterpiece to life. I like how even though the piece is in C Major, Maestro Scarlatti manages to squeeze a little A or C minor to add perspective to the dominant C major lines.
K. 96 is on my DVD, so I probably won't post it on TH-cam.
@smalin As I've gotten older and wiser, I've realized that fingerings don't matter at all. If the end result is a great performance (like the one you've displayed), I don't care what fingerings you use.
your videos are awsome man i like that you have at least one song up every other day
this is wonderful...
always one of my favorite posts you
shared with us...!!
thanks...c
vraiment superbe!
argh those F naturals in the beginning of the theme hurt me :) big congrats about your work, that being said, i'm amazed by it more than i could say in a single comment.
You have SKILLS my freind :) Very very well done
Another way of looking at music, just lovely. And the computer graphics allow us to do so much more, expressing these classic pieces in new ways, going in directions we'd never considered before. Of course for me, a non musician with a 'great ear but no chops' as I often describe myself - it is as if I am 'seeing/listening' for the first time! Many thanks.
@M1u2S4i8K I am playing on a grand piano (with an attachment to record MIDI, which is what is playing the harpsichord and organ). No special technique. What you see in the video is how I did it (you are seeing the performance you're hearing).
@misterpers0n
Stephen is brilliant, this etude is so open to interpretations it is almost silly, he does a straight reading at request. D. Scarlatti is an odd fellow to perform, his father was less renouned but so much more eskilled.
You, sir, are a genius!
@pianonaranja
The more i look into Stephen's playing the more i'm impressed. A friend of mine who moved to LA to make movies knows of Stephen. That was tres weird. He's an excellent teacher, too. Almost reminds you of some old Italians? :-)
Hi Stephen, how are you? I hope you are as well as your music! I have spent a bit of time on this-p i can maybe play it at about 1/3-1/4 speed- but i love your fingering- way hard for me- but i can actually get the logic of it. very cool.
take care and be well, good sir.
very nice playing!
I wasn't sure if it was an harpsichord or an organ and they are both! =D
Good work!
AMAZING!
AWESOME!
Magnificent!
Well done!
amazing
If anyone here ever studied with Carl E. Schachter in the 1970's, you'll remember he beat this work into the ground--Schenker-style--for weeks. Fond memories of Longo 104. Beautiful visual of nascent sonata allegro. Thanks.
I love hearing that because I took a Schenkerian analysis class a couple of years ago and we were allowed to pick whatever we wanted to analyze for our final project, and I chose this piece! I fell in love with it from the “Schroeder’s Greatest Hits” album!
this man wrote wonderful music and I'm proud to say that he is (almost) Spanish like me!!
I record and edit audio with Cool Edit Pro.
Was Scarlatti ahead of his time or what?
It's not a glissando, it is a C bachian minor scale, i think with this fingering: G5 F4 Eb3 D2 C1 - B4 A3 G2 F1 - Eb4 D3 C2 B1 - A4 G3 F#2 - G1
i will always love this video Steve...
Oh I love the baroque music, is the best
@TokeyMcGee This is the speed I was playing.
Does that keyboard have as light a touch as it looks like it has?
PS Smalin made the world's first all new world music list. And I'm about to challenge all NPR in a musical showdown, my list versus theirs. Major historical music even.
@M1u2S4i8K How did you think I played it?
Oh, you've just shown me something. Thank you so much.
@littleasshole26 Yes.
I agree. "Gift" makes it seem like it was given to you by an outside source and degrades your talent by simply writing off all the years of hard work and practice. I'm sure most people don't mean it that way but when you boil it down that's the underlying meaning.
pura vida!!!
@smalin With a special fingertechnique. Chomatic Glissandi or irregular ones are very hard to play for me on a standard Piano/Keyboard.
How long does it take you to figure out the fingering when you sight read? Is it subconscious? Does it take a few dry runs? Is there a technique you use to prepare?
Wow this what happens when you practise for so long :D Do you have any tips on reading music? For instance i know how to read music but i dont read it i decode it because its hard to read it quickly so what would you suggest if you know what your reading but it takes alot of time to undestand a single note on either stave?
Hi Stephen, just out of curiosity.. do you sightread this ? For me it's unbelievable to play at this tempo without memorizing at least some parts...
epic
This song sounds like a royal medival party with an evil joker!
un freaking believable
you must go to sleep with a smile every night
Very nice :-) What software do you use to capture and edit your music please?
@M1u2S4i8K With my nose.
i love you steve...!!
Are you self taught? I love your playing! However my teachers would beat me for crossing over my left pinky like that. Fight the power!
@smalin Never mind; the part was just to fast to follow with my eyes.
sounds so piratey!!! i love it!
How are you making organ sounds and harpsichord sounds at the same time? When this was written was it performed by two people or was it played on only one instrument?
It's fairly arcane. I am playing on a piano (because that's where the camera is set up to shoot video). The piano has a Moog PianoBar installed, which provides a MIDI data output of what I'm playing. The MIDI goes to two playback devices, one for each instrument (and to a MIDI recorder, to provide the data that I use for the animated graphical score).
@@smalin when was this written? could a harpsichord have been set up next to an organ with a player's hands playing on different keyboards?
James Dick the decision to play with a harpsichord and organ audio effect was merely an artistic decision by the player.
O how I love you so
@smalin Hm...
Not one of my favorites, but still brilliant nonetheless.
How do you play this Glissando from 1:13 to 1:14?
*****5*****
Its a Harpsichord and an Organ?
No.
This is my 2nd most favorite composition by Scarlatti. He must have had at least
12 cups of coffee when he composed this or at least a great frolic with his wife
betwist the lilliwhites the day before or after. Just kidding
this piece makes me laugh for some reason
It's probably because of Scarlatti Syndrome.
Connor Arquitt ???
you dipped your fingers in caffiene, surely
i'll love to hear this but in classic piano...
That would be inauthentic to the time period. Scarlatti's music was written for harpsichord or organ, not to mention the two most important clavier based instruments during Scarlatti's life were harpsichord, organ or clavichord, the so called "Piano" was not really developed until after Scarlatti's death.
Do you object to Shakespeare's plays being performed using electric stage lighting and modern English pronunciation?
jorge andaluz Paul Barton has it.
LOL
An almost calliope sound