Debussy, Prelude to 'The Afternoon of a Faun' (complete)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ส.ค. 2016
- Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, by Claude Debussy, with an animated graphical score.
FAQ
Q: Where can I learn more about this piece?
A: Where else? Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelude_...
Q: Who is performing this piece?
A: I believe it is a recording of a performance with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting:
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001...
I licensed the recording from SoundDogs; they didn't tell me who performed it. It seems suspicious that they would sell me a license to a recording with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting and either not know it was his recording or not want to tell me about it, but there you have it.
Q: Why did you do multiple versions of this piece?
A: I did the first version ...
• Debussy, Prelude to 'T...
... in 2012, just a year or two after I'd started developing renderers ...
www.musanim.com/renderers/
... other than the standard scrolling bar-graph score which I'd been using since 1985 ...
• Malinowski/Bach, Music...
Between 2012 and 2016, my palette of visual effects expanded ...
www.musanim.com/TH-cam/
... and so when Alte Oper Frankfurt ...
www.alteoper.de/
... asked whether they could license my animation to show as part of their September 2016 program ...
www.alteoper.de/de/programm/v...
... I said "yes, but let me make a new version using the styles I've developed in the past four years." I posted a second version as soon as I completed it ...
• Debussy, Prelude to 'T...
... but subsequently discovered that the color calibration of my computer was very badly off, and the Voronoi tessellation I used for the background ...
www.musanim.com/Voronoi/
... was much too prominent; so I made a third version (which I hope is the last for now) ...
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Q: What do the different shapes mean?
A: There are two versions of this piece. In both versions, the flute (which begins the piece) is shown in "walking ellipses," and the brass is shown with an "ellipse aura." In the first version of the video (see previous question), the other shapes mean this:
rectangle: strings
rhombus (filled): woodwind
rhombus (hollow): pizzicato strings
In the second and third versions of the video, the other shapes mean this:
octagon: clarinet
rhombus: strings (hollow for pizzicato)
inverted ellipse: oboe, bassoon
circle (hollow): harp
triangle (hollow): crotales
In all versions, the notes flicker when the strings are playing tremolo.
Q: What do the colors indicate?
A: The colors are assigned by a system called "harmonic coloring" in which the twelve pitch classes, C, C-sharp, D, etc., arranged on the "circle of fifths," are mapped to twelve hues, arranged on the "color wheel." This allows you to see changes in harmony and tonality. You can read more about this here:
www.musanim.com/HarmonicColoring/
Q: I appreciate the animated graphical scores you make; how can I support your work?
A: Thank you! The easiest way to support my work is by contributing via Patreon:
/ musanim
If you'd like to help in more specific way, consider this:
www.musanim.com/underwriting
Q: Could you please do a video of _______?
A: Please see this:
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This is why Debussy is my favorite classical composer. This magical experience right here.
Yes, yes, this is an image of entirety of complexity, beauty and magnificence of music. The symbolism of tool shapes is perfect. Color blending of brass instruments is wonderful. Maybe this is the direction for further work.
When each note has its own color, so you can see how each chord gets its color mood. That is amazing. Still it is possible to adjust the depth of the color tone according to the scale in which it is played. For example, a violinist playing some notes in a minor scale lower than in the tempered tuning. Then the color is not so cheerful.
But it is just stupid detail, probably.
P.S. Your work brings joy into our lives.
The sort of faded out colours in the background for the stained glass type effect, is so beautiful with this piece. Very nice.
Harmonic coloring looks soo good on this periods composers
Wonderful! I don't think any other composer has a dream-like atmosphere like Debussy. And with your visualization Stephen , the overall effect is mesmerizing.
Ravel.
@@Ivan_1791 Erik Satie.
I was watching old Twilight Zones when I clicked on this and yeah, that was pretty surreal....the music, the scenes of the show all blending together. Odd late night moment. Thank You
I remember not liking this the first time I heard, but now it obsesses me. The woodwinds are sensuous, how they float above the background. I can almost see the faun.....
This is the most beautiful video you have ever done, and of a piece I already love to bits. Very well done!
Beautiful visuals!! I've never been able to follow this piece as fully as I could with this. I think that is one of the things these are for!
Enjoyed it more than words can express, magical and hypnotizing. Thank you very much for the experience
The "first truly modern composer", Debussy is yet in a class by himself, defying limitation to one genre or era.
Wow. You've really outdone yourself with this one. Truly inspired. Thank you!
this is stunningly beautiful. brilliant. thank you!
a true masterpiece, every bar of it
Muchas Gracias, no solo por este video sino por todos. Un trabajo excelente. Saludos desde Argentina.
Thank you very much not only for this particular video, thanks for all the videos you post. Excellent work.
Thanks for the compliment. You're quite welcome.
This one has a Fantasia quality. I loved this.
Just amazing ... Thank you for that upload ...
LOVE your visual interpretation of tremolo.
:-)
Eu também!
The Voroni makes your harmonic coloring even more effective. I love it.
Glad you like it. However, I think it came out more intense than I intended in this video. I'm having trouble with color calibration, and I just discovered that things look VERY different on my computer than they do on ... well, just about everybody else's. So, I'm expecting that I'll do a remake of this video (which I'll post on my alternate/remake channel, musanim). In it, the Voronoi background is much less obtrusive.
Exquisitely sublime!
Beautiful animation for a beautiful piece
I love this piece
such a beauty! thank you!
Debussy is wonderful! Great música!
Enchanting🧚♀
pure genius! thank you!
This is a masterpiece! Do you inherently see color with music or is it more intuitive? I don't know if that makes any sense, but I do know your use of color took my breath away and that aspect of your art seems to have really flourished in the past year.
Hopefully, this page (which I just wrote) will answer your question: www.musanim.com/Color/
Yep. Definitely answered it. If you ever feel the urge, I think it'd be interesting to see you express yourself and "do one way that seemed beautiful to [you] sometime." But all your videos have been greatly appreciated by me. Thank you!
+Richard Langford That would be really interesting! If Smalin were to do something like you said he could perhaps do a regular version and his personal version on musanim or the main channel. Although, it would really probably depend on how much time it would take and whether or not Smalin has any interest.
Te pasaste, Steven.
I subscribed to Music-Eyes a few weeks ago and they barely e-mailed me about MAM being updated.
The Music:Eyes project will take several years to unfold. Be patient.
+smalin OK
+smalin Maybe I can help support it by making some MAM videos.
I totally think this is where Music Animation Machine needs to update! Are they ever going to update it?!?! If they did, where can I download it?
"They" is me. I'm currently part of this project, which may release software to the public in the future: www.musiceyes.org
I just subscribed to the newsletter. Thanks! Take all the time you need. That visualization looks really cool.
Very Nice,..
another Majical Journey ...the title had me but we're talkin' Malinowski here....it's gonna be good. as always
How about some Wagner? Like the Tristan und Isolde prelude?
Wagner is very unlikely. See the page given under "Could you please ..." in the FAQ.
Beautiful! By the way, this piece somehow reminds me of The Mummy.
Ever think about reuploading Rite of Spring with Voronoi?
www.musanim.com/Voronoi/
+smalin is this representative for how many more voronoi-remakes we will get?
You know me better than to think I ever talk about my plans.
+smalin I mean these shots of old vids with voronoi slapped on them could be interpreted as a plan but who knows what you are gonna stick to.
I re-did this video because somebody wanted to license it for an exhibition in Germany and the earlier version had a lot of things wrong with it that I wanted to fix. I added the Voronoi background because that's what I'm liking these days. I didn't remake it in order to add the Voronoi background.
Is not much different from the first version... I would suggest use just one color for each instrument in these orchestral music I think is more easy to understand the different lines.
And you could use the voronoi background to show intensity and dinamics of the piece.
If you want to watch instrumental lines, watch the shapes
As Voronoi is a renderer using calculations to fill in space that is not being used by the presence of other notes in the same vicinity, it would be rather hard to show dynamics with Voronoi unless it is more customizable or something along the lines of that. I don't know for sure, as I'm not the one who made this video.
See the "To try (future)" section at the bottom of this page: www.musanim.com/Voronoi/
Well that clears things up! Thank you!
Janáček Vítězslav I think the shapes is a little confused.The video have wide elipses and small ones and rhombus very wide while other is just a hollow with light and they cross each others... when i pause i can understand better but... i think you get what i trying to say.
Is the prelude to the afternoon the morning?
My understanding is that the piece is intended as a prelude to Stéphane Mallarmé's poem (The Afternoon of a Faun).
Is there a reason why you have 2 channels?
There's a reason ... I don't know whether it's a good reason ... I put the first version of any video on the smalin channel, and if I make multiple versions, I but the alternate version on the musanim channel ... unless a new version is enough better that I think my smalin subscribers should see it, in which case I put it there ... there's also a musanim3D channel for people with Chromadepth 3D glasses ... and a private channel where I put tests and demos that are not intended for a general audience.
And here I am thinking I had it figured out where 'smalin' was simply your more recent channel and musanim was just an old one. I have your videos page of smalin bookmarked and check every day for a new video, but now I'll have to spend a few nights looking through musanim to see if there's anything interesting I've missed.
Thanks for explaining the distinction tho lol
If I make an alternate version of a video, I mention it in the FAQ of the original version. Or, at least, I try to remember to do that. The way to learn about my new videos is to subscribe to my channel and set your preferences/profile/settings/whatever so that you get an email when I upload a new video. There are three channels I post things to: smalin (main), musanim (remake/alternative), and musanim3D (Chromadepth 3D versions).
If only music sheets where like this man 😭
I’ve made more than a thousand of these … for example, try this: th-cam.com/video/7nrxUf20k1Q/w-d-xo.htmlsi=TK_fyEnrsf1c8oQb
@@smalin Bro, seriously. If you replace fucking music sheets with this, it literally makes it way more clear and not looking like youre reading ancient egyptian HIEROGLYPHICS.
I've been looking at my animated graphical scores for about fifty years, but I still can't read from them as easily as from conventional notation (either for playing from or hearing the music in my head). My graphical notation is designed for listeners, not for composers and performers.
@@smalin ah ok, but still. Feels alot easier if it's actually written on one individual instrument sheet.
@@Acer67i dont get it? how do you read this?
Would be great if not for the stretch
I think the stretch improves it (that's why I did it).
And I strongly disagree. Thought you'd want to hear your viewers' tastes
For everything I post on TH-cam, there are things about it I like and things about it I don't like, and there people who like it and people who don't; I know that already, so I don't need to have individual viewers tell me what they think. I might conceivably be interested in the statistics (what percentage of viewers like or don't like a particular thing I do), but less than one viewer in a thousand leaves a comment, and there's no reason to think that people who feel strongly about a video to write a comment are a representative sample. It's gratifying when people like what I do in my videos, of course, but if they don't, it doesn't have an effect on me --- other than to make me depressed and sorry for them. I don't do things differently based on viewers telling me they don't like what I'm doing. The primary reason I enable comments on my videos is so I can answer viewer's questions.
I dont know why but i dont like any kinda of music from 1875 and above they dont have a specific theme or harmony they are just a noises, anyone else thinks that way ??
I used to, but after listening to a lot of music it gets much more attractive. Although Wagner is still way too heavy for me.
+Ze Rubenator nahh Wagner has a bunch of amazing overtrues.. plus his first and only compete symphony in C major.. these have themes, but as I said most of the works from 1875+ is just a noises that I dont get..
Solomon Al-Harbi
There are many contemporary composers who stay well within the realms of tonalty, though. I find them to be somewhat less interesting than the more experimental stuff, but there's plenty of them.
+Ze Rubenator check some of the piano concertos for Johann Nepomuk Hummel he is one my favorite neglected composer.. yet his melodies one of the best
IL migliore dopo Beethoven, in ordine di tempo.