The sonata explained by Bach
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 มี.ค. 2024
- The sonata explained in a way that everybody can understand by Johann Sebastian Bach himself!
Music credits:
D. Scarlatti: keyboard sonata in A major K.209
performed by Simone Stella
with sincere gratitude
• Domenico SCARLATTI - S...
L. Van Beethoven: piano sonata n.17 Op.31/2 in D minor - Allegretto
performed by Soyoon Jung
with sincere gratitude
• 이렇게 깔끔한 템페스트는 처음 들어봅니다...
W. A. Mozart: piano sonata n.14 K.457 in C minor - Molto Allegro
performed by Max Norman
with sincere gratitude
• Piano Sonata no. 14, K...
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This was explained amazingly and I love the humor in it aswell
Thank you very much! 😊
I love Haydn’s angry look towards Beethoven as he rages and even when Bach corrects himself in saying Van Beethoven. Haydn is my favorite composer and probably one of the most underrated. He was the first composer who really challenged Bach’s legacy after his death in 1750. At least before Mozart
Very true! 😊
Your work is great. Your ability to explain, and throw in some humour, is much appreciated.
My guess is Sebe did love to laugh.
Thank you very much! Yes, he was renowned to be a great host and with the beer flowing I'm sure that he was very humorous too, in spite of the many tragedies in his life. 😊
Sonatas weren't an important part of his work "As I agave only written ... 60 or so of them" 😂. Perfect timing on that delivery.
Hahaha... thank you! 😆
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Thank you! 😊
Amazing
Thank you! 😊
I have always liked classical music and Bach especially... Thanks to you I will now have a better understanding of what I am listening to.
Thank you very much for your kind words... you gave me a wonderful compliment. 😊
Top explaining as always bud 😀
Thank you very much! I'm trying my best. 😊
Thank you! Most of Bach’s music is new to me, and I still find most of it too complex for my ear to follow adequately (where have I heard that before 🤔),but I’ve long adored Beethoven, especially his piano sonatas! Imagine my surprise at hearing the tones of old no. 17, where I expected something unfamiliar, from Bach! This was a lovely explanation, helping me to better understand the music I’ve enjoyed for years, and since I’ve focused mostly on Bach’s cantatas and organ works until now, it makes me look forward to hearing his sonatas!
Thank you very much for your kind words! Well, I had to include some other composers too, otherwise it would always be Bach... Bach... Bach... 😊 I'm sure that you'll love Bach's sonatas though, e.g. the andante of his organ sonata BWV528 or this one... m.th-cam.com/video/JOjIqpQNoJc/w-d-xo.html Cheers!
@@BachTheAnimatedSeries Thanks, I really enjoyed both of those! In fact, they highlighted what I think is one of my biggest gripes with Bach's music: I generally just don't like the sound of an organ or harpsichord, compared to a piano. I'm starting to think I should just accept that and start looking for more piano performances, rather than prioritizing period-correct-ish instrumentation.
omg thank you so much for this!!!!!!
Thank you! I hope that you'll find it useful. 😊
thanks for the video :3 love ur work
Thank you very much! 😊
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Thank you very much! 😊
This was explained amazingly and I love the humor in it aswell ❤❤❤
Thank you very much! 😊
By the way I’m curious about one thing. How was he able to see everything in this video despite him being blind towards the end of his life from health problems and that Taylor surgeon guy??
Thank you, Peter, wonderfully explained. The first sonata I ever played was Beethoven's Moonlight at the age of nine, and is still one of my favourites. There's something about it that still stirs my soul. I remember it bringing a tear to my eye after I had mastered it at that tender age. 💗😌
Yes, it truly is a beauty and I thought about using it as an example, but it's not a "typical" sonata and I had already used the 3rd movement of his Tempest sonata. As it turns out however, Mozart's isn't "typical" either... 🤣 My compliments to you though, because if you managed to play the Moonlight already at the age of 9, you must he a formidable pianist. At the age of 9 I was still struggling with Bach's (Petzold's) minuetto in G major... 🤣
@@BachTheAnimatedSeries It all fell apart when I reached my teens and found love. It picked up again in my 20s, when I moved to Vienna and fell in love with a wonderful girl who owned a grand piano and also loved Beethoven, but it was soon over when I returned to the UK and had to earn a living. The only opportunity to play in my middle years was at my local church, and that was on the organ. These days, I tinker on my keyboard in my free time. ❤
@@johnbrown9588Seems like our stories are quite similar, though I had to abandon the piano for my studies. But just like you I keep on tinkering every now and then. 😅
yes. great video. Many thanks.
Thank you very much! 😊
Ahh, would like to ask so many things to Bach !. This is fantastic and very clever. Thank You again !.
Well, you can always ask and perhaps he'll respond. After all, this video was made as a response to someone asking him to explain the sonata. 😆
Hehe, besides some trascendental matters, like his beer preferences , I would love to ask what is harmony & counterpoint at a deep level, and what was like to improvise a fugue under the stress of Frederick´s request...Cheers!.
Oh dear... I'm afraid we'll have to travel to Leipzig to exhume Bach himself to answer those questions because there's no-one who understood counterpoint and harmonic possibilities like him. About Frederick though, still a little bit more patience because Bach's visit to Potsdam will be up in a couple of episodes. 😊
Dear Peter, so many unanswered questions about him, but so much is divinely spoken through his music. This is so fantastic, can´t wait to watch the Postdam Trip episode.Thanks so much !:
The recapitulation really should be a section in itself, not just a part of the coda.
True, in the end the Mozart sonata turned out to be less "standard" than I thought.
I agree. I was wondering why it wasn't mentioned.
Your job is fantastic. You have no idea how big you are doing what you do. Thanks for your amazing Job
Hello from Brazil.
Obrigado! 😆 Now onto episode 24... 😁 Seriously though, I'm extremely grateful for comments like yours because without them I'd already have stopped a long time ago.
Always exciting to discover your new videos, great work as usual !
Thank you very much! 😊
There are some interesting points in the video, but also some confusion of terms. "Sonata" and "sonata form" are two different things. While the first movement of a sonata (at least, in the Classical period) is almost exclusively written in sonata form, the sonata form can appear in compositions that are not sonatas, e.g. in some movements in J. Haydn's masses, but also in symphonies or string quartets. There are quite a few differences between the two. While they are often related, they are not equivalent.
Thank you very much for your clarification. Yes, I didn't differentiate between the two because I didn't want to confuse the audience too much (the video's intended especially for people without any musical background). Though I did specify the several parts, and the standard structure of each part. Perhaps I should have mentioned that even a symphony can be structured like a sonata, as you justly commented. Thank you once again.
Wonderful job as always! In addition to adding some (sorely) needed educational content about Bach, you also started expanding your horizon to make more educational content about music itself. Great channel. Keep up the good work, and also... I am sure Bach would be quite proud of you!
Thank you very much for your kind words. I'll try to make more videos like this in the future, though making all of these animations is quickly turning into a 24h a day job. 🤣 I'm not sure if Bach would be proud, but if he had a good laugh that would already be more than I could hope for. Thank you once more!
Anything positive coming from him, I consider a victory, haha! Looking forward to the next episode!@@BachTheAnimatedSeries
It is great🎉 How do you animate so beautifully
Thank you very much! Well, if you watch the Bach series from ep.1 you'll see that it's been a long and steep learning process and I'm still learning with every new scene. 😊
Mozart was not a great admirer of Bach's. In fact, he specifically wrote his music to avoid polyphony, which was Bach's forte. It wasn't until the last 5 to 10 years of his life that Mozart began studying the works of Bach - too late to have an influence on his musical style. Beethoven is the principal force for the rediscovery of Bach's works, and he tried to emulate Bach in his own compositions. By contrast, Mozart was more influenced by J.C. Bach
Well, he was actually. He didn't really know Bach's music until his visit to Leipzig in 1789, where he heard Bach's work performed for the first time and he was totally mesmerised by it. At the end he exclaimed: "Now that is something one can learn from!". The same evening he was seen sitting on the floor surrounded by every Bach score they could find, absorbing the music. After this his music wouldn't be the same anymore. His later works such as his late symphonies and especially his Requiem deeply carry Bach's influence.
I believe Mendelssohn was the one who was mostly responsible for the revival of Bach's music.
Mozart was a clear admirer of Bach, you can hear some of Bach's themes from the WTC2 in Mozart's 18th sonata which was written after his visit to Leipzig not to forget that he was very impressed with Bach's works that were introduced to him by his friend during his visit such as The Art Of Fugue. To end this discussion, you should accept that Bach was admired by every single great composer that came after him, after all, admiring the best would only prove to make their music even more profound.
Great, but the best sonatas are from late romantic era (Mainly Medtner, Feinberg and Scriabin)
Well, that's a matter of opinion. I wouldn't write the older masters off though. Cheers! 😊
1:38 and later has some really creepy faces
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Non vorrei essere scortese ma... l'armonia che viene indicata nella sonata di Mozart contiene degli errori.
Davvero? Può essere... non sono un vero esperto. Dove mi sono sbagliato?
@BachTheAnimatedSeries Ciao!
Nell'esposizione tu indichi un FA minore, quando in realtà tutta quella parte continua ad essere in MI bemolle maggiore. Certo, se ti fermi sul singolo accordo vedrai un FA minore. Ma la tonalità continua ad essere quella di MI bemolle maggiore e il FA minore in quel momento lì sta funzionando come sottodominante.
Alla fine dell'esposizione tu scrivi SOL minore... attenzione che l'accordo è maggiore! E anche qui, non c'è una vera e propria modulazione verso il SOL. Il SOL qui non sta funzionando come tonica ma come dominante (sia del DO minore se ripete, sia del DO maggiore se continua).
L'inizio dello sviluppo sull'accordo di DO maggiore è ingannevole, quindi io lo indicherei (per far notare l'ambiguità) come tonalità di DO maggiore e allo stesso tempo come tonalità di FA minore (cioè, l'accordo di DO maggiore con funzione di tonica se lo vedi dalla tonalità di DO, e di dominante se lo vedi dalla tonalità di FA).
Nella ripresa la sezione che tu indichi come MI bemolle minore è una sezione in DO minore.
Nella coda, nel momento in cui compare l'accordo sul sesto grado... attenzione che è maggiore, non minore!
Spero di essere stato d'aiuto ;)