Bach, Cantata 75 ("Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan") Sinfonia
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- The Sinfonia from J. S. Bach's Cantata 75, based on the choral "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan," performed by The Bach Players, with an animated graphical score.
FAQ
Q: Who are the performers in this recording?
A: The Bach Players:
Adrian Woodward, trumpet
Nicolette Moonen, violin/director
Anna Curzon, violin
Oliver Wilson, viola
Luise Buchberger, cello
Alastair Mitchell, bassoon
Silas Wollston, organ
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Hi Smalin!
First of all: Thank you for your great work! I especially love "Bach, Preludio, Partita in E Major".
The reason I actually write you is because I just quickly read over www.musanim.com/TH-cam/HowToMakeMamVideos.html and saw you recommending to use "SUPER".
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You can read about it here "www.reddit.com/r/software/comments/629fha/do_not_install_or_use_super_video_converter/" and at other places.
Unfortunately I haven't found a proper alternative yet.
Okay, thanks for the heads-up, I've removed it from the page. Please let me know if you find any workable free/inexpensive alternatives.
Stunning. Thank you 🙏
Mr. Malinowski -- I love your beautiful light shows of Bach cantatas. When will you do Cantata No. 177, “Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ“? With great appreciation and admiration. (Cantata No. 47, „Wer sich selbst erhöhet, der wird erniedriget werden“ is another dynamite chorus with a fugue to die for!) Thanks. AGBiester
The ``unraveling'' for the trumpet part is very apt. In fact, I think the part might have been transcribed for the oboe da caccia in this particular performance.
Splendid, thank you so much!
So nice!
Your graphics enhance the experience so much
I'm gratified you think so.
Great job! I wonder what's next! :D
I'm not sure if I understand what this form of presentation is supposed to be capturing and/or conveying
This is a chorale prelude of a particular style, where Bach does stuff with many of the parts and then plays the tune of the chorale over the top where it works. My favourite example is Ein Feste Burg ist Unser Gott, but there's one in Die Kunst Der Fuge as well as all sorts of other places.
Interesting. Is there a name for this style?
I'm not sure. I've just called them 'Chorale Preludes', but I don't think this is accurate, as it does conflate it with the organ works, and I don't know if they're supposed to be the same thing or not.
"Prelude" usually refers to a piece's position (e.g. prelude and fugue, Prelude to 'The Afternoon of a Faun,' etc.), and Bach's chorale preludes for organ were often meant to go with something else (like the congregation singing the hymn). The more general term "chorale fantasia" is sometimes used, but lots of people use "chorale prelude" for any piece that works this way (e.g. th-cam.com/video/9x0ZjV5WZXk/w-d-xo.html).
This from the guy with the Rene Magritte avatar...
There is no other such piece in the surviving cantatas, i.e. chorale cantus firmus with instrumental accompaniment and no vocal parts. Too bad Bach didn't do this more often.
Maybe he felt that he'd done plenty of them for organ?
This was the first cantata presented to the public in Leipzig, so maybe he dropped this notion afterwards. Offhand however, I can think of two other cantata trumpet chorale canti firmi, but with voices, BWV 77/1, and BWV 19/5. In my opinion, the best recording in the Gardiner Cantata Pilgrimage is that first one, which blew me away when I first heard it as a free track on Sept 23, 2007. I know the date because I immediately notified all my music friends by e-mail about it. Indeed, I felt I had to contact Gardiner to congratulate the team on how great the recording was, and his wife wrote me back a very nice note. I am pasting together composing scores at Bach Digital for my own use. The first one was BWV 77/1, at this link.
cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/275007752542355470/292488974667218944/BWV_77_1.jpg
and the Gardiner recording is here;
th-cam.com/video/b7updw2PHLY/w-d-xo.html
How difficult would it be for me to create my own video using your software for a recording of Rachmaninoff or Liszt to a similar standard as your videos? From my understanding, I would need to manually edit a MIDI file to match the recording and then the rest is automated (for a standard line bar video). How long does this process normally take for a short 5 minute piece and what is the learning curve like? Thank you for your videos
Sorry, I don't have a good answer for that; the learning curve depends so much on what you already know and how fast a learner you are --- and my experience is not representative (since I started knowing nothing and am a slow learner). One this page www.musanim.com/TH-cam/HowToMakeMamVideos.html there's a link to TH-cam viewers who've used my software to make videos; you might want to ask them. Or just dive in. If I'd known how long it was going to take me, I wouldn't have gotten started, and that would have been unfortunate.
Ok thanks, I will definitely have a go
I am in the process of learning to write such software. I started about 3 months ago, and have now produced my first 3 videos. They are not nearly as advanced as what Malinowski accomplishes. I had some experience with writing software about 15 years ago, where I learnt something about Object Oriented Programming, C++, CBuilder and Delphi, but I knew absolutely nothing about how to write animations.
There were some other, unexpected problems, too. I did, for example, not know anything about writing files, and had a real tough time to understand the midi file format. Choosing the right programming language was another problem. It is, for example, nearly impossible to use DirectX with the last incarnation of Delphi. And CBuilder has the problem, that it is a composition of no less than 5 programming languages in one, which makes it very difficult to use. I think that Microsoft C++, although it is fairly primitive, compared with CBuilder and Delphi, is the best way to go, because you can then get the most help from the Internet.
It seems, that in particular knowledge about the Windows API is a must. I have the impression that Malinowski avoids the Windows API, uses C++ directly, and uses bitmap rendering. He writes software that generates bitmaps, and then he uses Adobe Premiere Pro to 'stitch them together' into videos.
That is an excellent approach, because the alternative, generating a movie directly from a self-written program, requires lots of deep knowledge about not only DirectX, but also about video compression. Video compression is such an advanced specialty, that it takes a complete university to master. So I think I shall also follow the 'bitmap rendering' route in the future.
Although Malinowski's animations are much farther than mine are now, my very first video is, I think, already much more advanced than his first. And now I am in the process of learning what I call 'second order animations', that is, animations in animations, what, I think, Stephen Malinowski,s primary tool is.
Nice job dude, I like the effect in Invention No. 1. I too have never had experience with animations however I currently study Computer Science and may take a course on something related next semester. I was thinking software that takes input from a MIDI keyboard and creates an animation in real time as you play would be a good idea, maybe one day I'll have a go at writing something like that, it'll be a good excuse to learn C++.
trucker44, since you asked how hard it would be to make a video using *my* software, I didn't know you were considering writing your own. What you're considering doing is like what I did when I wrote my first PC software (right after I'd written the first proof-of-concept version for an Atari 800 ... see www.strotmann.de/~cas/Infothek/DeReAtari/dereatari-e.pdf for a peek into history).
However, back then, there were no MIDI interfaces, so I had to hand-wire a circuit board (to plug into a PC slot) to attach my synth to. Since it was custom hardware, I needed to write devices drivers to talk to it. There were no MIDI files, so I had to write software to record and edit MIDI from the synth (what they now call a "sequencer"). Personal computers were too slow to play back movie files at a high enough frame rate and resolution for my animations (so I couldn't render frames to a file and play back the movie later --- like I do now, though my current preview tool does do real-time animation), but my computer's CPU was too slow to render animation frames in real time on its own, so I had to write custom drivers to use an esoteric "hardware pixel pan" feature of the PC's EGA graphics board, and only update the parts of the image that changed from frame to frame.
It's a *lot* easier now. Computers are fast enough, all the necessary hardware is off-the-shelf, and there are lots of software libraries online (not to mention that there IS such a thing as "online" where you can do research and ask questions), so for a trivial bar-graph animation (like I first made in 1985), it's almost completely a matter of figuring out how to use other people's tools.
My program that turned input from a MIDI keyboard into graphics in real-time (see www.musanim.com/mam/hist09.html) taught me a lot and was a lot of fun, and I can heartily recommend doing that. When you do music/graphics programming, you have meaningful feedback with what you're doing (because if you don't do it right, you can hear/see the problems), and the results are gratifying, so it's easier to keep motivated (than if you're doing something invisible and with uninteresting results, like writing database software).
Hermosa y encantadora...
Is it really a trumpet, it sounds pretty much like a cornetto!
It doesn't say it explicitly, but since Adrian Woodward performs on both valved and natural (valveless) trumpets and the valved trumpet didn't exist when Bach wrote this, I think it's likely that it's being played on a natural trumpet ---
which, yes, sounds more like a cornetto than a modern trumpet does.
Esta obra no es de Bach es de Pachelbel
If you have documentation, please update Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Elenden_sollen_essen,_BWV_75
www2.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Was_Gott_tut,_das_ist_wohlgetan,_P.487_(Johann_Pachelbel)
Japh Free Fire Same hymn tune, different composition.
@@smalin the name must be different, otherwise it is a movement
Japh Free Fire "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan" is the text of the hymn tune used in this Sinfonia. The name of the cantata it is from (BWV 75) is "Die Elenden sollen essen" (which is the text from the opening chorus). The Pachelbel piece is based on the same hymn tune.