Please never cut your eyebrows. *DO HOWEVER* grow your hair like the classic rennaissance composers. You've got the right face... and eyebrows... to pull off that look. *SERIOUSLY*
Shostakovich could definitely give Rossini and Mozart a run for their money. He composed his Festive Overture in just 3 days, which has 20194 notes. Meaning that he composed at a rate of 6731 notes per day, or 280.5 nph. Nothing like Soviet Oppression to get you to work faster.
So Mozart wrote 3 symphonies in 3 Months (9:45).... It reminds me of what Salieri said in "Amadeus": "he [Mozart] had simply written down music already finished - in his head! Page after page of it, as if he were just taking dictation!" Great channel! Congratulations!
Fantastic film. The intent and approach more than makes up for the historical inaccuracies (though let's celebrate Salieri, and his actual cordiality (including his attendance at the funeral))
I think Mozart himself mentions in one of his letters to her sister that once he had the piece finished in his head, he could effortlesly write it down in the middle of a party while keeping a conversation going.
Can you make a video showing us how you write a piece from start to finish? I think it'd be cool if you made a 1 or 2 page 5 minute piece that shows your process, what goes through your head etc...
While I like the idea, if the tempo isn't ridiculously slow then one or two pages will never make five minutes of music. Still, I like the idea and I'd be very happy with one minute too, just to see the process and thinking behind it.
@@danimal oh yeah, I've seen one of his impossible music videos but I haven't seen much from him yet. Yeah, I wish there were more of those vids in general
this would be so nice! 2 or 3 pages of arrangement! edited fast forward the mechanical work but explaining what happening in his mind! sometimes a voice over, sometimes a diagram explaining the theory or the technique and nerd facts like who invented it, etc... dude, sounds like a lot of work, but sure it would be interesting!
I would like to see some of the baroque composers included, they were ridiculously productive. Vivaldi wrote something like 90 operas, Scarlatti about 600 keyboard sonatas, Bach wrote a new cantata every week for many years, Telemann published a whole journal every issue of which was full of his new works.
Even if the alleged times like this are not exaggerations (in and of itself not unlikely), they are still problematic. Did he start from nothing and four days later have a full symphony? Or did he draw on pre-sketched material such that the composition was just a matter of filling in the details?
@@renerpho Thank you. Indeed, my questions were rhetorical. It is analogous to the stories of famous mathematicians who hear of an unsolved conjecture in a lecture, then drop off a proof with the lecturer before heading off. Much more to do with preparation than lightning fast creativity!
Loved the video Bruce. I’ve seen a graph of composers charted by total # of works and # of “classics”/“hits” (defined somehow by researchers) and the trend was that the more completed pieces a composer had the more “classics”/“hits”. Higher NPH may be the key to musical success!
Sorabji didn't write many works, but what he wrote was HUGE. His goal was four pages per day. And his music is extremely dense. Have fun! Also Stephen W. Beatty. He has over 2600 works (opus 2609 so far) and is still composing. Update: Sorabji wrote all but the first three movements of Opus Clavicembalisticum in just six months. I counted the notes on the first seven pages manually and estimate that the fourth through twelfth movements come out to around 152622 notes, or 838 per day (I will revise this guess once I do the whole note count)
As someone already mentioned, J.S Bach wrote around a 20 min cantata with moderate sized orchestra each WEEK, so he was definitely fastest I’d like to believe...
He constantly recycled materials from his other works, and moderate sized orchestra of that time is essentially a chamber group by today's standard. That said Bach is definitely a contender for the fastest.
I like how you use 24-hour days in your calculations, not factoring out sleep time! My compositions sometimes follow me to bed, so, perhaps appropriate!
As far as the sheer volume of their output is concerned, I think Telemann and Hindemith may have been among the most prolific of composers, along with Rosssini--until the latter decided to devote the rest of his life to cooking. The most concise and sparse among composers was probably anton Webern. Barring early works such as Ein Sommerwind, his published works fit on three CDs.
*Bach* wrote a new Cantata every week _(for years)_ on top of composing for funerals, composing secular works, composing for educational porpuses and as if that was not enough, he had to teach Latin. The dude must have had a miserable life! *No wonder his music is so amazingly cosouling*
The ending was next level. You are getting better, good sir, in all things. You are a great composer. I have learned so much here I will one day post a do a song in your honor. God bless and keep growing... The channel
I personally find STARTING a piece to be the hardest thing... I'll ruminate perhaps for weeks. But what is the point without the sincerest inspiration and expression? P.s. Very entertaining channel! Really enjoyed playing in your Prince Zal and the Simorgh a few years ago :)
Congrats on 100k, David! Also, would you count improvisers as composers? In which case, Oscar Peterson might have something to say about 30 notes/hour!
Loved the video. A couple of thoughts... 1) Though I don't remember the source, I believe that in a letter to a friend, Tchaikovsky wrote that he had completed both the Festival Overture (1812) AND the Serenade for Strings at about the same time... ergo, his nph may have been somewhat greater than your estimate. 2) I believe that Handel completed Messiah in (approximately) 24 days. I would think that his nph would qualify him for the top five. Thanks so much for the fascinating videos.
Woow the dance of the eyebrows is actually pretty impresive, I only move one, and it's quite dificult for me jajajaja ❤ your channel deserves to be much more popular, this is the kind of channel you expect to have over a million suscribers 🌹
I find It interesting that you calculate notes per hour as in a 24 hour work day, rather than only in the working time. And also don’t account for days off. Clearly you consider that you are composing a piece in the unconscious from the second you start to the moment you put the final note on the page in its final position. I would not have expected that.
What about Webern, who showed one could create a masterwork with a rather small number of notes? It just shows that there is no special correlation between speed of composition and musical value.
I was about to write "noooooooo.... Don't cut them!!" But then Wagner happened so I'm happy now. Not about the Wagner but about not cutting your brows. Keep up the wonderful work my friend.
I use software, but still prefer drafting by hand nearly everything I write, then transcribe it later into software. I like the process of hand-writing a clean score, even though I can do everything I need digitally (and even though it takes much longer this way). Handwriting will never die! Thanks for your work, David.
Well, Mahler wrote the 8th symphony is just 3 weeks, and it features a LOT of notes. While I'm unable to count them all, i counted by hand some random pages, got an average and found a grand total of about 68040 notes, that amounts to 135 nph
Congratulations on reaching 100 thousand subscribers, the content you produce just for the channel is highly enjoyable, and I’ve also had a great time discovering your music through recordings, including the absolutely infectious Gumboots. Wish you all the best, and thank you :). On a bit of an interesting side note on Rossini: he was a very fast composer, though he did cheat a bit, and the Overture in particular is taken practically as is from Elisabetta, Regina d’Inghilterra (and that Overture was originally composed for Aureliano in Palmira). Indeed, much has been said of how much music Rossini “recycled” for his operas (though that was common for other composers at that time and often gives fine music an opportunity to shine in a new setting; the Count’s final long aria would be adapted in part for Cenerentola, and the latter version of the final stretta in, in my opinion, works better). Still, much of the material in Il Barbiere is new and its freshness/loveliness do not betray the extremely high speed of its composition.
Great video, as always! I would love to hear your opinion/analysis on Ryūichi Sakamoto's last album "Async" (Or on his career as a composer) On a side note... WHAT AN AWESOME ENDING!!!
Interesting. I never really thought about how music scores were hand written for such a long time. Especially when you think of how early regular text didn't have to be hand written. The typewriter kinda came forward and solved that issue, but to my knowledge there were no typewriters for music scores. Even when photo copying the original was often handwritten, I had no idea about this art form of putting dots on paper by hand. Very fascinating.
Some mention in the countdown has to be made to Schumann in his manic phases, I think. The first symphony was apparently completed in short score in under four days, although if you count the orchestration, it took a little under a month.
Writing a score neatly on the computer takes up time too but...man you save so much time for the individual parts! Sure, you still have to arrange everything in a readable/pleasing way for the performer but nothing compared to preparing it by hand.
Phew! Glad that "save David Bruce's eyebrows" petition wasn't needed after all. (But if we'd called on the UK Government to intervene on this matter the 100k subscribers would definitely have come in handy, as that's the number needed to trigger the possibility of a Parliamentary debate).
How about Zappa’s _Black page_ ? Just wondering because he’s known to write by hand his scores. Also, special mention to Barry Gray (a so underrated composer!) for your Eyebrows Ouverture, excellent!!
Composing may seem slower for a number of reasons: 1. Sleep. The more time passes, the more your composition takes a blow from sleeping. If we assumed that each composer wrote music non-stop and got nine hours of sleep each day and did the math with that, then their composition speeds would be much more impressive. 2. Working on multiple pieces simultaneously. This is something I tend to do. As a result, I have a symphony that I've been working on since 2019 and I've managed to write an entire other symphony in the meantime. 3. Taking days off. Grading Mahler's composition speed for his 5th Symphony would be rather difficult since he composed the symphony primarily in the summers, but it took a year for him to complete the initial version. 4. Bursts of inspiration. Using Mahler again as an example, he managed to compose his 8th symphony in a single summer. I've seen this in my own work as well. I wrote Fanfare No. 2 in Eb in a mere 3 days, giving me about 10.7 nph. My inspiration for my 2nd Violin Sonata in B Major, however, was less prevalent, taking me an entire month and giving me a speed of roughly 3.4nph. Meanwhile, the fourth movement of my 3rd Piano Sonata came from a huge burst in inspiration and, as a result, I finished it in about 7 hours (if I'm not mistaken, but I know it was less than a day). As a result, I got a speed of almost exactly 60nph. 5. Non-compositional activities. People can do lots of things instead of composing. Heck, by writing this comment I'm wasting a bunch of time I could be using to finish my Tuba Concerto that I've been working on for a good while now.
In the ... “lucrative tyranny,” let’s say ... of my day job, the last time I had time to get heavily into composition, I used a curious combination of paper and computer: In the morning, I’d print out the score as it currently existed, on big B-sized sheets, and clip them into my clipboard. Then on my way in to work, during the lunch break, and on the way home after work, I’d fill in pieces of the composition as yet not complete in the score. Then in the evenings, I’d perform those pieces of the music into “Logic” on my Mac.
Rossini was seemingly composing the overture for The Thieving Magpie on the day of the premier. The producer reputedly had Rossini locked into a room with an assistant. The assistant was instructed to throw the pages of completed manuscript from the window, page by page. Failing that, the assistant was instructed to throw Rossini from the same window....so yes that chimes with your hypothesis about the speed at which he composed.
Sorabji wrote Opus Clavicembalisticum in only a few months, the manuscript has 260 A3L pages with a few hundred notes each (too lazy to count all of them right now)
I remember reading a long time ago(In the Guinness Book of records I think) that the most prolific classical composer was Johann Melchior Molter (18th Century) who wrote about 140 symphonies and lots of other stuff.Another extremely hasty and prolific composer was Egidio Duni(also 18th century but Italian working later in France) Who wrote an absolutely frightening number of operas in both Italian and French helping to develop the genre of opera comique which in thecourseof time probably evolved into the musical
I have the inverse issue, with brows that swiftly trail off like unfinished sentences. A few browlings struggle to be seen, and it pains me when I'm stroking one lovingly and it abruptly quits - loses its will to knit, as it were, like all the others, and I'm left holding its tiny carcass between thumb and index finger as tears well up in my eyes. Nose hairs, on the other hand? Always open season on those abominations. On a happier note, congratulations on the 100K and kudos on your refusal to give in to the Scissor Man.
Fascinating stats all round. I believe Verdi wrote his String Quartet in double quick time, it would be interesting to know the figures on that. I've looked at the score, but as far as the notes are concerned "Not Gonna Count Them" :-)
Famous quick writers: Britten, Mozart, Schubert, Bach (one cantata a week over a year), Handel (who wrote most of his large works in about four weeks each). The ink! the paper!
That ending made me smile while I hit rock bottom. Thanks David. I assume the right to call you by your first name as right now you are my best friend in the world.
Funny that this video came out now. I just finished writing an official draft of a piano nocturne, all by hand because my computer is out of order right now. It's kind fun to do it all by hand...sometimes. Also, recently, I wrote a 30 second piece for a friend who turned 40. I decided to make the melody consist of 40 notes. The rest of the piece is full of 16ths played by the right hand. The total note count is 248. The first and the final draft were written by hand over 2 hours. If we ignore the revisions made during the writing of the first draft, we could double the note count, but since it took almost exactly 2 hours to write everything out, the speed at which the piece was written was 248nph. Now this was also a highly inspired, simple piano work.
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Please never cut your eyebrows. *DO HOWEVER* grow your hair like the classic rennaissance composers. You've got the right face... and eyebrows... to pull off that look. *SERIOUSLY*
Me:
>writes 4 bars in 3 hours
>only one line
>hates it
>deletes instantly
Absolutely perfect ending on this video
LISTEN!!!!...... I LIVE!!!!!
Shostakovich could definitely give Rossini and Mozart a run for their money. He composed his Festive Overture in just 3 days, which has 20194 notes. Meaning that he composed at a rate of 6731 notes per day, or 280.5 nph. Nothing like Soviet Oppression to get you to work faster.
He also arranged Tea for Two for full orchestra for a bet, I believe - in 45 minutes!
@@maninacupboard he didn't arrange it. He just proved that he could remember the entire orchestration from one listen.
Starwarsfan3331 He was Russian to get done, certainly not Stalin for a minute! 😂🔫
didn't he also do the fifth symphony in like three weeks to save his but from Stalin killing him?
So Mozart wrote 3 symphonies in 3 Months (9:45)....
It reminds me of what Salieri said in "Amadeus": "he [Mozart] had simply written down music already finished - in his head! Page after page of it, as if he were just taking dictation!"
Great channel! Congratulations!
Fantastic film. The intent and approach more than makes up for the historical inaccuracies (though let's celebrate Salieri, and his actual cordiality (including his attendance at the funeral))
I think Mozart himself mentions in one of his letters to her sister that once he had the piece finished in his head, he could effortlesly write it down in the middle of a party while keeping a conversation going.
I thought he said "fetched in his head," not finished for some reason
And to boot, the 39th, 40th, and 41st symphonies are probably his finest as well.
i literally screamed when you put those scissors by your eyebrows.
thanks for staying strong.
Can you make a video showing us how you write a piece from start to finish? I think it'd be cool if you made a 1 or 2 page 5 minute piece that shows your process, what goes through your head etc...
While I like the idea, if the tempo isn't ridiculously slow then one or two pages will never make five minutes of music. Still, I like the idea and I'd be very happy with one minute too, just to see the process and thinking behind it.
Jjay Berthume has done videos like that already, he just started another sequence of videos on a new piece
Ben levin also has done this a couple of times and is very insightful. It would be cool to see something like that on this channel too.
@@danimal oh yeah, I've seen one of his impossible music videos but I haven't seen much from him yet.
Yeah, I wish there were more of those vids in general
this would be so nice! 2 or 3 pages of arrangement! edited fast forward the mechanical work but explaining what happening in his mind! sometimes a voice over, sometimes a diagram explaining the theory or the technique and nerd facts like who invented it, etc... dude, sounds like a lot of work, but sure it would be interesting!
Surprise Ben Levin at the end!
I love the faces he makes when he's hamming it up!
Spoiler :(
I would like to see some of the baroque composers included, they were ridiculously productive. Vivaldi wrote something like 90 operas, Scarlatti about 600 keyboard sonatas, Bach wrote a new cantata every week for many years, Telemann published a whole journal every issue of which was full of his new works.
And not to forget: Handel, whose Messiah was written in only 24 days.
"Not Gonna Cuuuut Them.." :) (repeat)
Another data point for how fast Mozart composed. According to Wikipedia, he composed his 36th symphony, the Linz, K425, in 4 days.
Even if the alleged times like this are not exaggerations (in and of itself not unlikely), they are still problematic. Did he start from nothing and four days later have a full symphony? Or did he draw on pre-sketched material such that the composition was just a matter of filling in the details?
Didnt he write Don Giovanni in one night?
@@nathan87 Have a look at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart's_compositional_method
@@renerpho Thank you. Indeed, my questions were rhetorical. It is analogous to the stories of famous mathematicians who hear of an unsolved conjecture in a lecture, then drop off a proof with the lecturer before heading off. Much more to do with preparation than lightning fast creativity!
@@nathan87 John von Neumann is the classic example.
I have a feeling that Nancarrow could be very close to the top. Love your channel!
Yes! Piano roll and player piano composers... writing Black MIDI before it was cool
Loved the video Bruce. I’ve seen a graph of composers charted by total # of works and # of “classics”/“hits” (defined somehow by researchers) and the trend was that the more completed pieces a composer had the more “classics”/“hits”. Higher NPH may be the key to musical success!
Glad you didn’t cut them! You and Scorsese should combine powers one day.
Sorabji didn't write many works, but what he wrote was HUGE. His goal was four pages per day. And his music is extremely dense. Have fun!
Also Stephen W. Beatty. He has over 2600 works (opus 2609 so far) and is still composing.
Update: Sorabji wrote all but the first three movements of Opus Clavicembalisticum in just six months. I counted the notes on the first seven pages manually and estimate that the fourth through twelfth movements come out to around 152622 notes, or 838 per day (I will revise this guess once I do the whole note count)
As someone already mentioned, J.S Bach wrote around a 20 min cantata with moderate sized orchestra each WEEK, so he was definitely fastest I’d like to believe...
He constantly recycled materials from his other works, and moderate sized orchestra of that time is essentially a chamber group by today's standard. That said Bach is definitely a contender for the fastest.
Handwriting should never die. Keep the flame alive!!!
I like how you use 24-hour days in your calculations, not factoring out sleep time! My compositions sometimes follow me to bed, so, perhaps appropriate!
Congrats for the 100k subscribers Bruce! You really deserve it. Love your work
I don't believe David Bruce would be David Bruce without his eyebrows.
Reminds me of the classic Crosby Stills Nash and Young song "Almost Cut My (Eyebrow) Hair".
As far as the sheer volume of their output is concerned, I think Telemann and Hindemith may have been among the most prolific of composers, along with Rosssini--until the latter decided to devote the rest of his life to cooking. The most concise and sparse among composers was probably anton Webern. Barring early works such as Ein Sommerwind, his published works fit on three CDs.
Also, Bach, at certain years, wrote a new cantata (usually 20 minutes or longer) every week, though he did reuse and parody a lot.
I believe he was for sure the fastest
Yes, I was going to comment along the same lines
*Bach* wrote a new Cantata every week _(for years)_ on top of composing for funerals, composing secular works, composing for educational porpuses and as if that was not enough, he had to teach Latin. The dude must have had a miserable life! *No wonder his music is so amazingly cosouling*
@@Nooticus Not just the fastest, Bach is also the *bestest.* 😉
Didn't Vivaldi have to compose a concerto grosso every week per year?
On the other hand, the entirety of Alban Berg's output fit on 5 vinyl LP's.
The ending was next level. You are getting better, good sir, in all things. You are a great composer. I have learned so much here I will one day post a do a song in your honor. God bless and keep growing... The channel
I personally find STARTING a piece to be the hardest thing... I'll ruminate perhaps for weeks. But what is the point without the sincerest inspiration and expression?
P.s. Very entertaining channel! Really enjoyed playing in your Prince Zal and the Simorgh a few years ago :)
I can't think of an ending more appropriate. Very unexpected, but the message has been clearly delievered. Long live the eyebrows!!
Just The Best Mr. Bruce!!! Excellent in every way!!!
Obviously one of the more jokey videos. I love it. Congrats on 100k.
I can not even fathom how this channel only has 100,000 subs; it deserves at least 1,000,000
David, please do a tour of your studio, all your awesome instruments!! pleasseeee. much love from the Philippines!
Ending totally cracked me up!! Keep up the great work!! thank you! I learn so much
What a great ending of the video. Please, do not cut them! If you promise, I'll promise to put you on my patreon list.
Cheers David
Congratulations on 100,000 pt. eyebrows! =D
And thanks for some truly lovely videos along the way.
Congrats on 100k, David!
Also, would you count improvisers as composers? In which case, Oscar Peterson might have something to say about 30 notes/hour!
Love your channel! Love your eyebrows! Cheers David!
Loved the video. A couple of thoughts... 1) Though I don't remember the source, I believe that in a letter to a friend, Tchaikovsky wrote that he had completed both the Festival Overture (1812) AND the Serenade for Strings at about the same time... ergo, his nph may have been somewhat greater than your estimate. 2) I believe that Handel completed Messiah in (approximately) 24 days. I would think that his nph would qualify him for the top five. Thanks so much for the fascinating videos.
I am not surprised at your subscription numbers as your content is superb. Plus wild eyebrows are becoming trendy. Congratulations.
Woow the dance of the eyebrows is actually pretty impresive, I only move one, and it's quite dificult for me jajajaja ❤ your channel deserves to be much more popular, this is the kind of channel you expect to have over a million suscribers 🌹
I find It interesting that you calculate notes per hour as in a 24 hour work day, rather than only in the working time. And also don’t account for days off. Clearly you consider that you are composing a piece in the unconscious from the second you start to the moment you put the final note on the page in its final position. I would not have expected that.
Great video! And long live the brows!
What a wonderful teacher you are.
That's got to be the best 100k sub thing I've ever heard. Brilliant :). Oh, and congrats BTW.
Some fantastic rendering of the amazing Ride of the Eyebrows
Wouldn't be suprised if ravel is one of the slowest. Great video and congrats on 100k eyebrow hairs
One candidate for slowest is Charles ("Carl") Ruggles, who composed painstakingly by trial and error.
That's because he would unravel everything he wrote and start over...
How about Brahms, bet he wouldn't even get bronze in fast-composing...
What about Webern, who showed one could create a masterwork with a rather small number of notes? It just shows that there is no special correlation between speed of composition and musical value.
@@mumiemonstret Monsieur Morris would be Ravolted by your pun
I was about to write "noooooooo.... Don't cut them!!" But then Wagner happened so I'm happy now. Not about the Wagner but about not cutting your brows. Keep up the wonderful work my friend.
So excited to have been a part of a video on my favorite TH-cam Chanel!
Fortunately, I view your channel on a BROWser, so all is well.
Well done on the 100k, was obvious you'd get there right from the beginning, congratulations!
What a truly original and jovial video David 😁
I use software, but still prefer drafting by hand nearly everything I write, then transcribe it later into software. I like the process of hand-writing a clean score, even though I can do everything I need digitally (and even though it takes much longer this way). Handwriting will never die! Thanks for your work, David.
Varèse also had great eyebrows, so you’re in excellent company.
Well, Mahler wrote the 8th symphony is just 3 weeks, and it features a LOT of notes. While I'm unable to count them all, i counted by hand some random pages, got an average and found a grand total of about 68040 notes, that amounts to 135 nph
For a horrible moment there, I thought you were going to ruin those magnificent brows.
What, are you writing 24/7? 😃
Great video. One caveat is that Rossini's overture was written for an earlier opera so he spared himself the task of writing one for "Barber."
Congratulations on reaching 100 thousand subscribers, the content you produce just for the channel is highly enjoyable, and I’ve also had a great time discovering your music through recordings, including the absolutely infectious Gumboots. Wish you all the best, and thank you :).
On a bit of an interesting side note on Rossini: he was a very fast composer, though he did cheat a bit, and the Overture in particular is taken practically as is from Elisabetta, Regina d’Inghilterra (and that Overture was originally composed for Aureliano in Palmira). Indeed, much has been said of how much music Rossini “recycled” for his operas (though that was common for other composers at that time and often gives fine music an opportunity to shine in a new setting; the Count’s final long aria would be adapted in part for Cenerentola, and the latter version of the final stretta in, in my opinion, works better). Still, much of the material in Il Barbiere is new and its freshness/loveliness do not betray the extremely high speed of its composition.
The eyebrow bit alone already deserves my subscription.
By 200k subscribers I expect you to have grown a unibrow!
This video felt like a nod to Numberphile.
Glad to see you’re getting a larger audience.
You made my day with The Eyebrow Song! Thank you.
By the way...don’t cut them...
Great video, as always!
I would love to hear your opinion/analysis on Ryūichi Sakamoto's last album "Async" (Or on his career as a composer)
On a side note... WHAT AN AWESOME ENDING!!!
Very good and interesting video. Loved the eyebrow stunt too.
Fantastic video! I love the ending
I love writing by hand. I composed my string quartet that way. Among others.
Interesting.
I never really thought about how music scores were hand written for such a long time. Especially when you think of how early regular text didn't have to be hand written. The typewriter kinda came forward and solved that issue, but to my knowledge there were no typewriters for music scores.
Even when photo copying the original was often handwritten, I had no idea about this art form of putting dots on paper by hand. Very fascinating.
Some mention in the countdown has to be made to Schumann in his manic phases, I think.
The first symphony was apparently completed in short score in under four days, although if you count the orchestration, it took a little under a month.
We have to consider other aspects though. We have to be able to take into account writer's block, working on multiple pieces simultaneously, etc.
one hour after viewing this video, eyebrows manifested themselves physically in my home.
Wow, Rossini be one speedy boy.
nobody's saying it? Okay, I'll do it:
cough
cough
inhale
*15NOTESASEEECOOOOND!!!!!!*
The most sacrilegious comment here.
If you can play it slowly, you can play it quickly
LOL! 🤨 Keep writing those notes! Love your posts!
If you can compose it slowly, you can compose it quickly.
15 notes a second.
I just went and listened to the consolation of rain... it’s so fpdifferent to anything I’ve heard and beautiful
L'elisir d'amore, an opera by Gaetano Donizetti, 6 weeks
Writing a score neatly on the computer takes up time too but...man you save so much time for the individual parts! Sure, you still have to arrange everything in a readable/pleasing way for the performer but nothing compared to preparing it by hand.
Phew! Glad that "save David Bruce's eyebrows" petition wasn't needed after all. (But if we'd called on the UK Government to intervene on this matter the 100k subscribers would definitely have come in handy, as that's the number needed to trigger the possibility of a Parliamentary debate).
How about Zappa’s _Black page_ ?
Just wondering because he’s known to write by hand his scores.
Also, special mention to Barry Gray (a so underrated composer!) for your Eyebrows Ouverture, excellent!!
Just MAJESTIC ending!
Composing may seem slower for a number of reasons:
1. Sleep. The more time passes, the more your composition takes a blow from sleeping. If we assumed that each composer wrote music non-stop and got nine hours of sleep each day and did the math with that, then their composition speeds would be much more impressive.
2. Working on multiple pieces simultaneously. This is something I tend to do. As a result, I have a symphony that I've been working on since 2019 and I've managed to write an entire other symphony in the meantime.
3. Taking days off. Grading Mahler's composition speed for his 5th Symphony would be rather difficult since he composed the symphony primarily in the summers, but it took a year for him to complete the initial version.
4. Bursts of inspiration. Using Mahler again as an example, he managed to compose his 8th symphony in a single summer. I've seen this in my own work as well. I wrote Fanfare No. 2 in Eb in a mere 3 days, giving me about 10.7 nph. My inspiration for my 2nd Violin Sonata in B Major, however, was less prevalent, taking me an entire month and giving me a speed of roughly 3.4nph. Meanwhile, the fourth movement of my 3rd Piano Sonata came from a huge burst in inspiration and, as a result, I finished it in about 7 hours (if I'm not mistaken, but I know it was less than a day). As a result, I got a speed of almost exactly 60nph.
5. Non-compositional activities. People can do lots of things instead of composing. Heck, by writing this comment I'm wasting a bunch of time I could be using to finish my Tuba Concerto that I've been working on for a good while now.
dude who told you to mess with your eyebrows?! They're glorious and so is your channel. Go with god, man
Your eyebrows need their own leitmotif.
I really want this to happen
His eyebrows need an entire damn symphony!
What about Bach & Telemann? Didn’t they write incredibly fast, too?
In the ... “lucrative tyranny,” let’s say ... of my day job, the last time I had time to get heavily into composition, I used a curious combination of paper and computer: In the morning, I’d print out the score as it currently existed, on big B-sized sheets, and clip them into my clipboard. Then on my way in to work, during the lunch break, and on the way home after work, I’d fill in pieces of the composition as yet not complete in the score. Then in the evenings, I’d perform those pieces of the music into “Logic” on my Mac.
Rossini was seemingly composing the overture for The Thieving Magpie on the day of the premier. The producer reputedly had Rossini locked into a room with an assistant. The assistant was instructed to throw the pages of completed manuscript from the window, page by page. Failing that, the assistant was instructed to throw Rossini from the same window....so yes that chimes with your hypothesis about the speed at which he composed.
Sorabji wrote Opus Clavicembalisticum in only a few months, the manuscript has 260 A3L pages with a few hundred notes each (too lazy to count all of them right now)
I remember reading a long time ago(In the Guinness Book of records I think) that the most prolific classical composer was Johann Melchior Molter (18th Century) who wrote about 140 symphonies and lots of other stuff.Another extremely hasty and prolific composer was Egidio Duni(also 18th century but Italian working later in France) Who wrote an absolutely frightening number of operas in both Italian and French helping to develop the genre of opera comique which in thecourseof time probably evolved into the musical
I have the inverse issue, with brows that swiftly trail off like unfinished sentences. A few browlings struggle to be seen, and it pains me when I'm stroking one lovingly and it abruptly quits - loses its will to knit, as it were, like all the others, and I'm left holding its tiny carcass between thumb and index finger as tears well up in my eyes. Nose hairs, on the other hand? Always open season on those abominations. On a happier note, congratulations on the 100K and kudos on your refusal to give in to the Scissor Man.
Fascinating stats all round. I believe Verdi wrote his String Quartet in double quick time, it would be interesting to know the figures on that. I've looked at the score, but as far as the notes are concerned "Not Gonna Count Them" :-)
Last time I was this early, Bach was still alive.
This is the first video I've ever seen of you, and I agree, never cut those eyebrows. They're awesome.
I LOVE VIDEO'S LIKE THESE!!!!!
Congrats on 100k subs! Don't cut the eyebrows, you do you!
This is great content!
You got some insane browwiggling stamina
That ending...
Famous quick writers: Britten, Mozart, Schubert, Bach (one cantata a week over a year), Handel (who wrote most of his large works in about four weeks each). The ink! the paper!
Congrats on the 100k!
You're lucky. Your eyebrows grow up, mine grow down and poke my eyes.
That ending made me smile while I hit rock bottom. Thanks David. I assume the right to call you by your first name as right now you are my best friend in the world.
Eyebrows are the new powdered wigs.
Perhaps one day you can surpass those of Garryx Wormuloid from channel Alien's Guide.
Funny that this video came out now. I just finished writing an official draft of a piano nocturne, all by hand because my computer is out of order right now. It's kind fun to do it all by hand...sometimes.
Also, recently, I wrote a 30 second piece for a friend who turned 40. I decided to make the melody consist of 40 notes. The rest of the piece is full of 16ths played by the right hand. The total note count is 248. The first and the final draft were written by hand over 2 hours. If we ignore the revisions made during the writing of the first draft, we could double the note count, but since it took almost exactly 2 hours to write everything out, the speed at which the piece was written was 248nph. Now this was also a highly inspired, simple piano work.