Probably my all time favorite piece we ever performed in High School and I think the rest of the band would probably agree. Felt like practically everyone got a chance to shine during this piece, especially some often overlooked instruments, and a bunch even got a chance to sing! The dense parts of this made me wonder what "Emblems" by Copland would look like in one of your visualizations.
I've often thought how much more interesting it would be if this march were played at a university convocation or graduation -- far more so than one of Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstances", eh?
at 3:38 one of my favorite reasons for playing horn. when a piece says with as much force as possible under a section horn players are gonna blast it lol
I really love the visual arrangement of all the unpitched percussion by register, and also the effect of crescendo for cymbals and tambourine (gradually larger shapes overlaying each other). So good!
This was not a piece I was expecting to see here, brings back good memories of performing this piece. I like the little outro with the shapes and colors, I have never noticed one of those before. Though I do remember a few intros doing something similar, like showing the pitch coloring in a video of Bartok's music.
Like a child's imagination, as the piece progresses, it becomes more and more complex until it becomes an utter cacophony, difficult to parse and make sense of as a listener, but making perfect sense to the child, or conductor. The melody is simple and memorable, indicative of the simpler logic children utilize, but anyone who has ever been a child should attest to the fact that they are far more complex than they may appear. brilliant
I played the piano part for this with my school's band, and used this video along with the condensed score to transcribe the piano part on its own. I just love how fun the chord jumps are!
Explore all of Grainger. His music was wonderful and,he had a very interesting and colorful life! The orchestral arrangements he made for Stokowski are on TH-cam and are wonderful
This composition and video are my "Life can be good, can't it!" escape clause. A 62 year old head banging in certain sections and then just rocking in time back and forth and side to side at others. And all the while, a smile. Favourited and visited more than I care to mention, mainly cause have lost count. Merci to both Composers (a fellow Aussie is) Percy Grainger and Smalin. More power to both, And apologies to Ludwig von... but 'Rage for a lost penny' is still one of my top three
Thank you! I love showing the videos to my students. Most could care less about classical music, but it allows me to have a conversation about what they see and hear. Just grateful for the privilege and opportunity of being able to bring an appreciation of classical music to a group of students who are the least bit concerned about Mozart and more concerned about Nicki Minaj...
I love this piece, and I'm glad that you did it! I would have never expected this to be a piece you would animate. Fantastic anyway! One of my favorite compositions by Grainger. It's so fun to listen to and play, and it's just stuck in your head after you finish it. And I love the baritone sax near the end! (at least I think that's what it is).
Assuming you're talking about the passage which starts there and ends at 4:31, you can intensify the thrill by playing the "trust game" with it. Here's how: At the accent at 4:25, start counting the beats (out loud until you're confident you can do it right). If the counting is correctly in time, then the accent at 4:31 happens at "7." The "truster" falls backwards so as to land at "7" in the "trustee's" arms.
This way of showing the multiple parts of an orchestra score is very illuminating in a way that sheet music doesn't convey. I assume there is some octave transposition involved but that illustrates the point even better... it's the same set of notes across many sections and instruments/
I'm not sure what you mean by "some octave transposition involved" ... in my graphical scores, the vertical position indicates the absolute pitch level of the note (so, for example, a flute and a piccolo playing the same written note would show up in two different positions because the piccolo plays notes an octave higher than written).
Too many notes! LOL, a great representation of this busy song! And thanks for adding the voices at the end, that helped with such a complex piece. Not many marches that have "voice" parts.
I've never heard this piece fully. I know the little children's song, but have never heard this specific this composition. I will say that the thumbnail caught my eye, though. Very interesting.
Aℓαηтιc ƒℓαмє I know what a movement is. I think I misread your comment as "Children's March is part of a greater piece. It's not just one song, it's multiple movements." I thought you meant that Children's March was one movement from a greater piece of music. Like Claire de Lune.I now assume you are simply stating a general fact that there are compositions that have more than one movement to them. And that extend over an hour in length. So that was a mistake on my part.
I'd like to see an ensemble perform this (or any song you've made a video to) and have the video up on screen as they play - I think it'd be a really engaging experience.
In this recording, it's often hard to hear the piano, so as a general rule of thumb, I'd say: bring out the piano when its notes are the highest thing in the texture, and when fast repeated chords anticipate a big tutti chord for the ensemble. And, of course, the glissando!
A wonderful children's activity song. It has a real Peter Pan and the lost boys, playing follow the leader vibe. If only I could follow them over hill and dale, and across streams with tadpoles, and through fields of flowers with butterflies, etc., with my big speakers. There is even a spin around and get dizzy part and lie down and look at shapes in clouds until distant lightning says it's time to go home. Music to play by.
Epsilon SIlver I started working on this one (suggested by my girlfriend), and it was looking interesting, so I decided to focus on marches between then and the 4th of July.
JoeMiyagi Actually, I misspoke. She didn't suggest it or request it; she just told me about it (and told me that she had a strong emotional connection to the piece; she played it to her daughters every morning to wake them up and get them out of bed in good spirits). When I asked "should I do a video of it?" she said "omigod, would you? I didn't want to ask" (because she knows how I feel about requests).
Missing the alto clarinet part and tuba, as well as there being no bass oboe, contrabassoon, or soprano sax in this song? why was all that included in the end?
@@smalin I own the score myself and by missing I mean the alto clarinet part and the tuba part are missing, as well as those random extra instuments included at the end
The version I used is from R. Mark Rogers' critical edition (published by Southern Music Company). It is for band + piano. I don't know whether you would consider this the "original" version (I didn't have anything else to compare it to).
Do you have the files to some of the instrumental parts? Most importantly the Bass Oboe, english horn, Contrabass Sarrusophone/contrabassoon, string bass and piano? If so, could you send them to me? Thanks in advance!
The prominence of bassoon in this piece gives me great joy.
Probably my all time favorite piece we ever performed in High School and I think the rest of the band would probably agree. Felt like practically everyone got a chance to shine during this piece, especially some often overlooked instruments, and a bunch even got a chance to sing! The dense parts of this made me wonder what "Emblems" by Copland would look like in one of your visualizations.
I'm curious about that, too, but it's out of reach.
I've often thought how much more interesting it would be if this march were played at a university convocation or graduation -- far more so than one of Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstances", eh?
I expect the graduates wouldn't take kindly to be referred to as children.
I would answer back, "physically, no but mentally, that's another story". Lol
단단단단 yes
@@yuchanbot 'tis my favourite song!
Percy would have loved this. He would probably have commissioned a new suit with this as the pattern! More Grainger!
Good ol' Grainger, starts so simply....
4:25 to 4:47 is such a triumph.
at 3:38 one of my favorite reasons for playing horn. when a piece says with as much force as possible under a section horn players are gonna blast it lol
when I played this.. the director, from Colorado State, couldn't get enough horn... he was actually pissed we didn't have more
Horn is the phattest blaster
TheMetatron333 lel
Kinda sucks though when there’s only 1 Horn in the band though 😭
We are great aren't we
This is what is in my head when i hear moving notes in songs tbh this is so cool
Yo nice pfp
I really love the visual arrangement of all the unpitched percussion by register, and also the effect of crescendo for cymbals and tambourine (gradually larger shapes overlaying each other). So good!
This was not a piece I was expecting to see here, brings back good memories of performing this piece. I like the little outro with the shapes and colors, I have never noticed one of those before. Though I do remember a few intros doing something similar, like showing the pitch coloring in a video of Bartok's music.
I like how I can see how the instruments are paired up. Makes good listening along side "The Principles of Orchestration."
Like a child's imagination, as the piece progresses, it becomes more and more complex until it becomes an utter cacophony, difficult to parse and make sense of as a listener, but making perfect sense to the child, or conductor. The melody is simple and memorable, indicative of the simpler logic children utilize, but anyone who has ever been a child should attest to the fact that they are far more complex than they may appear.
brilliant
Can we talk about the piccolo from 4:29-4:31
Feel free.
Good talk
It's called scales.
Barely noticeable
I love the way the percussions are visualized. Especially the castanets. And thanks for the explanation section at the end.
I played the piano part for this with my school's band, and used this video along with the condensed score to transcribe the piano part on its own. I just love how fun the chord jumps are!
Am I the only one who feels this song seems sorta Disney-like? Maybe it's all the Disneyland music I've been listening to lately... xD
Kitten Cat Games Peter Pan March?
I’m a little tea pot
Explore all of Grainger. His music was wonderful and,he had a very interesting and colorful life! The orchestral arrangements he made for Stokowski are on TH-cam and are wonderful
This is a piece that has stuck with me for years, and here I return again!
same here! played it seven years ago but decided to look it up. :)
This composition and video are my "Life can be good, can't it!" escape clause. A 62 year old head banging in certain sections and then just rocking in time back and forth and side to side at others. And all the while, a smile. Favourited and visited more than I care to mention, mainly cause have lost count. Merci to both Composers (a fellow Aussie is) Percy Grainger and Smalin. More power to both,
And apologies to Ludwig von... but 'Rage for a lost penny' is still one of my top three
I believe this is one of your most beautiful animations. It certainly helps that the instrumentation is quite eclectic.
Splendid! The key provided at the end was excellent as well.
That part displayed in the thumbnail was quite insane indeed
So that song from "peter pan" was based on a previous piece of music, I learned something new today.
Thank you so much for making this video! I love Percy Grainger's music!
This is my favorite Grainger piece for wind band! Thank you!
I LOVE a listening to this in Band. It brings be joy.
Thank you! I love showing the videos to my students. Most could care less about classical music, but it allows me to have a conversation about what they see and hear. Just grateful for the privilege and opportunity of being able to bring an appreciation of classical music to a group of students who are the least bit concerned about Mozart and more concerned about Nicki Minaj...
One of my favorite ! Thanks so much
this is one of the best! I always enjoy these videos, and I love Grainger. Thanks for sharing it with us.
I love this piece, and I'm glad that you did it! I would have never expected this to be a piece you would animate. Fantastic anyway! One of my favorite compositions by Grainger. It's so fun to listen to and play, and it's just stuck in your head after you finish it. And I love the baritone sax near the end! (at least I think that's what it is).
DarkLava2007 I wouldn't have expected to animate this piece either (based on the pieces I've chosen to do in the past). Funny how things happen.
4:27 mimic my heart after seeing it.
4:20 is just breathtaking
Assuming you're talking about the passage which starts there and ends at 4:31, you can intensify the thrill by playing the "trust game" with it. Here's how:
At the accent at 4:25, start counting the beats (out loud until you're confident you can do it right). If the counting is correctly in time, then the accent at 4:31 happens at "7." The "truster" falls backwards so as to land at "7" in the "trustee's" arms.
That was terrific! Thanks to all of you who gave us a heads-up for parts to pay attention to! Love it!
Quite marvellous and fascinating. Thank you.
This song has been played the first time in 1919. Nonetheless it contains so many modern jazz sounding harmonic passages. It it truly awesome.
Where do you think jazz harmonies came from? Jazz players learned from all the music that came before, including late Romantic, Impressionistic, etc.
Can NOT watch and delight in this ENOUGH...........thank you, Mr. Malinowski. :-)
4:25 is actually a lot of fun on clarinet
I could listen to 4:31 to 4:47 forever.
The visuals are stunning, the song is wonderful and together they form one big feast!
Piano in a march? That's actually something I haven't heard before.
Ze Rubenator Funny enough, it was actually published as a solo piano piece first.
lol
Just imagine marching down the street pushing the piano and trying to play at the same time.
@@jsaavedr1 Imagine how out-of-tune the piano would be by the end, too.
@@DarkLava2007 A duet, I think...
This way of showing the multiple parts of an orchestra score is very illuminating in a way that sheet music doesn't convey. I assume there is some octave transposition involved but that illustrates the point even better... it's the same set of notes across many sections and instruments/
I'm not sure what you mean by "some octave transposition involved" ... in my graphical scores, the vertical position indicates the absolute pitch level of the note (so, for example, a flute and a piccolo playing the same written note would show up in two different positions because the piccolo plays notes an octave higher than written).
This Part! 3:37 😭😭😭
Band Geeks to the end!!
Too many notes! LOL, a great representation of this busy song! And thanks for adding the voices at the end, that helped with such a complex piece. Not many marches that have "voice" parts.
As loudly as possible.
Freaking love it
I've never heard this piece fully. I know the little children's song, but have never heard this specific this composition. I will say that the thumbnail caught my eye, though. Very interesting.
Chords at 4:20.
This is absolutely hypnotic! I love it!
Kyle Belouin t,
Grainger would have loved this.
Most contemporary composers whose work I use in my videos appreciate what I do, so you're probably right.
Thank you so much for doing a wind ensemble/ band piece!
It's great to see some more "serious" works for wind ensemble on here (even though I know lost are still not in the public domain)
Evidently, he was in the service for a while as a band leader, and arranged several marches, etc. Some of his British folks settings are gorgeous.
I never knew how much I needed this
Back to watch this one yet again. It's PLEASING.
Lots to see in this one. Delightful!
4:26 oh he on X games mode
This music sounds familiar, like maybe it was used in a movie or something. I could swear I've heard it before. Great video as always!
***** Shares a name with the music used in the Sharpe movies, but I don't think it's the same song.
Thanks!
Huge variety of instruments!
What a wonderfully entertaining graphic!
i am amazed by how listening to this once and it's already stuck in my head.
Some stuff is over a hour long.
what?
it's not just one song, it's multiple movements.
Aℓαηтιc ƒℓαмє It is? What are the other movements?
wikipedia is your favorite place
this song is just a song
a song with movements is like moonlight sonata.
Aℓαηтιc ƒℓαмє I know what a movement is. I think I misread your comment as "Children's March is part of a greater piece. It's not just one song, it's multiple movements." I thought you meant that Children's March was one movement from a greater piece of music. Like Claire de Lune.I now assume you are simply stating a general fact that there are compositions that have more than one movement to them. And that extend over an hour in length. So that was a mistake on my part.
Love the animation as well as the music. When it stops the screen keeps gliding to the right
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_aftereffect
What a nice piece of music, and a nice animation.
Great that you put, at the end what grapics represents what instrument.
7:19 when you eat too much pizza
I'd like to see an ensemble perform this (or any song you've made a video to) and have the video up on screen as they play - I think it'd be a really engaging experience.
***** See: www.musanim.com/live/
Thanks for this video! I'm playing piano for this and the animation helps me to figure out which parts should stand out!
In this recording, it's often hard to hear the piano, so as a general rule of thumb, I'd say: bring out the piano when its notes are the highest thing in the texture, and when fast repeated chords anticipate a big tutti chord for the ensemble. And, of course, the glissando!
4:26 ... just how?
Lord Gautama chromatic scale pretty much.
I get that he's just going up and down the scale but I'm just amazed at how well it works :P
Agreed
I love your videos. Keep at it man!
There are some piano notes missing in meassures from 5:58 to 6:06. Great video and great music, thank you!
Santiago Vidal There's also a misplaced piano chord
Top work, ol' chap.
This is amazing!
Outstanding.
Awesome. Great work.
Shout out to the bari sax players who finally got to play the melody in a concert band piece!
why arent there videos like this for every piece ive played this is so cool
I'm making them as fast as I can ...
smalin Do the hounds of spring by reed maybe? It’s a very layered piece that would be perfect for this sort of thing. Keep up the good work!!!
See "Could you please ..." in the FAQ.
Fantastic!!
Interesting, I liked the way the screen moved differently in past videos, where as the notes were played, they moved more quickly across the screen.
You should thank Smalin, not me...
Huge reason why I play bassoon!!
A wonderful children's activity song. It has a real Peter Pan and the lost boys, playing follow the leader vibe. If only I could follow them over hill and dale, and across streams with tadpoles, and through fields of flowers with butterflies, etc., with my big speakers. There is even a spin around and get dizzy part and lie down and look at shapes in clouds until distant lightning says it's time to go home.
Music to play by.
So nice !
3:54 holy SHIT
Fuck the chord at 5:21 is outrageous!
brilliant!!!
Why is nobody talking about the French horn runs at 2:46
Does anyone know what key the part from 4:00-4:25 is?
+PsychoGallade It's in E-flat major at the beginning and A-flat major at the end. Why do you want to know?
+smalin I'm trying to recreate that in a musical arrangement I'm making. I can't seem to get that descending line right.
+PsychoGallade The key change is at the transition at or near 4:16.
Please do Colonial Song!
+Tubs of Blue '12 See "Could you please ..." in the FAQ.
Yellow: Brass 1
Orange:Brass 2
Blackish-Grey:Piano
Grey: Mallet Precussion
Glowing Magenta: Choir
Green Tuba
Pink: Violin
Dark Green: Flute
Blue: Piccolo 1
Dark Indigo: Piccolo 2
Others: Precussion
BTW mistake i forgot purple so… Purple: Basson????
Mistake 2 pink: Flute again
Mistake 2 no violins but upright
Is there a piano in this piece?
Yes.
To think I'm here on this video's 9th birthday exactly.
suprisingly catchy
Not that I mind, but why so many marches recently? Preparation for 4th of July?
Epsilon SIlver I started working on this one (suggested by my girlfriend), and it was looking interesting, so I decided to focus on marches between then and the 4th of July.
smalin Keep the marches coming! Spectacular work, as always :)
smalin Ah-ha! So you *do* take suggestions! You've been caught red-handed Mr. Malinowski.
JoeMiyagi Actually, I misspoke. She didn't suggest it or request it; she just told me about it (and told me that she had a strong emotional connection to the piece; she played it to her daughters every morning to wake them up and get them out of bed in good spirits). When I asked "should I do a video of it?" she said "omigod, would you? I didn't want to ask" (because she knows how I feel about requests).
Yes, there is one person I take suggestions from: the woman I'm sharing my life with.
where is the sheet music for this :D
See the FAQ.
I like this!
Missing the alto clarinet part and tuba, as well as there being no bass oboe, contrabassoon, or soprano sax in this song? why was all that included in the end?
Not sure what you mean by "missing." The instrument key/legend at the end is based on the score. What's your objection?
@@smalin I own the score myself and by missing I mean the alto clarinet part and the tuba part are missing, as well as those random extra instuments included at the end
the song is just like "A children is marching to a hill"
Plural?
I play 4th trumpet for this in my high school band. Despite the fact I don’t play for over half of it, it’s a fun song
4:24
Anyone know which version of the score this is? Is the the original military + piano version or some edited arrangement?
The version I used is from R. Mark Rogers' critical edition (published by Southern Music Company). It is for band + piano. I don't know whether you would consider this the "original" version (I didn't have anything else to compare it to).
Random question: do you have any favorite pieces?
OreoDog Random answer: barbecue
smalin I love piece too!
uh, where's the vibrato in the euphonium solo?
Is it mandatory? Either Bourgeoise didn't want it, or the performer didn't want to do it. Creative license is a wonderful thing. ;)
Do you have the files to some of the instrumental parts? Most importantly the Bass Oboe, english horn, Contrabass Sarrusophone/contrabassoon, string bass and piano? If so, could you send them to me? Thanks in advance!
You should contact R. Mark Rogers at Southern Music Company for that sort of thing.
Do you have a link? Sorry if I bothered you
southernmusic.com/childrens-march-over-the-hills-and-far-away-by-percy-aldridge-grainger-8/
aight Thanks :]
this is for myself - 4:30
Never mind that request about mahler you've already made it a few years ago