How Schubert Creates Emotion - Composer Insights

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  • We examine the opening section of Schubert’s famous Impromptu in Gb in order to discover how Schubert creates emotion. Starting with the melodic line we discover how the contour works and how the phrase design enhances the rises and falls in musical tension. We then consider how the harmony supports the melody and how the figuration of the accompaniment plays a significant role. This composer insights lesson illustrates how these elements are combined through the genius of Schubert.
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    0:00 - Introduction to how Schubert creates emotion
    1:50 - Playing the piece
    2:40 - Melody
    8:16 - Harmony
    21:16 - Texture and design
    25:09 - Conclusion
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  • @MusicMattersGB
    @MusicMattersGB  ปีที่แล้ว +3

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  • @blakegilliam8223
    @blakegilliam8223 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Kind sir, I don't know what they are paying you at your job for music matters, you deserve millions for your knowledge and teaching skills and I loved this Schubert piece!

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You’re most kind.

    • @frankspears4597
      @frankspears4597 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Dicovered that Schubert was only 31 when he died. Imagine what else he could have composed.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Absolutely!

    • @wobblyorbee279
      @wobblyorbee279 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@frankspears4597 yeah why did he, who is my favourite composer, have to die so young :(

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s a real pity.

  • @evelyneduval6441
    @evelyneduval6441 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    One of my absolute favorites ! I enjoy playing it along with impromptu 2 and 4 opus 90!. I love Schubert's modulations, such a genius in his terribly short life!

  • @mustuploadtoo7543
    @mustuploadtoo7543 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Composer Insights are one of the great things about this channel along with the less talked about music theory concepts. I hope you get time to make more of these! 😀

  • @jayducharme
    @jayducharme ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Wonderful lesson. What impresses me is that with all the interesting harmonic movement, the piece sounds inevitable and completely natural. Schubert doesn't call attention to his technique.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The mark of a genius at work

    • @jgoogle4256
      @jgoogle4256 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MusicMattersGBthat’s how you can tell the composer has an immense level of expertise. These advanced techniques are so familiar to him that he manipulates them perfectly, meaning he knows where to use them exactly where they belong, which produces the natural and inevitable sound of it, or in short the pure smoothness of the piece

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Absolutely

  • @musik-paint
    @musik-paint 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The less the notes move, the more beautiful the melody becomes. A note that sounds for a long time carries its own poetry.

  • @CarlosMartinez-gr1rp
    @CarlosMartinez-gr1rp ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Schubert is emotion pure ❤

  • @MaddoxHumphries
    @MaddoxHumphries ปีที่แล้ว

    I just love how you start out all (or at least most of) your videos with a cheery "Hi!"

  • @carlstenger5893
    @carlstenger5893 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ah, Schubert-absolute perfection. Thanks so much for another wonderful video.

  • @sheeepman
    @sheeepman ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Constantly impressed by the exceptional content quality on this channel, huge thanks!

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That’s most kind. Much more at www.mmcourses.co.uk

  • @larspettereliassen7984
    @larspettereliassen7984 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a fantastic lesson, mr. Gareth Green! Thank you!

  • @JP-fp8uc
    @JP-fp8uc ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Schubert's impromptu in G flat major and A flat major has to be my some of my favourite Schubert pieces, having played the latter.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wonderful music

    • @JP-fp8uc
      @JP-fp8uc ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MusicMattersGB I love the modulation from A flat major to C sharp minor in the no.4 impromptu using enharmonic V7 chords, diminished 7th and augmented 6ths.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Tremendous colour

  • @BrianKlobyGuitar
    @BrianKlobyGuitar ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you Mr. Green... fantastic breakdown of what Schubert had going on within this piece of happiness he wrote many moons ago... You Rock :)

  • @maxjohn6012
    @maxjohn6012 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for this! I've played this for years but am currently preparing to play it for the first time in a concert later this year (together with some Brahms intermezzi - 118 no.1 and 119 no.1 and no.2). Very helpful to see you dissecting the first page like this. Playing it "in chords", as you did before discussing the quavers, was so instructive for me when learning it - it was an invaluable way to get the outline of the piece, to feel its natural tempo, as well as to hear the more subtle changes. I've always wondered whether Schubert wrote the first sketch in that format and worked out the accompaniment after.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  ปีที่แล้ว

      Absolutely. Hope your performance shapes up well.

  • @raymondhummel5211
    @raymondhummel5211 ปีที่แล้ว

    Such excellent knowledge in analyzing the music of Schubert.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  ปีที่แล้ว

      Glad it’s helpful. Much more at www.mmcourses.co.uk

  • @corrinneloudon525
    @corrinneloudon525 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thankyou so much for this! I've learned so much...

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  ปีที่แล้ว

      A pleasure. Much more at www.mmcourses.co.uk

  • @aculeah
    @aculeah ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So well timed! I'm learning his impromptu in c minor, but this piece is next on my list. 😊

  • @martinbennett2228
    @martinbennett2228 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The first edition of the impromptus that I acquired (2nd hand) scored this impromptu in G major. Apparently this was something the publisher (Haslinger, I think decided on when it was published during Schubert's life. I think, like you do that the arpeggiated accompaniment flows more easily on the 'black' notes.

  • @unknownentrappment_ed3522
    @unknownentrappment_ed3522 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks

  • @jonorgames6596
    @jonorgames6596 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @Music Matters Beutiful music! Beutiful playing! But also beutiful sounds! May I ask, what piano you are using?

  • @briancollins1475
    @briancollins1475 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for this. I really wish I had this analysis from my teacher when I learned this piece many years ago.
    BTW, what is the time signature? That notation is unfamiliar to me - is it s strange Schubertian thing??

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A pleasure. Yes, it’s a strange time signature to represent 4/2. The C with a line through it is 2/2, so there are two of those in each bar.

    • @briancollins1475
      @briancollins1475 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MusicMattersGB Thanks - an interesting notation. Also interesting that he felt no need to explicitly notate the compound timing (sextuplets) of the broken chord lines. But I guess it is pretty clear and unambiguous - and keeps the page cleaner.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  ปีที่แล้ว

      😀

  • @isaacshaw1596
    @isaacshaw1596 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You improved the piece very subtly. You added a 9-8 appoggiatura underneath the 4-3. I had to rewind to see why the second sounded so much more expressive than the first but it's because you added a 9-8 underneath which I don't think is written. It improved it though! Tell Schubert that. 😂

  • @Stashi1808
    @Stashi1808 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hello I have a question. First off though I can't even begin to tell you how much I look forward to Composer Insights. Such clear easy to understand information always puts a new perspective on music learning for me. Thank you. Secondly I just finished a Duet for Violin and Cello and I'm working on some other chamber works at the moment but here's the thing. I had a motif play In my head yesterday morning and it's a symphony so I wrote it down just as quickly as I could. I was just wondering wha makes a symphony truly grand? Like Beethoven's first symphony also in C Major I was wondering what are some good examples of bending the rules of sonata form in symphoneys from classical giants? In other words wha makes a Beethoven or a Mozart symphony so memorable?? And thanks again and again for this chanel.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks for your kind words. Good to have you with us at the recent livestream. In answer to your question you can expand Sonata Form eg by using two first/ second subjects or by using Sonata Rondo form, or by expanding the Development section, or by including a fugal structure. Those are a few starters.

    • @Stashi1808
      @Stashi1808 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks!

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😀

  • @isaacshaw1596
    @isaacshaw1596 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've never seen a double cut common time before. Cut common time is 2/2 but I suppose double 4/2 which would make sense on how it's written but that's a strange time signature.
    Also I find 7/8 really weird too for a different reason. It's an a irregular compound time, but is there actually another name for it because 6/8 is a compound duple time. Just wondered if there is one for 7/8?

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  ปีที่แล้ว

      7/8 is an example of an irregular time signature. It’s neither simple nor compound - hence irregular.

    • @isaacshaw1596
      @isaacshaw1596 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MusicMattersGB Oh I thought compound would've applied to it but I get that now.

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  ปีที่แล้ว

      😀

  • @tuttifrutti2229
    @tuttifrutti2229 ปีที่แล้ว

    Schubert, the Sleep Walker.

  • @vincentedelmond5404
    @vincentedelmond5404 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Compare the first impromptu to the Liebestraum of Liszt isnt it strange

    • @MusicMattersGB
      @MusicMattersGB  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes. Interesting comparison