A Beginner's Guide to Boléro by Maurice Ravel

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  • @KeepitClassical
    @KeepitClassical  2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Music found in this video:
    Gnossienne No.5 - amzn.to/3pD9ovJ
    Prelude a L'Apres Midi D'un Faune - amzn.to/3KfWXiR
    Boléro - amzn.to/3AE9A49
    Une barque sur l’ocean & Ma Mére L’Oye (for piano) - amzn.to/3Coww8U
    Une barque sur l’ocean (for orchestra) - amzn.to/3wrM33Q
    Ma Mére L’Oye (for orchestra) - amzn.to/3AIe6i9
    Le Tombeau de Couperin (for orchestra) - amzn.to/3CqhkrI

  • @GoWestOfEden
    @GoWestOfEden ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The Reason I LOVE Bolero Is. LESS IS MORE. Thats the beautiful thing about life's little secret. Less Is More

  • @livictori
    @livictori 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The greatest piece to explain life

  • @davidharkins8880
    @davidharkins8880 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    As a ‘recent subscriber’ to your channel , I simply wanted to thank you for broadening and further developing my love of this genre of music. David 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @martinbrisebois1831
    @martinbrisebois1831 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I guess I've started my own classical journey as Matthew was not even born, but wow, what a stellar reintroduction to works I love so much.

  • @Belloqs
    @Belloqs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Excellent analysis. Bolero definitely inspired many of the minimalists. Reich and Glass to name two.

  • @gordanagarment-y8i
    @gordanagarment-y8i หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you so much. Respect.

  • @schnabeltier516
    @schnabeltier516 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Super interesting video, thank you!

  • @valentinbetourne1963
    @valentinbetourne1963 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    You make such great and interesting content! Keep that up, looking forward to learn more and more about classical music thanks to you!

  • @alexandras4651
    @alexandras4651 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wonderful video, thank you!

  • @tacovandijk8967
    @tacovandijk8967 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just beginning to listen to classical music and this helps a lot so keep them coming,no preference not yet anyway.

  • @cperezloza
    @cperezloza 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent video! Really I enjoyed it. You english is load and clear. I need to practice my listenning and your youtube channel is a very high quality video to learn classical music and english. Congratulations!

  • @kjmav10135
    @kjmav10135 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am coming to your content late, and I love it! Thank you for what you have produced!

  • @spec0h632
    @spec0h632 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you! This video was so insightful and interesting!

  • @Selyidar
    @Selyidar 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you. Amazing work.

  • @fantastiskchow8830
    @fantastiskchow8830 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love this!!!!!

  • @haydenbutler2223
    @haydenbutler2223 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great work!

  • @robinhillyard6187
    @robinhillyard6187 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent video. I’ve always thought the same thing about it being an early (the first?) minimalist piece.

  • @redwoodprosth
    @redwoodprosth ปีที่แล้ว

    Enjoyed your video. And learned a lot. Thank you for the visual at 8:35. I found that helpful

  • @fendipxx
    @fendipxx 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was one of the students at zora neale hurston elemantry! Great Show

  • @chessematics
    @chessematics 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video. Came from reddit

  • @dsm2240
    @dsm2240 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very informative, but a discussion about the strenuousness of the snare drum part would have been interesting.

  • @hukes
    @hukes ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Please do Carmina Burana!

  • @wyuj888jgszpokrrtuz
    @wyuj888jgszpokrrtuz ปีที่แล้ว

    Dusting off the cobwebs and watching analysis videos on this piece because I realized something I've been working on has taken a very Bolero turn. Great vid.

  • @otaviopmartins
    @otaviopmartins ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome

  • @johnlee3508
    @johnlee3508 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love this video...Just listen to Bolero live (Kansas City Symphony conducted by Michael Stern)

  • @FLOJo83
    @FLOJo83 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I will always request Mahler! Great videos

  • @safid6420
    @safid6420 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great explain, really enjoy it. Could you choose other master piece of different composer to explain them? Thx 👍

    • @KeepitClassical
      @KeepitClassical  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Stay tuned. That's my next video I'm working on rn

  • @r4chdm
    @r4chdm ปีที่แล้ว

    What's the name of the piano song passage played at 2:15?

  • @matthewleary3329
    @matthewleary3329 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I would greatly enjoy a video like this about Handel's Royal Fireworks music, any of Beethoven's symphonies or piano sonatas, Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite, or anything by Tchaikovsky.

    • @KeepitClassical
      @KeepitClassical  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oooo, this is giving me some good ideas.

  • @williamharberts5514
    @williamharberts5514 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I loved your analysis, more for covering the music than covering the composer. I've always loved Bolero but never had much of an idea why nor how it was constructed. I always thought that it would be among the hardest classical pieces for a conductor to control. It feels like it would run away from you. Think perpetual motion machine rolling downhill. Now if I could just figure out exactly when the kettle drums come in. They slip in so smoothly with the plucked basses that I can't tell exactly when they come in. They are simply suddenly there. Count me as a new subscriber.

  • @zahzahzee
    @zahzahzee ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Come back to posting!

    • @KeepitClassical
      @KeepitClassical  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Working on the next one as we speak...

    • @zahzahzee
      @zahzahzee ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@KeepitClassical Awesome! Can't wait!

  • @davidhartley3435
    @davidhartley3435 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Inspiration of Ravel's Bolero came from ballet dancer, nude portrait model, Ida Rubenstein. She commissioned the piece and it was first performed in 1928. It is an erotic piece because of its repetiveness and 2 melodic structures. It is one of the most sexiest classical music pieces. Ravel couldn't decide to do it 3/4 or 4/4, to allow it to drag the repetive soloists and theme. The "orgasmic" crashes can be heard at the finale of the piece. When it was first performed in 1928 in NYC, it was reported that a woman was shouting in the audience "This is perverted garbage!" When the conductor told Mr. Ravel backstage what had happened, he said well, I guess she's the only one that understood the piece.

  • @hannahchristinah
    @hannahchristinah 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    5:50 : insert 'Ratatouille' scene here.

  • @bijanjan100
    @bijanjan100 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think bolero is an excelente example of the medieval practice of two melodies played in repeated sequences, in which the first melody is played and then repeated, followed by The secomd one and then repeated

  • @kfleetwood
    @kfleetwood 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Curious why an analysis of the structure and music development of this piece should leave out any analysis of the ostinato of the snare drum and support instruments.
    Other than that, I enjoyed the talking points.

  • @bryanhyde8850
    @bryanhyde8850 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Claire De Lune would be my request, if there were only one piece of music I could listen to for the rest of my life that would be it.

  •  ปีที่แล้ว

    I think impressionism in music refers more with the kind of feeling it leaves with the listener or the viewer... that kind of soft, puffy, blurred feeling that impressions leaves... which is kind opposite of what expressionism is... that kind of sharp, intensely visceral feeling...
    But I'm just speaking from my own perspective...

  • @valerietaylor9615
    @valerietaylor9615 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bolero is a fun piece, but my favorite pieces by Ravel are Le Tombeau de Couperin and Alborada del Gracioso.

  • @sullivanspapa1505
    @sullivanspapa1505 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Without a doubt anything by Vivaldi…please!

  • @paulaloeb4375
    @paulaloeb4375 ปีที่แล้ว

    ❤❤❤‼️🎶

  • @carmenderaleau5232
    @carmenderaleau5232 หลายเดือนก่อน

  • @brianwilson49
    @brianwilson49 ปีที่แล้ว

    Symphonies of wind instruments - Stravinsky.
    Dieu parmi nous - Messiaen.

  • @Rgoid
    @Rgoid 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Did Allegro Non Troppo bring anyone here?

  • @hukes
    @hukes ปีที่แล้ว

    1:09 I hear "strong independent" and my stomach starts churning.

  • @evitaaslanidou6150
    @evitaaslanidou6150 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Reverie by Debussy

  • @LeondeLure
    @LeondeLure ปีที่แล้ว

    Ida Rubinstein was Russian.

    • @KeepitClassical
      @KeepitClassical  ปีที่แล้ว

      Ida Rubinstein was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine

    • @KeepitClassical
      @KeepitClassical  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@@martiglesias60 ...and California is part of the US, but it's still accurate for me to call myself a Californian.

  • @thesyandthed
    @thesyandthed 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Every figure skating fan nightmare 😭

  • @corrinneloudon525
    @corrinneloudon525 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for this. I have always hated this piece but can now appreciate the way I which it was crafted. Still dislike it 😔

  • @davidrummel133
    @davidrummel133 ปีที่แล้ว

    @9:07 yep, that's why I've come to really dislike Bolero to the point of it being intolerable. My wife just cranked it while doing the dishes and I wanted to jump out of the window. Seemingly endless crescendo and when it finally hits it's pretty damned unsatisfying.

  • @lamodedepinktag
    @lamodedepinktag 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wonderful video, thank you!