The Music of The Boy and the Heron: Hisaishi's Minimalist Masterpiece (reupload)
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- Hisaishi and Miyazaki are back and better than ever in The Boy and the Heron. As Guillermo Del Toro puts it, "An old master dispenses with flourishes... and they do a simple but beautiful gesture with the brush." This is resoundingly true for both composer and animator in this film.
MKWAJU stans rise up.
This video is a reupload of my previously released video that was copyright stricken, as such, some sections have been muted. To watch the full unmuted version please visit the complete video on Vimeo: vimeo.com/905884353?share=copy
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:05 MKWAJU and Minimalism
1:05 Hisaishi and Miyazaki
2:37 The Laputa Rescore
4:00 Minimalism in Concert and on Screen
5:14 The Boy and the Heron: 40 Years of Collaboration
6:58 Ask Me Why
8:45 The Heron
9:28 Sacred Minimalism
10:44 The Warwara and Himi
11:47 The Meteorite and the Granduncle
14:55 The Parakeet King
15:41 Mahito's Ideals
16:43 The Great Collapse
17:44 Hisaishi's Great Return to Minimalism
18:55 Outro
#videoessay #ghibli #musictheory
Video Credits:
Music for 18 Musicians, by Steve Reich:
• Music for 18 Musicians...
[Joe Hisaishi in Budokan] Studio Ghibli 25 Years Concert [HD 1080p]:
• [Joe Hisaishi in Budok...
"JOE HISAISHI presents MUSIC FUTURE Vol.8" Special Online Distribution:
• "JOE HISAISHI presents...
Ask Me Why - Joe Hisaishi From Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron LA Phil Hollywood Bowl 2023:
• Ask Me Why - Joe Hisai...
SPIRITED AWAY- behind the scenes
• SPIRITED AWAY- behind ...
Film footage from:
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Miyazaki, 1984)
Castle in the Sky (Miyazaki, 1986)
My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki, 1988)
Kiki's Delivery Service (Miyazaki, 1989)
Porco Rosso (Miyazaki, 1992)
Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki, 1997)
Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2001)
Howl's Moving Castle (Miyazaki, 2004)
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (Miyazaki, 2008)
The Wind Rises (Miyazaki, 2013)
The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Takahata, 2013)
The Boy and the Heron (Miyazaki, 2023)
Special Thanks to:
THE BOY AND THE HERON Every Detail Explained｜Hayao Miyazaki｜*Spoiler*:
• THE BOY AND THE HERON ...
The Boy and The Heron Explained | Review & Analysis:
• The Boy and The Heron ...
Thank you to my artist and friend @trisarahtops_c
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This video is a reupload of my previously released video that was copyright stricken, as such, some sections have been muted. To watch the full unmuted version please visit the complete video on Vimeo: vimeo.com/905884353?share=copy
Let's hope to God it doesn't get taken down again. 🤞
This is fair use!
So sorry it got taken down, such high quality work really deserves to be seen
Watched the complete version on Vimeo. Wonderful video! I like the reveal that Mamoru Fujisawa and Joe Hisaishi are the same person, but most importantly I like all your explanations especially how specific track details represent different parts of the story, symbolism and characters.
Nooo. I hate TH-cam man. This video deserved much better. Hope this gets the views the original had and even more. This video is a MASTERPIECE 🔥
REALLY nice to check out this film. I've never really seen a Gilby movie before, and this one always looked so entrancing (and in some ways, the premise feels like it was tailored made for me).
Excellent analysis!
Finally saw it in theatre! I really know nothing about music theory so seeing that there's plenty to dig into even there deepens my enjoyment of the film as a Gesamtkunstwerk!
Awesome video. I could listen to Hisaishi content for hours. Especially if it were about his collaboration with Kitano.
kudos for the re-upload. It's a fantastic video.
Okay! Time to re-leave my comment as best as I remember it! Uhhh...
Finally! A Cel-Shaded video on something I've already seen! I can watch this one! Thank you for putting into words what I loved so much about this movie's score. Ever since I started to get into theory I fell in love with minimalism and this movie's soundtrack is no exception.
P.S., something something im not I'm, something something German vs English
Missed opportunity to fix "im" 💀
@@CelShadedMusicTheory all good! Re-recording lines is really annoying, I get it, haha.
Commenting cause I watched the original and loved it so much and now we gotta boost it again! Fingers crossed this one doesn’t get taken down!!
i always love your stuff, thank you for (re)uploading.
This is a fantastic video and I've watched it multiple times. I also find Hisaishi's music for the Boy and the Heron to be a little Rachmaninoff for this film. I was listening to Opus 29 and the cover for that album is the Isle of the Dead which evokes the graveyard in the oceanic part of the netherworld.
can't believe they took out a hit on my guy. the academy will pay for this
Can't wait to see how low this comment sinks inexplicably.
@@CelShadedMusicTheory wow what a "coincidence" i certainly don't suspect THE ACADEMY
Commenting cuz this video is amazing and sorry that it got taken down👏👏👏
Amazing work, watched it again anyway, and for the third time on Vimeo 😁
Beautiful video
I hate to say this, since the connection you make between the woody marimba tone and Mahito's comment about blocks made of wood rather than stone is beautiful, but I'm 95% sure that the percussion instrument we hear in unison with the piano in The Great Collapse is actually a vibraphone. I've only seen this part listed as marimba in unofficial transcriptions, and both the tone and the attack/release of the notes sound an awful lot like a vibraphone with pedal to my ears. This is especially obvious at 1:38 of The Great Collapse when the orchestra begins to fall away-- the mallet percussion note rings out one last time and then abruptly cuts out in a way that sounds a hell of a lot like a vibraphone pedal being engaged. Add to all this the fact that Hisaishi definitely uses the vibraphone in other tracks (see for instance the first rendition of Ask Me Why) and the use of that instrument in The Great Collapse becomes even likelier to me.
I suppose the instrument playing in unison with the piano COULD be a marimba with harder mallets and a digitally altered sound, but that's about the only way you can convince me that the mallet instrument in this track is a marimba. Source: am a percussionist who's played both instruments a good deal in orchestral settings.
Sorry if I'm misremembering, but I think you may have commented about this on the previous upload. I have to say you make a compelling case and I've definitely put a lot of thought into it. Hisaishi uses both vibes and marimba throughout the score so it's possible I was conflating the two when transcribing the Granduncle tracks by ear. I've also seen that same unofficial transcription you're referring to (and found other errors in it). I think there's also potential meaning behind the vibraphone's use since it appears in the very first cue of the film as well! But it does regretfully undercut the connection I made to the marimba.
Thanks for taking such a close look here, I appreciate your feedback.
I don't *think* I made a comment on the last video (though I definitely had this thought at the time), but it's possible that I dashed something off briefly and then forgot about it. If my recollection is correct and I didn't say anything at the time then it's good to see that other percussionists are coming to similar conclusions!
Listening to the track again I definitely see how it's tricky to distinguish between marimba and vibraphone given how versatile both instruments can be with different mallets/digital manipulation and given how short the sample is, so the 95% confidence figure I gave earlier may be a bit on the high side. I also agree that either instrument would be meaningful here given the associations that they both take on throughout the film, so I don't think the use of a vibraphone here would undermine your broader point about the significance and symbolism of various instruments in the score.
That (very minor) quibble aside-- this video is wonderful! It's rare to see someone this knowledgeable about music theory, music history, AND film analysis on TH-cam who can use that combined set of skills to explain how the music of a film works together with its script and cinematography to create meaning. This video definitely led me to give you a sub and I hope that this re-upload manages to avoid TH-cam's wrath so that more people can discover your excellent work.
It may indeed have been another commenter, sorry for the confusion, I can't look back at the comments anymore u_u. But yes they brought up the same point and had me listening more closely to those cues. If anything I'd be interested to explore how the vibes (made of metal/"stone") could relate to a similar concept.
And thank you for your support! I've taken some steps that will hopefully keep this video up, even if I may have to mute more of it in the future.🤞 Whatever happens, thanks for subbing and hope to see you in the comments of a future, less tumultuous upload!
This video ended rather abruptly. 🤔