smalin | How Beethoven made the Fifth Symphony © @smalin | Uploaded March 2024 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
The first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic, directed by Herbert von Karajan, with an animated graphical score.
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Q: What do the colors mean?
A: There are two versions of this video. In the original version ...
youtube.com/watch?v=xCpxmaplu1U
... the colors are assigned to instruments:
flutes yellow-green
oboes green
clarinets blue-green
bassoons cyan
horns/trumpets yellow
timpani white
1st violins red
2nd violins pink
violas violet
violoncellos purple
contrabasses blue-purple
... and in the second version ...
youtube.com/watch?v=XdlJvYI926s
... the colors are assigned according to pitch (see musanim.com/HarmonicColoring for an explanation of how this works).

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