How Music Works 1 - Melody - Part 1 timegrinder 2008-09-15 | Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dalL5FpWR8 NOTE: There is currently no DVD or 4OD release of this series, should there be any future date set for a DVD release i will remove the whole series. If you enjoy the series spread the word and buy any future DVD! ;) Genre: Documentary - Music Theory Time: 48:18 (Ads removed) On: Channel 4 (UK) Directors: Francis Hanly, David Jeffcock Release Date: 2006 Why does melody affect us so deeply, from the moment we are born? Tunes touch our deepest emotions, and are capable of inspiring love, sorrow, faith, and hope. But how does a melody actually work? In this film composer Howard Goodall looks at melody's basic elements. Why are some melodic shapes common to all cultures across the world? Can successful melodies be written at random? If not, what are the familiar melodic patterns composers of all types of music have fallen back on again and again, and why do they work? Setting out on a journey that moves through the centuries, Howard looks at the curious link between Tudor England and the Mississippi Delta, and uncovers melodic shapes common to all cultures across the world. Following a trail of diverse musical sources from Gustav Mahler to Paul Simon, Shaker hymns to Bulgarian folk songs, medieval choral music to the Broadway showstoppers he reveals the tried and tested tricks of the composer's trade.
Great Dates 3 - 1564 Palestrina and the Rise of the Violin - Part 4 timegrinder 2010-04-02 | Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS2uyQ4947M The year is 1564 and Europe is still reeling from the effects of the Reformation. The sacred music of the two churches Catholic and Protestant was developing in completely different ways. Instrumental music was also rapidly gaining in importance as was ballet, championed by Catherine de' Medici, Queen of France. From the violin, which dominated her dance bands, the orchestra would emerge.
Great Dates 3 - 1564 Palestrina and the Rise of the Violin - Part 5 timegrinder 2010-04-02 | Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOBJtSwiLHU The year is 1564 and Europe is still reeling from the effects of the Reformation. The sacred music of the two churches Catholic and Protestant was developing in completely different ways. Instrumental music was also rapidly gaining in importance as was ballet, championed by Catherine de' Medici, Queen of France. From the violin, which dominated her dance bands, the orchestra would emerge.
Great Dates 3 - 1564 Palestrina and the Rise of the Violin - Part 3 timegrinder 2010-04-02 | Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlmhm_HnTE8 The year is 1564 and Europe is still reeling from the effects of the Reformation. The sacred music of the two churches Catholic and Protestant was developing in completely different ways. Instrumental music was also rapidly gaining in importance as was ballet, championed by Catherine de' Medici, Queen of France. From the violin, which dominated her dance bands, the orchestra would emerge.
Great Dates 3 - 1564 Palestrina and the Rise of the Violin - Part 2 timegrinder 2010-04-02 | Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePWJoXdCOQE The year is 1564 and Europe is still reeling from the effects of the Reformation. The sacred music of the two churches Catholic and Protestant was developing in completely different ways. Instrumental music was also rapidly gaining in importance as was ballet, championed by Catherine de' Medici, Queen of France. From the violin, which dominated her dance bands, the orchestra would emerge.
Great Dates 3 - 1564 Palestrina and the Rise of the Violin - Part 1 timegrinder 2010-04-02 | Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS3ltdB4BRU The year is 1564 and Europe is still reeling from the effects of the Reformation. The sacred music of the two churches Catholic and Protestant was developing in completely different ways. Instrumental music was also rapidly gaining in importance as was ballet, championed by Catherine de' Medici, Queen of France. From the violin, which dominated her dance bands, the orchestra would emerge
Great Dates 2 - 1791 Mozart - Part 5 timegrinder 2009-06-21 | Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8LIa5HsD2w1791 was a year of great political change: Louis XVI was beheaded in France; the US Congress adopted the Bill of Rights and the Constitution; and the ideas of Rousseau and the Enlightenment were all pervasive. It was also the year in which Mozart wrote his enigmatic opera 'The Magic Flute' and his renowned Requiem and then died. The mysterious circumstances surrounding the commissioning of the latter work led to the myth that the composer had been murdered.
Great Dates 2 - 1791 Mozart - Part 4 timegrinder 2009-06-21 | Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAvoNwPUkRw1791 was a year of great political change: Louis XVI was beheaded in France; the US Congress adopted the Bill of Rights and the Constitution; and the ideas of Rousseau and the Enlightenment were all pervasive. It was also the year in which Mozart wrote his enigmatic opera 'The Magic Flute' and his renowned Requiem and then died. The mysterious circumstances surrounding the commissioning of the latter work led to the myth that the composer had been murdered.
Great Dates 2 - 1791 Mozart - Part 3 timegrinder 2009-06-21 | Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOGBA-33u681791 was a year of great political change: Louis XVI was beheaded in France; the US Congress adopted the Bill of Rights and the Constitution; and the ideas of Rousseau and the Enlightenment were all pervasive. It was also the year in which Mozart wrote his enigmatic opera 'The Magic Flute' and his renowned Requiem and then died. The mysterious circumstances surrounding the commissioning of the latter work led to the myth that the composer had been murdered.
Great Dates 2 - 1791 Mozart - Part 2 timegrinder 2009-06-21 | Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twf8lUPVnrg1791 was a year of great political change: Louis XVI was beheaded in France; the US Congress adopted the Bill of Rights and the Constitution; and the ideas of Rousseau and the Enlightenment were all pervasive. It was also the year in which Mozart wrote his enigmatic opera 'The Magic Flute' and his renowned Requiem and then died. The mysterious circumstances surrounding the commissioning of the latter work led to the myth that the composer had been murdered.
Great Dates 2 - 1791 Mozart - Part 1 timegrinder 2009-06-21 | Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZkrUNFvfYg 1791 was a year of great political change: Louis XVI was beheaded in France; the US Congress adopted the Bill of Rights and the Constitution; and the ideas of Rousseau and the Enlightenment were all pervasive. It was also the year in which Mozart wrote his enigmatic opera 'The Magic Flute' and his renowned Requiem and then died. The mysterious circumstances surrounding the commissioning of the latter work led to the myth that the composer had been murdered.
Great Dates 1 - 1874 Wagner - Part 5 timegrinder 2009-06-12 | Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGODSPL6LfY Four part music history series originally broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK, Autumn 2002. Composer Howard Goodall links great pieces of music to the era in which they were written in a bid to prove that time, place, culture and politics had more of a part to play in the end product than the genius of the producer. He begins with a historical look at 1874, the year which saw the completion of Wagner's influential Ring cycle. As always, should these become commercially available i will remove them immediatly. If you enjoy this series please purchase the DVD to support the production of any future work.
Great Dates 1 - 1874 Wagner - Part 4 timegrinder 2009-06-12 | Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWxV5ovB3w4 Four part music history series originally broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK, Autumn 2002. Composer Howard Goodall links great pieces of music to the era in which they were written in a bid to prove that time, place, culture and politics had more of a part to play in the end product than the genius of the producer. He begins with a historical look at 1874, the year which saw the completion of Wagner's influential Ring cycle. As always, should these become commercially available i will remove them immediatly. If you enjoy this series please purchase the DVD to support the production of any future work.
Great Dates 1 - 1874 Wagner - Part 3 timegrinder 2009-06-12 | Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxoeMhNPOII Four part music history series originally broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK, Autumn 2002. Composer Howard Goodall links great pieces of music to the era in which they were written in a bid to prove that time, place, culture and politics had more of a part to play in the end product than the genius of the producer. He begins with a historical look at 1874, the year which saw the completion of Wagner's influential Ring cycle. As always, should these become commercially available i will remove them immediatly. If you enjoy this series please purchase the DVD to support the production of any future work.
Great Dates 1 - 1874 Wagner - Part 2 timegrinder 2009-06-12 | Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmWZ0ctbjZg Four part music history series originally broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK, Autumn 2002. Composer Howard Goodall links great pieces of music to the era in which they were written in a bid to prove that time, place, culture and politics had more of a part to play in the end product than the genius of the producer. He begins with a historical look at 1874, the year which saw the completion of Wagner's influential Ring cycle. As always, should these become commercially available i will remove them immediatly. If you enjoy this series please purchase the DVD to support the production of any future work.
Great Dates 1 - 1874 Wagner - Part 1 timegrinder 2009-06-12 | Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ka2-FGnFb4 Four part music history series originally broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK, Autumn 2002. Composer Howard Goodall links great pieces of music to the era in which they were written in a bid to prove that time, place, culture and politics had more of a part to play in the end product than the genius of the producer. He begins with a historical look at 1874, the year which saw the completion of Wagner's influential Ring cycle. As always, should these become commercially available i will remove them immediatly. If you enjoy this series please purchase the DVD!
Sound Waves and their Sources (1933) timegrinder 2008-12-12 | Sound Waves And Their Sources (1933) - Educational film that covers the basics of acoustics. How sound propagates through a medium, pitch, timbre, loudness etc. Dated but accurate.
Blue Jam Monologue - 12 Suzys Wedding timegrinder 2008-12-07 | This collection of monologues, originally conceived and written by Robert Katz, with later collaboration by Chris Morris, are taken from Morris's radio series 'Blue Jam'.Morris and Katz skilfully weave together cleverly groggy first person storytelling with thick ambient soundscapes and loops, creating a disturbing, disgusting, funny, and strangely enthralling world for our nameless sympathetic half-tramp hero to fall victim to.This narrator takes us on a journey through his nightmare world; populated by pretentious art scenesters, cynical media executives, obsequious dinner guests and unfriendly, aggressive passers by.Like all of Morris's work this will not be to everybody's taste, certainly not the faint of heart, squeamish or easily offended. To everyone else be prepared to immerse yourself head first into one mans car crash nightmare of a life.
Blue Jam Monologue - 11 Cigarettes Part 2 timegrinder 2008-12-07 | This collection of monologues, originally conceived and written by Robert Katz, with later collaboration by Chris Morris, are taken from Morris's radio series 'Blue Jam'.Morris and Katz skilfully weave together cleverly groggy first person storytelling with thick ambient soundscapes and loops, creating a disturbing, disgusting, funny, and strangely enthralling world for our nameless sympathetic half-tramp hero to fall victim to.This narrator takes us on a journey through his nightmare world; populated by pretentious art scenesters, cynical media executives, obsequious dinner guests and unfriendly, aggressive passers by.Like all of Morris's work this will not be to everybody's taste, certainly not the faint of heart, squeamish or easily offended. To everyone else be prepared to immerse yourself head first into one mans car crash nightmare of a life.
Blue Jam Monologue - 11 Cigarettes Part 1 timegrinder 2008-12-07 | This collection of monologues, originally conceived and written by Robert Katz, with later collaboration by Chris Morris, are taken from Morris's radio series 'Blue Jam'.Morris and Katz skilfully weave together cleverly groggy first person storytelling with thick ambient soundscapes and loops, creating a disturbing, disgusting, funny, and strangely enthralling world for our nameless sympathetic half-tramp hero to fall victim to.This narrator takes us on a journey through his nightmare world; populated by pretentious art scenesters, cynical media executives, obsequious dinner guests and unfriendly, aggressive passers by.Like all of Morris's work this will not be to everybody's taste, certainly not the faint of heart, squeamish or easily offended. To everyone else be prepared to immerse yourself head first into one mans car crash nightmare of a life.
Blue Jam Monologue - 10 Street Sausage Vendors timegrinder 2008-12-07 | This collection of monologues, originally conceived and written by Robert Katz, with later collaboration by Chris Morris, are taken from Morris's radio series 'Blue Jam'.Morris and Katz skilfully weave together cleverly groggy first person storytelling with thick ambient soundscapes and loops, creating a disturbing, disgusting, funny, and strangely enthralling world for our nameless sympathetic half-tramp hero to fall victim to.This narrator takes us on a journey through his nightmare world; populated by pretentious art scenesters, cynical media executives, obsequious dinner guests and unfriendly, aggressive passers by.Like all of Morris's work this will not be to everybody's taste, certainly not the faint of heart, squeamish or easily offended. To everyone else be prepared to immerse yourself head first into one mans car crash nightmare of a life.
Blue Jam Monologue - 09 Rothko Part 2 timegrinder 2008-12-07 | This collection of monologues, originally conceived and written by Robert Katz, with later collaboration by Chris Morris, are taken from Morris's radio series 'Blue Jam'.Morris and Katz skilfully weave together cleverly groggy first person storytelling with thick ambient soundscapes and loops, creating a disturbing, disgusting, funny, and strangely enthralling world for our nameless sympathetic half-tramp hero to fall victim to.This narrator takes us on a journey through his nightmare world; populated by pretentious art scenesters, cynical media executives, obsequious dinner guests and unfriendly, aggressive passers by.Like all of Morris's work this will not be to everybody's taste, certainly not the faint of heart, squeamish or easily offended. To everyone else be prepared to immerse yourself head first into one mans car crash nightmare of a life.
Blue Jam Monologue - 09 Rothko Part 1 timegrinder 2008-12-07 | This collection of monologues, originally conceived and written by Robert Katz, with later collaboration by Chris Morris, are taken from Morris's radio series 'Blue Jam'.Morris and Katz skilfully weave together cleverly groggy first person storytelling with thick ambient soundscapes and loops, creating a disturbing, disgusting, funny, and strangely enthralling world for our nameless sympathetic half-tramp hero to fall victim to.This narrator takes us on a journey through his nightmare world; populated by pretentious art scenesters, cynical media executives, obsequious dinner guests and unfriendly, aggressive passers by.Like all of Morris's work this will not be to everybody's taste, certainly not the faint of heart, squeamish or easily offended. To everyone else be prepared to immerse yourself head first into one mans car crash nightmare of a life.
Blue Jam Monologue - 07 The Belt timegrinder 2008-12-07 | This collection of monologues, originally conceived and written by Robert Katz, with later collaboration by Chris Morris, are taken from Morris's radio series 'Blue Jam'.Morris and Katz skilfully weave together cleverly groggy first person storytelling with thick ambient soundscapes and loops, creating a disturbing, disgusting, funny, and strangely enthralling world for our nameless sympathetic half-tramp hero to fall victim to.This narrator takes us on a journey through his nightmare world; populated by pretentious art scenesters, cynical media executives, obsequious dinner guests and unfriendly, aggressive passers by.Like all of Morris's work this will not be to everybody's taste, certainly not the faint of heart, squeamish or easily offended. To everyone else be prepared to immerse yourself head first into one mans car crash nightmare of a life.
Blue Jam Monologue - 06 The London Dungeon Job timegrinder 2008-12-07 | This collection of monologues, originally conceived and written by Robert Katz, with later collaboration by Chris Morris, are taken from Morris's radio series 'Blue Jam'.Morris and Katz skilfully weave together cleverly groggy first person storytelling with thick ambient soundscapes and loops, creating a disturbing, disgusting, funny, and strangely enthralling world for our nameless sympathetic half-tramp hero to fall victim to.This narrator takes us on a journey through his nightmare world; populated by pretentious art scenesters, cynical media executives, obsequious dinner guests and unfriendly, aggressive passers by.Like all of Morris's work this will not be to everybody's taste, certainly not the faint of heart, squeamish or easily offended. To everyone else be prepared to immerse yourself head first into one mans car crash nightmare of a life.
Blue Jam Monologue - 05 Elephant timegrinder 2008-12-07 | This collection of monologues, originally conceived and written by Robert Katz, with later collaboration by Chris Morris, are taken from Morris's radio series 'Blue Jam'.Morris and Katz skilfully weave together cleverly groggy first person storytelling with thick ambient soundscapes and loops, creating a disturbing, disgusting, funny, and strangely enthralling world for our nameless sympathetic half-tramp hero to fall victim to.This narrator takes us on a journey through his nightmare world; populated by pretentious art scenesters, cynical media executives, obsequious dinner guests and unfriendly, aggressive passers by.Like all of Morris's work this will not be to everybody's taste, certainly not the faint of heart, squeamish or easily offended. To everyone else be prepared to immerse yourself head first into one mans car crash nightmare of a life.
Blue Jam Monologue - 04 Crime Reconstruction timegrinder 2008-12-07 | This collection of monologues, originally conceived and written by Robert Katz, with later collaboration by Chris Morris, are taken from Morris's radio series 'Blue Jam'.Morris and Katz skilfully weave together cleverly groggy first person storytelling with thick ambient soundscapes and loops, creating a disturbing, disgusting, funny, and strangely enthralling world for our nameless sympathetic half-tramp hero to fall victim to.This narrator takes us on a journey through his nightmare world; populated by pretentious art scenesters, cynical media executives, obsequious dinner guests and unfriendly, aggressive passers by.Like all of Morris's work this will not be to everybody's taste, certainly not the faint of heart, squeamish or easily offended. To everyone else be prepared to immerse yourself head first into one mans car crash nightmare of a life.
Blue Jam Monologue - 03 More Conceptual Art timegrinder 2008-12-07 | This collection of monologues, originally conceived and written by Robert Katz, with later collaboration by Chris Morris, are taken from Morris's radio series 'Blue Jam'.Morris and Katz skilfully weave together cleverly groggy first person storytelling with thick ambient soundscapes and loops, creating a disturbing, disgusting, funny, and strangely enthralling world for our nameless sympathetic half-tramp hero to fall victim to.This narrator takes us on a journey through his nightmare world; populated by pretentious art scenesters, cynical media executives, obsequious dinner guests and unfriendly, aggressive passers by.Like all of Morris's work this will not be to everybody's taste, certainly not the faint of heart, squeamish or easily offended. To everyone else be prepared to immerse yourself head first into one mans car crash nightmare of a life.
Blue Jam Monologue - 02 Conceptual Art timegrinder 2008-12-07 | This collection of monologues, originally conceived and written by Robert Katz, with later collaboration by Chris Morris, are taken from Morris's radio series 'Blue Jam'.Morris and Katz skilfully weave together cleverly groggy first person storytelling with thick ambient soundscapes and loops, creating a disturbing, disgusting, funny, and strangely enthralling world for our nameless sympathetic half-tramp hero to fall victim to.This narrator takes us on a journey through his nightmare world; populated by pretentious art scenesters, cynical media executives, obsequious dinner guests and unfriendly, aggressive passers by.Like all of Morris's work this will not be to everybody's taste, certainly not the faint of heart, squeamish or easily offended. To everyone else be prepared to immerse yourself head first into one mans car crash nightmare of a life.
Blue Jam Monologue - 01 Gun timegrinder 2008-12-07 | This collection of monologues, originally conceived and written by Robert Katz, with later collaboration by Chris Morris, are taken from Morris's radio series 'Blue Jam'. Morris and Katz skilfully weave together cleverly groggy first person storytelling with thick ambient soundscapes and loops, creating a disturbing, disgusting, funny, and strangely enthralling world for our nameless sympathetic half-tramp hero to fall victim to. This narrator takes us on a journey through his nightmare world; populated by pretentious art scenesters, cynical media executives, obsequious dinner guests and unfriendly, aggressive passers by. Like all of Morris's work this will not be to everybody's taste, certainly not the faint of heart, squeamish or easily offended. To everyone else be prepared to immerse yourself head first into one mans car crash nightmare of a life.
How Music Works 4 - Bass - Part 5 timegrinder 2008-09-19 | Back to Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81N_fMNVFzw The MiniMoog could thunder out bass lines of great power and depth. (Beyonce: "Deja Vu") Synthesiser bass became inextricably linked with dance music, e.g. Donna Summer's "I Feel Love". Demonstrates how to sequence a bass line, include "quantizing", "looping". Drum'n'Bass (Shy FX and T Power "Shake Ur Body"). A Georgian English Psalm (Maurice Greene's "Lord let me know mine End") demonstrates a bass line which would also be at home today in Motown or Jazz. Many thanks to Peter InglisGuitar for the superb video summaries... Cheers!
How Music Works 4 - Bass - Part 4 timegrinder 2008-09-19 | Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW_9T25Wgvg Inversions can add forward movement. (Elton John "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"). During the 19th century the Waltz raised the prominence of bass by introducing bass passages to link melodies, change tempos and keys. (Johann Strauss II "Roses from the South". In the late 19c John Philip Sousa supercharged the bass in his marching band music ("The Globe and the Eagle"). This led to the "Bass Run" and the "Bass Riff" (Mancini: "Peter Gunn Theme", Pink Floyd "Money, Michael Jackson "Billie Jean"). In post war jazz the bass took a melodic role (Miles Davis' "So What"). In 60's pop James Jamerson, using the electric bass created a stream of influential bass lines which energised simple harmonies. Wendy Carlos "Switched on Bach" caused a sensation by using Bob Moog's synthesisers to play Brandenburg Concertos. But it was in pop music that the technology had lasting impact.
How Music Works 4 - Bass - Part 3 timegrinder 2008-09-19 | Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgf15YJ2NaQ ***PLEASE NOTE: Some users have noticed problems with 'Bass - part 4' - not available in their country etc - this may be because some of the content has been marked as a copyright breach by UMG, tho they have allowed it to remain with advertising*** The coolness of bass scales! A downward stepping major scale in J.S. Bach's "Air on the G String". Chromatic scale in the bass generates more sophisticated and ambiguous chords. Purcell, in "Dido and Aneas", uses a descending "Ground Bass" to generate a suicidal mood. The same technique was used 300 years later by Stevie Wonder in "They won't go when I go". Inversions (using 3rd or 5th in the bass instead of the tonic) markedly change the character of a chord.
How Music Works 4 - Bass - Part 1 timegrinder 2008-09-18 | Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVhQJZuFUOA NOTE: There is currently no DVD or 4OD release of this series, should there be any future date set for a DVD release i will remove the whole series. If you enjoy the series spread the word and buy any future DVD! ;) Genre: Documentary - Music Theory Time: 48:19 (Ads removed) On: Channel 4 (UK) Directors: Francis Hanly, David Jeffcock Release Date: 2006 Music is usually broken down into melody, rhythm and harmony. But what about the very lowest notes in music, that can have an impact on all three? In this film Howard looks at the abiding fascination musicians and composers have had with the bass. For half a millennium instrument makers have been trying to construct instruments of all shapes and sizes capable of thudding, sonorous low notes. Only with the arrival of the synthesizer did they succeed in producing a rival to the mighty organ. With disco, dance, and drum 'n' bass, the bass has arrived centre stage. But bass notes have another, crucial role. Far from just plodding away in the background, bass lines can have a critical effect on the whole structure of a piece of music, helping to drive the chord progressions. Howard looks at the dark horse of the musical family, and its use in the hands of such diverse musical talents as Johann (and Richard) Strauss, John Philip Sousa, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Albinoni, Bach and Motown's resident bass maestro, James Jamerson.
How Music Works 4 - Bass - Part 2 timegrinder 2008-09-18 | Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhBHnuiDCBk String instruments were experimented with in the 17c in an effort to create effective bass. The modern double bass only materialised in about 1800. Contrary motion in the bass introduced. (Handel: "Largo" from "Xerxes", Albinoni: "Adagio", Pachelbel: "Canon in D", Coolie: "C U when U Get There", The Farm: "Altogether Now", Pet Shop Boys: "Go West", Nina Simone: "My Baby Just Cares for Me").
How Music Works 3 - Harmony - Part 5 timegrinder 2008-09-18 | Back to Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTUXKWnHH-g Chordal harmony is one of the most spectacularly successful achievments of Western Culture! Seventh chords introduced. This generated more forward movement. Rock and Roll uses many seventh chords (Isley Brothers "Twist and Shout"). Jazz ambiguity of harmony (Miles Davis: "So What".) Augmented and Diminished chords are explained, this adds volatility, ambiguity and unpredictability to music. (John Coltrane: "Impressions"). Bach and pop (Feel Good Inc "Gorillaz"). Harmony is still evolving (Bollywood). Many thanks to PeterInglisGuitar for his summarisations... Cheers!
How Music Works 3 - Harmony - Part 2 timegrinder 2008-09-17 | Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0IcvVF-p_k Looks at overtones (harmonics) generated by a single plucked string, and their relation to harmony. Shows that the basic chords are generated by these fundamental overtones. Delves into the dark world of minor harmony. (Faure's 'Pavane' played on harp). Polyphony - many voices combining to form chords (Mass for Four Voices by William Byrd.) Which chord to use? Demonstrates by harmonising the Xmas carol "Silent Night" at the piano. Points out that the 24 major and minor triads harmonised practically every tune between A.D. 1200 and A.D. 1600!
How Music Works 3 - Harmony - Part 4 timegrinder 2008-09-17 | Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gTR_Lg59Jc The dissonance in Boulez "Sonata No.1 for piano" is obvious and grating. Church composers used "passing notes" to introduce dissonance into conventional harmony (Bach: "Kyrie, Gott Vater In Ewigkeit"). Melodic suspension in Mariah Carey's "Without You" and Antonio Lotti's "Crucifixus", which uses 49 suspensions in just 41 bars! Wagner in his 1865 opera "Tristan and Isolde" raised hackles with a deliberately unresolved set of suspensions which portray sexual frustration. The band Coldplay use the same device in the song "Politik".
How Music Works 3 - Harmony - Part 3 timegrinder 2008-09-17 | Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71ik4Qt3MUw Renaissance - development of chord progressions in dance music. Passamezzo Antico: (Am G Am E, then Am G Am E Am)- Greensleeves. Passamezzo Moderno (C F G) - the primary triads still dominate music. Dischord / dissonance - the tritone (Devil's Interval). (Jimi Hendrix "Purple Haze"). Summary - Harmonics generate triads, Notes fit chords, major and minor have diferent moods, the relationships between chords create a sense of progression. Tonic and Dominant are the most important relationships in western music from 15c onwards. (Beethoven: "Ode to Joy", Bruce Springsteen: "Born to Run", Beethoven: "5th Symphony").
How Music Works 3 - Harmony - Part 1 timegrinder 2008-09-17 | Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oShLg8JCHCg NOTE: There is currently no DVD or 4OD release of this series, should there be any future date set for a DVD release i will remove the whole series. If you enjoy the series spread the word and buy any future DVD! ;) Genre: Documentary - Music Theory Time: 48:20 (Ads removed) On: Channel 4 (UK) Directors: Francis Hanly, David Jeffcock Release Date: 2006 In the late middle ages western harmony started on a journey that would take it in a completely separate direction to that of the music of other parts of the world. It discovered chords, and, over the next seven centuries, began to unlock their harmonic possibilities. In this film Howard looks at how western harmony works, and how, in the present day, it has fused with other forms of music to create new styles. Chords led to chord progressions, and Howard looks at how familiar patterns of chord progressions give all kinds of music from classical to popular their sense of forward movement. Why do the same chord patterns appear again and again, from Renaissance Italy to the latest chart hit? Musicians have always liked to tamper with the basic chords, and experiment with dissonance. We see how these tricks of the trade actually work, and the emotional and musical effect they have. From the folk musicians of the middle ages to Bach, Beethoven, and Wagner, from Chuck Berry to David Bowie, Hendrix to Coldplay, the same harmonic techniques surface again and again.
How Music Works 2 - Rhythm - Part 5 timegrinder 2008-09-16 | Back to Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_jEkNiYFNc Uses "Killing me Softly" by Roberta Flack to demonstrate the omnipresence of anticipation in popular music. Talks about the importance of Stevie Wonder's work between 1972 and 1976 and shows in "Don't you worry about a thing", how Stevie Wonder uses pulse, tempo, subdivision, accent, swing, cross-rhythm, syncopation, repetition and layering. Thanks again to peteringlisguitar for providing individual video descriptions.
How Music Works 2 - Rhythm - Part 4 timegrinder 2008-09-16 | Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwig-fJ1t8Q Rap music. Analyses "Hope" by Twista and Faith Evans. "Rite of Spring" (1912) by Igor Stravinsky. Uses Cuban music as an example of complex and popular dance music which fuses African rhythms with European harmony and local percussion instruments. Looks at anticipation, using multiple runners and "En Guantanamo".
How Music Works 2 - Rhythm - Part 3 timegrinder 2008-09-16 | Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzRGH-5yk-w The development of Syncopation in Ragtime to Swing in Jazz. Uses Fats Waller piano rolls to demonstrate the evolution.
How Music Works 2 - Rhythm - Part 2 timegrinder 2008-09-16 | Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv8a8mdY8iQ
How Music Works 2 - Rhythm - Part 1 timegrinder 2008-09-16 | Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnhmEfwxEIM NOTE: There is currently no DVD or 4OD release of this series, should there be any future date set for a DVD release i will remove the whole series. If you enjoy the series spread the word and buy any future DVD! ;) Genre: Documentary - Music Theory Time: 47:58 (Ads removed) On: Channel 4 (UK) Directors: Francis Hanly, David Jeffcock Release Date: 2006 From the moment our hearts start beating, rhythm is integral to us all. From walking to dancing, from clicking our fingers to tapping our toes, we are all programmed to respond to rhythm. In this film Howard looks at the common rhythmic patterns that have been used by musicians from all cultures, from Brahms to rappers, from the founders of Cuban son to Philip Glass, from Stevie Wonder to Fats Waller. Why do some rhythms make us want to dance, while others make us feel tranquil? How does rhythm 'work' when there is no obvious pulse, as in much classical music? What links African drumming to J S Bach? Why do virtually all popular singers sing ahead of the beat? And how is it that a tiny Caribbean island has produced a rhythm that dominates popular music the world over?
How Music Works 1 - Melody - Part 5 timegrinder 2008-09-15 | Back to Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnbOWi6f_IM Part 5: Looks at melodic developments in 20th century popular music, including Sting's: "We work the Black Sea" - using the ancient Dorian mode! Looks at how Irish and Anglo folk traditions and the Shakers' religious music, met African music. Concludes with Paul Simon's "Bridge over troubled Water." Thanks to PeterInglisGuitar for the video summaries. ;)
How Music Works 1 - Melody - Part 4 timegrinder 2008-09-15 | Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPmnho7OvT8 Part 4: More melody: Handel song - showing modulation from major to minor, and a "landscape of highs and lows, hills and valleys" in the melody. Relates Mozart and Handel to pop music. Uses Mendelssohn Violin Concerto to demonstrate melodic development (modulation, elaboration, figuration etc. etc.). Mahler / Vaughan-Williams et al. - reintroduced folk/modal melodies and drew on older styles.
How Music Works 1 - Melody - Part 3 timegrinder 2008-09-15 | Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4gp0WKrgqY Part 3: Relates English Tudor music's "False Relations" to American music's "Blue Notes". Classical music and the introduction of Diatonic music. Modulation in a Xmas carol!
How Music Works 1 - Melody - Part 2 timegrinder 2008-09-15 | Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrY_3_6fsjM Part 2: Melodic Intervals and their origins in Western music are explained - Semitones, tones, Christian Plainsong, Bulgarian folksong, particularly the emphasis on the whole tone. Touches on the introduction of melodic thirds, fourths, fifths and sixths.
Steve Reich - South Bank Show - Part 6 timegrinder 2007-09-10 | Part 6: Daniel Variations - Excellent UK documentary charting the career of contempory composer Steve Reich. Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_pR1sHHeQU ARTS: The South Bank Show On: ITV1 Date: Sunday 10th December 2006 Time: 23:10 to 00:10 Duration: 48:17 (Ads Removed) Steve Reich. The Minimalist composer Steve Reich, who became a major player in the 1960s, celebrates his 70th birthday this year. Here the man and his music are profiled, with special attention paid to the Daniel Variations, his most recent piece about the murdered American journalist Daniel Pearl and Music for 18 Musicians. Brian Eno, Michael Nyman and Alex Paterson from The Orb testify to his far-reaching influence.
