I dont know anything about classical music, i cant read notes and i cant say which instruments are used there, but what i can say is, that this music really entertains me. :)
thank you very much for all of the amazing animations and audios. I have always loved Beethoven and had no desire to look at other composers, but when i saw the great animation i thought i must look at more of your videos. so now i am becoming more familiar with other musicians. just letting you know thank you for the videos
Really enjoyed the animation, thanks for making this. It helps quite a bit with unlocking chords and untangling threads, but it would be better if it wasn't compressed and distorted by YouTube (or possibly distorted by my computer). If I wasn't looking at the graph/animation I'd listen to a different version, but the visual aspect is enjoyable. Keep up the good work!
@smalin It's not specific to you, I find all youtube videos sound quite compressed and/or distorted, some even worse than others. Not sure how much of it is down to my soundcard, but other videos from other sources do sound better. It looks good though and I've watched several of your vids many times, so it's not putting me off....
@banginghats2 it's sure not the best quality i ever heard, but it's still enjoyable :D I anyway prefer flac or ape files for such kind of music. way better than compressed stuff :)
@utsHawk14 I still enjoy it, I just think I'd get even more out of it if all the overtones were really clear. It would make unlocking those chords more interesting. I still love most of the smalin vids though.
@mdenapole To make a video, I need permission from the composer(s) and/or arranger(s) (if the music was written after 1923), a recording of the music, permission to use the recording (if I didn't make it myself), and a MIDI file that perfectly matches the music. These things are much harder to get for contemporary compositions performed by famous people who don't read music. If you can find a MIDI file for rock or blues, try it out with my free software and see if you like the result.
@smalin Well, you left it quite clear that I have not much knowledge about the policies of youtube ^ ^. It was only a whim, I love your videos and I love rock. Thank you for responding so kindly. (And sorry for all the grammatical errors, I'm from Argentina ^ ^)
@smalin the part where you said you need permission, what if the singer, or maker of the music is dead? who's permission will you need the if no one is alive to claim the copy rights
@Gmanunit13vers2 I would need to get permission from the copyright holders (for the compositions and for the performances). If you can get me those, I'll consider it.
@smalin Actually, to be more correct, because this is youtube and can be brodcasted outside the servers orgin, the date of when one can post certain materials varies quite a bit. This is why the well known music score website IMSLP was sued, but they quickly fixed this by following laws in accordance with the people who are accessing their site instead of the laws where the material is located as they are very different... >>
Great music - you may find it interesting that I am playing this Symphony in a few days (Nov 13/11) and I am using your post to practice with - it is like I am with the orchestra. It is a challenging piece that requires a lot of concentration, passion and intensity. I am looking forward to being inside the music playing 1st violin. With the 140 person choir in the 4th movement an in a new multi-million dollar concert hall, I am sure that it will be a spectacular live performance - I can't wait!
Id love to see some sort of marking on the righthand side of this videos, indicating say A3 and A4, to give me a quick notion of pitch and octave proportion. I think they are a wonderful analysis tool and love to zoom my screen in on different parts, to observe orchestration in different registers. They are wonderful in giving us deaf students a visual superposition of the voices that is much more difficult to obtain from the score, at least at the beginning.
I'm fifteen and play the flute. My school has two bands and two orchestras. And yet, the only time we ever play together is graduation. And that saddens me, because it closes the door on playing some of the greatest music ever composed.
although i really like the performance of the other movements...i felt that this movement they made the melody much too quiet....if i wasnt familiar with the melody from other performances, i might not have heard it at all.
@MasterofGalaxies4628 classical music can go very very wrong. sure beethoven and mozart among others were great, but search carter's classical atrocity: mosaic, or anything by schoenberg. you'll be begging for the sweet sound of fur elise after the openings of any of those songs.
Fuck them hip hop beats producers! Yall think youre the shit? Take a look at theese graphs right here nigga, your demo ass fruity loops aint never gonna look like this bitch. RIP Beethoven
Very nice, thanks. Would it be possible to set the opacity of the note block proportionally to the volume? I think the visual effect would be really improved.
This always reminds me of the particularly powerful scene in the film Equilibrium, in which this song plays while Christian Bale sort of discovers culture for the first time.
I don't know if it's just me, but when I listen to the opening of this, I can literally hear words, as if, somehow, I am receiving a telepathic transmission from a rather insistent, mystical being-- it could be an angel, a god, an ET, or maybe even Beethoven himself, I don't know-- but this mystical being keeps repeating: "I know the secret to the Universe... if you would just come with me."
I know what you mean. Beethoven's soul always spoked through his music. And you listen closely you will understand his message. The soul is a mistical and wise part of every human being, but unfortunately not every one listens to the soul like Beethoven did.
@christopher19894 well im not sure if ur being sarcastic or not or whatever, but its just that i really believe that beethoven might have actually known the secret to the universe, as in he knew the beginning and the end of time and space somehow, and he knew how to make it sound! god he was unbelievable
@ege1993 I'm not being sarcastic in any way. Everytime I listen to the first movement I hear those words. Well, it's not exactly words, it's a form of speech though, nevertheless, and it's really distinct in what it's saying. I agree with you, he must've had some sort of unmatched insight into the fabric of Everything. The symphony, as a whole, does seem to accurately represent the entire passage of time, in this reality, but there's no way to explain how; intuitively, you can certainly hear it.
im an avid heavy metal listener, however the structure, harmony and beauty of the whole 9th got me into allsorts of classical music....thanks for the uploads, i love it
@243jimb A "fifth" is an interval of five notes. In music you count both the first and last notes, and only notes of the scale, not chromatic. Thus, C down to F is a fifth. (C, B flat, A, G, F). Descending fifths are when you go down in fifths repeatedly.
If you need more help with the explanation just ask.
wow I can finally see what I've been hearing, Smalin you are great for doing this my ears thank thank beethoven for the 9th, but my eyes thank you Smalin for the graphical score , keep up the excellent work ty :)
hey do you have Beethoven's first symphony i'd really like to hear it and your uploads are the only place that i know of that actually has stuff from him (meaning your username is the only one that has this kind of music with good quality)
Me, Rock is like continuation of classical music (listen to king crimson). Also, for me Beethoven is far away from classical rock, he is so much better.
@RectumPilum I would smack you, but..I'm getting tired of repeating myself. This is not shit, I love it. And you are probably a Bieber fan. Get off the video if you don't like it.
@DevilWithoutaCuase it is a fact. Calling me a JB fan is just about the only insult I react on. I am a big Beethoven fan, and I am very interested in music generally, in fact I study music. Beethoven probably was mad, drunk and deaf, but he was also a freaking genious. I did not say it was shit, though it might have seemed like it ;)
And when you have had the opportunity to absorb the graphics and to clearly hear the inner parts, listen to the 1951 Furtwangler recording, available on YouTube
Animated notation is not only awesome it helps to visualize what one might see looking at sheet music ergo...giving the viewer of said sheet music the idea of the sound that it produces. Very cool! A useful tool!
I am not a big fan of this interpretation -- but I'm going to add it to my playlist because I can't find any other reliable videos of the first three movements
Absolutely brilliant. The beginning sounds like the instruments tuning. Not to mention the fact that he was mostly deaf when he composed this. He might have actually been entirely deaf by this point, not sure.
Smalin, I really enjoy your bar graph scores. But had you thought of making them even more useful as an approach to teaching music appreciation by adding features such as: Time signature and key changes, marking out the individual measures, labeling sections (e.g. exposition, development, recapitulation, etc.), highlighting motives, etc.
Actually, I'm sure you have thought about all this. Can I ask why you might have decided against it? Too much clutter?
@DFDalton1962 The way I think about this is: is there an algorithm which, if applied to the animations, would be illustrative? I've experimented with various combinations of these, but have not found anything reliable that works better than what I'm currently doing. This may change.
@smalin Am I to understand that what we see here is totally generated by your own program? That is, you feed audio in, your program is able to detect the different instrumental lines and generate this on its own? If so, that's truly AMAZING!
I can see why what I suggested wouldn't be possible by algorithm, but would have to be added manually by someone interpreting the score. Still, some sort of legend with additional info would make this approach to visually depicting complex music perfect.
@DFDalton1962 No, my program does not take audio; it takes MIDI. Much less amazing. As for adding things by hand, I could do that, but I don't want to; I like it without commentary.
Listen to any of Furtwängler's recordings or Weingartner's VPO recording if you want to hear how it could sound. Out of the dozens of ninths I've heard, this ranks about the 3rd worst.
A piece that had a major influence on many composers to come - the sound worlds he created here were unique at the time and copied by many. This piece always gets me going in a good way.
@alienalienss I've played it from two staves myself; I guess I've been looking at too much dense contrapuntal music, because it doesn't look like Boulez to me. There are two 5-voice fugues in the Well-Tempered Clavier.
@Bucketheadhead Well, there are similarities and there are differences. What would you say is different between Beethoven and Dvorak? It's possible that I notice differences that you don't, or that we both notice the same differences, but the things which Beethoven has that Dvorak doesn't (or vice versa) don't matter to you as much as they do to me.
Well I know you are a classically trained whereas I listen to classical music for the pleasure as a mere amateur. I don't know all the concepts and such.
However I know Dvorak and Beethoven are both romantic composers, I hear similarities in the strong motifs and softer parts inbetween e.g. Dvorak's 9th 3rd movement and Beethoven's 6th 1st movement etc
Dvorak as I listen to it has a more Eastern sound whereas you can hear Beethoven is German and he sounds more contemporary.
@Bucketheadhead For me, the main difference is: Beethoven is a much better composer. I mean, if you look at lists of "top N composers", you find Beethoven at or near the top, and Dvorak considerably further down. Now, to a certain extent, these rankings are based on taste and experience, and it's likely that part of my lack of attraction to Dvorak is just based on what I've spent time listening to. But part is that, compared to Beethoven, Dvorak is something of an amateur.
Yes, Beethoven was a musical genius, without doubt and probably more so than Dvorak. However for an amateurs ear Dvorak's works can be just as pleasing and powerful to listen to. He clearly knew his music too, prediciting black music in America would be the future, and he was right the blues has shaped all music which has come after it, even today.
Anyway I was just wondering if you would do Dvorak's 9th but thanks for doing all these including Bach and Mozart, I really enjoy them.
@Bucketheadhead hi, greetings from mexico i like very much your site, indeed. i would like to know if you have here dvorak's carnival? or tchaikovsky's string quartet cantabile? again, congratulations for your work. jorge
@Bucketheadhead hi, greetings from mexico i like very much your site, indeed. i would like to know if you have here dvorak's carnival? or tchaikovsky's string quartet cantabile? again, congratulations for your work. jorge
08:00 Orgasm and resolution
MrBetovenforever 19 hours ago
beethoven is the BEST
22deeboi 2 days ago
This is late in his career so it's actually part everything (baroque, classical, and romantic)
JuanDVene 3 days ago
@JuanDVene Never mind. Mostly romantic and classical.
JuanDVene 3 days ago
this is what i call real music ^^
4everchic1 4 days ago
I dont know anything about classical music, i cant read notes and i cant say which instruments are used there, but what i can say is, that this music really entertains me. :)
MaxiD1990 6 days ago
dead island and this... good times...
BioFurry 3 weeks ago
awesome
Bellargfastem 3 weeks ago in playlist Beethoven Symphony 9 complete
The version of Salti is much better. Music lover from Taiwan.
maechel200 3 weeks ago in playlist Beethoven's 9th Symphony (complete)
hehe the colors are really eyecatching
i was staring at them for the whole piece
fallenfairy19 3 weeks ago
VVVVery wonderful!!
IGORJEY 1 month ago in playlist smalin님의 동영상 더보기
@smalin
thank you very much for all of the amazing animations and audios. I have always loved Beethoven and had no desire to look at other composers, but when i saw the great animation i thought i must look at more of your videos. so now i am becoming more familiar with other musicians. just letting you know thank you for the videos
*tip of the hat, have a good day.
awesomexBATHROOM 1 month ago
excellent !!!!
skyaglow 1 month ago in playlist Beethoven's 9th Symphony (complete)
complete brain stimulation
skyaglow 1 month ago in playlist Beethoven's 9th Symphony (complete)
Idk, 3rd symphony is just more passionate...
Hobitman62 1 month ago
Really enjoyed the animation, thanks for making this. It helps quite a bit with unlocking chords and untangling threads, but it would be better if it wasn't compressed and distorted by YouTube (or possibly distorted by my computer). If I wasn't looking at the graph/animation I'd listen to a different version, but the visual aspect is enjoyable. Keep up the good work!
banginghats2 1 month ago
@banginghats2 "Compressed and distorted"? I wonder what you're referring to. Are you watching the 720p version? To me, it looks an sounds fine ...
smalin 1 month ago
@smalin It's not specific to you, I find all youtube videos sound quite compressed and/or distorted, some even worse than others. Not sure how much of it is down to my soundcard, but other videos from other sources do sound better. It looks good though and I've watched several of your vids many times, so it's not putting me off....
banginghats2 1 month ago
@smalin Whenever I set it to 720p or higher, the frame rate goes down extremely.
ikschrijflangenamen 1 month ago in playlist Beethoven's 9th Symphony (complete)
@banginghats2 sounds fine to me too :)
utsHawk14 1 month ago in playlist Beethoven's 9th Symphony (complete)
@utsHawk14 I wonder if it's my computer, or whether it's because I'm an ultra sensitive hifi nut.
banginghats2 1 month ago
@banginghats2 it's sure not the best quality i ever heard, but it's still enjoyable :D I anyway prefer flac or ape files for such kind of music. way better than compressed stuff :)
utsHawk14 1 month ago
@utsHawk14 I still enjoy it, I just think I'd get even more out of it if all the overtones were really clear. It would make unlocking those chords more interesting. I still love most of the smalin vids though.
banginghats2 1 month ago
@MajorasIrae lol yes it is a completely horrible interpretation;it is suppose to be vilely dark and sinister.
AmadeusWinters 2 months ago
One question, why does it say Baroque?
CerddClasurol 2 months ago
@CerddClasurol It's part of the name of the orchestra.
smalin 2 months ago
Is there any chance you can get this animation to other genres?
mdenapole 3 months ago in playlist Beethoven's 9th Symphony
@mdenapole Have you watched my video of Steffen Wick's piece called Aero?
smalin 3 months ago
@smalin Yes, but I was referring to another style of music associated with other types of instruments.
mdenapole 3 months ago in playlist Beethoven's 9th Symphony
@mdenapole What style is that?
smalin 3 months ago
@smalin never thought about rock or blues?
mdenapole 3 months ago
@mdenapole To make a video, I need permission from the composer(s) and/or arranger(s) (if the music was written after 1923), a recording of the music, permission to use the recording (if I didn't make it myself), and a MIDI file that perfectly matches the music. These things are much harder to get for contemporary compositions performed by famous people who don't read music. If you can find a MIDI file for rock or blues, try it out with my free software and see if you like the result.
smalin 3 months ago
@smalin Well, you left it quite clear that I have not much knowledge about the policies of youtube ^ ^. It was only a whim, I love your videos and I love rock. Thank you for responding so kindly. (And sorry for all the grammatical errors, I'm from Argentina ^ ^)
mdenapole 3 months ago
@smalin the part where you said you need permission, what if the singer, or maker of the music is dead? who's permission will you need the if no one is alive to claim the copy rights
Gmanunit13vers2 2 months ago in playlist Beethoven's 9th Symphony
@Gmanunit13vers2 The rights are always owned by somebody, just like any property. If a person dies, their heirs own the rights.
smalin 2 months ago
@smalin well, do you know of Scatman John? and if so can you find out if you can make a video like this using one his songs, if not I understand
Gmanunit13vers2 2 months ago
@Gmanunit13vers2 I would need to get permission from the copyright holders (for the compositions and for the performances). If you can get me those, I'll consider it.
smalin 2 months ago
@smalin Actually, to be more correct, because this is youtube and can be brodcasted outside the servers orgin, the date of when one can post certain materials varies quite a bit. This is why the well known music score website IMSLP was sued, but they quickly fixed this by following laws in accordance with the people who are accessing their site instead of the laws where the material is located as they are very different... >>
666NedFlanders 2 months ago in playlist Beethoven's 9th Symphony
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theshugchannel 3 months ago
This truly is a masterpiece. But my favorite is still his 3rd symphony.
KR4K40 3 months ago
an old masterpiece combined with new technology to make it easier for us geniuses
awesomexBATHROOM 3 months ago in playlist Beethoven's 9th Symphony
Great music - you may find it interesting that I am playing this Symphony in a few days (Nov 13/11) and I am using your post to practice with - it is like I am with the orchestra. It is a challenging piece that requires a lot of concentration, passion and intensity. I am looking forward to being inside the music playing 1st violin. With the 140 person choir in the 4th movement an in a new multi-million dollar concert hall, I am sure that it will be a spectacular live performance - I can't wait!
4gazz 3 months ago
@4gazz Yeah, the best seats for hearing an orchestra perform are right there, in the middle of it.
smalin 3 months ago
Great music, I'm subscribing :)
Zimorian 3 months ago
Its absolutelly fabulous!! Ahhh the technology... =)
danimezzo 3 months ago
Congrats for all the work in the video description! Great!
deiniporto 3 months ago
@deiniporto Uh, how about the work of making the video?
smalin 3 months ago
@smalin Even better! =)
deiniporto 3 months ago
Id love to see some sort of marking on the righthand side of this videos, indicating say A3 and A4, to give me a quick notion of pitch and octave proportion. I think they are a wonderful analysis tool and love to zoom my screen in on different parts, to observe orchestration in different registers. They are wonderful in giving us deaf students a visual superposition of the voices that is much more difficult to obtain from the score, at least at the beginning.
MacondoGroove 3 months ago in playlist Beethoven's 9th Symphony
8:00 holy shit
Forfuckingtissimo... broke my speakers.
B0sTonCeltics20534 3 months ago
god i love this symphony
thecomfiestchair 3 months ago
a deaf man wrote this...
Vesivian 3 months ago
Is there any way to watch this video with the same sounds and animation and such, but at a slightly slower speed?
ikschrijflangenamen 3 months ago
I watched the whole video without blinking.
theRedMerc 3 months ago
I'm fifteen and play the flute. My school has two bands and two orchestras. And yet, the only time we ever play together is graduation. And that saddens me, because it closes the door on playing some of the greatest music ever composed.
elvaryawho85 4 months ago
although i really like the performance of the other movements...i felt that this movement they made the melody much too quiet....if i wasnt familiar with the melody from other performances, i might not have heard it at all.
idlenessss 4 months ago
Want to see the Ode to Joy in "diamond" animation or better, something like that but showing instantaneous dynamics. No hurry, or anything.
b43xoit 4 months ago in playlist Beethoven's 9th Symphony
what a great way to study a score. SHould be standard in any music school.
geiroffenberg 4 months ago in playlist Beethoven's 9th Symphony
they should make a video game called orchestra hero.
nonegenarian 4 months ago
This movement has been stuck in my head for three straight days since I first listened to it.
Classical music can never go wrong.
MasterofGalaxies4628 4 months ago
@MasterofGalaxies4628 classical music can go very very wrong. sure beethoven and mozart among others were great, but search carter's classical atrocity: mosaic, or anything by schoenberg. you'll be begging for the sweet sound of fur elise after the openings of any of those songs.
IlersichProductions 4 months ago
all i can say is major teamwork for this to sound right, major props for the band that played this MAJOR props.
shadowdemons117 4 months ago
Fuck them hip hop beats producers! Yall think youre the shit? Take a look at theese graphs right here nigga, your demo ass fruity loops aint never gonna look like this bitch. RIP Beethoven
DJzSith 4 months ago
@DJzSith LOL
hcarvalhoalves 4 months ago
@DJzSith
I'm sure Beethoven would really appreciate that compliment.
abelyss 4 months ago
love it!! and the back ground!
aprilrose135 4 months ago
Very nice, thanks. Would it be possible to set the opacity of the note block proportionally to the volume? I think the visual effect would be really improved.
thealphasystem 4 months ago
Wow!!!! Listen to this on mushrooms! A whole new level of sound!!
MrSteves08srt 4 months ago
I love this piece, overpowers anything else by far!
1996mixmam 4 months ago
@smalin Ok great :) Thanks for the free software, and all these great videos, then.
goldencricket 4 months ago
Smalin, do you by any chance have synthesesia?
goldencricket 4 months ago
@goldencricket No.
smalin 4 months ago
MOre than Music
more than feelings
More than eerything
cos its Beethoven :)
Leo18602 5 months ago
Chriatian Bale started feeling in Equailbrium when this song was played
Kzombie01 5 months ago
This always reminds me of the particularly powerful scene in the film Equilibrium, in which this song plays while Christian Bale sort of discovers culture for the first time.
BlueThunderFlik 5 months ago
@BlueThunderFlik what a great scene!
latinapeacechick 4 months ago
This is really nice stuff. Watching it go really adds a whole extra dimension, makes it more...textured. PLEASE DO THE 4TH MOVEMENT AS WELL!!!
ZerozenOnes 5 months ago in playlist Beethoven's 9th Symphony
I'm always able to get so much homework done while listening to classical music
noglobwarm96 5 months ago
Forty minutes ago I started "studying." Sorry, I must go to sleeps beautiful musics/visualizations ;(
816bigbear 5 months ago
im 13 too i love beethoven i play the flute in a band and he died on march 26 and i was born on march 26... cowinsidence i think not
flutefanesty 5 months ago
@flutefanesty this one may actually be a coincidence
foulbeershits 5 months ago in playlist Beethoven's 9th Symphony
@flutefanesty rawr, me born on march 25
PoonLife 5 months ago
omg love this d minor not sure sounds like it though
hal0NERDkiller 5 months ago
dude, thx for your videos, i love them
pipiri45654 5 months ago in playlist Más vídeos de smalin
I'm 13 but i love this
thumpforthump 5 months ago
@thumpforthump SAME!
mlcw1218 5 months ago
@thumpforthump and @micw1218 same here
bernicolas123 5 months ago
@thumpforthump but? I think you mean and.
guyboy625 4 months ago
@guyboy625 yup def :L
thumpforthump 4 months ago
What key is this version? I think it's not in D minor
meowkwan 6 months ago
I don't know if it's just me, but when I listen to the opening of this, I can literally hear words, as if, somehow, I am receiving a telepathic transmission from a rather insistent, mystical being-- it could be an angel, a god, an ET, or maybe even Beethoven himself, I don't know-- but this mystical being keeps repeating: "I know the secret to the Universe... if you would just come with me."
christopher19894 6 months ago
@christopher19894 same wahts up with that its like its just bearly hearable yet its so clear to me?
mlcw1218 5 months ago
@christopher19894
I know what you mean. Beethoven's soul always spoked through his music. And you listen closely you will understand his message. The soul is a mistical and wise part of every human being, but unfortunately not every one listens to the soul like Beethoven did.
Chaliamusiclover 5 months ago
@christopher19894 well im not sure if ur being sarcastic or not or whatever, but its just that i really believe that beethoven might have actually known the secret to the universe, as in he knew the beginning and the end of time and space somehow, and he knew how to make it sound! god he was unbelievable
ege1993 5 months ago
@ege1993 I'm not being sarcastic in any way. Everytime I listen to the first movement I hear those words. Well, it's not exactly words, it's a form of speech though, nevertheless, and it's really distinct in what it's saying. I agree with you, he must've had some sort of unmatched insight into the fabric of Everything. The symphony, as a whole, does seem to accurately represent the entire passage of time, in this reality, but there's no way to explain how; intuitively, you can certainly hear it.
christopher19894 5 months ago
so... fucking... awesome!!!
raymanisgreat 6 months ago
@McFarlainDarin "I guess I just have to find one that I like more than the others". That's precisely it!
Because the original composer's performance wasn't recorded, we can't know with many classical pieces what it was exactly supposed to sound like.
You just have to find the one you like the best. @lindzyIsAwesome 's list are some very good composers and orchestras, a good place to start.
LOTRzagorath 6 months ago
im an avid heavy metal listener, however the structure, harmony and beauty of the whole 9th got me into allsorts of classical music....thanks for the uploads, i love it
MrSwinny88 6 months ago
Could you explain please, what are descending fifths?
Thanks, Jim.
243jimb 6 months ago
@243jimb A "fifth" is an interval of five notes. In music you count both the first and last notes, and only notes of the scale, not chromatic. Thus, C down to F is a fifth. (C, B flat, A, G, F). Descending fifths are when you go down in fifths repeatedly.
If you need more help with the explanation just ask.
LOTRzagorath 6 months ago
Good old Ludwig van!
SirMindfuck 6 months ago
i love the colors with the notes and the way you put this together, subbng
SergiosTorrents 6 months ago
@FMONK13 Sure your not thinking of Mozart, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik ??
InfectiousShroomKid 6 months ago
@McFarlainDarin try bernstein, karajan or the london symphony orchestra, they're probably pretty good
lindzyIsAwesome 6 months ago
@McFarlainDarin
Of course, but there is no "original", in that case. They're all different.
SirSebastianWang 6 months ago
@McFarlainDarin
There is only one Ninth Symphony of Beethoven.
SirSebastianWang 6 months ago
hey if you stare at the graphs then try to read they float slowly away :D
ScreamoRockzPRO 6 months ago
i like it it sounds pretty :)
ScreamoRockzPRO 6 months ago
wow I can finally see what I've been hearing, Smalin you are great for doing this my ears thank thank beethoven for the 9th, but my eyes thank you Smalin for the graphical score , keep up the excellent work ty :)
quietandaction 7 months ago
In this video you can see into the mind of the Genius
TheBrightmanFan 7 months ago
hey do you have Beethoven's first symphony i'd really like to hear it and your uploads are the only place that i know of that actually has stuff from him (meaning your username is the only one that has this kind of music with good quality)
canikostar99 7 months ago
Who on here also like Classic Rock or is that just me?
9029738 7 months ago
@9029738
Me, Rock is like continuation of classical music (listen to king crimson). Also, for me Beethoven is far away from classical rock, he is so much better.
ARR93 7 months ago
A whole new take on Beethoven. Great!
garfreed 7 months ago
A two note motif!
haddtyl 7 months ago
You can't be sober to write shit like this...
tubadude07 8 months ago
@tubadude07 Your right you have to be completely deaf. Because Beethoven was completely deaf when he composed this piece. And what a piece it is!
Elazul2k 7 months ago
@tubadude07 probably not, and Beethoven was probably mad and drunk, aswell as deaf when he wrote this =P
RectumPilum 7 months ago
@RectumPilum I would smack you, but..I'm getting tired of repeating myself. This is not shit, I love it. And you are probably a Bieber fan. Get off the video if you don't like it.
DevilWithoutaCuase 7 months ago
@DevilWithoutaCuase it is a fact. Calling me a JB fan is just about the only insult I react on. I am a big Beethoven fan, and I am very interested in music generally, in fact I study music. Beethoven probably was mad, drunk and deaf, but he was also a freaking genious. I did not say it was shit, though it might have seemed like it ;)
RectumPilum 7 months ago
@RectumPilum I see, it was a misunderstanding then. Deaf, Beethovan was and I can't account for the rest but he was assuradley a musical genius.
DevilWithoutaCuase 7 months ago
And when you have had the opportunity to absorb the graphics and to clearly hear the inner parts, listen to the 1951 Furtwangler recording, available on YouTube
kaustin6969 8 months ago
I've been waking up with this movement in my head for months.
dullblades 8 months ago
Liszt's transcriptions of Beethoven's Symphonies would by amazing if you could play them.
haddtyl 8 months ago
Animated notation is not only awesome it helps to visualize what one might see looking at sheet music ergo...giving the viewer of said sheet music the idea of the sound that it produces. Very cool! A useful tool!
Mike2008and2008 8 months ago
i cried with the change
Fheyd2Black 8 months ago
This is awesome!!
It's kind of a fun puzzle, decoding which instrument each color stands for. Quite the brain tease.
I could seriously stare at this for hours. Magnificent!
gen15mello 8 months ago
fantastic, very beautiful, thanks
Mehrak
mohammadvarzaldoust 8 months ago
This guy was deaf when he wrote this... Awesome...
RobloxGuyMan 9 months ago
Mind. Completely. Blown. I don't know if we'll ever see the likes of a genius like
Beethoven again.
Ibadalu 9 months ago
This is a remarkable achievement sir. I salute you.
SausageDoc 9 months ago
@SausageDoc I confirm, this video is HUGE!
Glamarouane 9 months ago
One of the most powerful pieces ever composed.
jmccuen 9 months ago
You should do some Prokofiev.
IT0LU 9 months ago
I am not a big fan of this interpretation -- but I'm going to add it to my playlist because I can't find any other reliable videos of the first three movements
AnthonyCL13 9 months ago
BLEW ME AWAY!! fortunately with my keyboard.
SpaghettiHighway 9 months ago
Absolutely brilliant. The beginning sounds like the instruments tuning. Not to mention the fact that he was mostly deaf when he composed this. He might have actually been entirely deaf by this point, not sure.
bibliophilecb 9 months ago
Absolutely brilliant. The beginning sounds like the instruments tuning.
bibliophilecb 9 months ago
Smalin, I really enjoy your bar graph scores. But had you thought of making them even more useful as an approach to teaching music appreciation by adding features such as: Time signature and key changes, marking out the individual measures, labeling sections (e.g. exposition, development, recapitulation, etc.), highlighting motives, etc.
Actually, I'm sure you have thought about all this. Can I ask why you might have decided against it? Too much clutter?
DFDalton1962 9 months ago
@DFDalton1962 The way I think about this is: is there an algorithm which, if applied to the animations, would be illustrative? I've experimented with various combinations of these, but have not found anything reliable that works better than what I'm currently doing. This may change.
smalin 9 months ago
@smalin Am I to understand that what we see here is totally generated by your own program? That is, you feed audio in, your program is able to detect the different instrumental lines and generate this on its own? If so, that's truly AMAZING!
I can see why what I suggested wouldn't be possible by algorithm, but would have to be added manually by someone interpreting the score. Still, some sort of legend with additional info would make this approach to visually depicting complex music perfect.
DFDalton1962 9 months ago
@DFDalton1962 No, my program does not take audio; it takes MIDI. Much less amazing. As for adding things by hand, I could do that, but I don't want to; I like it without commentary.
smalin 9 months ago
@smalin This music sounds too good to be MIDI...
RobloxGuyMan 7 months ago
@RobloxGuyMan The graphical score is from MIDI; the sound is from a live recording.
smalin 7 months ago
@smalin May I suggest a static line dead center so we can more easily see the timing?
MadBomber0420 6 months ago
@MadBomber0420 Some people like it with a "now" line as you suggest, but I don't, so I don't include it.
smalin 6 months ago
Listen to any of Furtwängler's recordings or Weingartner's VPO recording if you want to hear how it could sound. Out of the dozens of ninths I've heard, this ranks about the 3rd worst.
themfromspace 9 months ago
I pwned n00bz to this.
elreynate08 10 months ago
so lifeless... lacking any drama... sounds like it was played by a group of robots. :\ Such a shame.
themfromspace 10 months ago
@themfromspace I really hope that's sarcasm... because if not. you need to go to an ear doctor.
soothsayer93 9 months ago
I'm speechless...
EpicUltraKingSmizzy 10 months ago
AMAZING!!!
Bobbyboay 10 months ago
A piece that had a major influence on many composers to come - the sound worlds he created here were unique at the time and copied by many. This piece always gets me going in a good way.
phllb 10 months ago
@smalin All the video's work again, thank you very much for solvin the problem! :D
Mirata87 10 months ago
1:45 bach ;)
SoulGuitarMan 10 months ago
@SoulGuitarMan you can here it really well in my response video
SpaghettiHighway 9 months ago
Listening to the beginning of this gives me the chills. Pure utter genius.
Props to smalin for making it look coll and uploading a great piece to YouTube.
nazarkandyuk 11 months ago
@alienalienss I've played it from two staves myself; I guess I've been looking at too much dense contrapuntal music, because it doesn't look like Boulez to me. There are two 5-voice fugues in the Well-Tempered Clavier.
smalin 11 months ago
@smalin Ever tried Dvorak's 9th? Aus dem Neuen Welt?
TheWowmusicfan 11 months ago
@smalin
Do you like any of Dvorak's work?
I'd love it if you could upload his 9th Symphony, especially the 3rd and 4th movements
Bucketheadhead 11 months ago
@Bucketheadhead I don't like Dvorak's music enough to spend time making videos of it.
smalin 11 months ago
@smalin
Really?
I always found his work rather similar to Beethoven, who you seem to adore haha. I love both.
Bucketheadhead 11 months ago
@Bucketheadhead Well, there are similarities and there are differences. What would you say is different between Beethoven and Dvorak? It's possible that I notice differences that you don't, or that we both notice the same differences, but the things which Beethoven has that Dvorak doesn't (or vice versa) don't matter to you as much as they do to me.
smalin 11 months ago
@smalin
Well I know you are a classically trained whereas I listen to classical music for the pleasure as a mere amateur. I don't know all the concepts and such.
However I know Dvorak and Beethoven are both romantic composers, I hear similarities in the strong motifs and softer parts inbetween e.g. Dvorak's 9th 3rd movement and Beethoven's 6th 1st movement etc
Dvorak as I listen to it has a more Eastern sound whereas you can hear Beethoven is German and he sounds more contemporary.
Bucketheadhead 11 months ago
@Bucketheadhead For me, the main difference is: Beethoven is a much better composer. I mean, if you look at lists of "top N composers", you find Beethoven at or near the top, and Dvorak considerably further down. Now, to a certain extent, these rankings are based on taste and experience, and it's likely that part of my lack of attraction to Dvorak is just based on what I've spent time listening to. But part is that, compared to Beethoven, Dvorak is something of an amateur.
smalin 11 months ago
@smalin
Yes, Beethoven was a musical genius, without doubt and probably more so than Dvorak. However for an amateurs ear Dvorak's works can be just as pleasing and powerful to listen to. He clearly knew his music too, prediciting black music in America would be the future, and he was right the blues has shaped all music which has come after it, even today.
Anyway I was just wondering if you would do Dvorak's 9th but thanks for doing all these including Bach and Mozart, I really enjoy them.
Bucketheadhead 11 months ago
@Bucketheadhead hi, greetings from mexico i like very much your site, indeed. i would like to know if you have here dvorak's carnival? or tchaikovsky's string quartet cantabile? again, congratulations for your work. jorge
tons333 10 months ago
@Bucketheadhead hi, greetings from mexico i like very much your site, indeed. i would like to know if you have here dvorak's carnival? or tchaikovsky's string quartet cantabile? again, congratulations for your work. jorge
tons333 10 months ago
who's conducting this?? thanks
mixmam1 11 months ago
@mixmam1 Ah, good point. I've added it to the FAQ.
smalin 11 months ago
Nice work...
justinatslicklix 11 months ago
Hope you're planning on uploading the final movements ;-)!
MrHicks091 1 year ago