Bach, Brandenburg Concerto #4, 3rd mvt., presto (bar-graph score)

[snoopdogg111000]

I love classical music, especially Beethoven, but I don't understand Bach, he has over 1000 works and most of them are just jumping notes, what was the reason for him to write them?

[musanim]

@snoopdogg111000 If you think a composer's music is "just jumping notes," you probably don't understand it yet. Keep listening, and maybe somebody you will.

[snoopdogg111000]

@musanim In "Jumping notes" I mean there is no catchy melody that stucks in your memory.

[musanim]

@snoopdogg111000 Some classical music has "catchy melodies" and some doesn't. "Catchy" usually means "repeated a zillion times so you can't possibly forget it." There is more to music than memorable melodies.

[MusicBeSweetYo]

@snoopdogg111000 the beauty in this music lies in making sense of the seemingly random notes

[PianistofAnime]

didn't they use this is the treasure hunt game in the reader rabbit series??

[phr4nk3rd00d13]

is that a glass armonica i hear? ._.

[ProducShuns]

This is seriously amazing

[the81stviewer]

@HerlockSholmes123 I've studied Bach and Beethoven at great length, and the conclusion was reached that neither is "better". While writing a fugue was not something that Beethoven showed aptitude in until much later in life (op 130 and on) he worked with forms and harmonies that would've been alien to Bach and used piano techniques that he himself invented. However, Bach was uncontested on the Organ until Franz Liszt, and wrote a larger volume of music than Beethoven. Better? No. Just different.

[NimbleTurtle13]

@the81stviewer Bach's superiority does not necessarily lie in the fugues imo. To me, what places Bach above Beethoven by far is his navigation of ideas. Even works such as the Symphony No. 5 which shows nice logical flow took Beethoven decades to edit. For Bach, it probably would've taken a couple hours at the most. Also, Bach was a composer with greater melodic invention, appropriate harmonies, and rhythm.

[the81stviewer]

@NimbleTurtle13 Well It wasn't decades. Still, Beethoven accomplished things that were, nonetheless because of Bach, beyond Bach's musical palette. They lived in different times, were under different systems of employment, and had different expectations. Beethoven afforded the enjoyment of taking his time, Bach could not. Again, it's not historically productive to assert that one is "better" than the other. But, you can LIKE one more than the other, and support that with musical justifications.

[pedantologist]

Interesting choice of instruments.

[xsullenlyxstonedx]

Gotta admit, Bach is the best. Motzart may make you smarter but Bach will definitely make you badass!

[sirshitsalot007]

fucking delightful!

[footlong24seven]

bach is hands down the greatest composer ever

[Twinkytoe]

@footlong24seven Listen to beethoven and you'll understand that he's better... purely because he did just as amazing shit, AND kicked off the whole romantic era with his developments in harmony and general experiments (see his 9th symphony) AND did the vast majority of his geniusness whilst deaf towards the end of his life.

[Wardenclyffeforever]

I can SEE the music!!!! Dude, seriously, good work. This is fucking fantastic, makes me feel the joy.

[musanim]

@Wardenclyffeforever Cool! I'm so happy to have scored a direct hit on your pleasure centers.

[dkfoxh]

you should do castlevania music videos with that program... or maybe I will do it myself... great job of yours thank you for it!

[astrobobby54]

I said it in another posting, this stuff is amazing. Please keep up the excellent work. Please consider promoting this as an educational tool. It adds that whole visual dimension to the music. And, THANK YOU, again.

[rayschalch]

Sounds like a song that should be in a Zelda's game!

[TheRimDoctor]

The plucked strings sound almost the same as the Midi file itself

[PublicLibraryx]

@TheRimDoctor cause they are

[TheRimDoctor]

@PublicLibraryx No. *sigh*

[PublicLibraryx]

@TheRimDoctor Well, the instruments are virtual :P I found a midi file for this song so i put it on Sibelius, used Kontakt Player and used the same instruments.. surely enough... it sounded exactly the same.

[TheRimDoctor]

@PublicLibraryx But Musanim records visual playing of the Midi file and then pastes over a real track from a real orchestra.

[PublicLibraryx]

@TheRimDoctor Q: Who is playing this piece?

A: Nobody; it's the playback from the music notation program Sibelius.

[TheRimDoctor]

@PublicLibraryx Oh whoops. I though this was a different piece I was responding to. I never let it play whenever I respond because my connection is so slow.

Disregard.

[PublicLibraryx]

@TheRimDoctor LOLOL hehe allgood~

[muzikrox1]

I love ALL of your work! until recently, I ahve been employed as a music teacher in a nearby middle school. I love using your stuff to show kids how ideas work plus how something so old can still be new and fresh. Too cool! Thank you for many enjoyable hours of watching!

[AhamBrahman]

Bach is the greatest composer of all time, hands down. His genius is absolutely unstoppable. Different melodies playing different rhythms simultaneously creating a tapestry of sound. So dynamic. Unreal.

[abagaba111]

i could listen to this while playing Pokemon :D

[BladeStevenson]

This isn't presto.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems more like allegro to me.

[Paticula1135]

Hats off to you and Bach.

[KaeruGaman]

it's so moving, to SEE music while you hear it. thank you so much for you work.

I heard clair du lune before, and then toccata& fuge ... it is such a present, thank you.

[empathic11]

Dizzying. Wonderful.

[Drudak]

Geat megagreat gigagreat etc....

[majorhuman]

My favourite smalin video :)

Watched this a few dozen times

[amadeus5889]

Bach's most jubilant expression of counterpoint, in my far-from-expert opinion.

[stargirlsusan]

Another awesome work by God, made to be CUTE version of BACH (^•^)

thank Gott for such a treasure

[stargirlsusan]

@stargirlsusan "oops, i meant Another awesome work by Bach"

what's up with the trashcan for comments?

[cookie99monster00]

Do you think you could do this with "popular" music? (as in modern)

[xGrenadexJumperx78x]

@cookie99monster00 but the dead geniuses of the past are the best! :D

[musanim]

@cookie99monster00 Yes, but there are copyright issues, so I don't do contemporary music unless the people who own the copyright contact me.

[GharudaProductions]

@cookie99monster00

i whouldn't be as beautiful as modern music is more drivven by the beat and repetitive awsome sounding tunes.

this is more organic so to speak.

BIgg up respect for making this cind of stuf being a large DnB fan / producer it realy helps seing it like this and not as a partiture or however you say it in english

[TortoiseInABottle]

@cookie99monster00 lol, popular music, otherwise known as 'shit',

(pardon my french)

[thesexyvoiceyouhear]

brofist!!!!!!

[derdererist]

This music and visualisation of it is very funny :-) it makes me laughing.

[Loobs666]

Love the Lilac Bass-Line.... I know this sounds a bit odd, but it reminds me of Hannibal Lecter!

[gr0mithtimon]

@Loobs666

Maybe because the theme music of Hanibal is the Goldberg variations?

[billhiltonbiz]

Lovely - a really great way of visualizing the counterpoint!

[MsSoundguy]

I've been watching your work tonight. Fantastic.  Congratulations.

[musanim]

@MsSoundguy  Thank you.

[fleammm]

@musanim its rly good man

[ENYADUBLIN]

MAGNIFICO, GRANDIOSO, FANTASTICO, DIVINO...

[NihilTico]

playing this in school :D

[MarMatMal]

Most enjoyable... loved the visualization!

Martin Malinovski

South London

[greenpearrace]

Beautiful....!

Bravo!Bravizzimo!!!!!!!!!

[HolyMotherofGrid]

WUNDERBAR!! Danke sehr.

[PlayMoreLoud]

I like the tempo. Marimba sounds good with Bach too; I've heard the DVC played on the marimba live before. Very good.

[guitarninja86]

@PlayMoreLoud you'd be surprised at how good vibraphone sounds with Bach too. Check out Modern Jazz Quartet's "Blues on Bach" record. Definitely worth your time. Four blues tunes in B flat, A minor, C minor, and H (B), interspersed with interpretations of some of the more popular Bach pieces. Awesome.

[ipwnallnubscuzirock]

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