Claude Debussy - Nuages from Nocturnes

[Dinnermen]

Is Mark Zuckerberg playing the french horn at 2:00?

[1963tatanka]

beautiful!

I want someone upload "Le Kimono Rouge (「ビゴーを知っていますか？」）　which is TV drama made in 1982 by NHK and antenne 2.

[msmusic4evr]

My marching band is playing this! Go Royal Blue Regiment!!!!!!!

[LoseUrCool]

love this

[ttt8699]

You can hear where Bernard Hermann got his inspiration!

[fxtnplstcs]

why would anyone dislike this? This performance was done well, every single one of those musicians are talented.

You also have to admit, this piece is pretty impressive, and elaborate, also written by a human being in the late 1800's.

It wasn't some guy sitting behind a computer screen.

[GrahameTube]

FYI youtube orchestra sucks donkey balls... and FYI... I have a post gad in donkey balls.

[thewhack64]

@GrahameTube And may a donkey kick you in the balls.

[pornisgoodfood]

lol, youtube has a symphony orchestra?!?! Not that I'm against it or anything... just kind of weird that they do. Is some youtube hot shot an arts philanthropist? Is there a facebook museum of natural history?

[aikidoka00]

KOTOR...

[WomanVersionOfJesus]

hahaa at 07:17

[fountainchain126]

@WomanVersionOfJesus Hahahaha I wouldn't have noticed that if you hadn't pointed it out! So funny hee hee

[ncorva]

@WomanVersionOfJesus

 hahaha and that same girl also looked really pissed at 6:46

[thkem23onijSb]

A very sophisticated piece of music and difficult to interpret, but I think YOUTUBE has done a wonderful performance congratulations

[billyguns2]

Who is conducting?

[fountainchain126]

@billyguns2 Your mother

[technotechie]

One of my favorite pieces of all time - I feel like you can see the scene because the music is THAT expressive and magnificent.

[lomsie]

This sounds a lot like a piece from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Or the opposite.

[alciefrederic]

@lomsie Opposite, mate. Opposite.

[MikadoObsessed]

@lomsie probably one of the first few songs in part two

[acoustic8y3]

my favorite Debussy.. what a wonderfully whimsical and complex piece of art.

[Brettyboy4]

more like it is the you tube symphony orchestra for drawing them out. who are you to say that it zwasnt you tubes sound? as in their symphony orchestra. youre an inert gas reign of praine. ill let you pick which one.

[Andromeda12349]

Some of the best English Horn playing I've ever heard, right here.

[huhrobotssss]

I don't think it was written to be in a key signature... it's in Debussy Key. Incredible orchestra and performance.

[yjm1112366]

In my AP Music Theory class we learned that he uses the golden ratio all through out this peice.

[MrsEuniceMurray]

@yjm1112366 im a big fan of debussy , but what is the golden ratio.

[yjm1112366]

@MrsEuniceMurray the way he intoduces new theams in the peace at spesific measures isit would take all night to explain how he uses it through out the peace. but the golden ratio is a ratio found in nature that makes something perfect. mathmaticaly it would be something like 55+89=154 the ratio is 1.698. it is found every where. if you take the hight of a ball off the ground and drop it then measure the hight it reaches when it bounces back up and divide the numbers it will be 1.698.

[koksteam]

Only a weirdo would like this

[ymelfilm]

Tks Guys!

this was my first favourite from Master Debussy in my age of 14th. This is THE kinda neverending love.. uh?

[Penguinfreakusuk]

amazing english horn

[pianometal]

I think the key signature is this of h-moll, but the colors are changing quite a lot with all these chromatic ups and downs at the very beginning , so that someone does not have the impression of a very stable tonality.

[JDiCiara88]

Debussy was big on impressionism. though he disavowed the term, he's considered one of the most influential romantics of impressionism. the idea of impressionism is basically to progress through a piece without a central tone defining the ENTIRE piece. so yea, the tonality is changing constantly

[meh00007]

this neo-tonal music. it what debussy mostly wrote in, but you right he did start as a late romantic composer. there is a tonic, or home key to this piece, but he uses really unconventional ways to tonisize it. like diminished vii cords and ii half diminished that you really dont want to resolve. debussy and impressionism believed listening in the now.

[meh00007]

its also a Symphonic poem, which means he wrote this based off of a poem about clouds. Nuages, the movement title, is french for clouds.

i love this piece cause it emplifies debussy quote of "music is pleasure"

he has such dissonant cords, but you just love enjoying their sound instead of wanting them to resolve or go to the one cord.

[2january1992]

It begins and ends in B/H minor, yes, but there is a lot of exploring in the middle. ;)

[agentcodyBANGS]

What is the tonality of this piece?

[singana1]

this is when tonality started to go out the window. i think the central key is a major though, i might be wrong.

[Springeragh]

B minor, at least nominally (that's the key signature, but more of it is in E♭ Major and F# Major).

[2242871]

Beautiful!

[bridgeoverwater627]

What a beautiful song! An instant favorite. The Cor Anglais player did a great job!

[gbritaney]

I love Debussy!

[tommyboi1461]

Debussy has a way of drawing inert emotions out of me, it's virtualy indescribable.

[lazarescu91]

@tommyboi1461 inner*

[plkelly27]

@tommyboi1461 Please try to describe.....

[lucianocraveiro]

Debussy 4ever.

I love this composer

[flic71]

anch'io lo amo. Ha quel qualcosa di intimamente profondo che lo avvicina al mio animo più di ogni altro compositore.

[pianodoc82]

Beautiful job, wish I could have been there!

[l101177]

lovely

[Nephtys80]

love it!

[Augustusdavid]

Amazing!

[314piguy]

I love listening to YTSO, it's so calming

[ReignOfPraine]

That is Debussy that you should be adressing, although YTSO did a great job at performing it.

[musicbrain5]

I have a copy of the score to this piece and it was great to follow along with such an amazing performance!

[andreagiuseppe]

yeah i love doing that too

[dhruvluke]

awesomeeeee

[B4TT3RY]

SEXY BEAUTIFUL!

[OptimusSmyth]

FIRST COMMENT!!!

Sweet! YTSO should play Tocata & Fugue in D minor sometime! That would be awesome!!!

[kellogsdie]

yes it would