This is minimalism in musical form, I feel nothing, I see nothing, I expect nothing from the piece. People who listen to this and expect to much, will be disappointed. This is what I would call.. Honestly i cant even put a name on it. Its nothing to me, but still so breathtaking.
i think it's funny that she needs the sheet music. like there's too much to remember or something. I like the progressions. Glass loves that I - III modulation.
Bach is probably the single most complex composer ever. His music is not only complex in execution, but also in concept.
Glass is in another league- his compositions are relatively simple manifestations of a complex process. It's the same with Anton Webern or Arvo Pärt for instance- the music looks deceptively simple because it seems so aphoristic or repetitive but the concept is striking.
It's complexity masked as simplicity, like a wolf in sheeps clothing.
my god,what an amazing song(s),to the women playing; amazing work,it sounds just perfect your timing was on the spot perfect :) i could listen to these songs for days on end :')
Nobody gives a toss what you like or don't. Additionally, think about the tiny fraction of people who would care if you fell off the face of the earth. Miniscule! Yeah, so don't delude yourself too much about who knows or cares. The world isn't waiting with baited breath to see what some anonymous fuckwit has given the thumbs up on youtube.
@StellarBlast I agree with that. With really good music, you notice something new every time you play it. mmm i love the cello. I've always wanted to learn- but for the time being all I can play on the cello is twinkle twinkle little star. (:
not very familiar myself however I was lying in a hostel one night in amsterdam with the radio on the headphones and phillip glass the hours came on. bliss. check it.
This is so lovely. It sort of reminds me of Yann Tiersen's music...very nostalgic. But is anyone else really bothered by the way this pianist lifts her right arm?
I think the one of the problems people have when they listen to Philip Glass is that they get stuck on the repetition and sameness/similarity of the notes and are not able to take in the idea/emotion being expressed.
I love the way crescendo/decrescendo is used to change the feel/emotion of the notes being played. For me, it is a brilliant example of how much the the tone of a piece is changed not by the notes themselves but the manner in which they are played. Absolutely amazing!
the term "minimalist" isn't used as a describing word for the music and is definately not being used as an insult, it is referring to a movement in art called "minimalism" in which sparsity and repetition play a very big role. You can also get minimalist art, minimalist films, minimalist architecture etc. Just thought I'd clear that up! its definately not being used as an insult towards the song or the composer.
I think this song can be the nearest way to elevation, depending how you listen to it... A song like this refer to a dozen of human feelings really difficult to explain out of a music path, and I'm really impressed by the way this guy have done it.
@LeetKillaDethKrew Maybe you find it boring because you are seeking something specific in it, like an intense crescendo or a wider variety in beats. I suggest that you clear your mind of all you have been taught about music and not wait until the end. Once you manage to lose yourself in the raw emotion the simplicity of this piece brings then you may experience it for it's true worth, not just its face value. :)
This piece is highly sporadic with its slight chord changes, all the while conforming to a beautiful pattern; it fits Frank Kafka's novel well, a story of a man who awakens as a bug and discovers the existential reality of our idolized notions of success, driven to conform to the paternalistic lifestyle image created by American society, all the while missing out on what is truly beautiful in life, the sporadic and unplanned moments that allow us to transcend the existential, the music in life.
i always hate it when people refer to composers as a minimalist, as if their music doesnt have anything to offer, in my opinion their music isnt minimal, it's refined.
Branka understands Glass's need for simplicity with the need to provide emotion. remember that the piece is about transformation and in any change there is that which is known the predictable change in this the complexity shines through, coupled with brilliant gleanings of chaos that is somehow determined, because Glass is at the end of the day in control of the music, the journey and indeed the meta or alteration that each piece plays out
@martinsuper73 :)) this piece of music has so nothing to do with politics or ethnicity ;) So just out of sheer love for accuracy of facts, I shall correct you once again - this is a Serbian musician playing in Novi Sad, Serbia, in a Jewish temple that has served as a venue for musical events for decades now, because of its splendid acoustics. Nothing else to it. Pozdrav iz Novog Sada!
i am realy looking forward to metamophorsis 4 :D:D so far, every metamorphorsis has been better than the one before it and to tell you the truth i can hardly imagine one better that this
simple triads sound good to the western ear. this is nothing deep or profound. it is simply pop music. i don't really even consider this minimalism. check out arvo part magnificat or gavin bryars the sinking of the titanic. that's miimalism. a whole lot (or just as much) done with very little. this is very little done with very little, it's just pleasant and sentimental. there is a difference.
exactly, it is PLEASANT with very little complexity involved in it (at least to the untrained ear, as musically it is a masterpiece)... there is a difference between elaborate music and good music (it can be both in some cases: Bethoven; or just good music without a whole complexity: Bach)
@Andrax77 Bach is not a good example of simplicity in composition, he composed some of the more complex music in history, the fact that it sounds simple is just a attestation of its brilliance.
It is also an ironic feature of music: Simple often sounds complex and complex often sounds simple.
@DarkwingScooter thank you. I was going to post the same thing myself, but then I saw your comment. Bach often sounds simple and makes a lot of sense, but is a nightmare to learn to play and is incredibly (and brilliantly) complicated once you really analyze it. so many layers :)
@pianonerd2011 Sometimes you just learn to value something when you start to play it. Same goes to Apocalyptica and I bet that's the magic with progressive metal and guitar players. I just can't help being amazed by the beauty of the string instruments as I'm a cellist. I guess it can't be helped.
not really. at risk of sounding dorky :L, wikipedia says
Although his music is often, though controversially, described as minimalist, he distances himself from this label, describing himself instead as a composer of "music with repetitive structures." Although his early, mature music is minimalist, he has evolved stylistically. Currently, he describes himself as a "Classicist"
I've scrapped so many compositions for fear they wear too repetitive and didn't conform to the generally accepted style but now I'm going to carry on in this style because it can be made into something as amazing as this.
What's the deal with "minimalist." music? It sounds absolutely magnificent. Imagine if you created a song as good as this and then had it called "minimalist". It should be called "simply beautiful".
FTW, I don't think that minimalism is the cure-all for art, but it does fulfill a very important niche in the aesthetics; and music is not the exeption.
I fell in love with Philip Glass's work while watching clips from "The Thin Blue Line" and "Koyaanisqatsi" in film class. Shame the Academy doesn't realize his genius.
The only one on youtube for Fog Of War is 100,000 people.
I haven't really checked out Thin Blue Line considering I've never watched it.
Some of his music, like with all composers, has some carried over tunes or melodies that you might hear a hint of in different songs (for example Metamorphosis and Mad Rush)
Hello Everyone! If You like this kind of music please check my chanel at youtube, Im a beginner composer who uploaded some of my compositions for piano and I'm interested in your opinion about my music Thank you:)
The same as you, I use to see this videos wanting for something beautifully valuable. But this appreciation is exclusively personal. But nothing is obvious, so we can go back and enjoy it every time it could be played, live or in a record... Because they don't like, and everybody has that right. But It doesn't give them any right for degrade some music they don't like.
Why does this sound exactly like Carly Commando? Who IS Carly Commando? Who is copying who? I know Philip Glass is a world renowned musician for 50 years but i don't know who she is......
Is the chord she plays at 2:29 written in the score? I haven't had the chance to see the sheet music yet... It doesn't seem in keeping with the structure of the rest of the piece.
@Splongy I got it too ^^ . Dmin became D for a second... Mistake or not, it sounded not bad. I like the melancholy which results from the minor / major chords alternation...
I listen to lots and lots of classical music, including 20th century and 21st century stuff. I play quite a lot of piano pieces, too.
I mean no disrespect, but I am lost as to the greatness of Glass. I don't get it and I call it as I hear it. Don't tell me just to buy into a famous name or some theory on the mystery of the minor tonic. Honestly, it sounds like some novice learning the ropes. Please can someone explain why these repetitive chords constitute a great piece of art.
Once we've explored all there is to explore, we will return the the beginning. Minimalism explores the harmonies in sound and tries to create a sonic landscape where one can lose themselves in the repetitive and lengthy chord progressions that make up a piece, as compared to more attention-grabbing baroque works.
Personally, I love Glass's music for the unexplainable emotions this kind of music can evoke, but I do understand why you would not like this compared to more complex works instead.
@Th3R3dFly I think it's an acquired taste. Personally, I find watching the videos to be plain boring. But it fits into almost any background, and makes doing simple tasks just that much more meaningful.
@Th3R3dFly All is a fractal reiteration on an amazingly simply complex whole made out of pure raw creativity, waves or particles, time or space, life and death, dualistic principles of which all derives, the explosion in the uterus, the center of galactic collisions beyond our timely understanding, we are just barely in our so called modern western society/culture, understanding that we are puppets that somehow can control its maker...
Mr.G, and many others not only understand this, but also...
Albert Einstein said, "THe simplicity on this side of complexity means nothing; the simplicity on that side of complexity is everything." That's probably more of a paraphrase but you get it. Working with simplicity once one has explored the depths of complexity means something completely different than a novice's plunking on a piano; thus minimalism exist.
I know that it may seem simple, but I loved this song long before I knew who had composed it or what it was called. I'm not sure why, and I do like Beethoven and such, but this is still wonderful sounding. Everyone likes different types of music.
Well played! I performed it myself in a synagogue last week, but I think your rendition is better. Sometimes the recurring left hand pattern almost chokes me, while the right hand can liberate me.
When Philip Glass was first recognised, this kind of composition was a turn in the face of music.
Hell, John Cage wrote 4'33 and was respected for it. Why? because people respected him as a composer before he did this. Just as people respected Philip Glass for what he did.
It is minimalistic music Paggot. Not shoddy.
It is just like people painting a huge red square and selling it for millions. Its art. And is respected by many. If you dont like it, there isnt any reason to listen is there?
yeah...this is one of the few interpretations of this piece that i can listen to. are there recordings by this women? i can't stand recordings i have.
I find your comments very abrasive and shocking, Paggot. I am a musician with a general taste for anything that has a nice tone to it. The fact that your comment is so rude towards this music and the composer shows your lack of musical knowledge and your closed mind towards more classical pieces. I really like the metamorphasis pieces and they are brilliant pieces
Philip Glass' fan base consists of mostly uneducated and musically insensitive people who have almost zero musical knowledge, but are the worst types because they have a pretense of musical understanding that they hold without merit. These are the same people who think the rite of spring is noise, and have never heard of composers like Charles Ives and Bela Bartok.
Well, I enjoy the music of Philip Glass, and I am a composer and was a performer, and Ives and Bartok are among my favourite composers, along with Schoenberg.
I think you are a little misled in that you feel your own experience is universal. It is not. Minimalist music requires a different way of listening, which you have not mastered yet. A little humility would not come amiss, I think.
This music is shit, i know loads about music , i do it for school- shes just taken peices from her previous work and chords from Greydawn by Albiet Mcanzie and worked them togethar. there are no highs is the whole thing, even with all her bare fancy dynamics its still shit. All you lot are little anuslickers , you dont even like it , your just shiteaters. your bickering like my three brothers.
Ignore uncookedbeetroot's comment. Either they're an idiot or just a little kid; just look at how they phrase things. But in the case of an idiot, it sounds like a failed artist who tried to go to school to find out they weren't who they thought they were. They had their self-image smashed and instead of presenting their own art, they attempt to give out poor critiques.
in some way i agree with you. i cant understand why philipp glass is in the 100 of living genius. all his pieces sounds the same to me. and dont listen to those bastrards ho think they are more clever than you.
reply to Paggot: I like the Rite of Spring (so as to most of Stravinsky's works, mainly favours orchestral), I have heard of composers like Ives and Bartok (and a lot more), and I like Philip Glass. Well. You could criticise the composer, or his music, simply, art reception is subjective, but, it's not wise to rant about the how other audience receive the music as. Enough said.
Philip Glass is a dimwitted Hollywood hack. this music is cheap, weakly constructed, two chord trash. You've got to be an utter simpleton to find anything of value in music like this. If totally mindless banality had a face, it's face would be Philip Glass. Seriously, what the fuck is this guys obsession with dropping the tonic to the leading tone every time he uses a minor chord. Can he think of no other way to progress besides this cloying little device hes been using in films forever?
well actually if you knew your music properly you'd know that this is minimalism and one of the key highlights of minimalistic music is it's simplicity and how it changes every so slightly,it's very repetitive.And just because you know a couple of composers doesn't mean you're a musical know it all and everyone has different music taste and shouldn't have to follow what you say
Please do not use Youtube as a vehicle to channel destructively hateful and generalized feelings. If you do not like a certain figure in music it would be suitable not to attack the revering audience for negative attention. If these fragmented views stem from a lack of an ability to comfortably grasp the minimalist genre then, again, it would seem you are not a fit critic. And it is quite evident that Philip Glass is extremely talented and well-learned when it comes to the piano.
When Philip Glass was first recognised, this kind of composition was a turn in the face of music.
Hell, John Cage wrote 4'33 and was respected for it. Why? because people respected him as a composer before he did this. Just as people respected Philip Glass for what he did.
It is minimalistic music Paggot. Not shoddy.
It is just like people painting a huge red square and selling it for millions. Its art. And is respected by many. If you dont like it, there isnt any reason to listen is there?
if i could choose the soundtrack of my death , surely this would be the first choice
morwich15 1 month ago
what a genius...the greatest composer in modern times..
AzuroBen 2 months ago in playlist More videos from modernquartet
I love it !
nelaqua 3 months ago
Of the five Metamorphoses, this is my favorite.
EPMChristensen 3 months ago 2
search nicolas and the iceni narrow road. they write beautiful classical and folk music which has echoes of glass and drake.
Blake788 4 months ago
This is minimalism in musical form, I feel nothing, I see nothing, I expect nothing from the piece. People who listen to this and expect to much, will be disappointed. This is what I would call.. Honestly i cant even put a name on it. Its nothing to me, but still so breathtaking.
deicidemaul 4 months ago
if you love this piece, you might like my latest composition. Search "Ballade of the stars" and click first video. I hope it moves you in some way
ThinkingChristian29 5 months ago
wow i really do love philip glasses works i swear...I have done all 5 no problem...
DuhXRandom 6 months ago
What chord tab is this played in?
MadexPL 6 months ago
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MadexPL 7 months ago
i think it's funny that she needs the sheet music. like there's too much to remember or something. I like the progressions. Glass loves that I - III modulation.
MisterJesse 7 months ago
Love Branka's interpretation and intensity. Beautiful piece !
beach12458 7 months ago
I listen to this first thing in the morning. It is so fierce and yet soft at the same time . Beautiful piece...
beach12458 8 months ago
lol everybody just STFU and listen^^
TheJackHarkness 8 months ago 2
I learned about this music from watching Battlestar Galactica!
manco82 8 months ago 10
@manco82 BSG has the metamorphosis ONE ;)
LittleGothick 8 months ago
Bach is probably the single most complex composer ever. His music is not only complex in execution, but also in concept.
Glass is in another league- his compositions are relatively simple manifestations of a complex process. It's the same with Anton Webern or Arvo Pärt for instance- the music looks deceptively simple because it seems so aphoristic or repetitive but the concept is striking.
It's complexity masked as simplicity, like a wolf in sheeps clothing.
playingmusiconmars 8 months ago 3
my god,what an amazing song(s),to the women playing; amazing work,it sounds just perfect your timing was on the spot perfect :) i could listen to these songs for days on end :')
MrSourlemon 8 months ago
@daleprechaungold
Nobody gives a toss what you like or don't. Additionally, think about the tiny fraction of people who would care if you fell off the face of the earth. Miniscule! Yeah, so don't delude yourself too much about who knows or cares. The world isn't waiting with baited breath to see what some anonymous fuckwit has given the thumbs up on youtube.
iamgedanken 9 months ago
@iamgedanken Looks like someone's angry...
yesimstuntdude 9 months ago
to anyone trying to learn this piece: prepare for your forearms to become very very sore!
MikeFreakinByrne 9 months ago
Does this peice go by another name?
MrMontez11 10 months ago
@StellarBlast I agree with that. With really good music, you notice something new every time you play it. mmm i love the cello. I've always wanted to learn- but for the time being all I can play on the cello is twinkle twinkle little star. (:
pianonerd2011 10 months ago
DARK METAMORPHOSIS!
JamaicanFro 10 months ago
Listening to music, just because it is complex, is bit like going to a brothel just to perform auto-fellatio to yourself.
If liking this makes me a part of the unwashed masses, too bad.
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thanks...I'll check it out
dlporter198 10 months ago
this is really a great piece and performance. i'm learning this and metamorphoses 4 right now, after playing part 1 at a recital a few weeks back :]
abejasyyo 10 months ago
lying in a hostel one night in amsterdam, head phones on and phillip glass the hours came on the radio. exceedingly gd. try it.
MrStevendevine 11 months ago 2
not very familiar myself however I was lying in a hostel one night in amsterdam with the radio on the headphones and phillip glass the hours came on. bliss. check it.
MrStevendevine 11 months ago
I really like this, but not very familiar with Glass's work. What else should I check out?
dlporter198 11 months ago
@dlporter198 Check out The Photographer.
grau215 10 months ago
Fantasticno. Hvala da mozemo ovo da slusamo i gledamo.
thetisify 1 year ago
This is so lovely. It sort of reminds me of Yann Tiersen's music...very nostalgic. But is anyone else really bothered by the way this pianist lifts her right arm?
Kimakae 1 year ago
I think the one of the problems people have when they listen to Philip Glass is that they get stuck on the repetition and sameness/similarity of the notes and are not able to take in the idea/emotion being expressed.
thecodewerks 1 year ago
I love the way crescendo/decrescendo is used to change the feel/emotion of the notes being played. For me, it is a brilliant example of how much the the tone of a piece is changed not by the notes themselves but the manner in which they are played. Absolutely amazing!
thecodewerks 1 year ago
@thecodewerks Thank you!
Best regards,
Branka Parlic
drcaman 1 year ago 3
@drcaman You are very welcome! Thank you for such a wonderfully beautiful performance!
thecodewerks 11 months ago
the term "minimalist" isn't used as a describing word for the music and is definately not being used as an insult, it is referring to a movement in art called "minimalism" in which sparsity and repetition play a very big role. You can also get minimalist art, minimalist films, minimalist architecture etc. Just thought I'd clear that up! its definately not being used as an insult towards the song or the composer.
epithika 1 year ago
This is wonderful.....
iwilpraiseu 1 year ago
This puts me in a trance, I could get lost in it forever
iant88888888 1 year ago 4
I think this song can be the nearest way to elevation, depending how you listen to it... A song like this refer to a dozen of human feelings really difficult to explain out of a music path, and I'm really impressed by the way this guy have done it.
MrRafaelSolomon 1 year ago
boring. I want to like it, but it's boring as hell
LeetKillaDethKrew 1 year ago
@LeetKillaDethKrew Maybe you find it boring because you are seeking something specific in it, like an intense crescendo or a wider variety in beats. I suggest that you clear your mind of all you have been taught about music and not wait until the end. Once you manage to lose yourself in the raw emotion the simplicity of this piece brings then you may experience it for it's true worth, not just its face value. :)
diej0o 1 year ago 2
This piece is highly sporadic with its slight chord changes, all the while conforming to a beautiful pattern; it fits Frank Kafka's novel well, a story of a man who awakens as a bug and discovers the existential reality of our idolized notions of success, driven to conform to the paternalistic lifestyle image created by American society, all the while missing out on what is truly beautiful in life, the sporadic and unplanned moments that allow us to transcend the existential, the music in life.
122Skibum 1 year ago
Extremely beautiful
14TouristFromHell88 1 year ago
i always hate it when people refer to composers as a minimalist, as if their music doesnt have anything to offer, in my opinion their music isnt minimal, it's refined.
nihility666 1 year ago
@nihility666 it is efficient music :-)
thecodewerks 1 year ago
when we can not lose us in ourselves, we should at least try to lose ourselves in this wonderful music. thk you
Mrs20090515 1 year ago
why is she looking at the notes? She probably knows the song by heart anyway xD
AreusAstarte 1 year ago
This is even better than the album version, which to be honest is played a bit too softly for my liking
mrjimmyos 1 year ago
Branka understands Glass's need for simplicity with the need to provide emotion. remember that the piece is about transformation and in any change there is that which is known the predictable change in this the complexity shines through, coupled with brilliant gleanings of chaos that is somehow determined, because Glass is at the end of the day in control of the music, the journey and indeed the meta or alteration that each piece plays out
clpretty09 1 year ago 3
Ova žena me je učila da sviram. Ona me je takođe naučila svim dubinama osećanja sirovog užasa i straha.
darviodrade 1 year ago
@darviodrade I didn't even realize she was Croatian the first few times I watched it! Pozdrav iz Amerika!
martinsuper73 1 year ago
@martinsuper73 She's not Croatian, she is Serbian actually :))
darviodrade 1 year ago
@darviodrade My mistake. A Serbian playing in Croatia in a Jewish temple. I guess we Croatians are not as villainous as we are made out to be?
martinsuper73 1 year ago
@martinsuper73 :)) this piece of music has so nothing to do with politics or ethnicity ;) So just out of sheer love for accuracy of facts, I shall correct you once again - this is a Serbian musician playing in Novi Sad, Serbia, in a Jewish temple that has served as a venue for musical events for decades now, because of its splendid acoustics. Nothing else to it. Pozdrav iz Novog Sada!
darviodrade 1 year ago
truly Beautiful again and tells a unique story :) xxx
xSingx13 1 year ago
I LOVE IT *-*
VallyNickeySpecial 1 year ago
this sends me into a hypnotic trance, its so beautiful <3
pinkparrot5 1 year ago
@pinkparrot5 Me too, love it!
samurai2828 1 year ago
Amazingly beautiful !
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es increible!!! la presicion, el ritmo, el trance; wooow un viaje onirico minimalista;
es maravilloso cuando puedes escuchar algo asi, musik q rompe el sonido y lo magnifika
hermoso
hongo3lectrick 1 year ago
es increible!!! la presicion, el ritmo, el trance; wooow un viaje onirico minimalista;
es maravilloso cuando puedes escuchar algo asi, musik q rompe el sonido y lo magnifika
hermoso
hongo3lectrick 1 year ago
Philip Glass is simple and neat. That's his beauty.
Very good playing Branka... !!
batura1 1 year ago
I really loved this one especially
katitwina 1 year ago
goodness! Why mr. glass do you continue?!
Dcomp29 1 year ago
AMAZINNNNNNGGGG!!!
Soucha93 1 year ago
thank u for this!!!!
plsphd47 1 year ago 5
das ist soooo toll!!!
klappdor95 2 years ago 5
I know with all the wonderful-ness going on in this video, that the next comment is gonna sound really shallow. But, GOD, I love her dress! haha
poeticjournalism 2 years ago 7
I'm doing homework on Kafka's "METAMORPHOSIS" right now and this music is really helping. I don't know how but it is!
DannyElfmanFAN 2 years ago 5
Philip Glass is a god. Branka Parlic is a goddess. And together, they create a true musical heaven. That's why I love them so much. ♥
katinkagirlie 2 years ago 10
i am realy looking forward to metamophorsis 4 :D:D so far, every metamorphorsis has been better than the one before it and to tell you the truth i can hardly imagine one better that this
gracieno55 2 years ago 4
beautiful"
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simple triads sound good to the western ear. this is nothing deep or profound. it is simply pop music. i don't really even consider this minimalism. check out arvo part magnificat or gavin bryars the sinking of the titanic. that's miimalism. a whole lot (or just as much) done with very little. this is very little done with very little, it's just pleasant and sentimental. there is a difference.
epignosis567 2 years ago
exactly, it is PLEASANT with very little complexity involved in it (at least to the untrained ear, as musically it is a masterpiece)... there is a difference between elaborate music and good music (it can be both in some cases: Bethoven; or just good music without a whole complexity: Bach)
Andrax77 2 years ago 27
Bach's music is profoundly complex.
ludwigvan17 2 years ago 6
exactly.
titchymcmidget 2 years ago
@Andrax77 you're stupid if you think bach isn't complex
vittorioaja 1 year ago
@Andrax77 I would never call Bach's music un-complex. Did you ever study counterpoint?
bellanotte23 1 year ago 8
@Andrax77 Bach is not a good example of simplicity in composition, he composed some of the more complex music in history, the fact that it sounds simple is just a attestation of its brilliance.
It is also an ironic feature of music: Simple often sounds complex and complex often sounds simple.
DarkwingScooter 1 year ago 8
@DarkwingScooter thank you. I was going to post the same thing myself, but then I saw your comment. Bach often sounds simple and makes a lot of sense, but is a nightmare to learn to play and is incredibly (and brilliantly) complicated once you really analyze it. so many layers :)
pianonerd2011 10 months ago
@pianonerd2011 Sometimes you just learn to value something when you start to play it. Same goes to Apocalyptica and I bet that's the magic with progressive metal and guitar players. I just can't help being amazed by the beauty of the string instruments as I'm a cellist. I guess it can't be helped.
StellarBlast 10 months ago
@Andrax77 I agree with what you said, but Bach is a terrible example
kowpuddin 1 year ago
@Andrax77
Bach was probably about the worst example you could possibly think of for a 'simple' composer.
freshhh1994 1 year ago 15
@freshhh1994 Agreed!
GoCallAlice 1 year ago
@freshhh1994 Yeh, J S. Bach is pretty much the father of punctos contra puntum (note against note). He created very complex melodic structures.
I suspect Andrax77 must only know Bach's prelude - Well tempered clavier, to say such a blasfemy!
xakoviski 1 month ago in playlist Philip Glass Solo Piano Branca Parlic
@Andrax77 Yeah, try to make anything near this. critics are always smug people who can't do it themselves.
chosop25 10 months ago
@Andrax77 may I understand something wrong, my english is not the best.
but did you just say that bach had no complexity??
I mean prefer beethoven yes. but bach's fugue's are extremly difficult!
Nonethless I go right along with your comment.
xDimebladex 8 months ago
i could agree with that, but it doesn't mean it's not good music, but i think he is a minimalist
chesurfdude 2 years ago
not really. at risk of sounding dorky :L, wikipedia says
Although his music is often, though controversially, described as minimalist, he distances himself from this label, describing himself instead as a composer of "music with repetitive structures." Although his early, mature music is minimalist, he has evolved stylistically. Currently, he describes himself as a "Classicist"
so...
x0legenddddx0 2 years ago
Every time I hear the metamorphosis work, no matter when or where, I start to cry.
Dhyan69 2 years ago 7
I've scrapped so many compositions for fear they wear too repetitive and didn't conform to the generally accepted style but now I'm going to carry on in this style because it can be made into something as amazing as this.
XPJamieXD 2 years ago 8
What's the deal with "minimalist." music? It sounds absolutely magnificent. Imagine if you created a song as good as this and then had it called "minimalist". It should be called "simply beautiful".
jacobpetty55555 2 years ago 28
FTW, I don't think that minimalism is the cure-all for art, but it does fulfill a very important niche in the aesthetics; and music is not the exeption.
skywalkeridrg 6 months ago
Wonderful! Thanks for posting it.
Is this from the documentary "Fog Of War"? Or maybe "The Thin Blue Line"?
eleonb 2 years ago 2
I fell in love with Philip Glass's work while watching clips from "The Thin Blue Line" and "Koyaanisqatsi" in film class. Shame the Academy doesn't realize his genius.
greenjoker713 2 years ago 4
Philip Glass composed different music for those.
The only one on youtube for Fog Of War is 100,000 people.
I haven't really checked out Thin Blue Line considering I've never watched it.
Some of his music, like with all composers, has some carried over tunes or melodies that you might hear a hint of in different songs (for example Metamorphosis and Mad Rush)
qureshiSi 2 years ago
i love philip glass
thereddoor 2 years ago 2
THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!!
plsphd47 2 years ago
beautiful, original, this is excellence
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BarnabasFolk92 2 years ago
increíble... simplemente genial no hay palabras.. :D
ecmedinita 2 years ago
Ahhh I'm falling into the abyss help!
theloniousnunc 2 years ago 5
I LOVE ITT. i love philip glass
StupidNl 2 years ago 6
Why must people continuely degrade something of obvious value?
I love it!
aunshiwho 2 years ago 71
@aunshiwho Simple, People hate what they dont understand!
abcmobility 1 year ago
@aunshiwho Because great art provokes polarised opinion. (I love this music too!)
tigerfishgirl 1 year ago
Because they don't like it.
The same as you, I use to see this videos wanting for something beautifully valuable. But this appreciation is exclusively personal. But nothing is obvious, so we can go back and enjoy it every time it could be played, live or in a record... Because they don't like, and everybody has that right. But It doesn't give them any right for degrade some music they don't like.
It's a question of uncouthness
argentik82 1 year ago
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she she!!its a he!
angleonthemoon 2 years ago
right, well then he's wearing a skirt
1:02
trixr4mee 2 years ago 3
the one who are playing is branka parlic, not philip...
Thiagotv96 2 years ago 3
Philip Glass in a skirt.. hah
npcs 2 years ago 2
shes got some strong forearms
THELEXIS1983 2 years ago
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WHO IS HE FOOLING?????
vitovito1234 2 years ago
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PURE GARBAGE!!!!!
vitovito1234 2 years ago
PURE GENIUS!!!!!
brandonb1100 2 years ago 7
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Why does this sound exactly like Carly Commando? Who IS Carly Commando? Who is copying who? I know Philip Glass is a world renowned musician for 50 years but i don't know who she is......
williamstdog9 2 years ago
Everyday I discover some amazing music I have never heard before... I love the internet.
ysage 2 years ago 11
I totally agree! For me, the Internet is an endless journey. Thanks, YouTube.
TinyQuake 2 years ago 10
so is this music in 'the hours' or did he compose something else for the film?
99chandlerm 2 years ago
Is the chord she plays at 2:29 written in the score? I haven't had the chance to see the sheet music yet... It doesn't seem in keeping with the structure of the rest of the piece.
Splongy 2 years ago
Splongy, I'm pretty sure its just a tiny mistake, I've never come across it before either. Clearly even the best make mistakes :-)
chriswales19 2 years ago
Indeed. Thank you very much for the reply :-)
Splongy 2 years ago
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nekrorider 2 years ago
@Splongy I got it too ^^ . Dmin became D for a second... Mistake or not, it sounded not bad. I like the melancholy which results from the minor / major chords alternation...
boumbh 1 year ago
beautifully done
Ztepheniz 2 years ago
I love it.
StupidNl 2 years ago
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Walde6 2 years ago
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I listen to lots and lots of classical music, including 20th century and 21st century stuff. I play quite a lot of piano pieces, too.
I mean no disrespect, but I am lost as to the greatness of Glass. I don't get it and I call it as I hear it. Don't tell me just to buy into a famous name or some theory on the mystery of the minor tonic. Honestly, it sounds like some novice learning the ropes. Please can someone explain why these repetitive chords constitute a great piece of art.
vincecharus 2 years ago
It's the simplicity that makes this so masterful.
ACDavis629 2 years ago 8
Once we've explored all there is to explore, we will return the the beginning. Minimalism explores the harmonies in sound and tries to create a sonic landscape where one can lose themselves in the repetitive and lengthy chord progressions that make up a piece, as compared to more attention-grabbing baroque works.
Personally, I love Glass's music for the unexplainable emotions this kind of music can evoke, but I do understand why you would not like this compared to more complex works instead.
Th3R3dFly 2 years ago 49
there's nothing else to add...
Dragonfyre137 2 years ago 6
@Th3R3dFly I think it's an acquired taste. Personally, I find watching the videos to be plain boring. But it fits into almost any background, and makes doing simple tasks just that much more meaningful.
yesimstuntdude 1 year ago
@Th3R3dFly All is a fractal reiteration on an amazingly simply complex whole made out of pure raw creativity, waves or particles, time or space, life and death, dualistic principles of which all derives, the explosion in the uterus, the center of galactic collisions beyond our timely understanding, we are just barely in our so called modern western society/culture, understanding that we are puppets that somehow can control its maker...
Mr.G, and many others not only understand this, but also...
MrProphetMan 1 year ago
agreed
thejugglenaut91 2 years ago 5
Albert Einstein said, "THe simplicity on this side of complexity means nothing; the simplicity on that side of complexity is everything." That's probably more of a paraphrase but you get it. Working with simplicity once one has explored the depths of complexity means something completely different than a novice's plunking on a piano; thus minimalism exist.
Synsacrus 2 years ago 3
did he say it on the beach?
nekrorider 2 years ago 8
I know that it may seem simple, but I loved this song long before I knew who had composed it or what it was called. I'm not sure why, and I do like Beethoven and such, but this is still wonderful sounding. Everyone likes different types of music.
jacobpetty55555 2 years ago
Well played! I performed it myself in a synagogue last week, but I think your rendition is better. Sometimes the recurring left hand pattern almost chokes me, while the right hand can liberate me.
BuckshotLaFunke 2 years ago 3
Come and see him live! Tues 26 May at the Barbican in London...
JAZZMAESTR0 2 years ago 3
perfect
frankiemcwyer 2 years ago 5
I usually dont listen to this kind of music, but I actually love it. The pianist is awesome too....
MiamiInchez 3 years ago 4
The Butiy Of "Minimal Music"
davidivada08 3 years ago 5
J'adore ! c'est vraiment beau ! les couleurs des accords sont magiques !!!!
lulupiano 3 years ago
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John Monolisan - Days of Future Passed
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JohnMonolisan 3 years ago
Not Mozart.
But interesting...
An almost hypnotic sound...
hlbessinger 3 years ago 4
magic
yxooo 3 years ago 2
faultless.
zielarzopl 3 years ago
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When Philip Glass was first recognised, this kind of composition was a turn in the face of music.
Hell, John Cage wrote 4'33 and was respected for it. Why? because people respected him as a composer before he did this. Just as people respected Philip Glass for what he did.
It is minimalistic music Paggot. Not shoddy.
It is just like people painting a huge red square and selling it for millions. Its art. And is respected by many. If you dont like it, there isnt any reason to listen is there?
loopilurox 3 years ago 2
This is beautiful.
callyiente 3 years ago 3
Ann Robinson's secret talent...
sorry, I know it's below the intellectual par so desperately upheld in these comments, but it had to be said
MatsuoBashoThePoet 3 years ago 2
yeah...this is one of the few interpretations of this piece that i can listen to. are there recordings by this women? i can't stand recordings i have.
bobmusic00 3 years ago
I find your comments very abrasive and shocking, Paggot. I am a musician with a general taste for anything that has a nice tone to it. The fact that your comment is so rude towards this music and the composer shows your lack of musical knowledge and your closed mind towards more classical pieces. I really like the metamorphasis pieces and they are brilliant pieces
xjakjakx 3 years ago
People like that you need to just ignore. They're abundant on youtube and are generally ignorant and moronic.
thec0nky 3 years ago 2
u spelt metamorphosis wrong:) NOOB
ggggiggolo 3 years ago
She is really very good, and I love philip glass, but I feel her performance is a tiny bit too clean.
Still, absolutely beautiful.
RoninAway 3 years ago
and that comment was to paggot
Monefastar 3 years ago
What a superb recording
chriswales19 3 years ago 2
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Philip Glass' fan base consists of mostly uneducated and musically insensitive people who have almost zero musical knowledge, but are the worst types because they have a pretense of musical understanding that they hold without merit. These are the same people who think the rite of spring is noise, and have never heard of composers like Charles Ives and Bela Bartok.
Paggot 3 years ago
Well, I enjoy the music of Philip Glass, and I am a composer and was a performer, and Ives and Bartok are among my favourite composers, along with Schoenberg.
I think you are a little misled in that you feel your own experience is universal. It is not. Minimalist music requires a different way of listening, which you have not mastered yet. A little humility would not come amiss, I think.
SeladorCellardoor 3 years ago 2
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This music is shit, i know loads about music , i do it for school- shes just taken peices from her previous work and chords from Greydawn by Albiet Mcanzie and worked them togethar. there are no highs is the whole thing, even with all her bare fancy dynamics its still shit. All you lot are little anuslickers , you dont even like it , your just shiteaters. your bickering like my three brothers.
uncookedbeetroot 3 years ago
well you're a downright ignoramus
firstly it isn't even hers,it's work by Philip Glass,she is simply playing it
and it's not fancy dynamics,it's called minimalism,get it right!
i don't know who's more worse and ignorant,you or paggot!
Monefastar 3 years ago 2
hahaha
She's playing a recital of music by Philip Glass. You sure know "loads about music." You can't even spell "together."
speier 3 years ago
Ignore uncookedbeetroot's comment. Either they're an idiot or just a little kid; just look at how they phrase things. But in the case of an idiot, it sounds like a failed artist who tried to go to school to find out they weren't who they thought they were. They had their self-image smashed and instead of presenting their own art, they attempt to give out poor critiques.
heinreken 3 years ago
in some way i agree with you. i cant understand why philipp glass is in the 100 of living genius. all his pieces sounds the same to me. and dont listen to those bastrards ho think they are more clever than you.
sparrow4689 3 years ago
reply to Paggot: I like the Rite of Spring (so as to most of Stravinsky's works, mainly favours orchestral), I have heard of composers like Ives and Bartok (and a lot more), and I like Philip Glass. Well. You could criticise the composer, or his music, simply, art reception is subjective, but, it's not wise to rant about the how other audience receive the music as. Enough said.
cantabileh 3 years ago 3
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Philip Glass is a dimwitted Hollywood hack. this music is cheap, weakly constructed, two chord trash. You've got to be an utter simpleton to find anything of value in music like this. If totally mindless banality had a face, it's face would be Philip Glass. Seriously, what the fuck is this guys obsession with dropping the tonic to the leading tone every time he uses a minor chord. Can he think of no other way to progress besides this cloying little device hes been using in films forever?
Paggot 3 years ago
well actually if you knew your music properly you'd know that this is minimalism and one of the key highlights of minimalistic music is it's simplicity and how it changes every so slightly,it's very repetitive.And just because you know a couple of composers doesn't mean you're a musical know it all and everyone has different music taste and shouldn't have to follow what you say
Monefastar 3 years ago 4
Please do not use Youtube as a vehicle to channel destructively hateful and generalized feelings. If you do not like a certain figure in music it would be suitable not to attack the revering audience for negative attention. If these fragmented views stem from a lack of an ability to comfortably grasp the minimalist genre then, again, it would seem you are not a fit critic. And it is quite evident that Philip Glass is extremely talented and well-learned when it comes to the piano.
ninnin6 3 years ago 3
well said:D
Monefastar 3 years ago 2
It must be awful to be so insecure that you have to post comments like this. Very sad.
Flansburgh 3 years ago
That was meant for Paggot.
Flansburgh 3 years ago
When Philip Glass was first recognised, this kind of composition was a turn in the face of music.
Hell, John Cage wrote 4'33 and was respected for it. Why? because people respected him as a composer before he did this. Just as people respected Philip Glass for what he did.
It is minimalistic music Paggot. Not shoddy.
It is just like people painting a huge red square and selling it for millions. Its art. And is respected by many. If you dont like it, there isnt any reason to listen is there?
loopilurox 3 years ago 3