philip glass: metamorphosis 1

[donQfons]

erinnert mich an Davide Martello - beides megagut

[TheCorrsFriends]

Does ANYONE have the sheet music for this? Please, I'm going nuts. Are pianists so valuated and precious and unique and rare and magic that you have to PAY for ANY sheet music in EVERY SINGLE website? This doesn't happen with guitar chords... Lovely playing, by the way, and this song is so beautiful.

[lovetownsend]

@TheCorrsFriends

i know. that doesnt make sense...i dont play piano but i play guitar and all the sheets are free on like guitarmaster and 911tabs. maybe its....no....IDK! lol maybe its the authentic feeling they want

[ShadowBladeX8X]

@TheCorrsFriends you can look up music library's in your area and you can take out and then copy pieces that's what my piano teacher does for the songs i want to learn

[BrokenPiecesOfHeart]

@TheCorrsFriends Most contemperary and modern music is copyrighted, especially if they're still alive.

[dmnks]

graffiti painted under the bridge brought me here

[meshkowich]

@dmnks yea, you're not alone. and who could have thought them vilnius hooligans were into such a gentle and soulful music

[feetman133]

BEAUTIFUL !

[diln5]

Is this based off Kafka's novel?

[SharpWalkers]

So basically what glass did what take a composition that could've fit in 2~2½ minutes and streched in to 6.. It's completely boring, and don't attribute that to 'minimalism'.. it's just ridiculous..

[Rcadorna]

@SharpWalkers you don´t like music, thats simple.

[UsurpedLettuce]

@Rcadorna Hurdurrr, you disagree with my opinion so you obviously don't like music, hurrrrr.

[ross302ci]

@SharpWalkers Go read The Metamorphosis and come listen to this in your heartache and despair. It will all make sense.

[shizism]

@ross302ci this was never meant to have anything to do with Kafka's work

[MrMrPinkPink]

@SharpWalkers its not about what he plays its about HOW. and btw love this song <3

[SharpWalkers]

@MrMrPinkPink It's a she that's playing.

[CamilleonProductions]

76 people are Justin Beiber fans

[SuperMemzzz]

Wait, dislikes?!

[horseburger]

Metamorphosis one and two took me two hours to learn. Sooooooo easy.

[kelidoscopegod12]

@horseburger Its easy because its Minimalism. Go watch Satyagraha, all the music in that is simple and repetitive, but beautiful

[horseburger]

@kelidoscopegod12

Yah I know. I just started playing again after a 15 year break and I'm trying to build up my repetoir with lots of easy music like this.

Im also trying to learn something impressive but its gonna take me ages. Search "Vika bohemian rhapsody" to see what I'm learning. It's gonna take months to play like this girl.

I'll have a look for Satygraha, thanks.

[kelidoscopegod12]

@horseburger Satygraha is an opera done by Philip, it is AMAZING! But it has moments where it feel likes it needs to kinda end =\

[trtzbass]

This thing reaches me on a level never touched before by anybody.

It amplifies my senses like the most powerful drug

[MrLibertine15]

top boy for writing this song. takes a lot to write something so simple and let it out there. great .

[mysticxhobo]

always listen to this while working. great music.

[rossyxan]

Never knew Anne Robinson played the piano o_O

[vilius1990savickas]

@rossyxan it's not Anne Robinson it's  by Branka Parlic :]

[horseburger]

@rossyxan

You are the weakest metamorphosis, goodbye

[cryinfairy]

Are there any Sheets I can get?

[mezza1000]

@cryinfairy This song is easy to learn, you don't need sheets.

[horseburger]

@cryinfairy

google "metamorphosis sheet music pdf" or something like that.

[Edi7oR]

Six minutes the same melody. Fantastic composition mr. Glass. :-)

[doobeedoobeedooo]

Aaaah love this video... she plays with such feeling

[Thyraiel]

Cylon Basestar blowing up @ 2:03

[treegarchie]

Only Philip Glass has the talent to make something so repetitive, slow and metric have so much melody, spirit, beauty and art to it. You forget about everything else when listening to Glass. It's just majectically hypnotic

[grafxerxes]

@treegarchie Hi, lovely post, and you are very right. Just in order to extend our universe a little further here, have you ever listened to an Estonian composer by the name of Arvo Pärt? His piece "Sarah was ninety years old" is only four chords and two notes - and if you are listening to it, it might blow your understanding of music into pieces. Cheers from Finland!

[ohsnapitbejenna]

I didn't think something so metric could be so expressive and full of emotion until I heard Philip Glass.

[Ana60448]

This is like a journey underwater and beyond into other realms

[QcMarcAndre]

She is awesome..

[andrebishop22]

Chickens swim with Glass

[AdmRomulus]

This is hypnotic...

[MrPedwig]

Haunting...

[samurai2828]

SO SAY WE ALL!

[l337poodle]

This Song makes me want to go back to my flat in caprica and smoke a cigar. 

[CamilleonProductions]

@l337poodle I know! It was a such beautiful use of the song. I loved Starbuck so much more after that scene.

[Hillabybutterfly]

i'm not a pianist; i have never played a note of any music. i don't know what minimalist means. i love the feeling this music gives me - at this very moment i.e now. thank you Branka Parlic.

[Blake788]

search nicolas and the iceni narrow road. they write beautiful classical and folk music which has echoes of glass and drake.

[MrCzece]

nice

[TRMDYLE666]

Philip glass is my idol ^_^

[nubuk1008]

je fais la comparaison entre cette interpretation et l'interpretation dans la vidéo "metamorphone one" avec les doigts du pianiste en bleu et je me rend compte que le meme morceau ne veut plus dire la meme chose ...

c'est bien joué mais je n'est pas trouvé la profondeur que l'autre pianiste dans sa vidéo dégage :)

[mrtacointhebox]

Just had an epiphany. :)

[mk90music]

If you like this song check "From Dark To Light" from Matthias Kistl on YouTube! :-)

[xgmrxD3]

beautifullll.

[deathDollneedsLoVe]

simply beautiful

[CuriosityRoads]

Minimalist garbage.

[K4inan]

@CuriosityRoads You just don't have a taste in music =)

[SquirrellOFC]

@CuriosityRoads Given you're a Beethoven fan, you should appreciate this style of music a lot more than the over-marketed wank found in media today. Your hate is misplaced.

[hkoncelik]

John Adams mid and early stuff is really good too. Like Phrygian Gates is amazing and similar to this in a way. Only 30 minutes of intense repetition of themes with new material every 5 minutes!

[hkoncelik]

If by repetitive you mean minimalist, then yes you are right, it is repetitive in the uneducated, untheoretical perspective. However, as @Ohashi8 explained, it creates a story and unravels with the development of the theme. It is repetitive in order to build and create a structure. Listen to his Kooyanisqatsi stuff and you'll here more repetition than Lady Gaga and Brittany Spears combined (which is hard to do) ;)

[facecheek]

huh? that was BARELY repetitive. ive heard many things more repetitive than this. If repitition is the point, though, looks like glass made a booboo lmao

[Caeternum]

I was listening to a stereomood playlist while I've been working, and while there were all sorts of beautiful and wonderful songs and tracks on there, something in this one stopped me working and MADE me listen, despite the fact it seems initially to have a lot less to it than most of the other songs on the playlist. I'd never heard of Philip Glass before, but this just caught me and won't let go. It's kind of magical, and now I'm just listening to his playlist.

[Cerax83]

@Caeternum - If U like such work perhaps James Howard Newton and Clint Mansell U would even like...

[noyouaintgettingit]

@Caeternum Watch Naqoyqatsi, the movie. It will change your life. (especially if you take a hallucinogen while watching/listening)

[maddogj7]

@noyouaintgettingit why take a hallu and look and listern to that ,do you have other sight and sound to trip on .jj7

[noyouaintgettingit]

@Caeternum Naqoyqatsi made me convert to anarchism. It made me realize all government is corrupt. Its a very moving, touching work. Its part of a trilogy. The Qatsi trilogy features music by Philip Glass throughout.

[drfunkenstein251]

It wouldnt be out of place aligned with the colonel and il nino's stand off instead of morricones classic

[murta27]

the bes love it...

[guzicb]

anyone knows where I can find scores of this music?

[88bootney]

I am not the biggest fan of minimalist music, but this composition is so beautiful and moving.

[xDimebladex]

it's an easy song. and i learnd to play it, after only a half year of practicing piano.

however, it's extremely beautiful!!

[elemmir]

@xDimebladex good job! If you have a good ear and watch her hands closely, it's possible to learn it without sheet music - I managed it when I first came across it but I haven't played piano in years now... I love watching her hands when she plays this...

[xDimebladex]

@elemmir :)

but i really have to admit, it doesn't sound as good as her version. I suppose i still have to practice a lot :)

[LagiNaLangAko23]

i don't understand why harry partch don't like phillip glass' music... they happen to be 2 of my most favorite composers...

[xXhannahbanana98Xx]

I love this song i cant play it on the piano but i'm getting there, my friend can tho

[spot66ify]

wow



[theserge98]

i just learned to play this song and I am going to play it for Philip Glass next year because he is a parent at my school. people think that this song is easy and simple and it is but you have to play it with feeling to make it sound good thumbs up if you agree!!

[Mariaplaysthepiano]

@theserge98 sorry, i was wondering if you could please tell me where you got the music sheets? i have been searching and i have not found them anywhere. I would really appreciate it, i am 17 years old and i am dying to lear one of the Metamorphosis.

[ethositachi]

@theserge98

You're performing it in front of Philip Glass? Good luck. I would practice the song religiously, as well as lots of technical studies (Hanon/Cortot). Practicing with a metronome once in a while is probably a good idea too, as this song has a very important rhythm. Once you can play it perfectly in time you can start putting a little rubato into it. If you practice without a metronome often you'll gloss over imperfections in your own technique.

[pauloedany10]

Amazing...

[DuhXRandom]

who r the dipshits who put 66 dislikes.

[campwasted]

Which episode of BSG does this feature? if anyone knows the name, it would be helpfull, Thanks

[lifeguardchurch]

@campwasted Season 2 Episode 2 Valley of Darkness 

[campwasted]

@lifeguardchurch

Thank you :)

[Hittokiwi]

@campwasted Season 2 i just cant remember which episode though but i know its in the first half

[MIchaelArlowe]

Starbuck's father is Philip Glass?

[TaoriUTS]

@MIchaelArlowe yes. don't let anyone tell you otherwise. if not her father than an ancestor of some relation

[mmooreglfprt]

@MIchaelArlowe Your Frakkin' right!!!

[aradioactivedonut]

@MIchaelArlowe No that song was by Jimi Hendrix .

[6235river]

@MIchaelArlowe It all makes sense now.

[kcaaprillady]

@MIchaelArlowe auahuhauahuahauhauiajaiauahuah­auha it´s coming from the fraking piano!!!

[somabindicogno]

branca parlic satisfied my Glass appreciation

[videovixen71]

After hearing this in BSG on that one episode.. which was amazing in itself.. I searched high and low for this song and its variants.. finally I found it on Amazon and I think iTunes! Wasn't in the usual places.. like the BSG soundtrack.. but I found it!

[bubz123]

BSG rules!

[Mitrovich27]

I saw him in Udine in 2009 and sometimes still music dies.....

[WetChinchilla]

One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever.

[dpipesster]

I suddenly became incredibly excited at 4:57...

[Bonifratz]

@dpipesster: happened to me too!

[0101dicky]

I just like the fact this composer in this piano compositions doesn't seem to subdue himself to Schoenberg's approach or tries to imitate late Scriabin like most modern piano compositons that I've heard. This reminds me of Ludovico Einaudi's "Indaco" for some reason. Maybe it's written in the same key.

[intMainViod]

What do you mean? I, for one, like his music very much.

[lightkeeper3]

Why do so many people hate philip glass?!

[CapturEventFilms]

Cool. let me know when you've got a video up of you doing this. (unless -- shock horror -- you're critiquing something and talking about how you'd do it better when you have no actual ability at all?...)

[jessaprincepessa]

65 people don't appreciate amazing talent in both pianist and composer.

[HeidyOrtizR]

So Beautiful, I listened this short time ago..... and Im amazed. that woman is an amazing pianist; thanks so much.

from Colombia =)

[ekrittenbach]

is philip glass a guy or a girl?

[jfm1200]

@ekrittenbach Phillip Glass is a man. This video shows a performance of his written work played by Branka Parlic.

[samurai2828]

Put your hand down lol, pretentious much?

[CapturEventFilms]

@samurai2828 Cos you'd keep your hand on the keys, and let all your emotion come through in your playing. Wouldn't you.

[samurai2828]

@CapturEventFilms My hand not in use would be floating on the keys, not hanging in the air for the camera to see how "emotional" Im being... 

[intMainViod]

@samurai2828 but, Music is about emotion and so any way this can be expressed is acceptable.

[Blake788]

search nicolas and the iceni narrow road to the deep north. they write beautiful contemporary classical which has echoes of glass

[VickTheQuick]

2:02 what is that noise?

[jeffreyarbeau]

@VickTheQuick Sounds like one of the stage lights hit the floor! Not sure, but it couldn't have been timed any better

[CAPRISUN441]

Look at the forearms on that bitch.

[edouardvdv]

Dear Modernquartet,

any ideahow to find it on cd ?

thanks

[gbgdgr]

existence is futile

[acsdss2]

@gbgdgr this song really does make you think.

[necro666dead]

its nice to see other at my age who likes this kind of music too, also 16 here

[ultraviolent29]

@necro666dead me too

[MarcoJamesTV]

@necro666dead Yesss :D

[hraarh86]

hey...does anybody know whether this part has been on the soundtrack of a movie, because it seems sooooo familiar, and i haven't seen battelstar gallactica

[skilbo]

Thanks for posting, ive just descovered philips glass' music. This is my favourite piece so far. thanks again :)

[0SxK0]

Im 16 and i love that music !!! That definition of sound !! not ugly lady gaga , katy perry , justin bieber mainstream shit ; x

[niggerfuckshitreborn]

@0SxK0 you're so cool since ur so young and enjoy philip glass.

[MrNathanTucker]

awesome song :] i've never done this before but can you please check out my videos ! i will have this cover up shortly ! :] please .

[Ohashi8]

Think this is repetitive?

Realize that it is Metamorphosis 1. There are 4 more. Metamorphosis 1-5 is a story where the melody begins at a specific state, transforms into something more complex, and then returns to the original state. The beginning and end points play a specific role in the entire piece.

Those who say the song is repetitive are essentially listening to just the intro and critiquing it for not doing enough. Listen to the other parts!

[ISRAELHECHEM]

@Ohashi8 Please dont waste your time trying to explain, people we love this know is not repetitive or minimalist. if someone think Mr glass is minimalist they should be listening yanni or lady gaga. Mr Glass is a wonderful gift to our senses. Just enjoy this Mr Ohashi, and congratulations for your good taste and knowledge in this kind of music.

[mc2trio]

@Ohashi8 I dont really get it. What exactly was being changed every time he repeated it?

[Ohashi8]

@mc2trio listen to Metamorphosis 2-5.

[mc2trio]

@Ohashi8 yeah i just did. when i wrote that i didnt listen to all the other ones but know i understand, though emotionally i dont really know what he was trying to present other than a simple melody turning into many different variations.

[theholk]

@mc2trio That in itself is quite the point. That small incremental changes can create utter complexity. It has driven music, paintings , math and essentially life. That small incremental changes, each in themselves "mundane" or simple can create utter complexity. And it is one of the great "sins" of us as intelligent species, that everytime someone applies this to a new idea the reaction mostly concists of creating a false dichotomy between complex and simple. A lot of simple yields complex.

[noradosmith]

@mc2trio

the speed. very subtly

[doobeedoobeedooo]

@Ohashi8 I must be pretty simple minded I thought this was great!... for revision atleast

[2974daniels]

@Ohashi8

un analisi da grande,concordo in tutto!

[2974daniels]

@Ohashi8

verissimo.solo i pigri d'animo,di spirito ed intellettualmente parlando possono affermare che è ripetitivo;metamorfosi vorrà pur dire qualcosa!

ma sai che penso: meglio cosi per apprezzare certa ottima musica,MEGLIO MERITARSELA,poiche evidentemente per chi afferma cio ne capisce poco ed appunto non arriva a capirla.

un saluto.

dani74

[deicidemaul]

@Ohashi8 and thats probably the reason its named Metamorphosis xD

[piotrekherok]

@Ohashi8 but why "repetitive" is taken as an insult? it is just one out of many ways of expression, intended by the composer

[nuckaroz]

Beautiful



[Coopersmith1000]

Repetitiveness can be beautiful. Just look at fractals.

[MikeFreakinByrne]

i wish everyone would shuttup stop bitching and just enjoy this masterful display of minimalism

jesus

[DWSimmy]

Sheet Music: Because this is the most complicated song ever.

[virtuemarcus]

Ouvidos estirpados pelo fetiche, pelo consumo. Façam um favor à sua própria dignidade: quando se depararem com obras primas como essa, digitem "Mozart" ou "Bach" na barra de busca e, definitivamente, não mais se metam a arguir sobre o que não conhecem.

[virtuemarcus]

Pessoas para as quais uma longa e clara explicação sobre novas significações em composição musical, busca de sentido em parâmetros que não os consagrados pela história da música ocidental, expressão musical de maneiras contemporâneas de ver e pensar a humanidade e o mundo atual, nenhum sentido faria.

[virtuemarcus]

Ouvidos destreinados logo aviltam as obras de Glass, Cage, Stockhausen, Penderecki e tantos outros. Não entendem, não gostam, e pra não ficarem por baixo atacam. Tem preconceito musical, burros como qualquer preconceituoso.

[Lusitanus]

this song is from Uakti a group who worked with him wheres the credits for Uakti??

[devilhunterred]

WAY too repetitive, either shorten its length by half or add more variation to the texture.

[mrtacointhebox]

@devilhunterred thats the beauty of minimalism

[devilhunterred]

@mrtacointhebox I don't think repetitiveness is beauty...

[mrtacointhebox]

@devilhunterred its not the repetitiveness...its the simplicity. thats why its so beautiful. ;)

[devilhunterred]

@mrtacointhebox Simplicity can be beautiful sometimes, but to me, or most people, when you repeat the same chorus 30 times in the same track, it becomes annoyance. Music is a very subjective thing and I understand that Philip Glass has his own number of fans, but his "Minimalistic" style will never gain recognition and prominence in music history the way Bach, Beethoven, Mozart or other classical masters did.

[ghoulshark]

@devilhunterred  your argument is pedantic and banal and commands no forethought outside of your own comfort zone, you Medieval dick-weed!

[cwattsenheim]

@ghoulshark Your comment was a metamorphosis. It went from Frazier at pedantic and banal, slid on down to a high school senior with forethought outside of your own comfort zone? and then to the middle school D and D player with medieval dick-weed. Very nice, and fitting for the subject.

[kabukibunk]

@devilhunterred Of course you do. Everything you or anybody else thinks of as beautiful is the result of repetition.

[devilhunterred]

@kabukibunk Music usually have repetition to come full circle with its introduction, but not so much as to have the same melody played over and over again 30 times in the same piece.

[danitalierg]

I listen to this every day.  I am pretty sure I am addicted.

[LordNojNoj]

Fucks sake, stop pretending to get so deep about this kind of music and posting your apparent thoughts on the internet. I'll admit, its a very emotional piece of music, but posting something as supposedly personal as you lot are talking about to make yourselves look clever and intelligent is pathetic.

[katcatgr88]

isn't that metamorphosis 5? I have a feeling it is..any thoughts? I'm apologise in advance if I'm mistaken!

[katcatgr88]

@katcatgr88 sorry I meant I apologise

[ThePeopledust]

@eveyone Just shut and LISTEN!

[elvalledelosdioses]

so wonderful...

[EshkaronsEngine]

This piece awakens so many emotions in me. It is as if my POTENTIALITY is being observed. I am. Who am I?. I am the 1. I am the TRUE. Within my soul is ETERNITY.

[plukemusic]

Hi, I'm a pianist/composer and am influenced heavily by Phillip Glass's beautiful work. Check out my videos, I'd love some feedback!

[TehCheese]

Anyone else have to replay 2:03 to make sure that noise was on the video and not in your house?

[Davemech]

@TehCheese Haha yeap :)

[boomer4190]

@TehCheese yeah... hay bro, do you have any cheese??

[KatjaKat01]

I love this. First heard it on Battlestar Galactica, but it works amazingly on its own too.

[JetMetropolis]

@KatjaKat01 Which episode of Battlestar wwas this on? I don't remember it at all, but I can see how well it would work.

[KatjaKat01]

@JetMetropolis It's in the episode where Kara and Helo are on Caprica. They have a rest in Kara's old flat and talk about how she doesn't really miss her old stuff, or her old life. She puts some music on her (battery powered) music player and it turns out to be this piece. I think Wikipedia says it's Metamorphosis 4 though. But they're not that different.

[DigiDrone23]

@KatjaKat01 Well, exactly. I was looking for the author of the "song from Galactica", and thanks to wikipedia I found it. My next donation goes to wikipedia.

[swefresh09]

@KatjaKat01 I heard it on Battlestar Galactica, too! Then I was thinking 'who wrote this amazing song??!'