How Music Works 3 - Harmony - Part 2

[DiamondRubyJewel]

oops, i am serious about honorit true music. we can't be stuck behind machines and can't play. we have ti make sure TRUE MUSIC AND MUSICIANS DON'T DIE OUT.

[DiamondRubyJewel]

wow.thank u so much.i learned a lot.keep posting some if uz are serious about honoring true music. we,i have to learn the foundations before i can build

[Sn4pDr4gon]

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[hellobrowizard101]

i have herpes and this dude is soooooo sexy god man where do you get your toe nails chopped at heavon?

[jabez36]

what was he talking about in 7:47 please someone give a name?!

[AnasTangi]

@jabez36 any note fits into 6 possible triads (3 minor and 3 major).

Each triad (chord) is made of 3 notes, and you can buil chords they inlcude one specific note, let's say C and the possible chords will be always 6 for each note.

So if you want to harmonize the note C, you have a choice of 6 possible chords you can play along with C so you can give it a specific mood.

[jabez36]

@AnasTangi ahhh so C fits into 6 possible triads regardless of C being the 1 note? right?

[AnasTangi]

@jabez36 Yes, and the chords will be: C Major, C minor, F Major, F minor, G# Major, A Minor.

These are the 6 possibilities to harmonize 1 note with triads "consonant harmony".

But there are more than 6 chords which include the c note, but we should talk about dissonant harmony, which is the study of chords made with 4, 5, 6 notes, augmented, diminished etc.

[jabez36]

@AnasTangi ahh gotcha

[DavidNclX]

It's an actual outrage that this content i blocked becuase Sony says they want it blocked. Personally, I'll never ever buy anything from Sony ever. Scum.

[dowen679]

this programme entirely seems to ignore the fact that harmony in Western music arises from the combination of lines (aka counterpoint). a melody against a drone evolves into a melody against another melody, these combinations of melodies produce vertical ntervals (consonant or dissonant) which then combine into chords. this process is a fascinating one, evolving over centuries, and an opportunity has been missed here to present that story in an accessible way to a large, non-specialist audience.

[dnch]

no part 3:(

[TheClearseer]

Hi. I can't get this vid in the series:

How Music Works 3 - Harmony - Part 3

This is the crappy message I get on that link:

"This video contains content from SME, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."

I know he gives a link to torrents of this series, but honestly, it's almost 2 gigabytes, and our bandwidth is limited and quite expensive here in New Zealand. Anyone have a link where I can download an flv as all these other files are?

Thanks in advance if you can.

[chunkyhobostew]

Osama Bin Laden disliked this video. Ten minutes later, the CIA show up at his door.

[964333171]

it's so stupid blocking knowledge like that..free the knowledge, free the world

[robertslistening]

Unfortunately, "how music works 3 - harmony - part 3 and part 4 don't show up, but I watched them all and it's quite an interesting series.

[aceyage]

Thumbs up if you are going to illegally download Universal content now just to fuck them up because the blocked parts 3 and 5. Unfortunately, I can't give myself thumbs up.

[MasterDarkarbiter]

@aceyage

I hope you mean not buy, that's the important bit

[jamespiperca]

Part 3 blocked. Pathetic on their part.

Found full 48 min vid on youku com

Google search How Music Works pt.3 - Harmony

[tummysticks80]

are you fucking kidding me, what the fuck sony? what fucking nerve, go get cancer fucking money grubbing CEO fuckwads. please die, do us all a favor, instead of taking away music education. *more swearing* *more expressions of hatred* etc.

[mihohobaba]

Sony Music Corporation - go fuck yourselves.

[wezos]

copyright applies to education? because part 3 is removed on my country because of it..

FU Sony!

[ZeppelinFloydRoses]

Minor chords don't always sound sad. In the Green Day song Time Of You Life, when he changes to Em but it doesn't sound sad at all. Just depends how you use them i guess.

[morenoh149]

@ZeppelinFloydRoses are you crazy?! Time of your life is a very sad song.

[ZeppelinFloydRoses]

@morenoh149 the song itself is very sad, but when he goes to Em and raises his voice, it sounds really nice. not sad at all.

[Mojosbigstick]

I want to meet a harp playing dolphin!

[shipcomesin]

is it me or is it wrong where he says "a quieter, even higher D" and she plays something that sounds again like a Bflat?

[iwanabana]

WHAT THE FAUK the 3rd part is removed??? damn! sony! this is an educational video for god's sake

[luxemkingII]

part 3 doesnt work....-.-

[MMOPMusicalTheatre]

I believe that's Catrin Finch who is somewhat the celebrity harpist so I'm sure there's loads of her on YouTube..

[asherwade]

The lovely harpist playing Gabriel Faure`s Pavane {at 4:40 to 5:51} makes this whole series worthwhile! Marvelous, utterly marvelous. Would that she ('Katherine') would consider recording this whole piece [at least for a YouTube clip]; it would be worth it's weight in gold !!!

[asherwade]

The harpist playing Faure`s Pavane {4:40 to 5:51} is worth this whole series! Marvelous, utterly marvelous. Would that she ('Katherine') would consider recording the whole piece by Faure`, ...it would be worth its weight in gold!

[skyelof]

01:30 "... every single note has a whole series of its own harmonics but the human ear can only pick up the first three or four of the sequence..."

Is definitely NOT correct.. HG is a brilliant conveyor of music theory but here he probably mixed up how many harmonics you can bring out with the 'palm technique' from a harps string. Anyone who knows how to play flageolets on a string can play elements from the series high up in the two digit part of spectrum and we can all hear it.

[reinpost]

@skyelof I think what he means is that we don't hear too many of the upper harmonics as a dog would together with the base note, because our hearing has a high-pass filter especially at higher age, so it's more natural for us to hear chords in them. However the volume of those is low anyway so I still don't think the remark makes much sense.

[Silencer1337]

How many years of music lessons did I have at school? At least 5, and I still cannot play notes on any instrument. Wasted. @idmangqn: Yeah, I wish I'd knew more about music as well, but the accessibility is low, just as it is with C++ programming, lol. Interesting to see something like this. *thumbsup*

[RichardMartin2]

@Nitro89. [Why there are 6] It can be the bottom, middle, or top of the triad, and in each case you have the choice major or minor. Hence 3x2=6.

For C. Bottom of the triad (C or Cm), middle (Am or A flat), or top (F or Fm).

If you allow augmented and diminished chords, it's 12 not 6.

PS Howard Goodall is excellent. Very good stuff, though I too didn't get the garden: maybe he is weaving his way through the maze that is modern harmony???

[justinsane11]

@RichardMartin2 I get that there are 6 but why these particular notes? a C triad would read CEG correct? Or am I missing something...and why Am or Ab instead of the major to minor like the other 2 notes Cmajor, Cminor etc...

[RichardMartin2]

@justinsane11 Hi - If you restrict attention to major or minor chords then the bottom interval of the triad must be a major third and the top a minor third [-> major triad] OR the bottom interval must be a minor and the top a major [-> minor triad]. (If both are major 3rds one has an augmented triad; if both minor, a diminished.) So yes, C gives CEG, Cm=CEbG, Ab=AbCEb, Am=ACE, F=FAC, Fm=FAbC. But A major would be AC#E which doesn't have a C in it (has C#). Hope this helps.

[idmangqn]

I'd like to hear Silent night with minor triads though. It might be hilariously gloomy XDXD

[RichardMartin2]

@idmangqn Or maybe with diminished sevenths a la Richard Strauss :)

[idmangqn]

@RichardMartin2 ^^ ya, i wish i had more knowledge of music btw

[SIGNATURESOUNDZ]

Jerry Lee Lewis had people throwing chairs damn!

[Urstruly916]

@SIGNATURESOUNDZ lmao he sure did

[hugokickfeen89]

@SIGNATURESOUNDZ that was classic like ppl were on fast or something lol

[Uberloinvongenchler]

@ pahis: 'diatonic chords' includes the major and minor (but is not limited to them)

[mrgreyshadow]

Why is he walking through a garden at 3:10?

[Nitro89]

Can someone explain 7:50 to me please, how do we know what the 6 chords are?

Funny how he doesn't explain one of the most interesting things.

[jozg44]

You get the 6 chords because they are the 6 triads out of the 24 that have the note 'C' in them. It's a shame he doesn't explain it a little better- it's a simple idea but if you don't know it anyway it doesn't come across well.

[vei85]

it's taken from modal interchange of minor and major chords of the key (C KEY I believe here, since the piece ends with the tonic. All of these contain the note C as part of the chord.

[IpkisStanley]

he doesn't mention that the overtones are not exactly the same as the triad that is made from them. the notes are slightly flat and their frequencies were changed so that the chord sounds more pleasant. if you compared the "secret notes" of the harp to the notes on a piano you'd hear the difference. Harry Partch didn't like this as it seemed arbitrary to him and so made his own 32 note system of tuning (and other systems too). There's a documentary about him on youtube.

[wesselbindt]

3:13

I kind of expected someone to jump out of the bushes here. :D

[BearWindAppleyard]

That harp player is awsome

[IpkisStanley]

yeah! almost as good as Harpo!

[Pahis1]

Wonderful introduction to music theory!

[dachhh]

can anyone explain how the diagram shown at 7:50 gets constructed? what's the rationale behind "each note in the melody has a possible 6 chords to which it belongs?"

[Pahis1]

The note C belongs to 6 different chords. C major (C E G) Ab major (Ab C Eb) F minor (F Ab C) C Minor (C Eb G) A minor (A C E) F major (F A C).

[because88]

Thank you, Pahis1.

[nicolashrv]

You could had explained faster

A triad chord has 3 notes, so if you count a major and minor chord, you have 6 positions for one note.

[IpkisStanley]

it belongs to a lot more than that!

[Pahis1]

Very true. What I relly should have said wast that C belongs to 6 different minor or major chords. BTW Is there a collective noun for minor and major chords?

[IpkisStanley]

I'm not really sure, I'm not a formally trained musician. I guess you could say "triads".

[Pahis1]

Yeah could be triad. I thought so but wasn't sure if triad consists of any three notes or if it is a major or minor.

[prinznevsky]

@Pahis1 "triads" or in general "Diatonic Chords" or "Diatonic Harmony"

[jlim2397]

"...it's called a triad, though not because of any links to organised crime"

lol!!

[Twinkleh]

That made me laugh!

[whizkidforte]

The ending of the vid here is brilliant! When played during the holidays, Howard Goodall, with his beautiful voice singing "Silent Night," is sure to make my Christmas!!!

[PeterInglisGuitar]

Looks at overtones (harmonics) generated by a single plucked string, and their relation to harmony. Shows that the basic chords are generated by these fundamental overtones.

[PeterInglisGuitar]

Delves into the dark world of minor harmony. (Faure's 'Pavane' played on harp).

Polyphony - many voices combining to form chords (Mass for Four Voices by William Byrd.)

Which chord to use? Demonstrates by harmonising the Xmas carol "Silent Night" at the piano. Points out that the 24 major and minor triads harmonised practically every tune between A.D. 1200 and A.D. 1600!