AARON COPLAND plays The Cat & The Mouse

[consecratadeo]

I love hearing how Copland himself played it. Do you know where I could purchase a copy of the audio?

[1993DoubleD]

@consecratadeo download Free Youtube-to-Mp3-Converter by DVD Video Soft, then you can download the audio from youtube.

[ArtfulProductions398]

soooo cool

[futurezhou]

i thought it was the mouse limping....

[Teleskingsince1985]

awesome :)

[ruthheartmusic]

beautiful song; totally describes TOM AND JERRY!

[hsongp]

wait, what huge explosion? wouldn't the cat blow up then?

[imaginethewonder]

nice :) tom and jerry totally!! ah.... good times

[lakehavenable]

in the end there was like a huge explosion and the cat was limping and the mouse ran away...just like tom and jerry :P

[chopinjierong]

this piece if you guys analyze in depth, its consist of whole tones :D

[KevinBeethoven]

Sounds sketchy but hey he wrote it haha

[mcpwnd1]

HOLY SHIT!!!!

[GrandmaJohnKC]

holy shit!!!

[saisayhai]

i cant play the piece sound "scherzo humoristique" lol (i think i spelled it wrong)

sounds like a cat chasing a mouse.REALLY :D

[rubyhappiness]

@saisayhai you spelled it right...

[musicrox1999]

Wonderful performance consisting of light and musical notes!

[456mooshu]

Amazingly like Tom & Jerry, but little more than just playing around.He is tremendously GREAT at playing his song. AWESOME! :D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MaximusAsian]

mistakes dont sound like mistakes in this song because it hardly ever follows its own key signature

[AndrewL1223]

i hate to think what happened to that poor mouse at the end of the piece

[SqueekyMonkey101]

What a humorous piece...

[pianovirtuoso1000]

Aaron Copland himself plays this piece the best! I learned this piece last year! I will make a new video of this piece and upload it soon! I love this performance!

[utoob4227]

He's like doubling the written speed for the song. I like it when he does that :)

[chl91039]

great!



[Tedsta101]

I could definetley imagine a cat chasing a mouse! Even if the title wasn't named 'Cat and Mouse'.

[MrEbaby2010]

A funny music from whcih you can imagine of a cartoon showing a mouse being chased by a greedy cat.

[ericak11]

genius

[Clementine30189]

pure wow.

[njk15jonas]

i'm learning this piece rite now. havin a hard time with just the first page! :\ but its fun:)

[kithic14]

Does it really have to be THIS fast???

[11dc14]

@kithic14 No it's just the way he played it. You can play it slower. Heck, I've played piano for almost 10 years and I can't play this fast. XD

[njk15jonas]

ditto:\

[puppylove1206]

@kithic14 Hey, I think the faster the better with this piece! :)

[theturbolemming]

Oh dear God. How does he play so lightly? So perfectly? And above all, so quickly!?

[puppylove1206]

I think it's awesome to be able to hear how the composer intended the piece to be played!! It'll be a long time until I'm able to get it this fast!!

[I3rianIsHere]

sounds like tom and jerry

[thecolouramanda]

I hate that show, love this piece, but I have to agree with you!

[twinkle4stars]

this sounds great!!!!

[bomberchicken]

the start is like cat walking along the keys :)

[peterrabbit1999]

I imagine cat and mouse

[amyleeluvr]

I have been playing the piano for almost 11 1/2 years and I am finding that Aaron Copland's pieces are some of the best and most fun pieces to play. Aaron Copland spends most of the time in his pieces (especially this one) telling stories. This piece sounds like it is influenced by Scott Joplin, and Cecil Taylor among others, but it also sounds as if Copland is fusing the European classical style in this piece. The pieces Copland wrote are anecdotes of American life the way it truly is.

[ummwoahx3]

His playing makes mine sound like a 7 year old attempting to play chopsticks. And I've been playing for 7 years now. :\

[imonfire24oceans]

It happens :\ lol I definitely know what you mean

[AndrewslashTrey]

nice!

[dacatholicbandorgan]

Aaron Copland is one of my favorite choral composers.

[rollcol]

I have played it for 40 years on the Ampico and it always sounds fast like this. Copland liked fast pieces so I feel it is correct. These late Ampico pieces were recorded very accurately tempo and attack so it is authentic. rollcol

[bjmortie]

Whoa! I didn't even come close to playing it this fast, and I thought I was doing great! LOL! It does sound a lot better at this tempo though (haha good job, composer). How did you get a recording of Copland playing this?!

[dwarven1]

From the tags in this video, it's a reproducing player piano that is being recorded. A reproducing player piano "reproduces" the artist's exact touch - ergo, that really IS Aaron Copeland. I've also heard, for example, George Gershwin playing Rhapsody in Blue... any time I want, in my living room, on a Steinway grand. Courtesy of a Duo Art player mechanism.

[iloveyhouu]

surely cats can't move that fast!

[pianolasociety]

this is the speed the composer himself plays it. The cats are slower and the mice are the fast bits I think.... ;)

[gregmason2007]

LOL!!!

[viviisalolclown]

maybe its the mouse!

[tharpdevenport]

@iloveyhouu

Search YouTube for a kitten menacing a green ball, set to score by Jerry Goldsmith, and some Elliot Goldenthal.

[whitelash3]

my thoughts exactly

[ilovemybagon]

are you kidding me?! It's that fast?!

[gregmason2007]

i know rite.....I'm preparing this piece right not for my recital and I had not planned on playing it this fast.....probly still won't

[pianolasociety]

this is the speed the composer himself plays it and how he wrote it. The cats are slower and the mice are the fast bits I think.... ;) There's a lot of YouTube clips showing people getting all arty over this dragging it out to 4 minutes and over 5 minutes one of them! It's just a short piece. Play it like Copeland did and you'll get the best applause at the recital as the piece will come over correctly. Good luck with your performance!

[gregmason2007]

Thanks for your advice.

[chkjns]

@gregmason2007 - so how did Cat & Mouse go? Copland wrote this in1920, boy he had a long career.

I'm building an ever-expanding music history channel with over 500 playlists so far. I added this to my Copland list last year & today it goes on the 1920 list as well. My lists feature most genres & cover the globe. 111 lists let you hear the music of any year since 1900 like you've gone back in time.