Bernstein performs Mozart's 40th Symphony - 1/3

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Uploaded by on Oct 25, 2007

Leonard Bernstein gives an introduction to Mozart's G Minor Symphony before performing the first movement with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Glossary of Musical Terms
Diatonic Scale - white-note scale
Chromatic Scale - white and black-note scale
tonic - first note of a scale
dominant - fifth note of a scale (i.e. a "fifth")
fundamental tone - another name for the tonic
overtone - the important thing to know about an overtone is that it usually harmonizes with the fundamental tone due to some rules governing the frequency of sound waves

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  • As I sit here in a remote college classroom at 11:27 P.M. watching these lectures at Harvard on VHS, I think to myself.

    Will there ever be another Bernstein? I hope there will be, I really do..

  • wow.... one of musics greatest geniuses analyzing another of music's greatest geniuses.... too... much.... greatness.....

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  • Maestro does that in 1 continuous take

  • Good lawd this was fantastic.

    Does anyone know of any other analyses like this? I want to see this done with all my favourite pieces.

  • My musical mind just jizzed all over the place.

  • Bernstein explains why atonality rocks in a controlled manner.

  • Awesome.Lennie was irrplaceable. TY e for posting.

  • Beautiful!!!

  • he is deeply understanding the harmony

  • I hope all you students watching this realise that Mozart or any other composer did not analyse their music as such when they composed it. Composition does not work like that. This is all interesting after the fact.

  • this is one of the most awesome music vid i've found so far!

  • Isn't the first overtone of the overtone series the 2nd Harmonic, or one octave above the fundamental pitch/frequency? Why did Bernstein call the first overtone a fifth above G?

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