MENDELSSOHN The Hebrides Overture (Op. 26) Score and Analysis
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2019
- “Felix Mendelssohn's concert overture “The Hebrides” was composed in 1830, revised in 1832, and published the next year as his Op. 26. Some consider it an early tone poem.
It was inspired by one of Mendelssohn's trips to the British Isles, specifically an 1829 excursion to the Scottish island of Staffa, with its basalt sea cave known as Fingal's Cave. It is not known whether Mendelssohn set foot on the island, the cave being best visible from the water, but the composer reported that he immediately jotted down the opening theme for his composition. He at first called the work “To the Lonely Island” or “Zur einsamen Insel”, but then settled on the present title. However, in 1834, the year after the first publication, Breitkopf & Härtel issued an edition with the name “Fingalshöhle” (“Fingal's Cave”) and this title stuck, causing some confusion.
Being a concert overture, The Hebrides does not precede a play or opera, but is instead a standalone composition in a form common for the Romantic period. Dedicated to King Frederick William IV of Prussia, then Crown Prince of Prussia, the B minor work became part of the standard orchestral repertoire and retains this position to the present day.”
- Wikipedia 2019
Performed by Claudio Abbado and the London Symphony Orchestra - Hudba
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i hope we will see more analysis video like this in the future
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I LIKE THIS OVERTURE VERY MUCH, like any Mendelssohn's work. It is not a symphonic poem, it is an overture that invites you to imagine the Fingal's Cave (if you have seen it in pictures) so, it's a romantic work, but that seems to have impressionistic idea. The premiere of this piece was in 1832, and Mendelssohn traveled to Scottland in 1830, and lived in England during that time, between 1831 and 1832, J. M. W. Turner finishes a painting about "Staffa, Fingal's Cave", i think that painting is a good scenario for this piece, and some people consider Turner as an pre-impressionist painter: COINCIDENCE.
Amazing work. Thank you so much!
Love the analysis! Thank you so much for uploading!!! Appreciate all the work you put into this.
Outstanding analysis of the piece.
Amazing work
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0:06 ГП На моноинтонации построена
1:29 ГП
2:02 ПП(певучая, спокойная интонация,в ней стремление к счастью и покою)
3:05 长笛重复主题然后带出⬇️
3:22 结束主题 громкая радостная ЗП
Thank You! Good work
This is awesome.
Very good!
This is great! One minor comment: the note held by the clarinets in measure 3 is a concert A, not a D. I think you may have gotten your transposition reversed :P
Really great work! Thank you so much!
This was great! Thank you for making this video.
have you thought of doing an analyses of Debussy or Ravel, there aren't much analyses of them on CZcams
brilliant!
What program do you use for highlights and edit scores? Thank you
I use a photo editor (Paint.NET) to create all the pages and the highlights as separate images, then in my video editor (Shotcut) I align the pages with the music and fade in the highlights when necessary
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2:04 2nd theme
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Absolutely brilliant work, thank you for sharing this!
Do you also take requests? I would love to watch your analysis of Ravel's Pavanne por un infante defunte.
Thank You
Follow the score? Read the analysis? Or just enjoy the music?
How about all three? I used to play the String Bass, and have had an interest in Conducting, though not serious enough to get training. But following pieces with, either Dover Scores, or what is provided in these Videos is Awesome!
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No identification of the structure (Sonata Form).
You can figure this out aurally or through the analysis of the score and create your own timestamps.
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Theme of thrift shop? Yes or no?
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Wagner trashed Mendelssohn, and then stole his best stuff.
¿If Wagner hated "jewish music" why he would stole Mendelssohn's work?
Come back here naughty meat!
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I am sure that the analysis here will be useful to someone. But for me, it seemed to the equivalent of reading a poem or Shakespeare play, and having all the footnotes discussing the punctuation and spelling, and nothing else. What I would prefer to know, is what does this piece of music mean? I don't want to have my imagination ruined by a bar-by-bar synopsis, but maybe there could be a broad outline of the plot, e.g. why are some parts so loud, others so soft? Why are some sections dominated by major keys, other by minor? What is meant to be going on? What story is being told?
The analysis was actually quite useful to me, and only served to stir my imagination into all the harmonic and motivic devices employed and their possibilities. With all due respect, your opinions seemed like a rather amateurish uninformed one. I say that because I really appreciate all the effort put into this video and hope more like it are to come, so I must offer my opinion which is of sharp contrast to yours. Many thanks for the analysis!
It's very useful to A Level students who have programme music as a set topic and have to become familiar with works like this.
You are assuming the piece tells a story.
I am a longtime composer and musician and I don't put story to music nor do I look for one or even perceive one. The music IS the story. I've never understood the notion of a piece "telling a story." That's you superimposing arbitrary personal and experiential meaning into the creation of another being. I feel that ascribing a story is a very narrow endeavor to comprehend mentally something that is in every way emotional and personal.
Peace.
"Don't tell me the woman screamed. Bring her out and make her scream."
you are 100% true. That's a big job to say - "oh, here is a part in Fis and then it comes in Des, now it is doubled in strings and after it is tripled in cellos.". Wow, an amazing "analyze". Like a middle asia akyn, who sings about what he just has seen in that minute.
Oh, do you want the analyze of my comment? Well, at the beginning i said you are right, and then I gave a mocking example of the subject video, and later I mentioned akyn as an allegory. And at the end I analyzed myself, indeed.
This is an obvious analysis. Why didn't you say anything about the formal structure or orchestration techniques?
Дмитрий Калиниченко omg make your own video then
@@pavelchenarev7215 I agree. It's a good step through the main features and very clear and helpful. Discussion of the structure, orchestration, etc just would not work with a scrolling score. Credit where it's due.
Tranquilo amigo, es un análisis para que algunos como yo que apenas estamos aprendiendo podamos comprenderla mejor. No te claves
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