Step 3: Add in a beautiful melody, but remember the random swells.
July 12, 2020 2:27 PM Subscribe
How to Sound Like Different Composers in 3 Steps (SLYT). Classical violinists Brett Yang and Eddy Chen of TwoSetViolin have fun with the musical tendencies of twelve composers.
Content note: two instances of ableist language in the video.
The actual pieces, courtesy of commenters, are
1. J.S Bach: Violin Sonata 1 in G Minor
2. Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Summer
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto 4
4. Ludwig Van Beethoven Violin Concerto 1
5. Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto 1
6. Johannes Brahms Violin Concerto 1
7. Niccolo Paganini Caprice 24
8. Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto 1
9. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto 1
10. Alban Berg Violin Concerto 1
11. Sergei Prokofiev Violin Sonata 2
12. Dimitri Shostakovitch String Quartet 8
(TwoSetViolin previously)
Content note: two instances of ableist language in the video.
The actual pieces, courtesy of commenters, are
1. J.S Bach: Violin Sonata 1 in G Minor
2. Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Summer
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto 4
4. Ludwig Van Beethoven Violin Concerto 1
5. Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto 1
6. Johannes Brahms Violin Concerto 1
7. Niccolo Paganini Caprice 24
8. Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto 1
9. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto 1
10. Alban Berg Violin Concerto 1
11. Sergei Prokofiev Violin Sonata 2
12. Dimitri Shostakovitch String Quartet 8
(TwoSetViolin previously)
That was awesome. Poking fun without actually denigrating at all.
posted by paper chromatographologist at 5:03 PM on July 12, 2020
posted by paper chromatographologist at 5:03 PM on July 12, 2020
I love their work, but their tribute to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring remains my favourite.
posted by Coaticass at 5:35 PM on July 12, 2020 [4 favorites]
posted by Coaticass at 5:35 PM on July 12, 2020 [4 favorites]
Not bad, but Nahre Sol owns this concept, now and forever. The full "How to Sound Like" series is here.
posted by fuzz at 5:43 PM on July 12, 2020 [12 favorites]
posted by fuzz at 5:43 PM on July 12, 2020 [12 favorites]
fuzz, that's super cool! I primarily played piano as a kid (violin was only a short frustrating year), so having a pianist version of "how to sound like" is great. love the rachmaninoff one. that said, my musical knowledge is way too paltry and way to rusty too actually grasp the different elements nahre explains... (I can, however, follow twosetviolin's goofy reductive three step series.)
posted by spamandkimchi at 8:09 PM on July 12, 2020
posted by spamandkimchi at 8:09 PM on July 12, 2020
Ahhh, Bach...
posted by Windopaene at 8:30 PM on July 12, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by Windopaene at 8:30 PM on July 12, 2020 [2 favorites]
Aw I was hoping they'd take one melody and do it in all those composers' styles! Still funny, esp. Berg.
posted by batter_my_heart at 10:12 PM on July 12, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by batter_my_heart at 10:12 PM on July 12, 2020 [1 favorite]
Well if this is gonna be that kind of party... here's Tom Lehrer's "Clementine"
posted by phong3d at 5:28 AM on July 13, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by phong3d at 5:28 AM on July 13, 2020 [3 favorites]
This is the musical equivalent of those two guys on YouTube that spoil magic tricks and then punch each other.
posted by JoeZydeco at 8:35 AM on July 13, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by JoeZydeco at 8:35 AM on July 13, 2020 [1 favorite]
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