35:31 I'd like to add that Eb on the 3rd horn (written Bb) actually reinforces the D# (written G#) on the alto flute. This is why you "think" you can still hear the alto flute even when the orchestra is loud.

One of the remarkable scores in the repertory that still floors me since I was a teenage with its mastery of sound. ♥

19:43 that harmonic actually sounds as a C natural (and is very fun to play)

40:54 I still think this is the most beautiful passage in the entire piece

9:13 A few years ago I got into figuring out some microtonal tuning fundamentals and chords like shown here can be really interesting, involving sometimes many ways to tune it up. One possible idea: run with the idea of it being an inverted D15 chord. In "typical" jazz harmony, it's considered a mistake to have both the major 7th and dominant 7th in a chord - but if you tune it up with a more harmonic focus such that the C is tuned down 31 cents, and also tune downward the C# and F# 12 and 14 cents, you get to a D chord that covers the D harmonics of 1,3,5,7,15. And this sounds incredible. I'm pretty sure that this is not Ravel's intent here, and orchestras are not trained to try to tune like this, and (most of the time) they do not tune like this in practice, when we have a mass of strings as Ravel orchestrated here. But I find it a fun, interesting exercise to think about and play with at home.

Watched the London Symphony Orchestra play this last night, so this was a very opportune video to have seen the day before! Made the piece make a lot more sense and I loved watching the flute run onscreen at 28:00 in person!

Remarquable! Thanks a lot for your so fine work!

Thanks so much, Thomas. Looking forward to your analysis of the complete score, one of my favorite Desert Island Disc pieces.

What an incredible work ! Thanks a lot !

Thomas, I enjoyed this analysis immensely. Thank you so much for this in-depth look at what is fast becoming one of my favourite orchestral works. Hoping we'll be so fortunate to hear a full analysis in the future!

@OrchestrationOnline

2 ай бұрын

Thanks so much, Daniel! I might do a few more previews over the coming year before I commit to the whole series - so one way or another you'll be getting more Daphnis in a bit.

@DRSwain1988

2 ай бұрын

@@OrchestrationOnline I’ll be looking forward to those!

@jonathanp935

Ай бұрын

@@OrchestrationOnline So, this is just a preview of what a score study of this piece would be like and not an actual part of the series?

@OrchestrationOnline

Ай бұрын

@@jonathanp935 It's both. When I release the full series, this will be a chapter.

Nice flying V you got behind you there. Might we see an electric guitar orchestration video at some point? 🤔

Amazing lecture, thank you so much, Thomas!!

At 188, has Ravel not split the bar for the same reason as Mahler in his Adagietto?

@OrchestrationOnline

2 ай бұрын

Good eye, JD. That's exactly right. I'll be dealing with the question when I get to its first instance at the start of the score once I'm doing this as a regular series.