Who knew happy birthday could be so beautiful?
Takashi Yoshimatsu's reharmonisation of Happy Birthday in his "Romance on the birthday" is a lovely and intimate gem of his unusually beautiful harmonic language. Appoggiaturas in the original arrangement are treated as harmony notes (m.73 note B) and original harmony notes become extended harmonies with unexpected chords (m.77 A F# D over G major). These harmonic choices often create repeated harmonies and, as a result, quite static landscapes over which countermelodies and simple imitative counterpoint seem to be comparatively salient. Just comparing the original harmonisation reveals indeed how much fewer harmonic changes there are, and the prevalence of the IV chord which also creates an illusion of G lydian at the beginning. Bar 77 is particularly expressive with its IV9 chord and the expansion in chord voicing prepared by a descending arpeggio in the previous bar.
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Amazingly timed upload on my birthday!
@skylarlimex
Ай бұрын
All planned! 😉
@evanever
Ай бұрын
Happy birthday!
@pesto.3598
Ай бұрын
@@evanever Thanks :D
@jgMaximo_
Ай бұрын
Happy birthday 🥳🎂
@Ivan_1791
Ай бұрын
Same for me. xD
This is happy birthday for a loved one who has passed.
@geiannicaballero510
21 күн бұрын
I agree, it's so moving it feels more like a dedication than a greeting
@el7284
18 күн бұрын
No this is mine! Mine, I say! 😭
@francisokechukwu2561
16 күн бұрын
Eggzackly
@fabiulaviana56
10 күн бұрын
Leaves from the vine, Falling so slow...
@Just_Json
6 күн бұрын
@@francisokechukwu2561 pleasee can I use that word in my conversation?
this is one of those pieces where the silence afterwards is 100% part of the music
@skylarlimex
23 күн бұрын
You're absolutely right
My theory teacher would always call it the "fancy version."
@MARTIN201199
29 күн бұрын
More like the “seriously? HBS
Weirdly specific, but this feels like the version you’d hear in a movie: a really old person that’s grateful to be alive at their age, and quietly enjoys a cupcake and a nice tea while they contemplate on the joy they’ve experienced.
@rossirossi-iu9wx
7 күн бұрын
Yes indeed!
Bro really said fuck anacrusis and wrote a single bar of 1/8
YOSHIMATSU ALWAYS ON TOP BABY
There is no way, today is my birthday and for a moment I thought someone had dedicated me a video lol. xD
@skylarlimex
Ай бұрын
Well I did!
constantly changing time signatures... exactly what i like!
Im glad yoshimatsu is finally getting more recognition these past months
i LOVE the two romances so much its so good to see yoshimatsu get the recognition he has long deserved
Takashi Yoshimatsu
happy birthday just for yourself while you are sitting alone in the quiet and peace of the night at the very beginning of the day
Thanks for making me discover his music it is incredible !!!
@skylarlimex
25 күн бұрын
With great pleasure!
Love these "breakdown" videos, great work !
@skylarlimex
Ай бұрын
Thanks a lot!
Could you make an analysis video for another of Yoshimatsu's work? His compositions are pristine gems.
@skylarlimex
Ай бұрын
I just might!
aww, loved this
Gorgeous!
Thank you very much: moving!
Oh wow brilliant 👏👏👏❤️
О, это же Такаши Йошиматсу! Я год назад на его 70-летие сделал фортепианную аранжировку его произведения для гитары "Romance for tree"
OH MY GOD I LOVE YOSHIMATSU please do something from Memo Flora or Cyber Bird
Beauty.
Yo!! That’s so cool you featured Takashi Yoshimatsu on the channel. He’s underrated. Love his symphonies and concertos. Symphony 4 is so magical.
Nice composition.
Beautiful version to dedicate to our family and friends 😊
@skylarlimex
29 күн бұрын
I always do it! Love it when the theme creeps in at first then usually by the second or third line everyone starts to realise.
awesome
I recently had my birthday and this made me tear up, at 1am
that suspension at the end
Would totally love to hear this live!
@skylarlimex
27 күн бұрын
You already have mate
god that suspension just summoned tears
Cool
Yoshimatsu is the BOMB!
This has a very old-school feeling to it. Reminds me of like Autumn Leaves or something on piano
Yo dude, is there a longer version? Please? I wanna learn it. Thanks 😍
My only critique is I wanted another harmony in m. 76. Maybe a vi (B minor) harmony to keep it moving.
I swear im not crying rn
@skylarlimex
15 күн бұрын
Don't fight it
I find Homebody’s set of variations more beautiful and ingenious personally
I never thought it could be written as a triplet, I was pretty sure it was a dotted quaver and semiquaver
@dukeofcurls3183
19 күн бұрын
as Vi Hart pointed out in their video on the happy birthday song, it’s almost always sung as a triplet despite always being noted as a dotted eighth and a sixteenth
I'm partial to having minor 4 chord at 0:44, but this is an excellent harmonization!
@skylarlimex
28 күн бұрын
It's funny because the minor iv is so used by yoshimatsu yet he avoids it here. It does run the risk of sounding clichéd.
@maxolydiann
28 күн бұрын
me too- but everything else is in D. i think expressing it in this harmonic vocabulary lends a sort of neo-baroque chorale feeling to the whole thing. if there was a B flat instead of a B, it would sound a little incomplete as it spells a diminished chord instead of a minor iv. there would have to be a fourth voice in order to fill out the chord- but a minor iv sure is beautiful.... dang....
How can you be so experimented in music theory at your age ?
@skylarlimex
28 күн бұрын
Well for one thing, starting this channel has helped a lot in consolidating my knowledge. Other than that I have and had amazing teachers.
Duuuddeeee you have to analyze cyber bird concerto His memo flora piano concerto And the birds are still You know i study music and this man changed the way i look at birds and music man Just pure beauty
“Baby shoes for sale. Never worn.” 😔
should do the stravinsky greeting prelude
@skylarlimex
Ай бұрын
I haven't heard that in so long that I'd actually forgotten about it!
0:34 this arp chord
i guess it is not V64 at the end. Not A major 2nd inversion
Reupload with a jumpscare at the end
@skylarlimex
7 күн бұрын
Excellent idea
@biencj
7 күн бұрын
@@skylarlimexThe real hard stuff too, like the old jumpscares where you’re watching a rocking chair rock by itself, and then the with comes outta nowhere
Behining sounds like quotation of memo flora
@skylarlimex
29 күн бұрын
I thought it was the other way around! I'm not sure though.
@musicboiscores
29 күн бұрын
@@skylarlimex It is indeed a quotation from Memo Flora. This set of two Romances is published a few years after Memo Flora, in one book with a few other pieces like Regulus Circuit, 3 Waltzes, 4 Little Dream Songs, and Piano Folio to a Disappeared Pleiad. Also not shown here, but the first Romance also quotes the first movement from Memo Flora. This 2nd Romance quotes the 2nd movement.
@musicboiscores
29 күн бұрын
Actually my bad, Skylar Lim was right. I read the copyright dates wrong xd. The Romances were marked copyright 1996, and it was reprinted in 2001 along with the rest of the pieces. Memo Flora concerto was from 1997, so just a year after this set of Romances.
0:23 and 0:39 remind me of UP
Who watched this in 2x speed? 👇🏻
@skylarlimex
5 күн бұрын
Sacrilegious
Why the sheets make it look complicate d 😭
Fermata was a little too long for my liking, but it was a pretty version
Sus4 to 1 as an ending? ..at a party no-one will hear it, they will cheer & toast the Birthday one.. It's all very clever but remember that we play to PEOPLE who love ability but hate a smart alec.
@skylarlimex
5 күн бұрын
No one's being a smart alec, it's just a piece. I've played it for lots of people on their birthdays and seeing everyone's face light up as the birthday theme creeps in at the end is just absolute gold. Definitely try it some time.
If you think this is beautiful, go listen to Cateen's 12 variations of happy birthday.
that "lovely open voicing" into the alto countermelody is mismatched and weird
🥱 a pair of missed oportunities.. such a shame