Video essays are a great way to boost your creative musical spirit.
They give you a fresh perspective on the different styles of music, and it’s precious. They can get you thinking about new ways that you, as a musician, can approach the interpretation, syntacsys, expressions, and daily practice of performers.
Here is a brief review of the music channels in this area.
- Adam Neely. One of the giant music video essays bloggers on YouTube. Jazz musician, creating comprehensive scientific and educational content on subjects that will interest the widest range of fans of academic and jazz music: from concert halls’s listeners, critics and musicologists to professional performers, composers and music students.
What is worth one of the recent discussions under the brilliant video essay on copyright in music. Quote from commentary: “This phenomenon about owning music is so f…..g scary and depressing, how the f..k, can we write some music and then take those notes and run them through the last 134 years of recorded music to know who gets the citation?”
- Early Music Sources is created by Elam Rotem. A channel dedicated to the music “before the Bach era”: the Renaissance and the early Baroque.
Unique documents accompanied by a musical harmonic analysis, the discovery of historical recordings, the depth of research: in a word, the channel can surprise any musicologist. From comments: “I thought about why I did like this video so much. Now I think I can put it in words. You did not in any way interpret this story in an anachronistic way even though the gates are wide open in this regard cause it is so strange. You did resist the temptation of making comments about the “awkwardness” of the situation a modern recipient may feel, thus leaving it open for the listener to think about this himself.”
- 12tone. The magnificent visual concept frames the channel, which does not dogmatize the already well-established foundation of academic music, but invites reflection that each of the neophytes is capable to bring to eternal art. We recommend to all those who generate new musical ideas.
From the comments: “I’m just loving the channel. It explores exactly the level I am personally interested; not too easy, not too hard.”
- The composer, pianist, and music history fan Thomas Little has been producing a fascinating music series for several years. The Classical Nerd channel is covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques.
A recent video essay focuses on the phenomenon of spectralism, practice and the history of its comprehension. From the comments: “This is probably one of the best summations of spectralism done in a coherent way. I am very happy about your inclusion of Romanian spectralism. I am wondering if you are considering a follow-up on Hyper-Spectralism (Romania) and Saturationism (France), especially considering the wonderful female Romanian composer Avram.”
- The Youtube Channel of Frederick Viner, award-winning composer/pianist based in the UK is a non-trivial creative look at the issues of musical analysis and research of the stylistic features of the work of great composers.
A recent video essay concentrates on a look at Beethoven’s style through the prism of intonation-melody and the rhythmical development in one of the genius sonatas.
- A channel of a contemporary composer with an infinitely wide range of interests. Videos about anything from modern jazz to Indian beats.
One of the recent videos is mainly about how the design and layout of the instruments affects the music that is played on them. From the comments: “The fact of bias in instruments gives so much texture to music. Really cool to see somebody talking about it and giving examples. Every instrument is just a specific interface for a musician, and it’s really great that we have so many different ways of interfacing.”
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