Babe wake up, Samuel Andreyev posted an analysis

You illustrate why I can enjoy Bach without any ability whatsoever to understand his genius. I'm just not wired for it. Thanks for the exposition.

Great video, quite a beautiful piece. A relative bought me the sheet music of Bach's 2 part inventions for Christmas. An excellent gift because, while I love Bach, I had not heard any of the 2 part inventions before so they were a perfect way of improving my sight reading. Before I let myself watch this video I had a go at playing the hands seperately. No chance in hell I'm sight reading them together yet!

I don't care if the piano is tuned correctly or if the invention is played on harpsichord or not. The essence here is the depth of the analysis. He doesn't mention only what Bach did (that's something that an AI can also do pretty well) but he investigates the reasons behind each compositional choice. Well done!

The real miracle to me is how someone can take such simple melodies and combine them into something out of this world. While at the same time speaking to your inner soul at a fundamental level. The 3-voice Sinfonia 9 following this piece is one of the best that Bach wrote, it's beyond description.

Sight reading “average” lesser-known baroque composers really puts in perspective how great Bach is. His mastery in counterpoint is second to none.

What a great analysis! Bach’s music, even the 2-part Inventions, is incredibly beautiful, and yet so complex! Thank you, Samuel, for sharing your knowledge with us!

Greatly appreciate how thorough your analysis was. I'd been meaning to get into Bach and study his works more, and this was a great introduction.

Thanks for the upload, I admire what you do very much, so keep up the great work

Thanks for the detailed analysis; more detail to dig into and understand than other videos on the piece. Took a minute to find it in the KZfaq search after watching the first time. Subscribed. Thanks again. 👍

Great analysis, thank You very much, looking forward to more of this. Way to go, only 6 more Invention, maybe next year.

Big fan of these analyses great work :)

Thanks Samuel!

Amazing, thank you very much Samuel! All the best!

Very enjoyable and well explained.

So grateful for your Bach videos. He held the most delicate things in the firmest grasp.

A really great presenttation! Thank you for this video on the mastership of Bach!

Thank you! I have been practicing the inventions recently and this video matched my needs exactly 😊

Speaking about baroque, 2 voices compositions, have you heard W.F. Bach’s 6 duets for 2 flutes? A very unusual collection, I recommend especially the lamentabile from the n4 in F major and the vivace from the n1 in e minor. They really sound from another planet!

Great analysis! Thank you so much for the great videos you post, have you ever considered making a video on Helmut Eder? Maybe his Drei Satze

Thank you!

I'm new to your channel and will be visiting frequently! Thank you for the inspiration. I wish you had been my professor in university. Music theory/composition comes to life when it is explained with clarity and enthusiasm. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and talents. I will be sure to tell my other musician friends about your channel. 🎵🎶🎵🎶p.s. I learned of you while watching a Jordan Peterson video.

Excellent!!

Also, congratulations on 50k.

Terrific video, Samuel‼ Your channel is a great contribution to music education! Thank you for your explanation of this remarkable piece! Your analysis of the grouping structures of the measures was very enlightening! I was hoping to hear also your take on the remarkable consecutive fifths of bar 25... maybe for your next video! 😄

In case no one's said it yet, amazing thumbnail

A-flat major is the relative-major of F-minor. And here I would like to add that if you listen to the A-flat note by itself, it is a very lonely, distant sound. It actually seems like it’s further away than other notes. Really, to MY ear it’s sounds like the MOST of any note; Like a Twinkling star. La Campanella (The Bell), by Paganini takes advantage of this note in it’s repetitions during that piece, as made famous in Liszt’s transcription of it for piano. Anyway, what I’m getting at is that F-major (Green. The Pastoral), and, therefore F-minor, is an active, flowing and open key to play in, the F-MINOR performance still embodies some of that lonely or estranged quality to it. (Because of the embedded Blue of the relative Ab key). I feel like the Bach invention if F-minor here is sort of like the lost sheep in the meadow, trying to find its way home. My psychological analysis of the piece. My Theory of Ptich Psychology and Note-to-Color music theory can be found here at _The Acoustic Rabbit Hole_ for those interested. Thank you, Mr. Addreyev

What is it called when baroque composers take a musical idea/motif and crawl up or down the scale with it? It repeats, but it climbs up or down the key. It's so beautiful, and I wonder what that is called.

Interesting. Would love to get your analysis of Bachs solo violin partitas. Incredible feat to keep things interesting with a steady flurry of constant sixteenth notes.

Analyze the Three Part Invention in Fm. It is Bach's genius distilled.

Sorry if you mentioned this though I couldn’t watch the full presentation. The most interesting feature of this piece to me is the obbligato interpretation of the trill on the raised 7th (written as 16th notes). I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen the same thing elsewhere in the Bach ouevre. In addition another trill is written as an actual trill in the same piece.

Hi Samuel, is there any reason you like/chose this invention in particular as opposed to any other one? (8, 13, 14 are my favorites). Does this one do something special, or better, or is it just a personal favorite?

Have you done the A minor 13 invention ? It will be helpful if not.

Merci.

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When I was a composition student I always shocked my professors by admitting that I understood that Bach was a musicologist's wet dream, that his stuff was incredibly complicated, but I just felt nothing from it.

Everything in counterpoint revolves around the third, that nifty 'passe partout'.

The performance could really use some more dynamics if I'm being honest. You really hammered the hell out of it.

"Blink if Bach is holding you hostage"

did you watch Tár?

Did you ever consider how we year a series of tones as a 'voice'?

Soli Deo Gloria

So, everyone obviously likes this. Where are compositions like this from greatest stars like Madonna, Bieber, Rappers? I'd buy the music tomorrow.

"...one does not dissect gossamer..." 🙀

Whenever I write counterpoint I run into a problem of analyzing it after I write it I’ll listen to it, and it’ll be fire 🔥 But I’ll analyze the chords made, and it’s as if everything just keeps going from tonic notes to subdominant notes in the same bar whenever a melody note changes Basically, my own diatonic voice leading pisses me off, I want to use chromaticism in a romantic way but keep the voices more independent How do I transcend diatonic counterpoint

You demonstrate Bach’s genius in composition but what makes this music so moving for you, do artistically great? What if you had to explain that without doing an analysis?

Nice video overall but the word "invention" is misspelled.

I love your accurate pronunciation of "Bach"! But, it's a pity "Johann Sebastian" didn't make the German cut!

The listener who is moved needs no explanation.

Why don't you write us an invention yourself. Looking forward to it.

He plays like he's drunk.

Played very correctly. That's it! Now make it poignant.

Sam, you need to tune the unisons on your piano. Yikes ! It shouldn't take you more than 15-20 minutes and it's dead easy if one of the three strings is properly tuned.

Bach on piano… My ears are bleeding, suffering is endless and whole day ruined

I don't like being negative, but you banged/slammed every key in your performance.... ?!? No rythmic impetus.... Sorry... Uneven (16th) notes in the examples 6 mins. And you spoke for five minutes before playing a note... ? Good luck with your project.

Whenever I listen to Bach, even without know any of the analysis, I feel like I'm getting smarter. Just following the patterns seems to sharpen my brain...

Music is dead.

Wonderful analysis as always. Looking forward to the Beethoven quartets, if you decide to do them!