Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night one year before dying.
Chopin composed his popular Nocturne when he was about twenty.
it does not matter if you think that it is too late for you or that you still have a lot of time...you have to decide whether you are Chopin or van Gogh.
The idea behind these videos is coming from a research published by the Psychology Department of Berkeley University studying the relation between colors, emotions and how external stimuli are impacting decision making.
The study results demonstrate a strong correlation between faster music in minor tone and the choice from participants of colors from that were saturated, yellower and lighter whereas a slower and minor music produced the opposite pattern (choice of desaturated, darker and bluer colors).
Based on these findings, we wanted to create synesthesia in our videos and trigger more intense and long-lasting emotions in our viewers, get higher audience retention and interaction. We decided to do that by associating drawings from the major painters that were following the scientific findings of this research.
The choice of these paintings and the consecutive association with the music is also based on an accurate work that requires significant time and energy.
The analysis of the melodies returned to us a lot of information on how the painting should have been made. We needed a simple blue pattern but with an intrinsic meaning. Something that people could watch for a while without really understand it.
By creating this video I tried to do only one thing which turned to be the most difficult one: make you feel an emotional synesthesia.
When hearing the melody, dont you feel that everything is...blue? aren’t you lost in the sky? is your mind going over? It’s not for no reason.
it is not only an image, it is not only a melody. It is a trip.
You dont feel bored. Its your mind using the notes and the colors to create your own experience.
Most of the videos online with only one image are only music, but not this.
The research behind the perfect combination is the key for the unconscious.
The research:
«Music–color associations are mediated by emotion» www.pnas.org/content/110/22/8836
Stephen E. Palmer, Karen B. Schloss, Zoe Xu, and Lilia R. Prado-León
— This popular nocturne is in rounded binary form (A, A, B, A, B, A) with coda, C. The A and B sections become increasingly ornamented with each recurrence. The penultimate bar utilizes considerable rhythmic freedom, indicated by the instruction, senza tempo (without tempo). Nocturne in E-flat major opens with a legato melody, mostly played piano, containing graceful upward leaps which becomes increasingly wide as the line unfolds. This melody is heard again three times during the piece. With each repetition, it is varied by ever more elaborate decorative tones and trills. The nocturne also includes a subordinate melody, which is played with rubato.
1. 0:06 Op. 9, No. 1 in B flat minor. Larghetto
2. 5:53 Op. 9, No. 2 in E flat major. Andante
3. 10:29 Op. 9, No. 3 in B major. Allegretto
4. 17:09 Op. 15, No. 1 in F major. Andante cantabile
5. 22:07 Op. 15, No. 2 in F sharp major. Larghetto
6. 25:43 Op. 15, No. 3 in G minor. Lento
7. 30:53 Op. 27, No. 1 in C sharp minor. Larghetto
8. 36:32 Op. 27, No. 2 in D flat major. Lento sostenuto
9. 42:27 Op. 32, No. 1 in B major. Andante sostenuto
10. 47:27 Op. 32, No. 2 in A flat major. Lento
11. 53:01 Op. 37, No. 1 in G minor. Lento
12. 59:51 Op. 37, No. 2 in G major. Andante
13. 1:06:17 Op. 48, No. 1 in C minor. Lento
14. 1:12:25 Op. 48, No. 2 in F sharp minor. Andantino
15. 1:20:11 Op. 55, No. 1 in F minor. Andante
16. 1:25:36 Op. 55, No. 2 in E flat major. Lento sostenuto
17. 1:31:19 Op. 62, No. 1 in B major. Andante
18. 1:38:51 Op. 62, No. 2 in E major. Lento
19. 1:45:11 Op. 72, No. 1 in E minor. Andante
20. 1:49:19 Op. posth in C sharp minor. Lento con gran espressione
21. 1:53:18 Op. posth in C minor. Andante sostenuto
More than 3,5 hours of the most famous and recognizable classical music recordings.The best of classical music for studying, reading, relaxing and (most of all) enjoying!
Tracklist:
0:00 P.I. Tchaikovsky – Swan Lake, Act II: No.10 Scene (Moderato)
02:42 Edvard Grieg – Morning Mood
06:22 Ludwig van Beethoven – Für Elise (Bagatelle No.25 in A minor)
08:51 Frederic Chopin — Nocturne in C-sharp minor
12:56 Georges Bizet — Habanera («Lamour est un oiseau rebelle»)
14:58 W.A. Mozart — Rondo alla Turca («Turkish March»)
18:33 Ludwig van Beethoven — Moonlight Sonata (The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C♯ minor «Quasi una fantasia», Op. 27, No. 2)
23:47 Antonio Vivaldi – The Four Seasons “Summer” (III: Presto)
26:24 P.I. Tchaikovsky – Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy
28:10 Federic Chopin – Prelude Op.28, no.4
30:44 Gioachino Rossini – Overture to “The Barber of Seville”
36:29 Jahannes Brahms – Hungarian Dance no.5 in F-sharp minor (fragment)
37:06 W.A Mozart – Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major)
42:54 J.S.Bach – Air on the G string (from Orchestral Suite No.3, BWV 1068)
45:47 W.A. Mozart – Symphony No.40 in G minor (1. Molto allegro)
51:44 Erik Satie – Gymnopedie no.1
54:56 Johann Strauss II – “Frühlingsstimmen”, Op. 410 («Voices of Spring»)
1:01:31 Frederic Chopin – Nocturne in B-flat minor, Op. 9, no.1
1:07:07 P.I. Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker: Act I, No.4 Russian Dance
1:08:08 J.S.Bach – Orchestral Suite no.2 in B minor (7.Badinerie)
1:09:07 Gioachino Rossini – William Tell Overture
1:14:55 Antonin Dvorak – Symphony no. 9 in E minor («From the New world»: IV. Allegro con fuoco)
1:26:39 P.I. Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker: Act I, No. 8 Waltz of the Flowers
1:31:47 Richard Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries
1:37:08 Ludwig van Beethoven — Sonata No. 8 in C Minor Pathetique, Op. 13 (II. Adagio cantabile)
1:42:08 Johann Strauss II – «An der schönen blauen Donau» (The Blue Danube),Op.314
1:49:19 Erik Satie – Gnossienne No.1
1:52:42 Edvard Grieg – In the Hall of the Mountain King
1:54:58 Frederic Chopin – Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9, No. 2
1:59:30 Antonio Vivaldi – The Four Seasons “Autumn” (1. Allegro)
2:04:30 Franz Liszt – Liebestraume no. 3 in A flat major
2:09:00 W.A. Mozart – Piano Concerto no.21 in C major (II. Movement)
2:13:19 Ludwig van Beethoven – The Symphony No.5 in C minor (fragment)
2:20:10 Claude Debussy – Clair de lune (from «Suite bergamasque»)
2:25:12 N.Rimsky-Korsakov – Flight of the Bumblebee (from “The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
2:26:28 P.I. Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker: Act I, No. 2 (March)
2:28:25 Edvard Grieg — Notturno, Op.54, No.4
2:32:45 Felix Mendelssohn – Wedding March (from “A Midsumer Night’s Dream”)
2:37:46 Georges Bizet – Prelude to Act 1 for “Carmen”
2:40:02 Antonio Vivaldi – The Four Seasons “Spring” (1.Allegro)
2:43:36 Erik Satie – Gnossienne No.3
2:46:17 Johann Strauss II – Künstlerleben («Artists Life»), op.316
2:49:08 Frederic Chopin – “Revolutionary Etude” (Etude Op.10, No.12)
2:51:51 Luigi Boccherini – Minuet from String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No.5 (G 275)
2:54:00 Ludwig van Beethoven – Ode to Joy (from Symphony no. 9 in D minor)
2:57:53 Richard Strauss – Also sprach Zarathustra
2:59:14 Frederic Chopin – Waltz in D-flat major, Op 64, No 1 («Minute Waltz»)
3:01:00 Tomaso Albinoni — Adagio in G minor (attributed to Tomaso Albinoni, but actually proabably composed by Remo Giazotto).
3:04:29 Modest Mussorgsky – Night on Bald Mountain
3:11:49 Johann Strauss II – “Wiener Blut”, Op. 354
3:13:24 J.S.Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
3:16:29 Jacques Offenbach – Overture to “Orpheus in the Underworld” (can-can section)
3:18:14 Leo Delibes – Pizzicato (from “Sylvia”)
3:20:09 Frederic Chopin – Funeral March (Piano Sonata No.2 in B flat minor Op 35: III. Marche Funebre)
3:29:33 W.A. Mozart – Requiem in D minor
3:33:01 J.S.Bach – Prelude in C major
Every composition from this video exists as a public domain or creative common content.
The fragment of Debussys «Suite bergamasque» performed by Laurens Goedhart.
Liszts «Liebesträume» performed by Martha Goldstein.
Griegs Notturno performed by Mark Gasser.
Piano versions of Mozarts «Requiem in D minor» and Piano «Concerto no.21 in C major» performed by Markus Staab.
Saties «Gnossiennes» performed by La Pianista.
Richard Wagners «Also Sprach Zarathustra» performed by Kevin MacLeod.
The fragments of Vivaldis «Spring», «Summer» and «Autumn» performed by John Harrison.
More public domain and creative commons music you can find on Musopen website.
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