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La Folia is maybe the most frequently utilized chord development in classical music, especially in baroque age music. However classical composers probably would not even consider La Folia as a chord progression but rather as "ground bass".
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0:00 La Folía.
0:58 the chord progression.
1:48 Examples.
3:10 Movie & television themes.
4:36 Vienna Power Home.
5:40 Ground bass.
6:35 Other stylistic functions of La Folía.
7:45 Composing my own piece with La Folía.
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@@TransportGeekery 😂 nice
The very beginning is almost Hotel CA. Veers off from there.@@DavidBennettPiano
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1. Corelli’s and Vivaldi’s Follia is in D minor, not in C# minor. The musicians in the video are playing at A=415 Hz.
2. I found another Folia in “pop music”: Rare Bird’s “As your mind flies by”.
3. Liszt’s Spanish Rhapsody receives his name also from a Jota it uses, a Spanish folk dance.
Thank you 🙂 The same applies to the aria from Bach’s Peasant Cantata, which is in B minor and not in B-flat minor.
I guess this is a perfect example of how people sometimes say Mozart etc’s perfect pitch would be considered way off nowadays! Tuning systems are super fascinating honestly.
I know one from Folk music: The “Lamb´s Polka” from Karelia, as covered by the fusion band “Piirpauke”
As someone who played La Folia (straight out of a Suzuki violin book) , I noticed this too. Relative to modern pitch, you could view this as being in written D minor, and Concert C# minor, on a “B” (key) instrument.
I think Terra’s Theme from Final Fantasy 6 is a good match for this progression (or bassline, as you pointed out).
vamo’ alla flamenco from final fantasy ix explicitly making the iberian connection, too
My favorite VGM song of all time. So many hours grinding on the triangle island were spent to that tune.
@@_girltypeah… I’ve been wondering why this progression stuck in my head first time i saw this video. Looking for answers in comments, yes… All those hours spent digging with my chocobo 😂
@@_girltype Yes, this. Vamo alla Flamenco is a deliberate use of this progression that doesn’t hide its influences.
Yooo love that game and tune
The Corelli/ Brittany Spears mashup is so well done!
Thank you! It was quite awkward to do because the Corelli piece is in 3/4 but the Britney song is in 4/4 😅😅
It’s as brilliant as it is hillarious.
Sîmply brilliant. Never expected this
@@DavidBennettPiano You should upload the Britney mashup as a short so we could loop just that part. I’m obsessed with it!
I too thought it was fantastic.
I want more classical chord progressions!!!!!!!!!!!
I have another video planned actually on more classical chord progressions 😃😃
Check out the video about Canon chord progression!
You need to be careful when understanding “chord” progressions in classical music since progressions back then were understood as sequences based on counterpoint, not harmonic functions, that is chords.
I didn’t dare to be the first but frankly: the less pop the more interesting the material is.
@@1685Violin This is true, but it’s also fun to hear what those composers did with same chords used today in pop music. Same chords, but much different result than today’s “music.” I lifted one of Mozart’s chord progressions verbatim, preserving a great deal of the melody in one of my pop songs. It was quite nice even if it wasn’t my work per se. Chords are chords no matter what arrangement is put over top of them whether it be reductive pop songs or classical masterpieces.
Your chord progression videos have changed my life- I write them all on a notepad–thank you Bennett.
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I first heard this theme used in the score for Kubrick’s film Barry Lyndon and it’ has stuck in my head ever since.Thank you for this wonderful survey of its origins and continued use.
Exactly, it rang a bell! It is the Sarabanda by Haendel played in a very moving scene of Barry Lindon movie
It isn’t the same, despite the two first chords being I V in d minor.
Richard Thompson has Oops I Did It Again as one of his songs in 1000 years of popular music. He mentions it’s a baroque chord progression
I was about to say he uses a Britney song, but I couldn’t remember which one (since I don’t know any of them). That’s a great show, too.
Yes indeed. It seemed an odd choice but Mr Thompson is to be trusted.
I was going to mention this too.
https://youtu.be/V4WGsMplGxU?si=yOv46Fgh6FoRsxG7
@@martifingers your comment sounds very much like a line from a spy movie.
If you’re not that much into baroque music but more of a prog-rock/metal fan, I very highly recommand you the Vivaldi’s Folia, especially its end and just realise how much of a precursor he was as he wrote them 320 years ago.
Kind of a tangent I was thinking of as well. There has to be plenty of examples of this chord progression in prog music.
@@jasonbuchko689 Are you saying Brittany isn’t progressive? 🤔
@@KetoswammyHer “Blackout” album has a lot of prog and weird moments!
That Corelli/Spears mashup got too deep too quickly. Love it!
Brilliant as always. Would love to know more about history of chord progression. What makes genres so instantly identifiable with their era? Not just classical but jazz and popular music too.
I wrote my bachelor thesis on the folia. It’s actually much older than people know. First mention is an improvisational model by late medieval monk Guilielmus Monachus. It’s a combination of bass and melody that builds the following interval in the same pattern: 8-10-8-10-8-10-8-10 (e.g. D-D, A-C#, D-D, C-E, F-F, C-E, D-D, A-C#). The first folia like we know today, however, was written by andrea falconieri around 1650, Jean-Baptiste Lully being a close second.
What many people dismiss when talking about this model is that the melody, like Guilielmus Monachus observes, is actually most of the time just as important as the harmonic structure. It’s extremely simple which is why it was used so often as a model for writing tons of variations, most famous by before mentioned Lully and of course Antonio Salieri. One of the best set of variations, in my opinion, was however written by C.P.E. Bach for Cembalo. A genius work
EDIT: It’s btw also used in Vamo’alla flamenco from Final Fantasy 9’s soundtrack. Slightly different cadence but still the same focus on harmony and melody
I’m interested in reading your thesis! Would you happen to know where I can find it?
@@ZonieMusic That was like 10 years ago and I didn’t publish it anywhere. It’s also in german
@@PurpleRevolutionMusic Ah, its alright! Was just curious to know more
There’s at least an older one by a spanish keyboardist (Cabezon? Can’t remember right now), but it starts o V instead of I.
Melody is always MORE important than harmonic structure.
Rachmaninoff composed wonderful variations on this “Theme of Corelli.” I never noticed it in Beethoven’s fifth, or nowhere else. Thanks for pointing it out.
Maybe it’s my math-oriented brain, but I always loved that this progression is a palindrome! Has a kind of overarching forward-backward dynamics and I think this is one of the main reason why this progression works so well.
Oh, I love your observation! I’m going to try this out!
Tangerine Dream used the La Folia progression in the last section of their piece “Force Majeure”. Years later, they did a piece called “Archangelo Corelli’s La Folia” which (you guessed it) is entirely based on La Folia.
That ending piece was great, do you release stuff on spotify? Also these chord progression videos are super useful because I’m a freshman in college for Music Media Production and understanding all these things is wonderfully useful. Thank you
this cord progression of la folia gives a renaissance touch even with your composition with electronic instruments. BTW, in Spanish it is *la folía* with a stress on the i. Some claim that due to its musical form, style and the etymology of the word, it is assumed that the melody emerged as a dance in the middle or end of the 15th century, in Portugal or in the former Kingdom of León (an area of Galician influence) or in the Kingdom of Valencia. Both in Portuguese and in Catalan/Valencian “la folia” is pronounced with a stress on the I, even if the accent is not written. Sorry for the pedantry 🥸
The Corelli/Spears mashup was extraordinarily impressive. Proving a thesis through antithesis – on point.
Loved your piece.. Absolutely beautiful. The whole video was wonderful. Baroque music happens to be my absolute favorite when it comes to western European art music. It was nice for this layman to get a glimpse of what’s going on behind the scenes. I actually grabbed my guitar and started fiddling around with this progression. Very inspiring.
I once went to a chamber music concert where they were doing various renditions of La Folia for an hour straight, including Corelli and Vivaldi. While I’ve always loved this progression and I love string quartets, by the end of the hour I was admittedly kind of sick of the whole thing, as it felt like a never-ending loop. I can only imagine how the musicians must’ve felt by the end lol 😵💫