The INSANE True Story Behind This Song That's Blowing Up on TikTok
Summary
TLDRLe script explore la chanson populaire 'T for Two', originellement composée par Vincent Youmans en 1924, et son lien avec une tendance TikTok 'Love Letter' qui semble être une réinterprétation. Il analyse également les enregistrements de jazz de Art Tatum, et l'orchestre de Dmitri Shostakovich, 'Tahiti Trot', qui a été presque oublié avant de ressurgir en 1984. Le récit met en lumière l'histoire riche de cette chanson, la créativité des musiciens et l'impact de la politique soviétique sur la musique.
Takeaways
- 🎶 La tendance TikTok utilise une chanson appelée 'Love Letter' écrite par Cavendish Music, qui semble être un remake d'une autre chanson jazz bien connue.
- 🔄 La chanson 'T for Two' de 1924, écrite par Vincent Youmans, est la chanson originale dont 'Love Letter' est un remake, bien que les styles soient très différents.
- 📈 La chanson 'T for Two' a été en tête des charts américaines pendant 11 semaines en 1925, montrant son succès à l'époque.
- 🎵 Les deux melodies utilisent la même progression de cordes, mais la plagiature n'est pas constatée car une progression de cordes ne peut être protégée par le droit d'auteur.
- 🎹 L'orchestre de la chanson 'T for Two' par Shostakovich a été écrit en 45 minutes suite à un pari, montrant son talent et sa rapidité.
- 🏆 Art Tatum, un pianiste de jazz légendaire, a enregistré plusieurs versions célèbres de 'T for Two', dont une version de 1939 qui démontre son approche innovante de l'harmonie.
- 🎵 L'harmonie utilisée par Art Tatum était très avancée pour l'époque, influençant ainsi le cours du jazz et de la musique en général.
- 🇷🇺 Initialement, la version de Shostakovich de 'T for Two' s'appelait 'Tahiti Trot' et a été bannie en Union soviétique en raison de sa nature 'light music' considérée comme dégradante.
- 🚫 Shostakovich a exprimé ses regrets publiquement pour avoir écrit cette arrangement et a demandé à Malco de ne plus jouer cette pièce en Union soviétique.
- 🔍 La chanson de Shostakovich était considérée comme perdue jusqu'à ce que les mémoires de Nikolai Malco révèlent qu'il avait gardé l'orchestration originale, qui a été retrouvée et réinterprétée en 1984.
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Q & A
Quel est le lien entre la chanson populaire sur TikTok et le plagiat musical?
-La chanson populaire sur TikTok, 'Love Letter', est très proche de la mélodie d'une chanson plus ancienne, 'T for Two', mais il ne s'agit pas de plagiat car la progression des accords et la mélodie sont légèrement modifiées.
Qui est l'auteur de la chanson 'T for Two'?
-La chanson 'T for Two' a été écrite par le compositeur de Broadway Vincent Youmans en 1924.
Quel est le lien entre Art Tatum et 'T for Two'?
-Art Tatum a enregistré plusieurs versions célèbres de 'T for Two', dont une version de 1939 qui montre son approche innovante et avancée de l'harmonie.
Quelle est la différence entre la version d'Art Tatum de 'T for Two' et les versions précédentes?
-Art Tatum a modifié radicalement l'harmonie de la chanson, en utilisant des techniques harmoniques très avancées pour son époque, ce qui a donné naissance à une version très différente des versions antérieures.
Quel est le lien entre Dimitri Shostakovich et 'T for Two'?
-Dimitri Shostakovich a arrangé une version orchestrale de 'T for Two', initialement appelée 'Tahiti Trot', après avoir gagné un pari sur sa capacité à arranger la chanson en moins d'une heure.
Pourquoi Dimitri Shostakovich a-t-il d'abord regretté l'arrangement de 'T for Two'?
-La chanson a été initialement mal vue en Union soviétique comme représentant la musique légère et décadente des États-Unis, ce qui a forcé Shostakovich à faire une déclaration publique de regret pour ne pas être associé à cette musique.
Comment la version de Shostakovich de 'T for Two' a-t-elle été retrouvée?
-La version de Shostakovich a été retrouvée et a refait surface après la mort de Nikolai Malko, qui avait gardé l'orchestration originale, et en 1984, presque 60 ans après sa création, la chanson a été renaissance.
Quel est le rôle de l'auteur du script dans la promotion de la musique et de l'apprentissage du piano?
-L'auteur du script a créé un cours d'introduction au piano qui vise à fournir aux apprenants les outils nécessaires pour comprendre la construction de la musique et pour jouer des morceaux sur le piano.
Pourquoi l'auteur a-t-il décidé de créer un cours d'introduction au piano?
-L'auteur a constaté qu'il y avait un manque d'explications claires sur la construction de la musique et comment jouer du piano lors de son apprentissage initial, et a donc créé un cours pour combler ce vide.
Quels sont les avantages de suivre le cours d'introduction au piano proposé par l'auteur?
-Le cours d'introduction au piano de l'auteur couvre les aspects techniques du jeu du piano ainsi que les éléments de base de la musique, permettant aux apprenants de comprendre et reconnaître les structures musicales dans différents genres.
Outlines
🎶 Le plagiat musical et son histoire
Le premier paragraphe explore le phénomène de la musique de fond sur TikTok, 'Love Letter', et son lien avec le standard de jazz 'T for Two' de 1924. L'auteur suggère que, bien que non du plagiat, 'Love Letter' est une réinterprétation évidente de la chanson originale, montrant les similitudes dans les progressions de cordes et les mélodies. L'importance de la différence entre les droits d'auteur sur les progressions de cordes et les mélodies est également soulignée.
🎵 L'interprétation innovante d'Art Tatum
Dans le deuxième paragraphe, l'accent est mis sur les enregistrements de jazz du pianiste Art Tatum, qui, en 1939, a interprété 'T for Two' avec une technique和谐的ment avancée pour l'époque, modifiant les harmonies de manière audacieuse et innovante. Cette approche révèle l'influence de Tatum sur le jazz et la musique en général, et montre comment un morceau peut être transformé par l'interprétation d'un artiste talentueux.
🏆 La version symphonique de Shostakovich
Le troisième paragraphe raconte l'histoire de la version orchestrale de 'T for Two' composée par Dimitri Shostakovich après un pari. Malgré l'hostilité initiale de l'Union soviétique envers la musique de jazz américaine, Shostakovich a orchestré la chanson en moins d'une heure, incluant même le morceau moins connu appelé 'verse'. Cependant, en raison de la pression politique, il a regretté son œuvre et la chanson a été oubliée jusqu'à ce qu'elle soit redécouverte et réinterprétée en 1984.
📚 L'apprentissage de la musique à travers l'histoire
Le dernier paragraphe conclut en mentionnant le riche héritage de 'T for Two' et l'offre d'un cours d'introduction au piano accordé, qui permettrait aux apprenants de comprendre et de jouer la musique de manière plus profonde. L'auteur encourage les téléspectateurs à s'engager avec le cours pour une expérience musicale enrichissante et pour soutenir la chaîne YouTube.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Tik Tok
💡Plagiat
💡Cavendish Music
💡T for Two
💡Art Tatum
💡Harmonie
💡Dimitri Chostakovitch
💡Orchestration
💡Tahiti Trot
💡Musique de jazz
💡Cours de piano
Highlights
The TikTok trend uses a song 'Love Letter' by Cavendish Music, which is similar to a famous jazz standard.
The song 'T for Two' by Vincent Youmans is the original tune that 'Love Letter' is closely related to.
The chord progression of 'Love Letter' is identical to that of 'T for Two', indicating a remake rather than plagiarism.
Art Tatum's 1939 version of 'T for Two' showcases his advanced harmonic techniques that were ahead of his time.
Tatum's improvisation in 'T for Two' demonstrates his unique approach to harmony, changing the conventional progression.
Shostakovich was challenged to arrange 'T for Two' into an orchestral version within an hour, which he accomplished as 'Tahiti Trot'.
Shostakovich's arrangement of 'T for Two' was initially suppressed due to the Soviet Union's disapproval of American jazz music.
The piece 'Tahiti Trot' was considered lost until it resurfaced in 1984, almost 60 years after it was composed.
The history of 'T for Two' reveals its rich background and influence on jazz and popular music.
The video discusses the importance of understanding chord progressions and melodies in the construction of music.
The presenter offers an 'Intro to Piano' course to help viewers understand and play music like the examples discussed.
The course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of piano playing and music theory.
A limited-time offer of 50% off is available for the 'Intro to Piano' course, encouraging viewers to take advantage.
The video concludes by emphasizing the joy of understanding music construction and the ability to recognize patterns in different genres.
The presenter expresses gratitude for viewer support and interest in the 'Intro to Piano' course.
Transcripts
I've been seeing this sound on Tik Tok a
lot
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lately adorable right but what does this
trend have to do with plagiarism Art
Tatum the Soviet Union and a lost work
from Dimitri Shostakovich that was
written on a bet if that sounds as
confusing yet intriguing to you as it
does to me then buckle up let's dive in
so the trend on Tik Tok uses this song
written by what appears to be like a
stock music Creator from the UK called
Cavendish music the song that they wrote
is called love letter and it sounds like
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this sounds very nice what a nice it's
just like a nice and light kind of just
Little swing thing you know but here's
the thing it's like three notes away
from being straight up plagiarism now
did Cavendish music plagiarize this song
No but was it clearly a remake of
another very famous jazz standard yes
the tune in question here is a 1924
composition called t for two t for 2 was
written by a Broadway composer named
Vincent Gans and it was written for the
show no no net and in 1925 one of the
first recordings of this tune by Maran
Harris was number one on the US
Billboards for 11 weeks and it sounded
like
this
upon for Q and Q for just me for you and
you for
me yeah that's what a number one hit
sounded like in 1925 so the styles are
so different here that it might not yet
be that obvious as to how these two are
related but if we go back to love letter
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right and then we go to the marry and
Harris recording of t for
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two right so we
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have now if we translate that into the
same key as Love Letter we can start to
hear the similarities a little more
clearly
compare that
to both Melodies are using the exact
same chord progression which goes
now of course in and of itself none of
that is plagiarism after all you cannot
copyright a chord progression and a
Melody just has to be different than
than the melody that was originally
written so no copyright infringement
going on here but it's very clear that
this is just another version of t for 2
without actually being t for 2 and in
case we needed any more proof that
that's exactly what's going on here when
we listen to the next part of the
original nobody us to see us or US no
friend or relations weekend V so he get
basically the same Melody except instead
of
being we now go
up a major third once again let's move
this into the key that love letter is
written in and we can really see what's
going on here after we have that first
section we move the whole thing up a
major third into the key of C
and if we listen to love letter where do
we go
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next C
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major exactly the same chord progression
so there's absolutely nothing wrong with
Cavendish music creating another version
of t for 2 after all it's a beautiful
chord progression and this is a
beautiful Melody so I'd say they did a
great job with it but it is really
interesting in that it uncovers the
story behind T4 2 which I did not know
is nearly as in-depth as it actually is
the next place we're going to go is to
the legendary jazz pianist Art Tatum and
art did a few different really famous
recordings of t for 2 in
1933
1939 and again in
1953 but the one I want to focus on is
actually a 1939 version that most people
have never even heard before it is so
sick and it goes like
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this
yikes all right so it's really out of
tune we're going to have to deal with
that right
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[Applause]
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oh wow okay so um without getting too
into the Weeds on the insane technique
of Art Tatum the thing I want to point
out about this version of t for 2 is
what art does the second time around
check this
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out
what okay hold on the song
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goes but heart just completely changed
the Harmony and did something that for
1939 was like a good 20 years ahead of
its time I mean art was just on a whole
other level when it comes to Harmony
instead of just sticking in a flat our
home base 2 five 2 5
1 4 3 6 2 5 2 5 1 it's very very
conventional chord progression extremely
simple and art said that's not good
enough for me I want to take it to the
next level and instead of playing it
that way art played two five another two
five but now up a half
step okay crazy now another two five but
up a all
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step and then just walked it down
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chromatically now notice the way that he
did that he wound up back at a flat
major 7 the chord it's supposed to end
on so he looked at this thing and he was
like all right I could
play or some version of an art Tatum run
but he said that's kind of boring I
don't want to just stick in a flat why
don't I just move all over the place and
as long as I end up back at a flat who
cares how we get there and instead he
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goes absolutely insane art was just so
ahead of his time operating on a
harmonic level that nobody had ever seen
before he absolutely changed the course
of Jazz and all of music and it's
examples like that that show us exactly
why but that's not even the craziest
thing about this song what does
shastovich have to do with t for 2 in
1927 a symphonic conductor by the name
of Nikolai Malco made a bet with
Shostakovich that he couldn't arrange an
Orchestral Version of t for two in under
an hour both shastovich and Malco had
heard the tune in a play at a theater in
Moscow in 1927 now of course at the time
the big bad American jazz music was seen
very negatively in the Soviet Union but
Mala was one to say that hey this Fox
Trot thing is not bad music and
Shostakovich himself had developed an
interest in popular music as well so the
BET was made and 45 minutes later
shastovich emerged with
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this you know what's even more
impressive
impressive about this version the more
impressive thing about this version is
that Shostakovich even orchestrated the
verse as with a lot of these popular
broadway songs that would ultimately
become Jazz standards the part that
became most popular to play was the part
after the introduction section which we
call the verse in jazz now verse in pop
music today means something a little bit
different it's sort of the same it's
just structured differently so
Shostakovich actually did the verse here
but when the theme itself comes in
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and probably what's going to happen
because this melody is very rep it's it
repeats itself a lot and it just moves
around in the key yeah we get it past
between parts of the orchestra it's a
very common orchestration technique but
it's just so fascinating to hear this
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song from somebody like shastovich in
this context oh it's beautiful
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oh gorgeous 45
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minutes oh man 45 minutes to create this
now it gets even more interesting from
here first of all this wasn't known
under the name t for2 because in 1920
Soviet Union American equals bad so this
was actually called Tahiti Trot so
shostakovich's version is Tahiti Trot
Opus 16 but it wasn't long before the
Soviet Union began to crack down on this
so-called Fox Trot or light music as
they called it they thought that it was
a gateway to debauchery and drug use
they looked at much of the American
style of the Roaring 20s as a bad
example of what Russians should not do
and in fear of being seen as a supporter
of so called light music Shostakovich
actually made a public statement that he
regretted writing the arrangement and
did not want to be seen as a supporter
of this light music furthermore he had
stated that he had sent demand to Malco
to stop performing the piece Soviet
Russia in the 1920s was wild so the
piece stopped being performed and before
too long it was forgotten and in fact by
1942 it was labeled as a lost work of
shastovich people knew that it had
existed but there was no Trace left but
that's not where the story ended Nikolai
Malco maintained in his Memoirs that he
had kept the original orchestration of
the piece and after his death the work
resurfaced and in 1984 almost 60 years
after Shostakovich wrote his arrangement
to heedy trot Opus 16 or t for two was
reborn and that's how we can hear it
today oh man poor sh toov he probably
just
felt I mean fear first of
all but like imagine writing something
like this and having your literal
government be like yeah you should
probably get rid of that what a crazy
time but luckily it was saved from being
lost forever and now we get to
experience it just like it's brand new t
for 2 has such a rich history and I
wouldn't even call it one of the more
famous jazz standards it's a great song
that many people know and many people
play but it P in comparison to the
popularity of something like all the
things you are when all the things you
are or Autumn
Le drift by the
window still it's a great song with an
absolutely phenomenal chord progression
and when you use some incredibly
inventive tools like Art Tatum used it
can go to some really really amazing
places pretty crazy all from a few Tik
toks about babies seeing the inside of
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