The INSANE True Story Behind This Song That's Blowing Up on TikTok

Summary

Le 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

00:00

🎶 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.

05:01

🎵 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.

10:02

🏆 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.

15:03

📚 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.

Keywords

💡Tik Tok

Tik Tok est une plateforme de médias sociaux populaire où les utilisateurs partagent des vidéos courtes. Dans le script, il est mentionné comme le lieu où la chanson 'Love Letter' est devenue populaire, illustrant comment les tendances musicales émergent et se répandent sur Internet.

💡Plagiat

Le plagiat est l'acte de copier ou de reproduire le travail d'autrui sans autorisation ou reconnaissance. Le script discute de la question de savoir si 'Love Letter' est un plagiat de la chanson 'T for Two', soulignant les problèmes de droits d'auteur en musique.

💡Cavendish Music

Cavendish Music est mentionné comme l'auteur de la chanson 'Love Letter'. Le script explore si cette chanson est un remake d'une autre composition, mettant en lumière les questions de création originale et d'influence dans la musique.

💡T for Two

T for Two est une composition de jazz de 1924 écrite par Vincent Youmans. Le script compare cette chanson avec 'Love Letter', démontrant comment les progressions harmoniques et les thèmes musicaux peuvent évoluer au fil du temps.

💡Art Tatum

Art Tatum était un pianiste de jazz légendaire. Le script cite ses enregistrements de 'T for Two', en particulier une version de 1939 qui montre son approche innovante de l'harmonie et son influence sur la musique jazz.

💡Harmonie

L'harmonie fait référ à la manière dont les sons sont combinés pour former des accords musicaux. Le script souligne l'importance de l'harmonie dans la création de mélodies et la manière dont Art Tatum a poussé les limites de l'harmonie dans sa version de 'T for Two'.

💡Dimitri Chostakovitch

Dimitri Chostakovitch est un compositeur et chef d'orchestre russe. Le script raconte une anecdote sur un pari qui l'a conduit à arranger 'T for Two' pour orchestre, démontrant l'influence de la musique populaire américaine même dans le contexte de l'Union soviétique.

💡Orchestration

L'orchestration est le processus de composition musicale qui implique l'écriture de parties pour divers instruments d'orchestre. Le script mentionne l'arrangement orchestral de 'T for Two' par Chostakovitch, mettant en évidence la richesse de cette chanson dans différentes arrangements.

💡Tahiti Trot

Tahiti Trot est le nom sous lequel l'arrangement orchestral de 'T for Two' par Chostakovitch a été connu en Union soviétique. Le script explique comment ce nom a été choisi en raison de la perception négative de la musique américaine à l'époque.

💡Musique de jazz

La musique de jazz est un genre musical qui a émergé aux États-Unis à la fin du 19ème siècle. Le script explore l'histoire de 'T for Two' comme un exemple de standard de jazz, montrant comment cette chanson a été interprétée et réinterprétée par des musiciens tels qu'Art Tatum.

💡Cours de piano

Le script mentionne un cours de piano destiné à aider les apprenants à comprendre et à jouer la musique. Cela illustre l'engagement du créateur de la vidéo à partager sa passion pour la musique et à enseigner aux autres comment explorer la construction musicale.

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

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