“Music is meaningless noise, until it touches a receiving mind.”
AUTHOR: Paul Hindemith
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Art only has meaning for those who bother to spend the time to really think
“Art only has meaning for those who bother to spend the time to really think
about what the artist is trying to convey.”
CONNECTION WITH ART
LA MER ANALYSIS
LA MER ANALYSIS
ROCK ARRANGEMENT
LA MER
LA MER
Art by Paul Signac
COMPOSER
DEBUSSY
LA MER
Discovering the Masterpieces
of Classical Music
LA MER
Discovering the Masterpieces
of Classical Music
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| Eugène Delacroix: The Sea at Dieppe |
Berliner Philharmoniker
In Three Movements
1. "De l'aube à midi sur la mer"
1. "De l'aube à midi sur la mer"
(from dawn to midday on the sea)
2. "Jeux de vagues"
2. "Jeux de vagues"
(Play of the Waves)
3. "Dialogue du vent et de la mer"
3. "Dialogue du vent et de la mer"
(Dialogue of the wind and the sea)
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| Claude Monet: Shadows On The Sea At Pourville |
DISCUSSION
ABOUT THE PIECE
Andris Nelsons discusses La Mer
With David Gregory, Violinist
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| Eugene Boudin: The Sea at Douarnenez, 1897 |
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| http://www.eyetopiadesign.com/preview/ onescore2007/essay_debussy.html |
Debussy's Wave:
Debussy, Hokusai and La Mer
By Dr Mary Breatnach
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| Katsushika Hokusai: Great Wave Off Kanagawa |
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| Katsushika Hokusai: Ocean Waves |
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| Seurat: Le Bec du Hoc à Grandcamp |
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| J.M.W. Turner: Fishing Boats Entering Calais Harbor |
Color-Coded
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| Thomas Moran: Sunset in Mid-Ocean |
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| Thomas Moran: Much Resounding Sea, 1884 |
An experimental Arrangement
Created by Ed Chang
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| Vincent Van Gogh: Seascape at Saintes-Maries 2 |
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| Vincent Van Gogh: Seascape Near Les Saintes Maries de la Mer, 1888 |
With Art by Paul Signac
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor
Cleveland Orchestra
Paul Signac
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| Paul Signac, 1923 |
painted a series of five paintings
in Concarneau, titling them with musical
terms. He saw artists as composers.
Pure sounds heard in a symphony are
comparable to the pure colors in a painting.
Signac wrote:
"the painter has played on his keyboard of
colors in the same way that a composer
handles the diverse instruments to
orchestrate a symphony."
Signac likened each color to an individual
musical note. Each of the five paintings
could be considered a movement within
the symphony he called La Mer.
LA MER
Art by Paul Signac
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| Concarneau: Sardine Boat and the Old City, Opus 218 (Scherzo) |
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| Concarneau: Morning Calm, Opus 219 (Larghetto) |
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| Concarneau: Evening Calm, Opus 220 (Allegro Maestoso) |
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| Concarneau, Opus 221 (Adagio) |
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| Regatta in Concarneau, Opus 222 (Presto Finale) |
LA MER
Autograph Score
Charles Dutoit, Conductor
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
POEMS
BY OSCAR WILDE
A white mist drifts across the shrouds (1),
A wild moon in the wintry sky
Gleams like an angry lion’s eye
Out of a mane of tawny clouds.
The muffled steersman at the wheel
Is but a shadow in the gloom;—
And in the throbbing engine-room
Leap the long rods of polished steel,
The shattered storm has left its trace
Upon this huge and heaving dome,
For the thin threads of yellow foam
Float on the waves like ravelled lace.
Oscar Wilde, 1887
TSUNAMI POEM
