THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2014

QUOTE:
"My masters are strange folk with
 very little care for music in them."

AUTHOR: Johann Sebastian Bach

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Music is used for some people as a symbol

 of status or a way to be popular and for the

 has little to do with the art itself."

COMPOSER

DEBUSSY

E. A. Hornel: Reverie

REVERIE

Aldo Ciccolini, Piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1k3PF8bupg#t=25

Maxfield Parrish: Reveries

Reverie:
A state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream:

"I slipped into reverie." This term, used in an instrumental piece,

 suggests a dreamy or musing state.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: Reverie

REVERIE

Rendition for 2 Guitars

Julian Bream and John Williams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1T53JUsiHs#t=97

Edmund Tarbell: Reverie, 1913

REVERIE

Rendition for Flute and Harp

James Galway, Flute

Marisa Robles, Harp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ST3okCfkc#t=36

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Reverie

REVERIE

Orchestral Rendition

Arthur Fiedler, Conductor

Boston Pops Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSglm9jJMt4

Winslow Homer: Reverie, 1872

REVERIE

Kathryn Stott, Piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqXwzUW_fhM

John William Godward: Reverie, 1888

REVERIE

Amsterdam Wind Quintet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEyO1vr9PJM#t=65

Mary Cassatt: Reverie (aka Woman with a Red Zinnia), 1892

Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Portrait of Jeanne Samary (La Reverie), 1877

Gustave Courbet: Reverie Portrait of Gabrielle Borreau, 1862

Marc Chagall: Reverie

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2014

QUOTE:
"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more
  intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before."

AUTHOR: Leonard Bernstein

MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"When you are angry its not the answer. Get
  your emotions out with your music instead."

COMPOSER

DEBUSSY

Ceramic bezel decorated Iznik (1570-1575)

This ornament, graphic or embossed, is present in all the visual arts.

 Its ornamental character comes from the effects of symmetries or sets

 of curves that evoke plant forms often intertwined. These patterns are

 sometimes composed of fanciful figures or stylization of the real world.

ARABESQUE NO. 1 in E MAJOR

ARABESQUE NO. 1 in E MAJOR
from Deux Arabesques, L. 66
Andantino con moto
Aldo Ciccolini, Piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh36PaE-Pf0

ARABESQUE NO. 1 in E MAJOR
from Deux Arabesques, L. 66
Andantino con moto

http://chambermusictoday.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-encores-debussys-arabesque-no-1-in.html

Stephen Malinowski, Piano

Accompanied by an Animated Score

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6s49OKp6aE

ARABESQUE No. 1 in E MAJOR

from Deux Arabesques, L. 66
Andantino con moto

(Arranged for Flute and Harp)

Emmanuel Pahud, Flute

Mariko Anraku, Harp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpEY7-D9PEU

ARABESQUE NO. 1

(Used as the Background to this Song)

Like the Sea

Alicia Keys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2ASbb8bjjQ#t=35

Definition:

Depending on the context, the term arabesque

has several different meanings. Originally, it

described a style of Arab art and architecture

consisting of intricate designs of geometric

floral, and foliage patterns.

Arabesque

In Art and Design

Escher Circle Limit III

Similarly, as it applies to classical music,

arabesque is a style of music that is ornately

 decorative. Most arabesques were composed

 in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

LINKS

http://www.easysheetmusic.com/pdf/debussyfirstarabesque.pdf

http://www.mediaphorie.com/pdf/PSU_Demo_En.pdf

http://stevedebussy.wordpress.com/2006/09/29/

first-arabesque-deux-arabesques-1888/#more-4

A connection can also be made

between arabesques and fractals.

There are many ways to create arabesques.

Some of them discussed have been through

 music, art and design, dance, and

mathematical fractals.