Week 5

 

A great lecture on Musical Impressionism and Exoticism from Yale 

(be sure to check out the many other lectures in this musicology series as well as all of the courses available online through 

Yale Open Courses)

Links on Musical Impressionism and the connection between art and music

• Impressionism in Music (Wikipedia)
• Musical Impressionism (Princeton)
• Impressionist Music (Classical Archives)
• Debussy: "Between Impressionism and Symbolism"

-- Videos and Links on Symbolism in Literature the Visual Arts ---

• Symbolism in Literature and Visual Arts (Wikipedia)

• Text to Stephene Mallarme's poems including "The Afternoon of a Faun
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The "Afternoon of a Faun" danced by Nureyev (after choreography by Nijinksy) 

Costumes and sets by Leon Bakst (Victorian and Albert Museum pages)

Gustave Moreau and Odilon Redon--- two incredibel Symbolist artists! 

Impressionist Music of Claude Debussy: 

(Tone poems: La Mer, The Sunken Cathedral, Pagodas)

The Symbolist Music of Claude Debussy 
(operas: Pelleas and Melisande/ Fall of the House of Usher/ Martyrdom of St. Sebastian)

Michael Tilson Thomas on Debussy's St Sebastiane

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Early recording of the full work

Section of a ballet version designed by Robert Wilson (rare footage)

Impressionist Music of Maurice Ravel

Max Reger's tone poems after paintings by Swiss Symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin 

Synesthesia and Music

Links about musical and artistic synesthesia

• Synesthesia- (main article on Wikipedia)
• Visualization of Music (from BrainPickings)
• Alexander Scriabin (Wikipedia)
• Podcast on Scriabin and Synesthesia

Complete full orchestra-multi-media performance of Scriabin's "Prometheus: Poem of Fire" at Yale