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'Music is the most entirely human of the fine arts, and has the fewest analoga in nature. Its first delightfulness is simple accordance with the ear; but it is an associated thing, and recalls the deep emotions of the past with an intellectual sense of proportion. Every human feeling is greater and larger than the exciting cause, – a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence; and this is deeply implied in music, in which there is always something more and beyond the immediate expression…Art would or should be the abridgment of nature. Now the fulness of nature is without character, as water is purest when without taste, smell, or colour; but this is the highest, the apex only, – it is not the whole. The object of art is to give the whole ad hominem; hence each step of nature hath its ideal, and hence the possibility of a climax up to the perfect form of a harmonized chaos.' Coleridge, ‘On Poesy or Art’ (Literary Remains, Vol. I) Homilius

Check out this Curiosity on the Learn app: The Significance of the Number Four in Art and Culture Explore the cultural and artistic significance of the number four across various disciplines, including music, art, literature, and mythology. Discover how this number symbolizes stability, balance, and completeness in different contexts. https://lnkd.in/exWJ_Mqx

Check out this Curiosity on the Learn app: The Significance of the Number Four in Art and Culture Explore the cultural and artistic significance of the number four across various disciplines, including music, art, literature, and mythology. Discover how this number symbolizes stability, balance, and completeness in different contexts. https://lnkd.in/exWJ_Mqx

Classical music and the cosmos, Alan Hovhannes' Alleluia and Fugue, the mystery of space, probably written for the Christian church in the 20th century. But in such music, I look beyond the limits of this third pebble from the sun to wonders of the cosmos, to the Horsehead Nebula, where cosmic dust is forming new stars, new universes, 1,375 light-years from us. So where are we, whirling through space on this speck of cosmic dust? Are we alone in this expanse? Close your eyes, lean back, and let your mind wander into the ether of space, as we experience Hovhannes' mysterious masterpiece. https://lnkd.in/erdK35Ft

DANCE : Dance, is the movement of the body in a rhythmic way, usually to music and within a given space, for the purpose of expressing an idea or emotion, releasing energy, or simply taking delight in the movement itself. Dance is a powerful impulse, but the art of dance is that impulse channeled by skillful performers into something that becomes intensely expressive and that may delight spectators who feel no wish to dance themselves. These two concepts of the art of dance—dance as a powerful impulse and dance as a skillfully choreographed art practiced largely by a professional few—are the two most important connecting ideas running through any consideration of the subject. In dance, the connection between the two concepts is stronger than in some other arts, and neither can exist without the other .

The essence of Claude Edwin Theriault’s work: the concept of coexistence across all points in time—an artistic exploration of what physicists call eternalism, the idea that all moments exist simultaneously, and no single moment is more “real” than another. Theriault captures this complex dance of time through his art and music, blending cultural layers and creating emotional resonance in ways no one else dares to tread. https://lnkd.in/eti8pZr7

Expectations live in everything we do and everyone we meet, in our conscious & subconscious mind, in the atmosphere of places, interactions and circumstances. They might bring good energy... serve as motivation or a sign of ambition (!)... After all, we need to expect from ourselves a bit more every time we want to achieve new goals.  But for an artist what are the expectations regarding his art? "The creative act knows no memory, science, or knowledge. These things are always related to the past. The creative act accepts no conditions other than itself, therefore it is free. The creative moment is free… free of all knowledge and instincts, all is transcendent. In music, the present is a perpetual, continuous genesis. The present is always linked to the beginning and the end, but at the same time it is free from any element that can influence its musical function." considered Sergiu Celibidache speaking about his musical philosophy... This is true also for us "mere mortals": the past is Experience, the future is Expectation and the present is the time in which we can express our Freedom, attempting to create the supreme masterpiece: our own Life! Credit: "Smoke" by Dimash Qudaibergen

This 18th-century instrument was founded by a Founding Father and composed for by the likes of Beethoven and Mozart. Despite the linguistic similarities, the armonica is NOT a cousin of the harmonica. It is, however, a cousin of the glass harp. Benjamin Franklin's invention was also helped along by his refusal to patent the instrument's design. Learn more about it in the latest Headlines of Yore.

Bob Dylan on the moral archetypes of American folk music: "I had already landed in a parallel universe, anyway, with more archaic principles and values; one where actions and virtues were old style and judgmental things came falling out on their heads. A culture with outlaw women, super thugs, demon lovers and gospel truths . . . streets and valleys, rich peaty swamps, with landowners and oilmen, Stagger Lees, Pretty Pollys and John Henrys -- an invisible world that towered overhead with walls of gleaming corridors. It was all there and it was clear--ideal and God-fearing--but you had to go find it. It didn’t come served on a paper plate. Folk music was a reality of a more brilliant dimension. It exceeded all human understanding, and if it called out to you, you could disappear and be sucked into it. I felt right at home in this mythical realm made up not with individuals so much as archetypes, vividly drawn archetypes of humanity, metaphysical in shape, each rugged soul filled with natural knowing and inner wisdom. Each demanding a degree of respect. I could believe in the full spectrum of it and sing about it. It was so real, so more true to life than life itself. It was life magnified." --Chronicles: Volume 1