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Color-Sounds & Visual Music: Chapter 5 - Kandinsky

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  1. Color-Forms, Sounds & Motion: Chapters 6–7 - Kupka and Bely
  2. Russian Synaesthetic Art
  3. Music: Chapter 4 - Scriabin
  4. Color-Sounds & Visual Music: Chapter 5 - Kandinsky
  5. Music Example 5. Salome intones, “Deine Stimme war ein Weihrauchgefäss, und wenn ich dich ansah, hörte ich geheimnissvolle Musik.” (Thy voice was an incense vessel, and when I looked on thee, I heard a strange music) followed by Jochanaan’s voice-music.
  6. DH 8.12. Auguste Rodin, "The Inner Voice," 1896
  7. Richard Strauss, Salome - Op. 54, 1905. Click the Annotations Button below the full score for Music Examples 1–5.
  8. DH 4.6-9. Scriabin Music Examples: The Mystic Chord and Prometheus
  9. Music Example 7. Theme of the Creative Will in the Trumpets
  10. Music Example 4. Salome impores Jochanaan, “Sprich mehr, Jochanaan, deine Stimme ist wie Musik in meinen Ohren” (Speak again, Jochanaan, thy voice is like music to my ears), against the Young Syrian’s distraught protestations.
  11. DH 8.11. Auguste Rodin, “The Beauty” (La Beauté), 1890s
  12. Color-Sound Disks
  13. Music Example 1. Jochanaan’s disembodied voice-music accompanying his entrance on stage in Richard Strauss’s “Salome.”
  14. Music Example 2. Jochanaan’s disembodied voice-music with perfect authentic cadence in Richard Strauss’s “Salome.”
  15. Music Example 3. Salome sings “Er ist schrecklich” (He is terrible) as if flirtatiously echoing Jochanaan’s orchestral theme with its signature descending perfect fourth prophetic motif.
  16. DH 6.3a. František Kupka, “Amorpha: Fugue in Two Colors,” 1912
  17. Music Example 9. Culmination and Finale of the Exposition. Theme of the Creative Will in the Piano in Fast Harmonic and Color Rhythm
  18. DH 6.3. František Kupka, “Amorpha: Fugue in Two Colors II," 1910-11
  19. Scriabin, “Prometheus: The Poem of Fire,” 1909-10. Click on the Annotations Button for Music Examples 7-9.
  20. DH 3.13. Gustave Moreau, "Salomé Dancing before Herod," 1874-76
  21. DH 3.5. Domenico Ghirlandaio, "Herod's Banquet," 1486-90
  22. DH 3.3a. "Dance of Salome," Rouen Cathedral Notre-Dame, ca. 1240-1250
  23. Alfred Schnittke, “Yellow Sound,” 1974/1984
  24. Alfred Schnittke, “Yellow Sound,” 1974 (1/3)
  25. DH 8.1. Rainer Maria Rilke. Drawing for “Primal Sound,” 1919
  26. Music Example 8. Theme of the Creative Will. First Piano Entrance
  27. Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 27 ("Garden of Love II"), 1912
  28. DH 3.2a. Alice Guszalewicz as Salome
  29. DH 3.1. Alice Guszalewicz as Salome, or Wilde as Salome?
  30. DH 3.4. Benozzo Gozzoli, "The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist," 1461-62
  31. Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951): Die Gluckliche Hand (full)
  32. Mussorgsky Kandinsky
  33. DH 3.2b. Alice Guszalewicz as Salome
  34. DH 8.12a. Auguste Rodin, "The Inner Voice," 1896