Tag: ‘music inspired by art’

• Nell Shaw Cohen, “The Course of Empire” (2008) Inspired by the paintings of Thomas Cole

   Guide: Thomas Cole’s “The Course of Empire”  Guide: Music Inspired by Art The Course of Empire (2008) is a string quartet by Nell Shaw Cohen inspired by a cycle of five paintings by Thomas Cole (1801-1848) of the same name. Explore these topics to learn more: Inspired by Art - The process of composing music inspired by paintings and [...]

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• Nell Shaw Cohen, Revealed in Stone (2009) Inspired by the Poetry and Art of Michelangelo

   Guide: Music Inspired by Art >Listen to the complete song cycle on this website Michelangelo’s Poetry in Translation The poems were composed in strict meter and rhyme, and while some English translations recreate this (notably those by Sidney Alexander) I was attracted to the more prose-like translations of James M. Saslow based on their clarity of [...]

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• Nell Shaw Cohen, To Create One’s Own World (2009) Inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe

   Guide: Music Inspired by Art Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) is among the most noted American painters of the 20th century. She is well known for her abstracted images of flowers and her images of the New Mexico southwest scenery, which she loved and thrived in for the latter half of her life. Born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, [...]

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• The Faraway Nearby: Georgia O’Keeffe and the New Mexico Landscape [VIDEO]

   Guide: Music Inspired by Art I believe that painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) achieved an important artistic ideal: to create new meanings, previously unrealized connections, and heightened ways of perceiving the world and filtering experience. I seek to do the same with my music video piece, The Faraway Nearby: to offer new insight and new ways of [...]

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• Music Inspired by Art [GUIDE]

   Music Inspired by Art is a guide to music I’ve composed in response to ideas, atmospheres, and narratives from visual artworks ranging from 20th century Modernism to Italian Renaissance sculptures. I believe music has the potential to have a profound effect on the way that we see and understand visual art, and vice versa, in the same [...]

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• Nell Shaw Cohen, “Setsugekka” (2011) Japanese woodblock prints by Hiroshige

   Guide: Music Inspired by Art Setsugekka (Snow, Moon, and Flowers) is an 1857 series of three triptychs (artworks in three sections) by the Japanese master Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858). These woodblock prints, or Ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”), convey Hiroshige’s vision of three different real-world landscapes representing the traditional thematic triad of snow (setsu), moon [...]

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• Nell Shaw Cohen, “Watercolors” (2011) paintings by Charles Burchfield

   Guide: Charles Burchfield (1893-1967), painter  Guide: Music Inspired by Art Watercolors (2011) is a work for wind quintet I composed inspired by the watercolor paintings of Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967), a brilliant American artist of the first half of the 20th century. The four movements of Watercolors correspond to four paintings: An April Mood, Autumnal Fantasy, Sun [...]

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