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SUGGESTED RESEARCH AT THE OUTSET FROM CM 3.5.24
RESEARCH 1 MUSIC AND ARCHITECTURE. Goethe “Music is liquid architecture and Architecture is froen music.” https://www.elemental-architects.com/post/architecture-is-frozen-music (Susan Philip). It was part of a synaesthesia that generally informed seventeenth century music. This informed ways of performance and aspects of ritual. Here are some things to look at, Bach and Architecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3GBtRoulNM https://www.radioart.com/blog/the-enduring-influence-of-bach-music-on-society#:~:text=Bach's%20understanding%20of%20musical%20architecture,of%20large%2Dscale%20musical%20works. (influence on today) RESEARCH 2 MUSIC AND ARCHITECTURE Masques, You might enjoy finding out about music performed within complex stage settings (beyond mere opera) and a favourite fascination of mine, collaborations resulting in Court Masques and in particular Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones working on elaborate Masques. Masque and music at the Stewart court Greenwich Shakespeare’s late plays shows him reverting to a past theatre, to a less humanistic design (The Winter Tale). Half way through Father Time appears and reads a 32 line speech. He turns his ourglass over on line 16. You might enjoy number symbolism embedded in literature. I never got over reading Hieatt’s book on Spencer’s ‘Epithalamion’, where the verse structure related exactly the time and date of his own marriage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hGpjsgquqw RESEARCH 2 MUSIC AND ARCHITECTURE Purcell. Watch the Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary Queen Mary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWRcx9LHBJU Compare the power of the marching players with a stage performance. I went to a performance of Rooley and Emma Kirkby where the music was played and the marchers made their slow way up the concert hall. My goose bumps now return. RESEARCH 3 IMAGE AND PERFORMANCE, Botticelli’s Mystic Nativity. 1500 and an example of a Humanist artist, steeped in the culture of the Medici Court, turned by threat into an earlier primitive Gothic style of composition and a stylised appeal to banish Evil https://www.fulltable.com/vts/a/artenc/mn/a.htm RESEARCH 4 INSPIRATION FROM FILMS. Hitchcock I mentioned Oriole and I had watched Hitchcock’s The Birds the previous evening and I had books of storyboards I found interesting (see today;s Instagram posting of Family Plot. Any serious film maker will of course ponder the visual potential of dark and light. In The Birds, during one attack the roo is plunged into darkness. RESEARCH 4 INSPIRATION FROM FILMS. Charles Laughton directs The Night of the Hunter. The one film that stands out as a dynamic dialogue between Light and Darknes (Maniceeism) and between Good and Evil. I have a huge study of the making of the film (Preston Neal Jones) which you might both enjoy as well as theoriginal Davis Grubb novel, testing how an atmosphere of dark and Evil might be generated. Yes, Laughton but also the cinematographer Stanley Cortiz. The film style is provocatively using deliberate early film visual devices (such as a sudden iris shot)and edited the voyage of the children down the river in a spine tingling sequence of threat and dsafety, of distant pursuit in a location of innocence and unspoiltnature. Listen to del Toro’s tribute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ4xpKwvI60 RESEARCH 5 INSPIRATION FROM FILMS. HORROR films. I explained that I employed 4 postgards to teach film at Norwich. Peter was the official historian of Hammer Horror. And Leon Hunt was the acknowledged expert on the films of Dario Argento. The latter is an operatic visual composer, and all his movies are terrifying on colour and action. I recommended the 1977 SUSPIRIA, and the opening sequence of the arrival at the Airport. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk2vfOIc9Js RESEARCH 7 INSPIRATION FROM 17TH CENTURY SOURCES interpreting music.
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