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The Art of Soul with Kayleen AsboDante’s Divine Comedy
Fridays at St John’s in Petaluma at 7 pm Begins March 9 with a free open house and introduction
Apollo,Dionysus,Nietzsche
and Music
History
Kayleen Asbo
“Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.”"Any musical innovation is full of danger to the whole state, and ought to be prohibited . . . when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the state always change with them.“
(Aristotle, The Politics, translated by T. A. Sinclair)
Musike Therapeia
King Rudolph II and Neuschwenstein Castle
The Wagner’s home at Tribschen
The “impossible” Tristan und Isolde and conductor Hans von Bulow-it took eight years to bring it to
stage
1872
“The Birth of Tragedy presented a view of the Greeks so alien to the spirit of the
time and to the ideals of its scholarship that it blighted Nietzsche's entire
academic career. It provoked pamphlets and counter-pamphlets attacking him on
the grounds of common sense, scholarship and sanity. For a time,
Nietzsche, then a professor of classical philology at the University of Basel , had no students in his field. His lectures were
sabotaged by German philosophy professors who advised their students not
to show up for Nietzsche's courses.”
-Marianne Cowan
Pythia, John Collier (1891)Delphi
What is Valued?Apollo : Intellect, Light, Elegance, Grace
Dionysus: Raw Emotion, Tragedy, Darkness, Intensity
Oracle at Delphi: Never Leave the Middle
Orpheus- son of Apollo, priest of DionysusSymbol the snake and the egg
Theater of Dionysus, Athens
Athenian Theater reached its height in 6th century BCE
The more you can hold sorrow, the better you can find joy
-William Blake
Apollo
God of Light, the Sun, medicine, architecture, mathematics
Order, balance, harmony, clarityAbstract thoughtRefined, elegantMajor key mode
Clearly defined meter Regular, moderate rhythm
String instruments (lyre, kithara)
Apollo
Apollo and the Muses, Simon Vouet (1640)
Apollo, Giovanni Tiepolo, (1752)
Stoa, Athens
ApolloPetrous Tabouris EnsembleParthenio Ton Alkman
The Head- intellectLyre (strings)BalanceEleganceModerationClarity and logicSymmetry , proportionMajor key modePredictable rhythm and melodyCivilization: form and rulesGod of sun and lightLyric poetry- rhyme
Apollo Belvedere
Apollo and the Muses at ParnassusNicholas Poussin (1632)
Apollo Slaying the Python
Apollo and Daphne, Bernini
John WilliamWaterhouse,Apollo and Daphne (1905)
The Festival of DaphneLord Frederic Leighton
Apotheosis of Homer,Ingres (1827)
Dionysus- God of:Tragedy and Comedy, Stillness and mania, music, Ecstasy, wine, paradox, wildness, nature,Dismemberment, the Raw
Gustave MoreauBirth of Dionysus
Birth of Dionysus 405 B.C.
Hermes Delivering Dionysus to Mount Nyssa
Silenus Baby Dionysus
Tragedy= “Goat Song”Chorus of satyrs
Dionysian Mask, 2nd century BCE: Arts as Religion, not Entertainment
Young Dionysus with Muses and Nymphs
Lawrence Alma- TedemaThe Women of
Amphissa( Bacchantes)
BacchanteFrederic Leighton
The Many Faces of Dionysus
Effeminate AndrogyneLuigi Valadier(1774)
Wild Masculine
The Boy BacchusGuido Reni(1620)
Dionysus,Bouguerreau
Dionysus as Mature Man
DionysusJacopo Sansavino
(1515)
The God WhoComes-EpiphanyDosso Dossi(1524)
Dionysus and Satyr480 B.C.
Silenus, Dionysus, Maenad and Satyr370 B.C.
Dionysian ProcessionRoman Mosaic (Museum El Djem)
Return of Dionysus from the EastMuseum El Djem
Rites of DionysusTim Shaw
Rites of DionysusTim Shaw
Rites of DionysusTim Shaw
Rites of DionysusTim Shaw
Pentheus (The Bacchae)
Rites of DionysusTim Shaw
The Denigration of Dionysus:From God of stillness, ecstasy and divine communion
Dionysus
God of wine, drama, danceEcstacy and DismembermentTragedy and comedyEmotional (and tempo) extremesWildness, nature and the RawMinor key modeAulos (woodwinds) and percussionShifting metersDramatic dynamics
Bacchus,Caravaggio(1593)
Bacchus,Caravaggio
(1596)
Bacchus (1640)Peter Paul Rubens
Theater Masks, Mosaic at Hadrian’s Villa
Fastnacht, Germany
Kukeri, Bulgaria (Thrace)
1872
Apollo
God of Light, the Sun, medicine, architecture, mathematics
Order, balance, harmony, clarityAbstract thoughtRefined, elegantMajor key mode
Clearly defined meter Regular, moderate rhythm
String instruments (lyre, kithara)
Dionysus
God of wine, drama, danceEcstacy and DismembermentTragedy and comedyEmotional (and tempo) extremesWildness, nature and the RawMinor key modeAulos (woodwinds) and percussionShifting metersDramatic dynamics
What is Valued?Apollo : Intellect, Light, Elegance, Grace
Dionysus: Raw Emotion, Tragedy, Darkness, Intensity
Oracle at Delphi: Never Leave the Middle
Orpheus Loses EurydiceBergamo (16th Century)
Tragoudi (Petros Tabouris)
Claudio Monteverdi and L’Orfeo (1600)
OrpheusA balance between light and dark
Major and minorOrder and freedomPassion and Control
The RenaissanceBaroque composer JS Bach
Age of “Enlightenment” and Apollo
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
MoonlightCaspar David Friederich
Romantic MusicNocturnes, Impromptus, Fantasy, Elegie,
HumoreskeTempo disruptions: Rubato, Morendo, Ritardando
Shift to minor key modeDynamic and range extremes
Playing “by heart”
Hector Berlioz and the Symphonie Fantastique
Extremes: Mahler Symphony No. 8
Rite of Spring (1913) , Nijinsky
Irregular Rhythms in Rite of Spring
Igor Stravinsky by Pablo Picasso (1920)
“The more art is controlled, limited, worked over, the more it is free . . . The Dionysian elements which set the imagination of the artist in motion . . . must be properly subjugated before they intoxicate us, and must finally be made to submit to the law: Apollo demands it."
Igor Stravinsky, Lecture at Harvard 1940
Apollo- 1927Orpheus- 1947
Estonian Composer Arvo Part
Andy Goldsworthy and the Orphic Egg
Oakmont OLLI Winter Session: The Hero’s Journey Through Myth, Music and
ArtThursdays from 3-5 pm
www.kayleenasbo.com
OLLI at Sonoma State The Heroine’s QuestMondays 9:30-11:30
www.kayleenasbo.com
The Art of Soul with Kayleen Asbo
Dante’s Divine Comedy
February 2013
