Love, Orhcestra, Viola

How music and art can be depicted together to express “love” can be through a painting called “The reconciliation of Oberon and Titania”. This depicts a scene in the famous play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' where the main message of love is “The course of love never did run smooth”. The painting depicts numerous fairies playing instruments to soothes the sleeping lovers. The most notable repertoire is written by Felix Mendelsohn called “Wedding March”.

How music and art can be depicted together in the setting of an “orchestra” can through a painting called “The Great Concerto”. This painting depicts a scene where a piano soloist is playing directly in front of the audience. How the painter the depicts the pianist as virtuosic is by painting the lines of the pianist’s arms which echoes the lines of the piano. The strokes are rapid strokes suggesting flourishing virtuosity in the pianist’s part. A repertoire I chose for this painting is Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 because of the “flourishing” introduction of the concerto.

How music and art can be depicted together in the embodiment of what it’s like to be a violist through painting depicting violins, violas, and cellos which makes up a standard string quartet. The viola and violists have a history of being neglected and suffered a subordinate position with respect to the violin by historians and musicians where the viola part was assigned to violinists who had failed to achieve brilliance.