Picasso – Los tres músicos, 1921
Click on pic Three Musicians is the title of two similar collage and oil paintings by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. They were both completed in 1921 in Fontainebleau near Paris, France, and exemplify the Synthetic…
Music is communication, not competition.
Click on pic Three Musicians is the title of two similar collage and oil paintings by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. They were both completed in 1921 in Fontainebleau near Paris, France, and exemplify the Synthetic…
In ancient Greece the term music takes on a different meaning than what nowadays we ascribe to it: it not only indicates the music itself, but it indicates more generally the literary and artistic…
Continue Reading The music for Plato: a powerful educational tool
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In Aristotle’s reflections about music we can detect some ideas that may seem quite distant from us, but not for this reason we should judge them irrelevant. These ideas concern specifically the way of…
Continue Reading The idea of music in Aristotle: is it something that we should reconsider nowadays?
The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England, in 1963. It evolved from a similar instrument, the Chamberlin, but could be mass-produced more effectively. The instrument works by pulling a section of magnetic tape across…
Click on pic The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Johannes Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. The picture was sold in May 1696 in Delft, part of the…