Summer: Vivaldi and Van Gogh

Poppies and Butterflies Van Gogh

The intensity of insects buzzing, the sirocco searing across your face. Flowers bloom then fade daily. Can music sound like the dizzying daze of summer? Vivaldi thought so.

Antonio Vivaldi - Summer (Full) - The Four Seasons 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY1p-FmjT1M 

(P.S. Don't forget to hydrate. Just listening to this can make you thirsty.) 

And also...

Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers With Vivaldi's Summer 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZtZTxkGtwI

Spring! Wordsworth, cummings, and Vivaldi

 

Romantic poet looking pensive

Would be a 'whoa, dude!' experience

That's awesome! Not exactly what Wordsworth said, but almost. This is a very famous poem with lots of mixed metaphors, but still great for this time of year with all the tulips and daffodils popping up

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wandered_Lonely_as_a_Cloud
The theme of feeling a part of nature and having joy in reflecting back on a beautiful experience is worth reading this poem with kids. Plus, they will meet 'I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud'  many times in English literature class. I do like the daffodils dancing spritely. Personification does it for me every time.

in Just
by e e cumming

http://www.poetry-archive.com/c/in_just.html
Springtime is an excellent time for teaching poetry because it seems poets get very inspired during this season. e. e. cummings even made up new words for spring--mudluscious (You can hear your galoshes go schluppp as you try to extract them out of the newly melted snow/mud. Like hot fudge being pulled out of a sundae. That's mudluscious.) And everyone knows what puddlewonderful is; none of us resist splashing in a puddle. Of course, we in SoCal can't fully appreciate the ecstacy that the folks Back East experience having a puddle to splash after everything freezes for half the year--but we sort of empathize.

That's not eddieandbill or bettyandisbel. Maybe its bettyandeddie or isbelandbill; or bettyandbill or isbelandeddie.

 Kids also love music. So it is no surprise that Spring from Vivaldi would really tickle them with the marvelous sounds of a  spring day--that they can identify on their walk to and from school. The music even sounds like flowers burst-blooming in the sun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRxofEmo3HA
Performed by the Budapest Strings.

 

 

 

 

Autumn: Monet and Vivaldi

Autumn Poplars-Monet

And to my Australian friends who are in Spring, please forgive me.

Vivaldi's Four Seasons - Autumn (3rd movement) - 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8AN0jWNrJA

Autumn: Pissarro and Vivaldi

Camille Pissarro ~ Autumn at Eragny

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

                                                                                                                      Camille Pissarro

Vivaldi, Autumn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x4GC0-Z0ZI

Summer: Vincent and Vivaldi

Van Gogh  'I even work in the wheatfields at midday', he told Bernard, 'in the full heat of the sun, without any shade whatever, and there you are."


Vivaldi Seasons--Summer (full)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY1p-FmjT1M
Amazing how Vivaldi could create the sound of heat on an unbearable summer day.

Monet and Vivaldi: Tulips, Music and Spring

Claude Monet Tulip Field with the Rijnsburg Windmill

Here is the first cousin of Monet's tulips in my garden.

I was hoping to give you just a little blast of Spring--the brilliant blue sky after a spring shower, the shocking, vibrant red, yellow, purple of bulb flowers blaring through the winter's end grey, the enthusiastic chirp and twitter of the birds now activated for the season like an army just getting out of boot camp. I can just about do it with Monet and Vivaldi--but I can't send you the still-chilly-but-not-freezing breeze on a finally sunny day or the scent of earth unfreezing. You'll have to go outside for that.

Wish you could smell these hyacinths!

 

 

Oh those spring showers!

Vivaldi Spring 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqojc0UrhOU

 

 

Vincent Loved Autumn

Van Gogh, Poplars near Nuenen, Autumn 1884.

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.

Vincent Van Gogh

Vivaldi: Autumn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x4GC0-Z0ZI

Autumn: Monet and Vivaldi

Autumn Poplars-Monet

Vivaldi Autumn The Four Seasons High Quality 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7hGiZ579cs

This is a really lovely vid, too. 

Next Schoolyear: Soundtrack of Our Classroom

Using Music in the Elementary Classroom (Warning: It May Get Loud)

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/music-recommendations-elementary-gaetan-pappalardo 

I like classical quite a bit for background.

Here are some of my choices.:

Antonio Vivaldi

Four Seasons ~ Vivaldi 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRxofEmo3HA 

Beethoven's 5th Symphony

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4IRMYuE1hI

TEOC - Symphony No. 06 - Beethoven | Full Length 45 Minutes 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O1D1zuvWic 

Symphony No. 9 ~ Beethoven 

Ludwig Van Beethoven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3217H8JppI 

Mozart - Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 [complete] 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTc1mDieQI8 

 

 

Mozart Flute & Harp Concerto C major K 299 Neville Marriner RTSI 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLFTGanol7w

Wolfgang Mozart

Mozart Piano Concerto No.21 in C major, 'Elvira Madigan' K.467

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df-eLzao63I

It is my opinion that listening to Bach's Brandenburg Concertos is truly 'busy bee' motivation, but the students generally like Beethoven the best.

Johan Sebastian Bach

 

J.S. Bach Brandenburg Concertos, Complete, 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06kGb6pIl2I

 

Summer: Vincent and Vivaldi

Van Gogh  'I even work in the wheatfields at midday', he told Bernard, 'in the full heat of the sun, without any shade whatever, and there you are."


Vivaldi Seasons--Summer (full)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY1p-FmjT1M
Amazing how Vivaldi could create the sound of heat on an unbearable summer day.

Summer: Monet and Vivaldi

Monet  Vetheuil in Summer

Antonio Vivaldi - Summer (Full) - The Four Seasons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY1p-FmjT1M

This music somehow sounds hot and languid--then like a summer insect is buzzing and bothering you. I love Vivaldi-- 

Summer: Vincent and Vivaldi

Van Gogh  'I even work in the wheatfields at midday', he told Bernard, 'in the full heat of the sun, without any shade whatever, and there you are."


Vivaldi Seasons--Summer (full)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY1p-FmjT1M
Amazing how Vivaldi could create the sound of heat on an unbearable summer day.

Monet and Vivaldi: Tulips, Music and Spring

Claude Monet Tulip Field with the Rijnsburg Windmill

Here is the first cousin of Monet's tulips in my garden.

I was hoping to give you just a little blast of Spring--the brilliant blue sky after a spring shower, the shocking, vibrant red, yellow, purple of bulb flowers blaring through the winter's end grey, the enthusiastic chirp and twitter of the birds now activated for the season like an army just getting out of boot camp. I can just about do it with Monet and Vivaldi--but I can't send you the still-chilly-but-not-freezing breeze on a finally sunny day or the scent of earth unfreezing. You'll have to go outside for that.

Wish you could smell these narcissus!

 

 

Oh those spring showers!

Vivaldi Spring 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqojc0UrhOU

 

 

 

Vivaldi and Monet: Winter

Monet. Boulevard Saint Deni Argenteuil in Winter

It is amazing how this music can portray in sound the feeling of profound cold, and the bustle and hurry of getting home and onto the hot cocoa and warm fireplace. Vivaldi is amazing--as is Monet.

Antonio Vivaldi - Winter (Full) - The Four Seasons 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZCfydWF48c

Next Schoolyear: Soundtrack of Our Classroom

 

Using Music in the Elementary Classroom (Warning: It May Get Loud)

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/music-recommendations-elementary-gaetan-pappalardo 

I like classical quite a bit for background.

Here are some of my choices.:

Antonio Vivaldi

Four Seasons ~ Vivaldi 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRxofEmo3HA 

Beethoven's 5th Symphony

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4IRMYuE1hI

TEOC - Symphony No. 06 - Beethoven | Full Length 45 Minutes 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O1D1zuvWic 

Symphony No. 9 ~ Beethoven 

Ludwig Van Beethoven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3217H8JppI 

Mozart - Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 [complete] 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTc1mDieQI8 

 

Wolfgang Mozart

 

Mozart Flute & Harp Concerto C major K 299 Neville Marriner RTSI 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMIzC9CzVUQ 

Mozart Piano Concerto No.21 in C major, 'Elvira Madigan' K.467

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1bMPi2aw1A 

It is my opinion that listening to Bach's Brandenburg Concertos  is truly 'busy bee' motivation, but the students generally like Beethoven the best.

Johan Sebastian Bach

 

J.S. Bach Brandenburg Concertos, Complete, Ton Koopman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcTc67KlD9o 

 

Spring! Vivaldi, Monet and Tulips

Claude Monet Tulip Field with the Rijnsburg Windmill

I was hoping to give you just a little blast of Spring--the brilliant blue sky after a spring shower, the shocking, vibrant red, yellow, purple of bulb flowers blaring after the winter grey, the enthusiastic chirp and twitter of the birds now activated for the season like an army just getting out of boot camp. I can just about do it with Monet and Vivaldi--but I can't send you the still-chilly-but-not-freezing breeze on a finally sunny day or the scent of earth unfreezing. You'll have to go outside for that.

Vivaldi Spring 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqojc0UrhOU 

My contribution to the jamboree.

Vivaldi and Monet: Winter

Monet. Boulevard Saint Deni Argenteuil in Winter

It is amazing how this music can portray in sound the feeling of profound cold, and the bustle and hurry of getting home and onto the hot cocoa and warm fireplace. Vivaldi is amazing--as is Monet.

Antonio Vivaldi - Winter (Full) - The Four Seasons 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZCfydWF48c

Autumn: Monet and Vivaldi

Autumn Poplars-Monet

And to my Australian friends who are in Spring, please forgive me.

Vivaldi's Four Seasons - Autumn (3rd movement) - Sheffield Park Garden 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SiyhRSMiPI

Monet and Vivaldi: Tulips, Music and Spring

Claude Monet Tulip Field with the Rijnsburg Windmill

Here is the first cousin of Monet's tulips in my garden.

I was hoping to give you just a little blast of Spring--the brilliant blue sky after a spring shower, the shocking, vibrant red, yellow, purple of bulb flowers blaring through the winter's end grey, the enthusiastic chirp and twitter of the birds now activated for the season like an army just getting out of boot camp. I can just about do it with Monet and Vivaldi--but I can't send you the still-chilly-but-not-freezing breeze on a finally sunny day or the scent of earth unfreezing. You'll have to go outside for that.

Wish you could smell these narcissus!

 

 

Oh those spring showers!

Vivaldi Spring 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqojc0UrhOU

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monet and Vivaldi: Tulips, Music and Spring

Claude Monet Tulip Field with the Rijnsburg Windmill

Wish you could smell these narcissus!

Springing in my garden.

I was hoping to give you just a little blast of Spring--the brilliant blue sky after a spring shower, the shocking, vibrant red, yellow, purple of bulb flowers blaring through the winter's end grey, the enthusiastic chirp and twitter of the birds now activated for the season like an army just getting out of boot camp. I can just about do it with Monet and Vivaldi--but I can't send you the still-chilly-but-not-freezing breeze on a finally sunny day or the scent of earth unfreezing. You'll have to go outside for that.

Oh those spring showers!

 

Vivaldi Spring 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqojc0UrhOU