4th Quarter 2017-2018 Western Civilization
Fourth Quarter Art Examples
French Romantic School:
Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)
01 Orphan Girl in the Graveyard (1823)
02 Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missalonghi (1827)
Honoré Daumier (1808-1879)
03 Crispin and Scapin (1863-65)
English Romantic School:
J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851)
04 The Slave Ship (1840)
John Constable (1776-1837)
05 Hampstead Heath: Brand Hill Pond (1828)
French Impressionism:
Edouard Manet (1832-1883, French)
06 Street Flags (1878)
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1881)
Claude Monet (1840-1926, French)
08 Impression Sunrise (1872)
09 Les Coquelicots (The Wild Poppies) 1873
Edgar Degas (1834-1917, French)
10 L’Étoile ou la Danseuse sur la Scène (The Star, or The Dancer on the Stage) 1878
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919, French)
11 Moulin de la Galette (1876)
Post Impressionism:
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890, Dutch)
12 Wheat Field and Cypress Trees (1889)
13 Starry Night (1889)
Georges Seurat (1859-1891, French Pointillism)
14 La Parade (The Sideshow) 1887-88
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901, French)
15 Jane Avril Dansant (Jane Avril Dancing) c. 1892
Paul Gaugin (1848-1903, French)
16 The Vision of the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel) 1888
17 Whence Come We? What Are We? Whither Do We Go? (1898)
Paul Cézanne (1839-1906, French)
18 Mont Sainte Victoire (1897)
French Expressionism (Fauvism):
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
19 Harmony in Red (1908-09)
20 The Dance (1910)
Georges Rouault (1871-1958)
21 The Old King (c. 1937)
Twentieth Century Abstractionism:
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968, French)
22 Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 (1912)
Hans (Jean) Arp (1886-1966, German/French)
23 Collage with Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance (1916-17)
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973, Spanish)
24 Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (The Women of Avignon) 1906
25 Three Dancers (1925)
26 Still Life on a Table (1931)
27 Guernica No. 2 (1937)
Abstract Expressionism:
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944, Russian)
28 Composition VII (1913)
Fantasy-Cubism:
Marc Chagall (1887-1985, Russian)
29 I and the Village (1911)
30 The Juggler (1943)
31 Exodus (1952-1966)
Paul Klee (1879-1940, Swiss)
32 On a Motif from Hamamet (1914)
33 Red Balloon (1922)
34 Park Near L(ucerne) 1938)
Minimalism (Neoplasticim):
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944, Dutch)
35 Broadway Boogie-Woogie (1941-42)
Surrealism:
Max Ernst (1891-1976, French/German “Dadaism”)
36 The Fireside Angel (1937)
37 Die Ganze Stadt (The Whole City)Dissertation Paul Klee (1970)
38 Configuration (1974)
Salvador Dali (1904-1989, Spanish)
39 The Persistence of Memory (1931)
40 The Sacrament of the Last Supper (1955)
41 Galacidalacidesoxyribonucleicacid (1963)
Fourth Quarter Musical Examples
Romantic:
Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828, Austrian)
Example 1: Erlkönig (from Goethe Lieder) Lied or Art Song
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847, German/English)
Example 2: Violin Concerto in E Minor, 1st Movement (1844)
Fréderic Chopin (1810-1849, Polish/French)
Example 3: Waltz in E-flat Major (Piano solo)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897, German)
Example 4: Symphony #2 in D Major, 3rd Movement (1877)
Example 5: “Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen” (How Lovely is Your Dwelling Place) from Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem) 1867
Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904, Czech)
Example 6: Symphony #9 in E Minor “New World”, 4th Movement (1893)
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881, Russian)
Example 7: “The Hut of Baba Yaga” and “The Great Gate of Kiev” from Pictures from an Exhibition (1874)
Nineteenth Century Operatic:
Giaocchino Rossini (1792-1868, Italian)
Example 8: “La ran la lera; Largo al factotum” (I am the busiest man…) from Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), comic opera, 1814
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901, Italian, “verissimo” opera)
Example 9: “Un di felice, eterea” (One Happy Day…), aria, duet, and recitative from La Traviata, 1853
Richard Wagner (1813-1883, German)
Example 10: The Ride of the Valkyries, instrumental interlude from Die Walküre, 1874
W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911–words) and Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900–music), English
Example 11: Finale from operetta H. M. S. Pinafore, 1878
Impressionism:
Claude Debussy (1862-1918, French)
Example 12: Nocturne Nuages (Clouds), 1894
Expressionism:
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971, Russian/French)
Example 13: Excerpt from ballet Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) from 2nd Movement “The Sacrifice”, 1921
Twentieth Century Folk Idiom:
Ralph Vaughan-Williams (1872-1958, English)
Example 14: Fantasia on “Greensleeves”, early 1900’s
Béla Bartók (1881-1945, Hungarian)
Example 15: Finale from Concerto for Orchestra, 1943
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976, English)
Example 16: “Rejoice in the Lamb”; “For I Will Consider My Cat, Jeoffrey” from cantata Rejoice in the Lamb, 1943 (Words by Christopher Smart, 18th Century “unbalanced” poet)
Twentieth Century Experimental:
Alban Berg (1885-1935, German)
Example 17: Excerpt from conclusion of the opera Wozzeck: “Das Messer? Wo ist das Messer?” (The knife–where is the knife?) utilizing sprechgesang (spoken song), 1935, 1921
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992, French)
Example 18: “Les Anges” (The Angels) from La Nativité du Seigneur (The Birth of the Lord), 1935
Krzysztof Penderecki (1933- ) Polish
Example 19: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, 1959-61
Arvo Pärt (1935- ) Estonian
Example 20: The Beatitudes (“Holy Minimalism”) 1990-91
Fourth Quarter Hymn History You Tube Links
Week 27: Abide with Me (Henry Francis Lyte) https://youtu.be/sj3GYEkMk6s
Week 28: Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart (George Croly) https://youtu.be/q9vOXtWFGA4
Week 29: Crown Him with Many Crowns (Matthew Bridges) https://youtu.be/jZBVD6VqBLM
Week 30: Eternal Father, Strong to Save (William Whiting) https://youtu.be/MhN5yvQt0Ak
Week 30: Immortal, Invisible (Walter Chalmer Smith) https://youtu.be/EsOF-aZR_no
Week 31: In the Bleak Midwinter (Christina Georgina Rossetti) https://youtu.be/YqixM8jGqMk
Week 32: O God of Earth and Altar (G. K. Chesterton) https://youtu.be/etI_QRNJfkw
Week 33: Lord of All Hopefulness (Jan Struther) https://youtu.be/qtAMvzIjQao
Week 34: I Am the Bread of Life (Sr. Suzanne Toolan) https://youtu.be/UQKzx2yi8_E
Week 34: How Great Thou Art (Carl Boberg/Stuart Hine) https://youtu.be/fr78_-H_7fg
Week 35: O Church Arise (Stuart Townend, Keith Getty) https://youtu.be/0V3I8x7hmNw