What links ‘The Great Wave’ and Debussy’s ‘La Mer’?
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- Hokusai's 'The Great Wave Off Kanagawa' is one of the most recognisable paintings in art history. But why did Claude Debussy use a version of it on the front cover of the his orchestral masterpiece, 'La Mer'? In this essay, I look at the influence of Japanese art on cultural life in France in the 19th Century, and consider the connections between 'The Great Wave' and 'La Mer'.
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Debussy's Wave: Debussy, Hokusai and La Mer - Dr Mary Breatnach: • Debussy's Wave: Debuss...
Better Know the Great Wave | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios: • Better Know the Great ...
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Debussy in Proportion - A Musical Analysis (Roy Howat): www.amazon.co.uk/Debussy-Prop...
Chefs-d'oeuvre des arts industriels (Burty): archive.org/details/chefsdoeu...
The Making of Hokusai's Reputation in the Context of Japonisme (Shigemi Inaga): inagashigemi.jpn.org/uploads/... 
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Hi everyone - I really hope you enjoyed the video! If you want to support my work, do take a look at my Patreon account here: patreon.com/listeningin. Also, a few times, I used the word 'painting' to refer to Hokusai's work. I should, instead, have referred to them as 'prints' - as I described about half-way through, 'The Great Wave', like the others in the collection, are woodblock prints.
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One of my favorite works from Debussy, it's the best representation of the ocean in all of music
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the music genre is fairly niche, let alone analysis videos of them
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Because people don't listen to classical music much anymore. Highbrow art has gotten weird, lowbrow art has nothing to do with it, and middlebrow has been dead since the 60's.
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Thank you for another great video connecting art and music! I really enjoy your channel. I don't mean to be picky, but being a Japanese artist, I feel like I should point out that Hokusai's "Great Wave" is not a painting, but a woodblock print, created by three artists/artisans (designer, carver and printer).
Thank you! Not picky at all - I did probably use the word ‘painting’ a little too freely!
Calling “Grate Wave” a painting is like calling “La Mer” a song.😅 Non-artists/non-musicians might think "what's all this fuss about???" but ... you would understand.
@@MasakoOsada although the song would surely be the print...
Wow, this is fascinating stuff! Never heard about 'japonisme' before!
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Brilliant video essay! Please make more of these! Would you mind sharing the document about the golden ratio in Debussy’s music? That sparked my interest
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Another beautiful video! Your knack for timing and coordinating dialogue with the music is unparalleled
The music has been embedded in my life for at least 74 years. I much enjoyed your commentary and the build up of content. There remains this vitality in the best of Japanese art even into popular manga such that the lack of the convention 'perspective' intensifies one's sense of space and it is this sense that for me characterises La Mer in the best performances.
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This is.. I'm overwhelmed.
You actually confirmed the absolute genuity of my own subjective impression when listening La Mer, without knowing anything about the Wave.
Here's the thing..La Mer was the first piece of music that moved me to tears.
I was young and not very fond of classical music.
La Mer was something I happened to like and hear a few times but haven't TRULY listened.
And then one evening, for some reason I lied down, closed my eyes and gave it a listen..and it all just came to me.. I saw the Sea. Saw it in all its shapes, colors and moods.
And the very ending..that was the part that made me tear up. I was struck by awesome wonder of seeing the rise and move of the mighty wave in all its magnificent, powerful glory!
To this day, to me it remains the favorite bit in all of music.
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A little Hi from France ! You did amazingly with this video. I adore Debussy's music and your historical perspective was very on point ! Merci beaucoup en tout cas ! Ça me donne envie de me replonger dans de longues écoutes de sa musique. Continue comme ça ! Tu fais un super travail, ta chaîne est vraiment de qualité !
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La mer is incredible and I've been looking for such an analysis for so long. i'm glad you reserved the best bit for the end of your speech.
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I always loved the painting and the music but never understood the way one informed the other. Thanks. I'd appreciate more videos.
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How often is Fuji's placid immortal peak, echoed in the ephemeral peaks of the raging water of the wave?
The fishing boats may be overwhelmed by the wave, which looms so deceptively large over them because it is so close, but the magnitude of Fuji herself in the background (masked by its distance), is serene in the knowledge that waves like this will pass season after season, and leave her unaffected.
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Listening to La Mer for the first time was one of the most profound experiences of my life.
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Istg I had just started getting into Debussy's works when you made this video. Ah, dude, I love this channel
I really love the content you create. You definitely deserve more subscribers. I also would love to see an analysis on disney's Tarzan with great music from Phil Collins.
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The picture was used as the cover for the score. Actually, during his life, Debussy's familly and himself travelled to French costs of Mediterannean sea, Atlantic Ocean and Channel sea. He got inspired from all these memories. When observing the Channel at Saint-Malo on a windy day, you can easily understand how he got inspired.
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Hi Barnaby, I love your devotion to the art of music and filmmaking which I acknowledge in all of your videos I watched. Being a fan of Tarantino movies, I wonder if you could do a video on the use of music in his films, especially the Kill Bill franchise.
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Further listening: check out Toru Takemitsu’s “Quotation of Dream,” which incorporates direct quotations from “La Mer.” Brilliant work, as always, Barnaby!
Oh, I don’t know that piece! I’m going to listen to it right now.
@@ListeningIn Takemitsu was an amazing composer. One of his lesser known orchestral works worth listening to is named »GREEN« (and - being published by C.F. Peters … the score has a green envelope …).
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You spoke briefly about the golden ratio... a vast and fascinating subject! Have you ever made a video on the subject?
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When I heard about the film, I got so EXCITED when I heard where it was filming!!. I live in Blythe, CA, but because the closest towns are Erenburg, Parker, and Quartzsite, It feels like a live in Arizona because I travel to those places most of the time. I can't say I've seen any filming around those places (which is odd because of how frequent I go to the places where they filmed). But it is so SUREAL to feel and be in the same places where the movie takes place. I've been to the laundry mat/ general store that Fern visits there. [Little detail, there is almost always a few guys that sell there stuff out of the back of their van across the street from the place on the weekends😄]. I'm surprised they didn't have a couple of river rats walk into frame getting ice🤣.
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I think an awesome movie for you to analyze would be the Fantasia Disney movie from the 30s. Sorcerers Apprentice and all that
I thought you'd be talking about the Charles Trenet song, known in English as 'Beyond the Sea' (you know, as heard in the Finding Nemo credits?).
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Great video! As a side note, did you say 'possessed' instead of 'posed' at 8:58?
I was supposed to write an essay about that(last semester)
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Hello! Would you please make a video about James Newton Howard and some of his beautiful scores? Thank you so much for considering!
This probably won’t be feasible but I would love if you dissected the Xenoblade Chronicles Main Theme. It’s definitely one of the most moving pieces I have ever heard and I’d be super interested in an expert explanation into what makes it so good. Listening to it while viewing the title screen is so beautiful that it’s honestly akin to a spiritual journey
How and where did you learn to edit your videos? More specifically, where did you find your visual style? I am infatuated with it, and I’m looking to learn how to edit like it; with my own visual flair of course.
LOL, I wish you'd put "Debussy's" in the title. I thought you were going to talk about the song by Charles Trenet! :D
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I wonder if you could do an analysis of the score from Nolans "TENET" by Ludwig Göransson.
I was five times in the cinema last year because I thought it was brilliant!
It would be great to hear, what you're thinking of it.
Speaking of Japan, you should definitely do a video on Toru Takemitsu.
I would love to your thoughts on the music of Cast Away (2000)
what is the name of the essay called when referring to his avoidance of interaction with other composers in Rome?
Hokusai’s paintings can also help show us how geometry works for the human eye, the great wave is the perfect example of the golden spiral
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I’d really like to hear your take on the music in Dreamworks movies. Kung fu Panda and How to Train your Dragon have some phenomenal scores!