For this week’s assignment we were asked. tot find a piece of music we found melodically engaging, and to draw the melody in the piece using our visual language. I just started playing this piece for private lessons and found it to be relaxing and soothing. The piece is written for solo violin and orchestra, from the opera Thais by Massenet. The height in the drawing represents pitch, the bumps represent rythmn, and the width represents time.
According to wikipedia: “Thaïs takes place in Egypt under the rule of the Roman Empire, where a Cenobite monk, Athanaël, attempts to convert Thaïs, an Alexandrian courtesan and devotee of Venus, to Christianity, but discovers too late that his obsession with her is rooted in lust; while the courtesan’s true purity of heart is revealed, so is the religious man’s baser nature. The work is often described as bearing a sort of religious eroticism, and has had many controversial productions.”
Drawing:
