Da Vinci Music
Giorgio Aguilar
While we know music is about the hearing and that ear training is important, I also encourage to train your eyes as well. One thing I disliked when I used to work in a music school was that all teachers were telling students to only rely on their ears and from what I was seeing, that tip was frustrating for them. This is why I tell people to first learn to trust your eyes when you use sound analyzers and then train your ears to make the link with what you see.
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Leonardo spent a good deal of time in his notebooks discussing the relative merits of painting, poetry and music. Like many of his contemporaries, he enjoyed using the idea of musical harmony as a metaphor for any complex arrangement of elements that used rational(ish) principles to arrive at an orderly and attractive result.
He argued that a well-composed drawing or painting, or an elegant poem, could be harmonious just like a musical composition. But although he borrowed a musical metaphor, Leonardo wanted to show that painting was the superior art. To do this, he came up with two clever arguments.
Second, he felt strongly that harmony needs to be appreciated at length, and therefore the best art is one in which the harmony remains available for contemplation indefinitely. A painting presents its harmony for ever, but musical sounds come and go in an instant.
Luckily, his talents were also recognized by his father, who sent him to Florence at the age of 14 to begin an apprenticeship with Andrea del Verrocchio, an artist who had been a student of Early Renaissance master Donatello. Verrocchio worked for the powerful Medici family, and young da Vinci immersed himself in the study of the humanities. Verrocchio instructed his young charge in drawing, painting, and sculpture, and da Vinci also developed an interest in anatomy, architecture, chemistry, mathematics, and engineering. I will come as no surprise that Leonardo was also profoundly occupied with music.
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Do you like unusual musical instruments and fascinating puzzles? Pay attention to the assemblable Lyra da Vinci is a customized wooden 3D model from WoodTrick. We have created a replica of the famous plucked instrument played by Leonardo da Vinci himself to the delight of all music and science fans.
Stealing Vanity emerges from the heart of indie alternative rock, a band forged in the fires of Nashville's eclectic music scene. Since their inception in 2011, they've been crafting a sonic journey that's both intimate and explosive, weaving together raw emotion with pulsating rhythms and intricate melodie
As the composer who is the creative force behind both the music and visual component, I have designed the work so that the music serves as the foundation for the film instead of it functioning as purely a supporting musical soundtrack.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci was commissioned by a consortium of ensembles from across the country and has received over two dozen performances since 2019. It is now available to groups outside the commissioning consortium for performances.
All performing ensembles are required to sign a brief Letter of Agreement to ensure the production meets minimum requirements. If you have any questions and to initiate this process, please contact kri...@graphitepublishing.com.
There are two ways to approach the multimedia aspect of Notebooks: Self-produced or contracting out. Self-producing requires training and management of all aspects of the tech, whereas contracting out is a more hands-off experience. Your budget may also play a role in this decision.
There are some additional costs associated with mounting a larger multi-media work like Notebooks beyond purchasing the scores and parts for you and your ensemble. All in all, you can most likely make this happen with your ensemble for under $5000 depending on your screen and lighting set-up and not inclusive of any venue costs you might have. Here are some things to think through as you budget:
If you have any questions about The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci including pricing, technician contact information, inquiries for workshops and residencies, or anything else that would assist you as you consider your programming, please reach out to Laura Krider at la...@laurakrider.com
Painted from 1494 to 1498 in Milan's Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, the "Last Supper" vividly depicts a key moment in the Gospel narrative: Jesus' last meal with the 12 Apostles before his arrest and crucifixion, and the shock of Christ's followers as they learn that one of them is about to betray him.
Pala, a 45-year-old musician who lives near the southern Italian city of Lecce, began studying Leonardo's painting in 2003, after hearing on a news program that researchers believed the artist and inventor had hidden a musical composition in the work.
Pala first saw that by drawing the five lines of a musical staff across the painting, the loaves of bread on the table as well as the hands of Jesus and the Apostles could each represent a musical note.
This fit the relation in Christian symbolism between the bread, representing the body of Christ, and the hands, which are used to bless the food, he said. But the notes made no sense musically until Pala realized that the score had to be read from right to left, following Leonardo's particular writing style.
The result is a 40-second "hymn to God" that Pala said sounds best on a pipe organ, the instrument most commonly used in Leonardo's time for spiritual music. A short segment taken from a CD of the piece contained a Bach-like passage played on the organ. The tempo was almost painfully slow but musical.
Alessandro Vezzosi, a Leonardo expert and the director of a museum dedicated to the artist in his hometown of Vinci, said he had not seen Pala's research but that the musician's hypothesis "is plausible."
Vezzosi said previous research has indicated the hands of the Apostles in the painting can be substituted with the notes of a Gregorian chant, though so far no one had tried to work in the bread loaves.
"There's always a risk of seeing something that is not there, but it's certain that the spaces (in the painting) are divided harmonically," he told the AP. "Where you have harmonic proportions, you can find music."
Vezzosi also noted that though Leonardo was more noted for his paintings, sculptures and visionary inventions, he was also a musician. Da Vinci played the lyre and designed various instruments. His writings include some musical riddles, which must be read from right to left.
Reinterpretations of the "Last Supper" have popped up ever since "The Da Vinci Code" fascinated readers and movie-goers with suggestions that one of the apostles sitting on Jesus' right is Mary Magdalene, that the two had a child and that their bloodline continues.
Pala stressed that his discovery does not reveal any supposed dark secrets of the Catholic Church or of Leonardo, but instead shows the artist in a light far removed from the conspiratorial descriptions found in fiction.
SATB div choir and full orchestra. Also available for chamber orchestra.
Full orchestra score here. Parts are provided upon the signing of a performance waiver and invoiced along with the licensing of the film.
All performing ensembles are required to sign a brief Letter of Agreement to ensure the production meets minimum requirements. If you have any questions and to initiate this process, please contact la...@laurakrider.com.
Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whither he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this, perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.
Just as a stone flung into the water becomes the center and cause of many circles, and as sound diffuses itself in circles in the air; so any object, placed in the luminous atmosphere, diffuses itself in circles, and fills the surrounding air with infinite images of itself. And is repeated, the whole everywhere, and the whole in every smallest part.
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