My Aesthetics SHEET MUSIC

Violin/piano/vocals/guitar parts:

My Aesthetics

https://youtu.be/_M534_DeUEU

By Emma C. Johnson

Written: Oct 2019 – Apr 2020

Recorded: Apr 23-25, 2020

LYRICS:

Alone with your aesthetics.

Alone with your aesthetics.

You aren't here but it feels like you're near

in a room with our aesthetics.

in a room with our aesthetics.

Void except for things.

A girl at a piano

purses her lips

cracked by centuries of drying.

Her blue satin sash

catches the light

in a room with my aesthetics.

in a room with my aesthetics.

Ballerinas

grasp bouquets

of perfectly positioned flowers.

The sun is pouring

in through the glass

in a room with my aesthetics.

in a room with my aesthetics.

Ceilings painted

with history.

Gold-leafed trim on white walls.

Crystal chandeliers line the hall.

The mirrors go on forever and ever and ever

in a room with my aesthetics.

in a room with my aesthetics.

Alone with my aesthetics.

Alone with my aesthetics.

Alone with my aesthetics.

Alone with my aesthetics.

You aren't here but it feels like you're near

in a room with my aesthetics.

My aesthetics.

My aesthetics.

My aesthetics.

My aesthetics.

My aesthetics.

My aesthetics.

Images videorecorded for B-roll from: 

The Musée d'Orsay, Barnes & Noble Books
your visit to Versailles, art lys
Degas: A strange new beauty, MoMA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, metmuseum.org

Images include:

0:14 Henri Fantin-Latour, Flowers and Fruit, 1865  

0:18 Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Daughters of Catulle Mendès Huguette (1871-1964), Claudine (1876-1937), 1888  

0:23 Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Two Young Girls at the Piano 1892  

0:27 Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Woman at the Piano, 1875-6  

0:32 Edgar Degas, The Dance Foyer at the Opéra at the rue Le Peletier, 1872  

0:35 Edgar Degas, Fin d'arabesque, c. 1877  

0:39 Edgar Degas, Dance Class, 1873-6  

0:44 Edgar Degas, Ballet Scene, c. 1879 

 0:48 Louis Le Vau, et al./Versailles, The War Drawing-Room  

0:52 Le Vau, et al./Versailles, The Hall of Mirrors 

 0:57 Edgar Degas, The Orchestra of the Opéra, c. 1870s

Poses include: 

0:10 Mary Cassatt, Young Woman in the Garden, c. 1883-6 

5:14 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Source, 1856 

5:15 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Virgin of the Host, 1854 

5:16 Edgar Degas, Little Dancer at Age Fourteen, 1880-1 

5:19 Gustave Courbet, The Spring, 1868 

5:20 Théodore Chassériau, The Tepidarium, 1853 

5:21 Édouard Manet, Luncheon on the Grass, 1863
 

FRENCH and GERMAN lyrics translation below:

Church of Sainte-Geneviève

Jacques-Germain Soufflot

designed a beautiful church.

The Church of Sainte-Geneviève,

also known as the

Paris Panthéon,

has transformed itself like a

Madonna persona change.

In 1758

construction started.

Before the last brick was laid

the government took over.

Then it changed its mind.

The French did not sell.

They used it as a temple

under Napoleon (the) I

and buried heroes.

Aux grands homes la pat-

rie reconnaissante.

Then it became Catholic

under King Louis Philippe.

Napoleon (the) III said,

"Continue the church."

Nondenominational

was Sainte-Geneviève's next phase.

Next it was a physics lab.

Jean-Bernard Foucault

proved the world is spinning 'round

by hanging a pendulum

from the domed ceiling.

The world truns clockwise.

Marie Curie died.

Her ashes were scattered there.

Jacques-Germain Soufflot

designed a beautiful church.

Neoclassical architecture and sculpture in France

Architectural influences
Seventeenth-century France

defies Italian Baroque,

says 'yes' to classical style.

Ancient Chinese art

The Middle Kingdom in China

'Qin' becomes 'China,' 

proclaimed the center of the world.

Port cities gleam but

Yellow River brings sorrow.

Yet, Nomads join anyway.

Pagodas

Watchtowers converge

(w/) pagodas stone and wooden.

What a handsome pair.

Work consulted: 
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. 1995. New York: revised ed., Harry N. Abrams, Inc., and Prentice Hall, Inc., 1999.

Paris ephemera

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