Portal to Selected Music Videos on YouTube

    

BY PERIODS 
* Middle Ages to Renaissance (5^th-17^th centuries)
* Baroque Era (1600-1750)
* Classical Period (circa 1750-1830)
* Romantic Era (circa 1815-1910)
* Nationalist Movement (mid-19^th century)
* The Later Romantics (second half of 19^th century)
* The Early 20^th Century
* Since World War II

BY COMPOSERS 
- in alphabetical sequence, other than Mozart:
* A to M     O to P     R to W 

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BY INSTRUMENTS

* Orchestra Plan Layout

* strings

* woodwind

* brass

* percussion

* keyboard

* voices

OTHERS - by genres:
* Silk Road Music
* Ballet 2014 2015 2017  2018
* Military
* Movies

* Musicals Styles
* Chinese
* Jazz
* beginning

Some lectures:
* Listening to Music  - an Open Yale Course
* Symphony 101 - How to Listen to Classical Music

* BBC The History of Symphony (4x1H) EP1 EP2 EP3 EP4

16 abridged pieces of classical music

10 essential orchestral scores to study:

[Legend: 

** blog page - video with score]

** Mozart - Symphony No.40

** Beethoven - Symphony No.3

** Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique

** Brahms - Symphony No.4  - analysis of mvt.1

** Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade

** Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite

** Debussy - Prélude á l'après-midi dún faune

** Ravel - Ma Mère l'Oye

** Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring

** Holst - The Planets

 Source: web

Note: a full/short score (全譜/縮編譜)

香港《文武之道》（三）

 W.I.P.

鎌倉幸子  

記日本311大地震的倖存者與流動圖書館十周年

黃美瑛  

宣基閱讀王國如何建築學校閱讀文化

梁中英  

摘下「優質圖書館」的美譽

倫雅文  

學校圖書館的定位如何促進學校的教學

程志森  

現今科網流行下圖書館老師的角色

關麗明  

圖書館如何促進兒童閱讀能力和加強家校之間合作

呂志剛  

以香港為例看學校圖書館專業團體對學校圖書館發展的影響

陳麗怡、蔡聆音  

香港盲人輔導會圖書館系統

梁海光  

十年公益路，我很感恩這個選擇，更慶幸自己從不放棄夢想

馬輝洪  

薪火相傳：回溯香港兒童文化的過去

王國强  

「書的傳人」在澳門

陳敏儀  

優質圖書館服務由照顧不同特殊需要讀者做起

謝旭  

人工智能時代的編程教育

香港《文武之道》（二）

W.I.P.

吳啟超

通識教育的價值 和 哲學思考的特性

盧傑雄 

中國文化要義與哲學思考

胡煒權  

閱讀外國歷史書籍的樂趣

胡煒權  

我書寫日本史的目的與心得

卓文傑  

水滸傳流傳日本概況

勞力行  

談現代中醫導論與教學

歐陽劍文  

斗數飛星非宿命

伍詠慈  

心理與栽培

馮耀文  

行為分析治療

黃競聰  

嘆之以情：香港漁歌蒐集與研究

范永聰、范詠誼、楊映輝  

《我們都是這樣在屋邨長大的》

曾紹樑  

灼見名家

黃天賜  

探討《黃帝內經》與「文化承傳」

香港《文武之道》（一）

WIP

葉錦添  

如何以電影表演形式演繹經典文學作品

盛宗亮  

讓世界聽見林黛玉的葬花吟

徐惟恩  

在閱讀中找到下一個靈感

龔冬健  

男低音歌劇演唱家

莫華倫  

從《杜蘭朵》到《莎士比亞》

錢敏華  

「民樂翹楚」：如何讀懂中國音樂的本質

吳志華  

在西九龍尋找另一個文化時空

關嘉匯  蔡昌壽 斲琴 學會  

古琴之聲 -- 香港記憶

馬鼎盛 

論金庸 -- 空前絕後的武俠文化人

李志清  

我畫筆下的金庸小說人物

梁科慶  

談Q版特工

呂大樂  

《隨便讀》

趙志成  

自主學習 ，閱讀與學校圖書館

Song Lyrics / 宋詞

 

 

Music - Concert Halls

 

List of concert halls  

* Hanover Square Rooms , London (since 1775)

* Sing-Akademie zu Berlin (since 1826) 

* Musikverein , Vienna (since 1870)

* Royal Albert Hall , London (since 1871) 

 

 

 

Subscription concerts

During the 18th and 19th centuries, “the Gewandhaus subscription concerts would frequently contain an overture, an opera aria, an instrument solo, and a chorale finale in each half, and might last for three or four hours in total. Where vocal music had been at the centre of the 18th-century programmes, during the 19th century it became more accepted to perform movements from concerts and symphonies, although concerts solely of instrument music were still rare.

        By the end of the 19th century, concert activity had divided into solo recitals, chamber music performances, and orchestral performances.

Free concerts for wider audiences  

* Crystal Palace Bowl , London

* under Sousa in the 1880s, the Marine Corps Band would give free weekly concerts at the White House and the Capitol in Washington

* local choral societies

List of music festivals  

Jazz Up (2021)

Jazz Classics

Alan Kwan hosting at Space Museum Lecture Hall

Oscar Peterson, jazz piano virtuoso

- “Tiger Rag” by Art Tatum

- “Brotherhood of Man”
- “Bags’ Groove”
- “C Jam Blues”

- “I Feel Pretty" West Side Story
- "Jet song" West side Story
- “Perdido” (solo)
- “Alone Together” with Herb Ellis and Ray Brown
- “When Your Lover Has Gone” with Ella Fitzgerald

Kurt Rosenwinkel, jazz guitar virtuoso

- “East Coast Love Affairs” (1996)
- “All Or Nothin’ At All” (1996)
- “Zhivago” from Our Secret World, recorded 2009)
- “A day in the life” by Wes Montgomery (1967)
- “Zhivago” (2000)
- “Minuano” (Pat Metheny, 1987)
- “Deep Song” by Billie Holiday
- “Deep Song” (2005)
- “Return Of The Prodigal Son” by Brian Blade (2008)
- “Caipi” (2017)
- “Inori” from Stockholm, 2019
- “View from Moscow” (live recorded 2006)

Charlie Haden, jazz double-bass virtuoso

- “Lonely Woman” - Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry
- “Song for Ché” - Liberation Music Orchestra
- “Silence” - The Ballad of The Fallen - Liberation Music Orchestra
- “First Song” - Beyond the Missouri Sky - Pat Metheny and Charlie Haden

- “For All We Know” - Jasmine - Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden
- “The Cost of Living” - Michael Brecker
- “Shenandoah”
- “Alone Together” - Lee Konitz, Brad Mehldau & Charlie Haden
- “Body & Soul” - Jasmine - Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden
- “Palhaco ” - Magico - Charlie Haden, Jan Garbarek, Egberto Gismonti 

Miles Davis, jazz trumpet virtuoso

- Move <Birth of the Cool> 1957>

- ‘Round Midnight' <Round About Midnight> (1957)

- Milestones <Milestones> (1958)

- So What/Flamenco Sketches <Kind of Blue> (1959)

- Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio) <Sketches of Spain> (1960)

- I fall in love too easily <Seven steps to heaven> (1963)

- Footprint <Miles Smiles> (1967)

- Bitches Brew/Sanctuary <Bitches Brew> (1970)

- Tutu <Tutu> (1986)

- Hannibal <Amandla> (1989)

Renaissance Watercolors #12

 

The Ottoman Porte in Procession (aka Wedding Procession)

in《Costume Book》1573-4

- Lambert de Vos (active c.1563-74)

- pen, brush & wc on paper (27 x 40 cm) 

- State and University Library of Bremen (Germany)

Two [Persian] Grooms Holding a Sultan’s Horse
- Jacopo Ligozzi (1547-1627, Italian) 
- pen & brown ink, brush with watercolor
 & bodycolor (28 x 22 cm) c.1580–85
- Metropolitan Museum of Art 
(promised gift of David M. Tobey)

Design for arms, armour, horse trappings etc,
for a pageant or triumph
- attributed to Jacopo Ligozzi (1547-1627, Italian)
- pen & ink & watercolor on brown tinted paper
 (41 x 28 cm) late 16°C
- Victoria and Albert Museum (London)

World Map, 1508
- Francesco Roselli (1448 - before 1513)
- hand-colored engraving on paper (18 x 34 cm) 
- National Maritime Museum (Greenwich)

Source: Wikipedia

Renaissance Watercolors #11

 

[Holy Roman] Emperor Rudolf II
- Daniel Fröschl (1563-1613m German)
- wc on parchment (12.9 x 10.6 cm) c.1601-12
- Qatar Museums 

Woven medallion
- Iran or Iraq
- silk & gilded tapestry (dia 69 cm) 1st half of the 14°C
- David Collection (Copenhagen)

Constantinople
in《The Travels of Sir John Mandeville》c.1410-20
- Master of the Mandeville Travels (active c.1400-30)
- tinted grisaille on green parchment (22.5 x 18 cm) 
- British Library (London)

This folio portrays the fortified city as if it were a Central European city. The cathedral of Hagia Sophia is depicted as a late Gothic church. The gilded statue in the foreground might be the Column of Justinian, destroyed later in 1515.

Seated Scribe 
- Gentile Bellini (1429–1507, Venetian in Constantinople)
- pen in brown ink with wc and gold
on paper (18.2 x 14 cm) 1479-81
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston)

Gluttony 
in《The Cocharelli Codex》c.1330-40
- master of the Cocharelli Manuscript (active c.1330-40)
- wc & bodyc, ink & gold on parchment (17 x 10 cm) 
- British Library (London)

A rich banquet, with a seated Mongol ruler entertained by musicians, several in Asiatic costume.....

Source: Wikipedia

Renaissance Watercolors #10

 

Self-Portrait
- Jean Fouquet (c.1425-c.1478, French)
- painted enamel on copper (dia. 6 cm) c.1450
- Musée du Louvre (Paris)

Portrait miniature of Elizabeth I of England 
with a crescent moon jewel in her hair
- Nicholas Hilliard (1547–1619, English) 
- wc & bodyc on parchment laid to card
(6.5 x 5.3 cm) c.1595-1600
- Victoria and Albert Museum (London)

Portraits of François I and Julius Caesar
in《Les Commentaires de la guerre gallique》1519
- Jean Clouet (1480-1541, French), or
François Demoulin & Godefroy le Batave
- black chalk and bodycolor on parchment (24 x 12 cm) 
- British Library (London)

Sir John Godsalve (c.1505–56, English politician)
- Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543, German)
- black & red chalks, pen & ink, brush & ink, bodyc
on pale pink prepared paper (36 x 29 cm) c.1532–4
- The Royal Collection (UK)

Suit of Armour for Lord (William) Compton 
in Elizabethan《Almain Armourer's Album》c.1557-1587
- Jacob Halder (active 1556-1608
at Royal Armory in Greenwich)
- pen, ink & watercolor on paper
 (86 x 58.5 cm, double page) 
- Victoria and Albert Museum (London)

Source: Wikipedia

Renaissance Watercolors #09

 

Portrait of Piero de Medici 
- Gherardo di Giovanni del Fora (1445–1497, Italian)
- watercolor on parchment (33 x 21 cm) c.1488
- Biblioteca Nazionale (Naples)

Self-Portrait with a Dog
- Giulio Clovio (1498-1578, Croatian)
- watercolor on parchment (10.7 x 9.7 cm) 1528
- Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna)

Margaret Wotton, Marchioness of Dorset (1485–1535) 
- Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543)
- watercolor on parchment (dia 5.5 cm) frame dated 1576
- Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna)

▪Second wife of Thomas Grey: one of her grandchildren was Lady Jane Grey, who became Queen of England for 9 days before executed
▪She rode in Anne Boleyn's coronation procession in 1533 and stood as one of the godmothers of the future Queen Elizabeth I.

Husband of the eldest daughter Margaret of Sir Thomas More.

Margaret Roper (Margaret More, 1505–1544)
- Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543, German)
- bodycolor on parchment (dia. 4.5 cm) 1535/6
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC)

Eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Moore

Renaissance Watercolors #08

 

John, Duke of Bedford, praying before St George 
in the《Bedford Hours》c.1410-30
- Bedford Master (active c.1415-35 )
- watercolor, bodycolor & ink
on parchment (26 x 19 cm)
- British Library (London)

The《Bedford Hours》is a French book of hours. Some of its miniatures, including the portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, have been attributed to the Bedford Master and his workshop in Paris.

François I (1494-1515-1547)
in《The Collection of the Kings of France》
by Jean du Tillet, c.1545-7[?]
- Master of《The Hours of Henri II》
- bodycolor on parchment (35.5 x 28 cm)
- Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris)

Petrarch's Laura
- a follower of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
- oil on canvas laid on walnut panel
(61 x 46 cm) 17°C
- Victoria and Albert Museum (London)

Note: probably a 17°C copy, made by one of Leonardo's followers, of a lost work. Laura holds a carnation and touches an apple, the former a symbol of betrothal and fidelity, the latter an attribute of Venus. 

Louis II of Anjou, King of Naples and Sicily 
- attributed to Barthélemy d'Eyck (c.1410-c.1470)
- pen and watercolor on paper (22 x 17 cm) c.1456-65
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris)

Defaced Portrait of King Philip II of Spain
in《Patent of nobility for Sebastian de Besga
and Francisca de la Torre》by Valladolid, 1592
- unknown painter
- watercolor & ink on paper (36 x 24.5 cm)
- Victoria & Albert Museum (London)

Issued by the Spanish king to attest to the nobility of Sebastian de Besga and his sister. The Spanish king of a divided empire had many enemies and this portrait was probably damaged by a later owner of the manuscript who objected to Philip II's rule.

Philip II of Spain
- Sofonisha Anguissola 
(1532–1625, Italian) 
- oil on canvas (88 x 72 cm) 1573
- Museo del Prado (Madrid)

Source: Wikipedia

Renaissance Watercolors #07

 

Skates with an Egg Case and Two Flat Fish 
in《Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata (Aqva)》c. 1575/1580
- Joris Hoefnagel (1542 - 1600, Flemish)
- watercolor & gouache, with oval border in gold,
on vellum ( 14.3 x 18.4 cm)
- National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (USA)

The Piece of Turf with the Columbine 
- Albrecht Durer (1471-1528, German)
- watercolor & bodycolor on parchment
 (36 x 29 cm) c.1490s
- Albertina Museum, Vienna (Austria)

A Lion 
- Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528, German)
- watercolor & bodycolor on parchment (18 x 29 cm) c.1490s
- Albertina Museum, Vienna (Austria)

A Dead Blue Roller 
- Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528, German)
- watercolor & bodycolor on parchment
 (27 x 20 cm) 1512
- Albertina Museum (Vienna, Austria)

Portrait of Terence Supported by Two Actors in
《The Vatican Terence (Terentius Vaticanus)》c. AD 820-830
- Adelricus (active AD 830)
- watercolor & bodycolor & ink on parchment
- Vatican Library (Vatican)

Source: Wikipedia

Renaissance Watercolors #06

 

Study of Peonies 
- Martin Schongauer (c.1450/53 - 1491, Alsatian)
- bodycolor & watercolor on paper (26 x 33 cm) c.1472-3 
- private collection (Getty Museum, L.A.)

Young Hare    
- Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528, German)
- watercolour & bodycolour on paper (25 x 23 cm) 1502
- Albertina Museum (Vienna)

Young Hare on exhibition once a decade.

The Great Piece of Turf
- Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528, German)
- watercolor & bodycolor, pen & ink
on paper (40 × 31 cm) 1503
- Albertina Museum (Vienna)

Study of Morels and Champignons in
《C. Clusius, de Fungis cum tabulis pictis》c.1584
- unknown painter (active c.1584)
- watercolor, bodycolor & ink
on paper (44 x 28 cm)
- Leiden University Library (Netherlands)

Flower Vase with Tulip, Rosebud, Aquilegia & Insects
- Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1600, Flemish)
- watercolor, bodycolor & gold leaf
on parchment (16 x 12 cm) 1594
- Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology, Oxford (UK)

Source: Wikipedia

Renaissance Watercolors #05

 

An Iris
- Jacopo Bellini (c.1400-c.1470, Venetian)
- watercolor on parchment
(38 x 26 cm) c.1430s - late c.1450s
- Louvre (Paris)

A Eurasian Hoopoe 
- (attributed to) Simon Marmion (c.1435-1489, French)
- watercolor on paper (17 x 28 cm) mid-15°C
- Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Vienna)

decorations in《Cocharelli Manuscript》,
 a treatise on the Seven Vices
- unknown (active c.1330-40)
- watercolor on parchment (each 17 x 11 cm) c.1330-40
- British Library (London)

Decorated border with sprays of living things decorating a page from a verse history of Sicily in the time of Frederick II.

(L) “Catherine of Cleves kneels before the Virgin and Child”
in《Hours of Catherine of Cleves》c.1440
- anonymous Dutch artist known as the Master of Catherine of Cleves
- watercolor on parchment (each page 19 x 13 cm) 
- Morgan Library and Museum in NYC (USA)

Notes: This book of hours contains the usual offices, prayers and litanies in Latin, along with supplemental texts, decorated with 157 colorful and gilded illuminations -- an ornately illuminated manuscript in the Gothic art style.

The Miraculous Draught of Fishes

- Raphael

Note: a repetition of #01, not to be repeated here.

Sources: Wikipedia

Renaissance Watercolors #04

Charity of St. Martin 
《Hours of Etienne Chevalier, Tours》c.1452-60
- Jean Fouquet (c.1425-c.1478, French)
- watercolor, bodycolor, ink & gold
on parchment (21 x 14 cm)
- Louvre (Paris, France)

View of Flanders (Flemish countryside)
in《Trésor des Histoires, Bruges》c.1475-80 
- Master of the Getty Froissant (active c.1475-85)
& Master of the London Wavrin (active 1470s)
- bodycolor on parchment (48 x 23 cm) 
- British Library (London)

Courtyard of Innsbruck Castle to the South 
- Albrecht Durer (1471-1528, German)
- watercolor & bodycolor on paper
(34 x 27 cm) c.1495-6
- Albertina Museum (Vienna)

A Village Feast 
- Hans Bol (1534–1593, Flemish)
- bodycolor & gold paint, mounted on wood
(14 x 21 cm) 1591
- Royal Library of Belgium (Brussels)

A Flemish Village
- Hans Bol (1534-1593, Flemish)
- pen & brown ink with grey wash,
over graphite on paper (18 x 31 cm) c.1586
- British Museum (London)

Sources: Wikipedia