Céilidh [A Beautiful Party]

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http://www.cranfordpub.com/book_indexes/
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Slán agus beannacht leat!

Exceptional Beautiful Places

Cape Cod
Cape Hatteras
Cape Lookout
Acadia
Cape Breton
Deer Isle

World Heritage Sites

185 Countries have signed the convention.
The properties are in 145 states.
679 properties are cultural.
174 properties are natural.
25 properties are mixed.

Beautiful Thinking

Kierkegaard->Subjectivity and Authenticity
Cantor->Infinity of Infinities
Gödel->Incompletenesses
Wittgenstein->Silence
Turing->Computability
Nash->Equilibrium
Shannon->Information
Cook->NP-Complete
Einstein->Relativity

Viola and Piano

Any viola piece that incorporates a piano accompaniment usually results in the piano overpowering the viola. The piano tends to become another voice rather than an accompaniment.It is almost inevitable. An exceptional pianist can escape this problem. The two Brahms pieces are well worth study. The Hindemith pieces are excellent. Solo viola work requires a great deal from the performer.

Favorite Bach Pieces

The Art of Fugue arranged for String Quartet
Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin arranged for Viola
Cello Suites arranged for Viola

Éigse Éireann

Poetry Ireland
2 Proud's Lane, Dublin2
E-mail:poetry@iol.ie
Web:poetryireland.ie

Beautiful Greek

Job
Ecclesiastes
Psalms
Luke
Acts
John
John's Epistles
Paul's Epistles
Revelation

Göttingen editio maior Septuagint
Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece

Favorite Artists

Van Gogh
Constable
Turner
Hiroshige
Hokusai
David Bull Contemporary Tokyo Print Maker

Beautiful Prose

Moby Dick [Tony Hopkins should play Ahab in a coming movie]
Ulysses should be started on June 16th
Lear [Tony Hopkins will play Lear in a coming movie]
Don Quixote en español

Favorite Poets

Bashō
Issa
Buson
Li Po
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Yeats
Baudelaire
Rimbaud
Wallace Stevens
William Carlos Williams
Pablo Neruda
F. Garcia Lorca
Gary Synder
Mary Oliver
Robert Hass
Seamus Heaney

String Quartet,Fugue and Variation

A String Quartet consists of four voices playing together with distinct parts for each voice.
A Fugue is a contrapuntal composition for a fixed number of voices.
A Variation has a fundamental musical theme repeated in an altered form or accompanied in a different way.
Please notice that patterns are varied in an iterative way. Some of the most beautiful western music that was ever composed varies a pattern in an iterative way.
This same iterative variation is also evident in nature.
Goldberg Variations
Diabelli Variations
Art of Fugue
Well Tempered Clavier
Grosse Fugue

Double Helix
Logarithmic Spiral

Shostakovich String Quartets

1-String quartet no. 1 C major opus49
2-String quartet no. 2 A major opus68
3-String quartet no. 3 F major opus73
4-String quartet no. 4 D major opus83
5-String quartet no. 5 B flat major opus92
6-String quartet no. 6 G major opus101
7-String quartet no. 7 F sharp minor opus108
8-String quartet no. 8 C minor opus110
9-String quartet no. 9 E flat major opus117
10-String quartet no. 10 A flat major opus118
11-String quartet no. 11 F minor opus122
12-String quartet no. 12 D flat major opus133
13-String quartet no. 13 B flat minor opus138
14-String quartet no. 14 F sharp major opus142
15-String quartet no. 15 E flat minor opus144

The Emerson

WabiSabi

In Japanese wabi means taste for the simple and quiet; sabi means elegant simplicity. Together, they comprise the Japanese aesthetic. In the west, proportionality has been a governing principle.

The Japanese integrate the object with the universe. The western world separates the object from the universe and mounts it in a frame or on a pedestal. This separation sometimes makes western art inaccessible. Japanese art is always accessible.

Socrates was a stone carver before he became a philosopher. The aesthetic at the time was proportionality. His preference was truth over beauty. He did not want poets in the Republic. He felt that except for Homer they confused truth and beauty. For him, truth and beauty could be bounded, quantified and had no real relationship to each other. Beauty was impermanent and truth was eternal. This has subtly influenced western culture.

Japanese culture is grounded in animism. The spiritual pervades nature. There are no boundaries. The aesthetic is not framed in a western sense but is rather framed by the rest of the universe.

Around 1850, the west began to influence Japanese Art and Japanese Art began to influence Western Art. The Smithsonian has a wonderful collection that illustrates this. Landscapes and Seascapes became prime subject matter in the West.

My personal preference is for the stark, simple and elegant. This does not mean that I would discard western visual art. There has been a cross-fertilization in art between the two cultures since the end of the Tokugawa government.

Beethoven's String Quartets

1. Quartet in F major, op. 18, no. 1
2. Quartet in G major, op. 18, no. 2
3. Quartet in D major, op. 18, no. 3
4. Quartet in C minor, op. 18, no. 4
5. Quartet in A major, op. 18, no. 5
6. Quartet in B flat major op. 18, no. 6
7. Quartet in F major, op. 59, no. 1
8. Quartet in E minor, op. 59 no. 2
9. Quartet in C major, op. 59, no. 3
10. Quartet in E flat major, op. 74
11. Quartet in F minor, op. 95
12. Quartet in E flat major, op. 127
13. Quartet in B flat major, op. 130
14. Quartet in C sharp minor, op. 131
15. Quartet in A minor, op. 132
16. Quartet in B flat major, op. 133
17. Quartet in F major, op. 135

La Déconstruction d'un Poème

Avec

des brucelles

fabriquée spécialement

et

une loupe

fabriquie spécialement

s'il vous plait

detachez

très soigneusement

tous les sons

et

jetez-les

et

mettez

chaque mot

sur la table

dans le bon ordre

syntactique

avec igorez

de tons les lignes

et

après que

vous fassiez

la bonne syntaxe

vous devez

vous assurez

de classifiez

ce qui reste

comme un genre

d'insignifiance

et

de fictifive

prose

et

ne vous en faites pas

au sujet du

ci-dit nom

du poème

parce qu' il est parti

et

ne vous en faites pas

au sujet de chanter

parce que

la musique

est partie

et

ne vous en faites pas

au sujet de danser

parce que

la muisque

est partie

et

elle ne revient pas

bientôt

Rules for the Philosopher’s Club

Only solve the insolvable

Only discuss the indescribable

Only ponder the imponderable

Only strive for the unattainable

Only deal with important trivialities

Only look for meaning where there is none

Daily Aesthetic Experiences

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Prose Poets

Matsuo Bashō
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Arthur Rimbaud
Stéphane Mallarmé
Nikolai Gogol
Octavio Paz
James Tate
Mary Oliver
Robert Bly
Charles Simic