PRELIMINARIES: Our discussion this week has two parts–the first related to chapter 31 and the second one related to chapters 33-34.Do both parts. There is also the usual EXPLORE list under the topic.Be sure to use that instead of any random googling for answers–you arerequired to use the class text each week and at least one of theEXPLORE-listed websites. HINT:The Explore list normally suggests what page numbers to focus on.ANOTHER HINT: If using the eBook purchased via our bookstore, when youjust click on the on-screen page, the page number appears on the lowerleft of the screen. Jot it

TOPIC: Please respond to both of the following subjects, using the class text and sources under the Explore heading as the basis of your response:

• SUBJECTONE: Determine whether you prefer a work by Debussy or Mahler afterlistening to works by each at the Websites below or in this week's MusicFolder and after reading about them in our class text. Be sureto read how one of the composers was inspired by poetry and the other byphilosophy. Explain the reasons for your preference of the work. Would your choice also inspire more productivity by workers in the workplace? Describe the types of things that inspire you to creativity.
• SUBJECT TWO: Describe one painting (select one from one of these folks: Van Gogh, Seurat, Cezanne, Gauguin, Munch, Picasso, Braque, and Matisse ); try to select one different from classmates. KEY: You are to choose a painting that you believe represents the following quote by Kandinsky on the subject of color in art. Justify your response. From Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Kandinsky said: “Ifyou let your eye stray over a palette of colors, you experience twothings. In the first place you receive a purely physical effect, namelythe eye itself is enchanted by the beauty and other qualities of color.[…] These are physical sensations, limited in duration. They aresuperficial, too, and leave no lasting impression behind if the soulremains closed. And so we come to the second result of looking atcolors: their psychological effect. They produce a correspondentspiritual vibration, and it is only as a step towards this spiritualvibration that the physical impression is of importance. … Generallyspeaking, color directly influences the soul." – Wassily Kandinsky. Discussthese ideas for the use of color and its impact in our own times, suchas color’s effect for advertising and sales, or its impact in theworkplace and home—or place of business, like a hotel or office complex.

Explore:

Debussy and Mahler

• Chapter 33 (p. 1092-4), Debussy; (pp. 1104-1105), Mahler; review the Week 7 “Music Folder”
• “Approaching Mahler and Debussy” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYZ1mUupG7k
• Musical selections for Mahler – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RONBzkthUjM (Symphony No. 2, Finale; Resurrection Symphony) or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbRyttzUzjI (Symphony No. 1, 3rd Movement).
• Musical selection for Debussy – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvnRC7tSX50 (Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune)

Kandinsky on Color

• Chapters 33 and 34, works by Van Gogh, Seurat, Cezanne, Gauguin, Munch, Picasso, Braque, and Matisse
• New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Search names listed above at http://www.moma.org/collection/artist_index.php?start_initial=A&end_initial=A&unparsed_search=2