Term 1: August-November 2012
Composer Study:
Claude Debussy (1910)
Prelude to the Afternoon of the Faun
La Mer
Nocturnes for
Orchestra
Suite Bergamasqe
(includes Claire de Lune)
Children's Corner
Jeux
("Games"); a "danced poem" intended to accompany a ballet
Note: Where is
The Girl with the Flaxen Hair? Look at Preludes
Artist:
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919)
1. La
Grenouilliere, 1869
2. Les Grands
Boulevards, 1875
3. La Loge, 1874
4. Girl with a
Watering Can
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840-1917)
5. Monument to
Balzac
6. The Thinker
Shakespeare:
Henry VI, Part II and III
Plutarch: Solon