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Being Serious and Attentive

Johannes Vermeer, The Geographer (1668)

Johannes Vermeer, The Geographer (1668)The characteristic attitude at this level is attentiveness, as in “Pay attention.” A person who characteristically and as a matter of routine pays attention to his responsibilities has reached at least the second developmental level.

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Visual Arts

  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Two Girls at the Piano (1892)

Music: Composers, artists, and major works

These Schubert piano sonatas demand careful attention from the performer and the listener.

  • Schubert, Piano Sonata No. 7 in E flat major, Op. posth. 122, D. 568
  • Schubert, Piano Sonata No. 13 in A major, Op. 120, D. 664
  • Schubert, Piano Sonata No. 14 in A minor, Op. 143, D. 784 (“Grande Sonata”)
  • Schubert, Piano Sonata No. 15 in C major, D. 840, “Relique”
  • Schubert, Piano Sonata No. 16 in A minor, Op. 42, D. 845
  • Schubert, Piano Sonata No. 17 in D major, Op. 53, D. 850, “Gasteiner”
  • Schubert, Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major, Op. 78, D. 894

Compositions by Richard Dubugnon:

  • Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op 63
  • Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 77
  • Klavieriana, Op. 70

Organ music sounds so very serious:

  • Langlais, organ works (performed by Houbart, Massaglia and Leclerc)
  • Louis Vierne, 6 organ symphonies
  • Duruflé, Organ works

Other compositions:

  • Feigin, Tuba Concerto
  • Mucha, String Quartet No. 1
  • Mucha, String Quartet No. 2
  • Valentin Silvestrov, String Quartet No. 1 (1974)

Albums:

  • Ballaké Sissoko, “A Touma”: “During these strange and paradoxical ‘solitary dialogues’, he makes his kora speak and reacts to the emotions it arouses in him, letting his imagination and his fingers fly off to landscapes that are both magnificent and unknown.”

Not so serious:

  • John Frederick Lampe, The Dragon of Wentley (1737), a comic opera in which “the ‘hero’ is the inebriate, preposterously attired but ‘valiant’ Squire Moore, who saves a village from a rampaging, child-eating dragon by despatching the marauding beast with a well-aimed ‘Kick on the Back-side’.”

August 23, 2010

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