Nurturance is protection’s more affirming twin. Both are actions directed toward another’s welfare. One prevents harm, the other promotes well-being.
The baroque-era flute sonata tends to impart a motherly quality to the music, with the soprano-voiced flute leading the way for her charges.
Real
Imaginary
Visual Arts
- Paul Gaugin, The Offering
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Good Mother (c. 1773)
- Wassily Kandinsky, Black Accompaniment (1924)
Music: songs and other short pieces
- Paul Simon, Loves Me Like a Rock
Film and Stage
- The Country Girl, “Clifford Odets’ poignant drama of a broken-down actor, his loyal wife and a misunderstanding stage director”
- Sundays and Cybele, a film about a young girl nurturing a man back to emotional health
Music: Composers, artists, and major works
Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101 (1816)
Bach, Flute Sonatas:
- Sonata in G minor for flute and harpsichord, bwv 1020
- Sonata in B minor for flute and harpsichord, bwv 1030
- Sonata in E-flat major for flute and harpsichord, bwv 1031
- Sonata in A major for flute and harpsichord, bwv 1032
- Sonata in C major for flute and basso continuo, bwv 1033
- Sonata in E minor for flute and basso continuo, bwv 1034
- Sonata in E major for flute and basso continuo, bwv 1035
Locatelli, Flute Sonatas, Op. 2
- Sonata No. 1 in C major
- Sonata No. 2 in D major
- Sonata No. 3 in B flat major
- Sonata No. 4 in G major
- Sonata No. 5 in D major
- Sonata No. 6 in G minor
- Sonata No. 7 in A major
- Sonata No. 8 in F major
- Sonata No. 9 in E major
- Sonata No. 10 in G major
- Sonata No. 11 in D major
- Sonata No. 12 in G major
Locatelli, Trio Sonatas, Op. 5
- Sonata No. 1 in G major
- Sonata No. 2 in E minor
- Sonata No. 3 in E major
- Sonata No. 4 in C major
- Sonata No. 5 in D minor
- Sonata No. 6 in G major
Other works:
- Bach, 3 sonatas for viola da gamba and keyboard instrument, BWV 1027–1029 (1720-1721)
- Arensky, Piano Quintet in D Major, Op. 51 (1900): the strings nurture and support the adventurous piano.
- Balakirev, Piano Concerto No. 2 in E-flat Major
- Raga Bilaskhani Todi (Bilāskhānī Todī), a Hindustani classical raag for late morning: in the image usually associated with this composition, a woman attracts a deer in the forest with her vina (performances by Ali Akbar Khan, Ravi Shankar and Nikhil Banerjee).
- Raga Manj Khamaj, a Hindustani classical raag (performances by Nikhil Banerjee, Ali Akbar Khan and Ravi Shankar, and Ali Akbar Khan)
Poetry
Poems:
- Pablo Neruda, “Ode to Wine”
- David Bates, “Chiding”