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Artwork (all of these resources are available through The National Gallery of Art)
Archetype: Destroyer
[Hades in] Abduction of Persephone, Rembrandt, 1632, Painting
Archetype: Innocent
The Abduction of Persephone, Rembrandt, 1632, Painting
Archetype: Mother
Ceres (Roman name for Demeter), Antoine Watteau, 1715, NGA
Archetype: Temptress
Venus de Milo (Aphrodite), Louvre
Birth of Venus, Botticelli, 1478, Uffizi-Florence
Venus Adorned by Graces, Annibale Carracci Oil on panel transferred to canvas,
1590/1595, National Gallery of Art (NGA)
Venus With a Mirror, Titian, 1555, NGA
Archetype: Trickster
Mercury, Attributed to Righetti after Bologna, 1780-1800, NGA
Archetype: Warrior (Hero)
Mars in his Chariot, Peruigino, 1500
Other Artworks Related to Myths
Achilles, Barnett Newman
Ceres, Watteau
Diana and a Hound, Paul Manship
Fall of Phaeton, Rubens
Hercules, Roman-3rd Century
Laocoon, El Greco
Pandora, Redon and Farnese
Music
Archetype: Destroyer
Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Verdi - Overture to "The Force of Destiny" (La Forza del Destino)
Archetype: Innocent
Mendelssohn - Spring Song (used in cartoons)
Tchaikovsky - Waltz of the Flowers (compare to Ellington version)
Brahms - Waltz in A flat
Rubinstein - Melody in F
J. Strauss II - The Blue Danube
Grieg - Morning, from Peer Gynt (Ellington - Morning Mood)
Schumann - The Merry Peasant (piano, 50 seconds)
Archetype: Mother
Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" 2nd movement (Goin' Home)
Smetana - The Moldau
Archetype: Temptress
Bach - Oboe Concerto in D minor, 2nd movement
Sibelius - Valse Triste
Ravel - Bolero
Archetype: Trickster
Rimsky-Korsakov - Dance (Flight) of the Bumble Bee
Smetana - Overture to The Bartered Bride
J. Strauss II - Trisch Tratch Polka
Delibes - Notturo, from Coppelia
Dvorak - Humoresque
Archetype: Warrior (Hero)
Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra - fanfare
Suppe - Light Calvalry - overture
Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries, from The Valkyrie
Wagner - Prelude to Act III - Lohengrin
Mood: Anger
Mozart - 40th Symphony, 1st movement
Beethoven - Symphony No. 5, 1st movement
Mood: Confidence
Haydn - Trumpet Concerto in E flat, 3rd movement
Schubert - German Dance #1
Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, 1st movement
Mood: Joy/Happiness
Vivaldi - Spring, from "The Four Seasons"
Rimsky-Korsakov - Aborado, from "Capriccio"
Vivaldi - Mandoline Concerto in C, RV 425
Schubert - Ballet Music in G, from "Rosamunde"
Mendelssohn - Symphony #4 in A, "Italian" 1st movement
Mood: Love/Romance
Liszt - Liebestraum, No. 3 in A flat
Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor, 2nd movement
Grieg - Ich liebe dich (I Love You)
Massenet - Meditation, from "Thais"
Mendelssohn - Wedding March, from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Tchaikovsky - The Sleeping Beauty - Introduction
Mood: Mystery/Fear
Bach - Toccata in D minor
Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Tchaikovsky - Marche Slave Opus 31
Mood: Nobility
Purcell - Trumpet Tune and Air
Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance, March No. 1
Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, 1st movement
Wagner - Arrival of the Guests at Wartburg, from Tannhauser
Mood: Pain
Albinoni - Adagio
Barber - Adagio for Strings
Verdi - Prelude to Act I, "La Traviata"
Mahler - Symphony No. 5, Adagietto
Mood: Sadness/Melancholy
Beethoven - "Moonlight" Sonata, 1st movement
Dvorak - The Last Spring
Beethoven - Fur Elise
Schumann - Traumerie
Bach - "Air" from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D
Handel - Largo, from "Xerxes"
Wagner - Sigfried's Death and Funeral March
Other Music Resources Related to Myths
Dido and Aeneas by Purcell
La Mort d'Orphee by Berlioz
Claude Debussy's Prelude to an Afternoon of a Faun
Igor Stravinsky's Apollon Musagete
Calypso, sung by Suzanne Vega on Solitude Standing
Wooden Horse, sung by Suzanne Vega on Solitude Standing
Poetry
Archetype: Mother
Mother o' Mine
by Rudyard Kipling
Son to Mother by
Maya Angelou
Godmother by
Dorothy Parker
Archetype: Temptress
Kubla Khan by Samuel
Taylor Coleridge
Archetype: Warrior/Hero
Inaugural Poem by Maya Angelou
These Heroics by
Leonard Cohen
Orpheus Poems
Orpheus. Eurydice.
Hermes by Rainer Maria Rilke - 1904
Orpheus In O'Hare
by Doug Tanoury - 9/19/1997
A Musical Instrument by Robert Browning
Other Poems on Mythology
Hellas
(Chorus Form) by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Prometheus by Longfellow
Endymion by Hamilton
The New Pygmalion by Lang
Websites
(Note: These links will take the user away from the current website)
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/cs/lesson/myth.html
ARTSEDGE lesson on Precolumbian myths
http://artsMIA.org.html
Compares myths from around the world and gives corresponding art pieces
http://www.artsMIA.org/mythology/index.html
and http://www.artsMIA.org/mythology/downloadables.html
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts area focused on World Mythology; audio files and slides
for downloading
http://www.lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/mythology.html
Allows user to type in the god and get a description, as well as a series of images;
limited to western art and Greek mythology
http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/areas/
Provides extensive links to myths of many cultures
Many of these websites were provided through a summer workshop led by the National Gallery of Art on Mythology and Art.
NGA Teaching Packet on Mythology:
Department of Educational Resources
National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C. 20565
Phone: (202) 842-6796
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Excerpted from Look in the Mythic Mirror: an integrated arts, language arts and Internet curriculum for the middle school, copyright 1998 by ARTSEDGE at the The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Music resources compiled by Dr. M.J. Ayers, The Duke Ellington School for the Arts, Washington, DC.