Muncie Symphony Orchestra
“The Creatures of Prometheus” by Beethoven
6:30 p.m. Saturday
Students will explain the relationship between Beethoven’s “The Creatures of Prometheus” and the artworks of “Prometheus Brings Fire to Mankind” by Heinrich von Füger and “Prometheus Bound” by Nicolas-Sébastien Adam.
This semester, students learned how to connect and develop a relationship between music and art in a new immersive learning course.
The main idea of the Synergizing Music and Art class from the School of Music is that people who visit the David Owsley Museum of Art will be able to scan a QR code with their iPad or smartphone to learn more about the selected piece of art with related music, said Heather Platt, professor of the course.
“The patron can hear the music the student has chosen and then read about the types of art-music relationships they have discovered,” Platt said.
This Saturday, the students will further explain the relationships at a Muncie Symphony Orchestra concert at John R. Emens Auditorium.
Platt said she decided to create this project after visiting museums in Rome and witnessing many of the patrons using tablets to look up information about certain works of art.
“I realized then that we could use handheld devices to enable [David Owsley Museum of Art] patrons to hear music while they viewed the collection,” She said.
Platt said she wanted to guide students through their own explorations of music and art by creating the immersive learning course.
Carson Weingart, a senior piano performance and business major and student in the course, described art and music as multidimensional.
He said a piece of music reveals over time what a work of art contains in a single snapshot.
“Music can be used to guide the viewer around the work of art and increase his or her understanding of what is taking place on the canvas,” Weingart said.
He said he developed a new appreciation for looking at works of art.
“By learning about the elements of art, I can see many connections between musical style and artistic style,” he said.
One of the challenges Weingart had to overcome was his limited knowledge of art history.
“I had not taken an art history course prior to starting this project,” he said. “So when it came time for me to research my chosen work, I worked with museum staff and was given access to museum files, which contained fascinating articles and information on the piece I had chosen.”
Jason Wade, senior major in music performance and French, hoped to gain a greater understanding of music and art their influence on each other.
“After the course, I now have the knowledge to make educated comments about how art and music relate,” he said.
Wade said music and art can complement one another.
“The two art forms allow us as viewers and listeners to enter a new world,” he said. “We can use extremely similar vocabulary when describing art and music.”
Cathy Bretz, education program coordinator, said the art museum does collaborations with other departments and organizations in Ball State.
“The addition of music adds an interesting perspective which adds to the experience of viewing an artwork,” she said.
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