1. More about Impressionistic Art 2. Double click to hear music 3. More About Mercury 4. Learn more about The Theremin 5. Clickto playselection 6. The Suite bergamasque was first composed by Debussy around 1890, and included a selection originally titled "Promenade Sentimentale, it is now known as Clair de Lune after a poem by Paul Verlaine's. Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masqueraders and bergamaskers go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their fanciful disguises. All sing in a minor key Of victorious love and the opportune life, They do not seem to believe in their happiness And their song mingles with the moonlight, With the still moonlight, sad and beautiful, That sets the birds dreaming in the trees And the fountains sobbing in ecstasy, The tall slender fountains among marble statues. (from the town of Bergamo in Northern Italy) A dance associated with clowns or buffoonery, The End 7. Because it has almost no atmosphere to retain heat, Mercury's surface experiences the greatest temperature variation of all the planets, ranging from 280 F to 800 F . Because Mercury's orbit lies within Earth's orbit it can appear in Earth's sky in the morning or the evening, but not in the middle of the night. Mercury, messenger to the gods. It moves so quickly that it was named after Mercury the fast-flying messenger to the gods. 8. Impressionist art does not clearly draw objects, it only suggests them. Instead of painting realistic, lifelike paintings with hard outlines, Impressionists used thousands of dots, or many different shades of color to create the "impression" of what they wanted to depict. 9. Leon Theremin Loop on left controls volume Rod on right controls pitch. It can be played without being touched. Its associated with a very eerie sound . It was invented as a Motion detector. Can be built with a kit. Invented one of The first electronic Musical Instruments. Moved to the US where some believe he was kidnapped by the Russian Secret Police and taken to a secret laboratory. Invented a listening device disguised in a replica of the Great Seal of the United States, in 1945 Soviet school children presented the concealed bug to U.S. Ambassador as a "gesture of friendship". It hung in the ambassadors residential office in Moscow, and intercepted confidential conversations. It has been used in rock songs. Good Vibrations the Beach Boys Click pic to Hear Good Vibrations