Editor’s Note: Ekstasis in Music Criticism and Analysis
The Ateneo de Manila University has always prided itself in how its curricula (and extra-curriculars) are geared towards holistic...
Intimacy and Reflection: The Parallelisms of Friedrich and Chopin’s Masterpieces
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich Defining a stylistic archetype of the Romantic period has been found to be...
Romanticism: Musical Emotion Embodied in the Visual Emotion
"Casa de Locos,” or “The Madhouse.” Romanticism was a movement that reacted towards the scientific rationalization of nature. Despite...
Revolutionizing Harmony through Baroque Painting and Music
Vocazione di San Matteo (“The Calling of Saint Matthew”), a painting by Baroque artist Michaelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, depicts the...
The Beginning of Farewell: Saying Goodbye Through Painting and Music
Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer born in Alsergrund, Vienna on January 31, 1797 during the early Romantic era of music. His...