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~~~ Audio: A Brand New Outfit (Little Einsteins S01E27) mp3
~~~ Story: Help the yellow caterpillar to get to the the musical tree of many colors to complete its metamorphosis(变态反应)into a mature butterfly.
~~~ Music: Ludwig van Beethoven | The Symphony No.9 in D minor, Op.125, Movement 4 - Ode to Joy (贝多芬 | (合唱)交响曲第九号 第四乐章:欢乐颂)
"Ode to Joy" (German: "An die Freude", first line: "Freude, sch?ner G?tterfunken") is an ode written in the summer of 1785 by German poet, playwright, and historian Friedrich Schiller and published the following year in Thalia. A slightly revised version appeared in 1808, changing two lines of the first and omitting the last stanza.
The ode ("Ode to Joy") is best known for its use as musical setting by Ludwig van Beethoven in the final (fourth) movement of his Ninth Symphony (completed in 1824), a choral symphony for orchestra, four solo voices and choir. In other words, the words are sung during the final movement by four vocal soloists and a chorus. Beethoven&`&s text does not use the entirety of Schiller&`&s poem, and reorders some sections. His tune(but not Schiller&`&s words) was adopted as the Anthem of Europe by the Council of Europe in 1972, and subsequently the European Union.
~~~ Pictures by two artists (举例见音频配图):
Wheat field with cypresses
The wheat field with cypresses paintings were made when van Gogh was able to leave the asylum. Van Gogh had a fondness for cypresses and wheat fields of which he wrote: "Only I have no news to tell you, for the days are all the same, I have no ideas, except to think that a field of wheat or a cypress well worth the trouble of looking at closeup."
In early July Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo of a work he began in June, Wheat Field with Cypresses (June–July 1889, Oil on canvas, 73 x 93.4 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (F717)): "I have a canvas of cypresses with some ears of wheat, some poppies, a blue sky like a piece of Scotch plaid; the former painted with a thick impasto . . . and the wheat field in the sun, which represents the extreme heat, very thick too." Van Gogh who regarded this landscape as one of his "best" summer paintings made two additional oil paintings very similar in composition that fall. One of the two is in a private collection.
London&`&s National Gallery A Wheat Field (F615), with Cypresses painting was made in September which author H.W. Janson describes: "the field is like a stormy sea; the trees spring flamelike from the ground; and the hills and clouds heave with the same surge of motion. Every stroke stands out boldly in a long ribbon of strong, unmixed color."
There is also another version of Wheat Fields with Cypresses made in September with a blue-green sky, reportedly held at the Tate Gallery in London (F743).
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The Great Wave off Kanagawa (神奈川沖浪里 Kanagawa-oki nami ura, "Under a wave off Kanagawa"), also known as The Great Wave or simply The Wave, is a woodblock print (日本木版画) by the Japanese ukiyo-e((浮世絵 IPA: [u.ki.jo.e]) translated as "picture[s] of the floating world")artist Katsushika Hokusai(葛饰北斋). It was published sometime between 1829 and 1833 in the late Edo (江戸, "bay-entrance" or "estuary"), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo) period as the first print in Hokusai&`&s series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. It is Hokusai&`&s most famous work, and one of the most recognizable works of Japanese art in the world.
The image depicts an enormous wave threatening boats off the coast of the town of Kanagawa (the present-day city of Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture). While sometimes assumed to be a tsunami, the wave is more likely to be a large rogue wave. As in all the prints in the series, it depicts the area around Mount Fuji under particular conditions, and the mountain itself appears in the background.