Art In Action Final Project

Art in action! For the final part of my art in action project I added a poem by D.H. Lawrence called Trees in the Garden! 

All put together put together my project is comprised of 

• music - my song that I composed taking the poem I wrote and putting it to a simple melody with a harmony. On the top I have pop chord symbols so that it can be played with a guitar or with the baseline piano accompaniment. I also have figured bass on the bottom so that if a key change is needed then I’ll know what chords to play in the desired key. I also enjoyed the change from minor to the relative major key that I ended up using in the piece (they share the same key signature but the piece begins in minor and switches to major). 

 • art - the drum/shaker that I made using recycled materials. I painted the top but I ended up putting sheet music around the drum instead of having the sides painted. 

 • and theater - the poem that I chose which would be read as a monologue. I chose this poem because I thought it was an elegant representation of nature and brings together the theme of Earth Day. 

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Trees in the Garden by D. H. Lawrence 

Ah in the thunder air

how still the trees are!

And the lime-tree, lovely and tall, every leaf silent

hardly looses even a last breath of perfume.

And the ghostly, creamy coloured little tree of leaves

white, ivory white among the rambling greens

how evanescent, variegated elder, she hesitates on the green grass

as if, in another moment, she would disappear

with all her grace of foam!

And the larch that is only a column, it goes up too tall to see:

and the balsam-pines that are blue with the grey-blue blueness of

  things from the sea,

and the young copper beech, its leaves red-rosy at the ends

how still they are together, they stand so still

in the thunder air, all strangers to one another

as the green grass glows upwards, strangers in the silent garden.