This image and music was made around 1275.
The picture shows Isaac asking Esau to bring him food from hunting.
The blue background has delicate etchings that bring to mind stars, and also ice.
Source: National Gallery of Art
Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20565
Sited as Public Domain, with
Open Access under CC0 Creative Commons Zero
Delft Blue Violin
This very pretty Violin can't be played.
It is for displaying and is Delft earthenware.
Because of it's uniqueness; it can lend itself to many themes not having to do with music,
including projects that use color shades of Blue.
Source:
RIJKS Museum
Museumstraat 1, 1071 XX Amsterdam, Netherlands
©: listed as Public Domain with CC1.0 license
More information about CC1.0 can be found here:
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en
This vintage card is an ad for dog biscuits.
It is also a tool for remembering the musical term
"Allegro" - to play music fast, quickly and bright.
The idea behind the ad is that if the card was pretty (Gold frame edge) &
it helped children learn musical terms; then mom's would remember the ad
and give the card to the children.
Or,
as was popular at the time;
the card would be placed in a scrap book.
Scrap books were often shown and shared with friends.
Each time the scrap book was shown to a friend the ad was seen again.
Wellcome Collection
183 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BE, United Kingdom
©: listed as Public Domain CC mark 1.0
CC Mark 1.0 info can be found here
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
This antique / vintage ad was the front piece of a card advertising dog biscuits.
The ad served as a learning card for a musical term.
Since the card was about something of interest to potential customers
(educating their children in the finer points of music);
the back of the card advertising dog biscuits would have a good chance of being noticed.
The musical term for this card is "Decrescendo" - A decrease in loudness of a piece of music.
The memory aid is a dancing line that starts with a woman and decreases in height with girls that are smaller and smaller until the line ends with two little kitties with the cat at the end being the smallest.
Wellcome Collection
183 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BE, United Kingdom
©: listed as Public Domain CC mark 1.0
CC Mark 1.0 info can be found here
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Golden Wreath in the Shape of a Lyre
This Lyre shaped wreath is full of Flowers and details that can still be seen on smaller image sizes.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Source: Smithsonian Online Collection
©: listed as Public Domain with CC0 license
Music Calming the Kings of the Beasts
Three Lions are laying down - listening intensely to the
Music of a Girl - who is sitting down -
leaning against a tree - and playing a Flute.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Source: Smithsonian Online Collection
©: listed as Public Domain with CC0 license
