Greetings, followers of Scarlatti all over the lands!

Continuing on my thoughts of Arts in the realms, as I've promised, I'll
talk of the manifestations of the essence of the Arts.

Scarlatti himself was of many Arts. He shows himself both as musician
and painter in his Hall, and we know he is the Greater Poet, the Soul of
Acting, and a master of all the Arts. His followers, thus, are the
actors, poets, musicians, and artists of Achaea.

Putting it simple, the major manifestations of Scarlatti's reign are the
Music, the Writing, the Performing, and the Visual Arts. Those are the
major paths through which his followers channeled the essence. Dumas has
spoken very true words on the Music, but what of the others? How is it
that inner essence reaches the spectators, and how does it return to the
artist in each of these manifestations?

Music is the projection of essence through sound. It deals with 2 main
aspects - sound and time. Sound, we talk about harmony and melody; Time,
we talk about rythm and momentum. A piece of music is made of that -
harmony and melody holding the musical momentum through time and rythm.
Of course, like an enchantment, music holds its spectators as long as it
lasts - a Bard that ceases to play cuts his connection with his
audience. Thus, essence in music is like water, for it flows through us.
Ha
We can state, then, that music is the flow of essence in time, through
rythm, harmony and melody. It has the power to conduct and lead people
through emotions contained in this essence.


The Visual Arts of Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, and so on, are the
exact counterpart of Music: they lack the progressive characteristic of
time, for they are static - but therein lies its strenght. A piece of
Art is a deposit of essence in form. An artist seeks the beauty in Form,
and puts his essence into it. Finished, a sculpture is a material
depository of emotions, static and idle, for a piece of Art forgotten
inside a locked room never loses its essence - if there is no one to
admire it,
We state that the power of Visual Arts lies in its static and depository
state, a being of pure essence enclosed in the material form of beauty.


Writing might be the most difficult one to define. I have myself doubts
on my own thoughts, and have not yet found rest within this subject (not
that I have found on any other, but this is more complex).
All people write. We write everyday, letters, journals, messages, news.
Poets write in the same way others do. Pen and paper are subject to the
action of the mind through the hands. What is it that differs Poets from
mere writers?
The Poet [please note that by Poet I mean all who write on Artistic
inspiration - be it stories, plays, poetry] seeks the beauty in the
words. He puts them through time and sequence. Words and Time, then, are
the tools of the Poet. Better, Words inside Time. But it is not only
finding glamorous words and putting them in any sequence. It is finding
the harmony in the relationship between words, and of words x time.
Where in this comes essence? Oh, if only the Colourful were here to
explain it to us! I'm not really sure, but I'll give it a wild shot. The
thread woven by the words is held together by essence in an harmonic
way, like a beautiful tapestry is at the same time only pieces of string
tied in patterns. Tieing words together is where the Poet puts his
essence, binding them into the harmonious pattern he has imagined. The
reader, then, must 'untie' it, reading it through time, and release the
esse


What of Acting? The most dynamic and bodily Art involves not only time,
but space! Scarlatti, bless me with your wisdom, for of this I knowe but
little.
Acting involves first of all body and words. It can be added of visual
and musical effects, but the essence within it is in the relationship of
text and movement. It is but a stronger representation of Writing, for
it does not involve one person reading a text, but (usually) more than
one _acting_ it out. It brings the emotions into scene, and what words
say, the body he says it too. It's words in movement, Acting. Essence
that was put into a text is augmented throught the Actors own essence w

Dance, closely related to Acting, is the relationship of body and image.
The body of the Dancer becomes a moving canvas, a living sculpture
through which the body makes the image stronger. Then, people dancing
together brings in a ressonance of harmony between them, greatly
magnifying the Dance's effect. Essence is here at its wildest flow, for
it usually comes accompanied of Music, and the Dance is the ultimate
response in essenceflow to most pieces of Music.


Scarlatti forgive me If I've forgotten anything, but then, I'm only a
Grook 🙂
I'll keep on posting, and very interested in having a mug of Ale (be it
Darkbrew, the better!) and discussing the Arts with any who might be!

Scarlatti bless your days with colours many!
~ikiepu

Penned by my hand on the 15th of Valnuary, in the year 346 AF.