He also illustrated Daphnis and Chloe by Longus ( 1937 ) and Chansons pour elle by Paul Verlaine ( 1939 ).

When Ravel used a 5 / 4 time in the final part of his ballet Daphnis and Chloe ( 1912 ), dancers of the Ballets Russes sang Ser-ge-dia-ghi-lev during rehearsals to keep the correct rhythm.

Nyrop gives a vivid example in the classic love story of Daphnis and Chloe.

As a reward " Chloe has bestowed a kiss on Daphnis — an innocent young-maid's kiss, but it has on him the effect of an electrical shock ":

* Chloe, in the play Daphnis and Chloe by ancient Greek novelist Longus

Longus's legend of Daphnis and Chloe describes two children who grow up together and gradually develop mutual love, eventually marrying after many adventures.

Unpredictable turns of fortune drive the complicated plotlines of Hellenistic romances, such as Leucippe and Clitophon or Daphnis and Chloe.

Pitys is mentioned in Longus ' Daphnis and Chloe ( ii. 7 and 39 ) and by Lucian of Samosata ( Dialogues of the Dead, 22. 4 ).

From Oedipus onward, Greek and Roman tales are filled with exposed children who escaped death to be reunited with their families — usually, as in Longus's Daphnis and Chloe, more happily than in Oedipus's case.

** Edward ( Bud ) T. Graham, Milton Cherin, Ray Moore ( engineers ), Pierre Boulez ( conductor ), the Camarata Singers & the New York Philharmonic for Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe ( Complete Ballet )

In 1931 Orestis Laskos directed Daphnis and Chloe ( Δάφνις και Χλόη ), contained the first nude scene in the history of European cinema ; it was also the first Greek movie which was played abroad.

Although there was no classical precedent for the form, it drew some inspiration from ancient Greek novels set in the countryside, such as Daphnis and Chloe.

* Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe with Tanglewood Festival Chorus ( Philips, 1989 )

The orchestra was conducted by Pierre Monteux, the choreography was by Michel Fokine, and Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina danced the parts of Daphnis and Chloe.

Daphnis and Chloe enter at the foreground and bow before the Nymphs.

But with an abrupt motion Daphnis pushes aside the cowherd and approaches Chloe affectionately.

They position themselves in front of Chloe and gently lead Daphnis away.

The laughter ceases at the sight of the radiant group formed by the embracing Daphnis and Chloe.

Daphnis thinks this is a game of Chloe ’ s.

Daphnis thinks of Chloe, perhaps in danger, and runs off to save her.

Daphnis enters looking for Chloe.

A group of herdsmen enters looking for Daphnis and Chloe.

Daphnis notices Chloe ’ s wreath.

* In the rings of Saturn, the Encke and Keeler gaps within the A Ring are cleared by 1: 1 resonances with the embedded moonlets Pan and Daphnis, respectively.

Sculpture of Pan ( mythology ) | Pan teaching Daphnis to play the pipes ; ca.

Daphnis as Pan appears and declares his love.

In music, exoticism is a genre in which the rhythms, melodies, or instrumentation are designed to evoke the atmosphere of far-off lands or ancient times ( e. g. Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé and Tzigane for Violin and Orchestra, Debussy's Syrinx for Flute Solo or Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio espagnol ).

* 1914 – Nassos Daphnis, Greek-American painter ( d. 2010 )

Diaghilev commissioned ballet music from composers such as Nikolai Tcherepnin ( Narcisse et Echo, 1911 ), Claude Debussy ( Jeux, 1913 ), Maurice Ravel ( Daphnis et Chloé, 1912 ), Erik Satie ( Parade, 1917 ), Manuel de Falla ( El Sombrero de Tres Picos, 1917 ), Richard Strauss ( Josephslegende, 1914 ), Sergei Prokofiev ( Ala and Lolly, rejected by Diaghilev and turned into the Scythian Suite ; Chout, 1915 revised 1920 ; Le pas d ' acier, 1926 ; and The Prodigal Son, 1929 ), Ottorino Respighi ( La Boutique fantasque, 1918 ), Francis Poulenc ( Les biches, 1923 ) and others.

5 and 8 describe the myth of Daphnis in a song contest, 6, the cosmic and mythological song of Silenus, 7, a heated poetic contest, and 10 the sufferings of the contemporary elegiac poet Cornelius Gallus.

Ravel's piano compositions, such as Jeux d ' eau, Miroirs, Le tombeau de Couperin and Gaspard de la nuit, demand considerable virtuosity from the performer, and his orchestral music, including Daphnis et Chloé and his arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, uses a variety of sound and instrumentation.

Ravel began work with impresario Sergei Diaghilev during 1909 for the ballet Daphnis et Chloé commissioned by Diaghilev with the lead danced by the famous ballet dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky.

In 1907 on Misia's boat L ' Aimée, Ravel completed L ' heure espagnole and the Rapsodie espagnole, and at the premiere of Daphnis et Chloé, Ravel arrived late and did not go to his box but to Misia's, where he offered her a Japanese doll.

In Greek mythology, Daphnis (, from, daphne, " Bay Laurel ") was a Sicilian shepherd who was said to be the inventor of pastoral poetry.

According to tradition, he was the son of Hermes and a nymph, despite which Daphnis himself was mortal.

Daphnis was also the name of a member of the group of Prophetic sisters, known as the Thriae.

Theocritus ' story of naiad jealousy was that of a shepherd, Daphnis, who was the lover of Nomia or Echenais ; Daphnis had on several occasions been unfaithful to Nomia and as revenge she permanently blinded him.

They received names Melaina (" the Black "), Kleodora (" Famed for her Gift "), and Daphnis (" Laurel "); however, in the page in the Corycian nymphs, the third sister is listed as Corycia.

The initial recordings included live concert performances of William Bolcom's 8th Symphony and Lyric Concerto, Mahler's Sixth Symphony, the Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem, and Ravel's complete Daphnis et Chloé, which won the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance.

In 1 Thyrsis sings to a goatherd how Daphnis, the mythical herdsman, having defied the power of Aphrodite, dies rather than yield to a passion with which the goddess had inspired him.

This was a sort of florid romance, in two books of six-line stanzas, in the manner of Lodge and Shakespeare, dealing at large with the complaint of Daphnis for the love of Ganymede.

For Diaghilev, in Paris he conducted the world premieres of Stravinsky's Petrushka, The Rite of Spring, and The Nightingale ; Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé ; and Debussy's Jeux.

Monteux was the conductor for the two outstanding works of the season, Vaslav Nijinsky's ballet version of Debussy's Prélude à l ' après-midi d ' un faune, made with the composer's approval, and Fokine's Daphnis et Chloé to a score commissioned from Ravel.