Paul Dukas, the French composer, wrote his orchestral work The Sorcerer's Apprentice in 1897. It is exciting music and it tells an exciting story.
The musical story has pictures, too, which the composer has drawn with his notes. They are musical pictures of all that happens in the story and all the characters in it.
Each character and each action has its own melody, drawn in music which belongs to it, with lines that are especially suited to it. In this sory are up and down line, soft lines and strong ones, curlicue lines, happy and fearful lines, and wavy lines –enormous waves of water as well as small drops. You can hear and see lots of water in this story.
In this book, there are happy and fearful colors, too, which match the feeling of the music and help to tell the story.
If you listen well, not only with your ears but with your eyes too, you can see in this book all the musical pictures in the story "The Sorcerer's Apprentice."
–Book introduction
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