MU Medieval Period * Hildegard von Bingen: Columba aspexit * Genre = plainchant * Text = sacred‚ Latin * Texture: monophonic throughout * Performance practice: responsorially‚ that is‚ the performance alternates between a single singer (soloist) and the larger choir‚ which “responds” * The piece becomes more melismatic as it continues. * Ensemble: female vocal soloist‚ female vocal choir‚ droning
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Ancient Romans claimed descent from Greeks‚ in fact the Great Roman poet Virgil wrote an epic poem entitled Aeneid where he tells that Romans come from Aeneas line who escaped from the Trojan fire to save his royal descent. He landed at Italy where married a princess named Lavinia. That means you have to consider Roman literature as an evolution of Greek literature: Romans learn from Greek but progress. Greek and Roman literature is wide and it includes: tragedies‚ comedies‚ poems‚ epics etc
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Virgil Virgil came to be regarded as one of Rome’s greatest poets. His Aeneid can be considered a national epic of Rome and has been extremely popular from its publication to the present day. Virgil- Beatrice sends Virgil to Earth to retrieve Dante and act as his guide through Hell and Purgatory. Since the poet Virgil lived before Christianity‚ he dwells in Limbo (Ante-Inferno) with other righteous non-Christians. As author‚ Dante chooses the character Virgil to act as his guide because he admired
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war is controlled by Gods and Goddesses and humans are purely their pawns. While in Troy‚ the Gods and Goddesses has only few appeared in the film like Thetis‚ mother of Achilles. There is no “sword of Troy” it is all invented by the filmmakers and Aeneas‚ in the Iliad‚ is already well-known by Paris. They were relative while in the movie‚ Paris asks his name and then gave the so called “sword of Troy”. Menelaus was not killed by Hector. In Iliad‚ he survived from war and returns to live with his
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taught a humanist curriculum. During the Renaissance the values and purposes of education was to gain social status or self-development and to fight oppression but these values and purposes were often challenged in order to allow absolute monarchy. Aeneas Piccolomini; Battista Guarino in Method of Teaching and Learning; and Francesco Guicciardini all support that the values and purposes of education was to gain social status or self-development. In Method of Teaching and Learning‚ Piccolomini states
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passage describing the shield is an early example of ecphrasis (a literary description of a work of visual art) and influenced many later poems‚ including the Shield of Heracles once attributed to Hesiod.[1] Virgil ’s description of the shield of Aeneas in Book Eight of the Aeneid is clearly modelled on Homer. The poem The Shield of Achilles
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The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire Numerous myths exist about the creation of Rome‚ from Romulus and Remus to Prince Aeneas and his Trojan warriors. Regardless of the reason‚ it was believed to be founded around 753 BC along the Tiber River‚ a crossroads for traffic and trade. The Etruscans gained political control of the small settlements that had popped up in the area and created the Roman Kingdom. It wasn’t until the Latin and Sabine tribes rose up against the Etruscans did a government
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him The torrent roared‚ and we did buffet it follow. So indeed he did. With lusty sinews‚ throwing it aside and stemming it with hearts of controversy. But ere we could arrive the point proposed‚ Caesar cried‚ “Help me‚ Cassius‚ or I sink!” I‚ as Aeneas‚ our great ancestor‚ Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder The old Anchises bear‚ so from the waves of Tiber did I the tired Caesar. And this man is now become a god‚ and Cassius is a wretched creature and must bend his body If Caesar carelessly
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References: Lombardo‚ S. (2009). The Iliad. In S. Lawell and M. Mack (Ed.)‚ The Norton anthology of American literature (2nd ed.). New York: W.W. Norton & Company. Fenno‚ J. (2008). The wrath and vengeance of swift-footed aeneas in iliad 13. Phoenix‚ 62(1)‚ 145-161‚241. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/232012812?accountid=34741
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Book 1: The Rage of Achilles Book 2: The Great Gathering of Armies Book 3: Helen Reviews the Champions Book 4: The Truce Erupts in War Book 5: Diomodes Fights the Gods Book 6: Hector Returns to Troy Book 7: Ajax Duels in Hector Book 8: The Tide of Battle Turns Book 9: The Embassy to Achilles Book 10: Marauding Through the Night Book 11: Agamemnon’s Day of Glory Book 12: The Trojans Storm the Rampart Book 13: Battling for the Ships Book 14: Hera Outflanks Zeus Book 15:
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