The Pope Marcellus Mass is a mass written by Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina. One of the Musical movements‚ it was Gloria of the Ordinary. The main theme of the Pope Marcellus Mass is praising God and Jesus Christ; the literal meaning of the entire title‚ “Gloria in Excelsis Deo‚” is “Glory to God in the highest.” Also a praise to the Holy Trinity‚ the Mass is usually performed a capella with a total of six voices‚ which is a multiple of three. It may not have been done on purpose‚ but numbers definitely
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Giovanni Palestrina‚ an Italian composer of the Renaissance‚ was born in February 3rd 1525/26 in Palestrina and died in February 2nd 1594 in Rome. As a child he moved Rome. By the age of 12 he was one of the choirboys at the basilica of Sta. Maria Maggiore‚ where he studied music between 1537 and 1539. In 1544‚ when he was 19 years old‚ he went back to his native town where he was made the organist of the cathedral‚ St. Agapito. Three years(1547) later he got married and had three boys. In 1551
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Giovanni Boccaccio The Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio is best known for the Decameron. For his Latin works and his role in reviving Hellenistic learning in Florence‚ he may be considered one of the early humanists. The culture of Giovanni Boccaccio is rooted in the Middle Ages‚ but his conception of life points forward to the Renaissance. Boccaccio ’s work reflects both his middleclass mercantile background and the chivalric ideals of the Neapolitan court‚ where he spent his youth. He strove
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A striking departure from the thematic regularity of most operas of his time‚ Mozart’s Don Giovanni‚ presented Europe with a brash new outlook of nobility. The opera’s plot‚ based around the licentious actions of Spanish aristocrat Don Giovanni‚ begins with Giovanni’s rape of Donna Anna‚ the future bride of Don Ottavio‚ and subsequent murder of her father. From the commencement‚ it is apparent that Giovanni follows his own set of perverted morals unlike those common to society. His servant Leperello
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Don Giovanni: The Characters and Their Music Giving Character’s character is one of the most interesting challenges in operatic composition; another is composing for all the specific characters. A composer has to distinguish between characters through his music. Jan can’t sound like Fran‚ and Dan can’t sound like Stan. Each character must have his/her own traits. Mozart’s opera‚ Don Giovanni‚ provides us with many different characters to compare and contrast. One scene in particular lends itself
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today‚ like Giovanni Bellini. Giovanni Bellini is a very well known artist for making many beautiful pieces of art. Most of his art was religious and included many famous holy characters like Jesus and The Virgin Mary. He has a wide background connecting to artists‚ he was born into a family of great artists and painters. This made him strive to be one like his other close family members. Not many people knew much about his artistic abilities until his very first pieces of art. Giovanni Bellini’s
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Rustico and Alibech by Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio The exact details of his birth are uncertain. A number of sources state that he was born in Paris‚ but others denounce this as romanticism by the earliest biographers. In this case his birthplace was possibly in Tuscany‚ perhaps in Certaldo‚ the town of his father. He was the son of a Florentine merchant and an unknown woman‚ and almost certainly born illegitimate. Boccaccio grew up in Florence. His father was working for the Compagnia
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Giovanni Boccaccio “While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens‚ ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.” A famous quote written by Giovanni Boccaccio in his famous work ‘The Decameron’. An italian poet and scholar that helped develop the foundations of humanism and vernacular literature. Without him‚ the history of Italian Renaissance’s literacy would be unclear. With his famous poems and novels‚ he inspired many future writers like Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer. Giovanni
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Giovanni Da Verrazano Nusrat begum SOCIAL STUDIES 711 Giovanni Da Verrazano was one of the many European explorers that explored The New World‚ he explored northern eastern part of the present day U.S which are North Carolina‚ New York‚ Maine‚ Canada. Verrazano was also an Italian navigator who boarded voyages along with He was a Florentine explorer that served for King Francis I of France. Giovanni da Verrazano Giovanni travelled the seas as a pirate‚ or Privateer sailing for King Francis
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Nikki Giovanni: The Princess of Black Poetry Yolanda Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni is one of the world’s most renowned black poets‚ as well as an author‚ commentator‚ writer‚ and educator. Born in Knoxville‚ Tennessee‚ raised in Cincinnati‚ Giovanni has been an involved activist and writer since the early 1960s. After leaving high school in the eleventh grade‚ she entered the historically black Fisk University where she graduated with a BA in History in 1967. During her time at Fisk‚ Giovanni became
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