Abduction from the Seraglio‚ had great success following his marriage with Constanze. While in Vienna‚ Wolfgang wrote many operas including Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro. Joseph Hayden was a close friend of Wolfgang and they influenced each other’s work. Wolfgang worked closely with Lorenzo Da Ponte‚ an excellent opera librettist. Don Giovanni was an opera that had music by Wolfgang and Italian libretto by Ponte. This opera has both comic and dramatic
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(1) Francesco Petrarch (1304-74) As the first of the Humanist‚ he was one of the most influential poets of the Middle Ages. And he is considered by most to be the founder Renaissance Humanism in general. Petrarch was the first and greatest representative of the humanistic phase of the Italian Renaissance. He was the first scholar of the mediaeval time who fully realized and appreciated the supreme excellence and beauty of the classical literature and its value as a means of culture.
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seventeen he became an apprentice to renowned sculptor of Lorenzo Ghiberti. In Ghiberti’s studio Donatello learned new bronze techniques. He became as master of the medium by assisting Ghiberti in constructing and decorating the bronze doors the San Giovanni baptistery in Florence. In 1407 he left Ghiberti to work on the Cathedral in Florence. Later that year he received two important commissions; the life-sized marble David and Saint John the Evangelist. His next project would be St. Mark for the outside
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political reasons Giovanni Boccaccio wrote "The Decameron" in Italian vernacular supporter of Petrarch Sandro Botticelli Florentine painter "Birth of Venus‚" "Primavera" Filippo Brunelleschi Florentine architect designed duomo of Florence cathedral‚ chapel of Pazzi family Michelangelo sculptor by nature‚ painted but hated it; incredible realism introvert‚ hated but thrived on competition work includes Sistine Chapel ceiling‚ marble David‚ and the Pieta studied but criticized da Vinci-equally/more
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Chapter 1 Outline I. The Shaping of North America A. About 225 million years ago‚ a single supercontinent contained the entire world’s dry land and later enormous chunks began to drift away. B. Continuous shifting and folding of the earth’s crust formed the Appalachians‚ Rockies‚ and other huge mountain ranges. C. The Great Ice Age hits the world and when it retreated‚ it left the entire landscape of North America changed forever. II. Peopling the Americas A. Land Bridge theory 1. Occurred
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Giovanni Battista Sammartini‚ was one of the most renowned early symphony composers. He composed symphonies with three movements‚ and used rising scales‚ repeated melodic ideas‚ arpeggiation‚ and a pronounced bass. The Symphony soon spread all over Europe
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mackenzie Gates Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27‚ 1756. At the age of four he could learn a piece of music in half an hour. At five he was playing the clavier incredibly well. At six he began composing‚ writing his first symphonies at the age of eight. He was constantly traveling all over Europe with his father‚ Leopold Mozart‚ a violinist‚ minor composer and Vice-Kapellmeister at the court of the Archbishop of Salzburg. The musical feats and tricks of young
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Time Capsule Paper In my Humanities pursuit I have been task with being a cultural anthropologist in search of hidden time capsules from both The Renaissance and Age of Baroque periods. It has been rumored that there are artifacts from both periods such as art‚ music‚ architecture‚ philosphy‚ and literature that lie within these capsules. I hope to be able to unlock some of the myteries of these periods once we descover the were abouts of the time capsules. The Renaissance is described as
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The French‚ Spanish‚ and English all tried to colonize the Western Hemisphere. The French colonization in America started in the 16th century‚ and continued through centuries as France created an empire in the Western Hemisphere. They founded most colonies in the east of the U.S.A‚ and many Caribbean islands. The English were one of the most important colonizers of the Americas‚ and really had a rivalry against the Spanish. The English began colonizing in the late 16th century and came out on top
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down to New Orleans (the American counters of Joan of Arc’s famous victory at Orleans). 8. Jacques Cartier – Journeys the St. Lawrence River in 1534; gave Canada its name. Before that it used to be Kanata‚ meaning village or settlement. 9. Giovanni da Verrazano - sailed the Atlantic Ocean into the now is the New York Bay. 1524 10. John Cabot – Explores northeastern seaboard of north America for England 1498 11. Vasco Nunez Balboa – "discovered” the Pacific Ocean across isthmus of Panama
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