Music has evolved too many different forms that we recognize today. We trace this development throughout time. Beginning in the middle ages‚ we have seen advancement from the Gregorian chant all the way to the Jazz of the 20th century. The current events‚ politics‚ religion‚ technology and composers can shape musical eras during time. Here I will look at the middle ages‚ renaissance‚ baroque‚ classical‚ romantic and twentieth century periods. I hope that a better understanding can be reached
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MUSI4813 5/20/09 Music History Synopsis Ancient Greece Major Political events- Much of the written compositions made in this time were destroyed or went missing as the Christian church got rid of pagan influences. Rome was overthrown and Europe went into turmoil and people focused less on music and more on survival. Historical perspective- Aristotle and Plato wrote about music which they believed to have moral and ethical properties essential to the complete education of young students.
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celebrations on the 15th day of the tenth month in the Khmer calendar‚ at the end of the Buddhist lent‚ Vassa.[1][2] In 2012‚ the national holiday fell on the 14th - 16th of October in the Gregorian calendar. The day is a time when many Cambodians pay their respects to deceased relatives of up to 7 generations.[3] Monks chant the suttas inPali language overnight (continuously‚ without sleeping) in prelude to the gates of hell opening‚ an event that is presumed to occur once a year‚ and is linked to the
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the people that come looking for help. I love using the gardens of the monastery to make new medications. The people that come to church like my music. I can see how my compositions free them. My melodies enchant the people. I love when the choir chants‚ it helps the congregation meditate. I am getting older; I wonder if my music will ever be heard outside these walls. Oh the music! Will my message about God be remembered for ages? What about my medicine. I want people to know what I use to heal
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elected as the Successor of Peter. II. Contribution to the Church Gregory is credited with re-energizing the Church ’s missionary work among the non-Christian peoples of northern Europe. He is most famous for sending a mission‚ often called the Gregorian mission‚ underAugustine of Canterbury‚ prior of Saint Andrew ’s‚ where he had perhaps succeeded Gregory‚ to evangelize the pagan Anglo-Saxons of England. The mission was successful‚ and it was from England that missionaries later set out for the
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1. What is the Hurrian song? Why is it important? The Hurrian song refers to a set of fragmentary relics as well as a nearly complete example of notated music from around 1400 BCE. The almost complete song or hymn is written in cuneiform writing on clay tablets. At least one of the tablets is noted as a song‚ and the musical notation appears to have been written for the nine-stringed lyre. 2. What is the Natya Shastra? Why is it important? The Natya Shastra is a written discourse on the performing
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plainsong) into Mozart’s very famous “Ave Verum Corpus.” To truly understand what something has become‚ we must first see where its conception was and how it grew in its prenatal stages. Before the motet‚ the music of the church was defined by Gregorian chant and the plain cantus firmus’. The rise of motets can be attributed to the supply of the text that represents a paraphrase of the
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Introduction Renaissance‚ literally‚ means rebirth; it is an era that began in 1400’s and ended in 1600 and its school of thought dramatically shifted from religious and mystical ideals to a focus to human interactions. It is worthy and important to understand the changes from the transition of musical period‚ because they mark and shape the music industry that stands now. For instance‚ opera was in its infancy when Giulio Caccini (1551-1681) started writing the first opera and now operas can be
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order to define the morality of music‚ it is necessary to examine the intentions of the musician in writing music. All music fulfills a purpose. The purpose of the musician in creating music determines the morality of a song. The purpose of Gregorian chant‚ for example is to lift the minds of man to God in prayer and for thousands of years it has fulfilled that purpose of good. Immorality in
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Worshipping other gods were forbidden. It restricted the music to pertain about the Greek/Roman gods. 7. Which entity dominated life in the Middle Ages? The Church 8. What forms of sacred music were predominant in the Middle Ages? Church modes and Gregorian chants 9. How did the society begin to change in the Late Middle Ages and how did that affect the music? 10. Who was Hildegard of Bingen and why was she important to music in the Middle Ages? A nun and abbess of Rupertsburg in Germany. She was
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