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    The Renaissance Period  (1400 - 1600 C.E.)      The Renaissance era encompasses Western music history from 1400 to the begining of the 1600’s. This period in time marked the rebirth of humanism‚ and the revival of cultural achievements for their own sake in all forms of art‚ including music. The word "Renaissance" in itself is defined as a "rebirth"or a "reconstruction".      During this time‚ artists and musicians produced works that displayed more artistic freedom and individualism. This creativity

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    Barbara Brown October 24‚ 2013 Black Chicago Paper #2: Black Chicago Renaissance Reader by Darlene Clark Hine A Renaissance is a cultural movement‚ rebirth‚ and reinvention. The Black Chicago Renaissance began in the 1930’s where Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance that lasted into the 1950’s and was in comparison of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s. I don’t believe that the Harlem and Chicago Renaissance should be compared due to the fact that these were two places that were

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    would like our lives to be. All of us strive to reach a certain level of self-actualization and acceptance. It could then be said that all of us live a dream. Some of these individual dreams inevitably become the collective dream of many people. In "Harlem (A Dream Deferred)‚" Langston Hughes makes use of symbolism as well as powerful sensory imagery to show us the emotions that he and his people go through in their quest for freedom and equality. By using questions he builds the poem towards an exciting

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    Chapter 15 notes music Which instrument heard in Susato’s Three Dances is a cross between a woodwind and a brass instrument? Cornetto Farmer’s Fair Phyllis is set for _______ voices. four The principal genres of Renaissance secular music were the chanson and the motet. false Tielman Susato was well known for his work as:  a music printer.  b)  a composer.  c)  an. instrumentalist  d)  all of the above The madrigal flourished principally in France.   b)  False The Susato dances are

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    English madrigals? Describe each type. - Madrigal Proper‚ in this form‚ the madrigal was through-composed. It used quite a bit of word-painting‚ which is the matching of music to the words in the text. There also is The Ballet‚ which is a piece in which dancers tell a story through their movements and the music. Lastly‚ there is The Ayre‚ with is a form of madrigal that is performed in a number of different ways‚ including with or without accompaniment. 2. What were chorales? Why were

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    September 23‚ 2012 The Harlem Renaissance and a Hip Hop Culture In the 1920’s a group of African-American intellectuals decided to come together and construct the New Negro Movement‚ later called the Harlem Renaissance. It was a time when black poets‚ novelists‚ and artists set out to disprove the negative stereotypes and prove that black people were not inferior to white people—they felt that they deserved respect. “The Harlem Renaissance was the African American

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    Renaissance ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form 1. The frottola and the lauda were both strophic songs set syllabically to music in four parts. The frottola was secular and the lauda was sacred. A True B False | 2. The most important secular form in France in the 16th century was the___________. Pierre Attaingnant published about 1500 of these pieces. A chanson B madrigal C lute song D frottola | 3. Secular songs in 16th c. France often used sounds that were descriptive

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    were not used in the mass. Motets were often polyphonic‚ meaning that there were multiple vocal parts sung simultaneously. Motets started to be written during the medieval period and then developed throughout time and was most known throughout the Renaissance period. During this time‚ there were a list of schools and churches that had well known composers and pioneers of the motet. The Burgundian School was a group of composers in the 15th century in northern and eastern France‚ Belgium‚ and the Netherlands

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    today’s society. Because African Americans did not have their own identity‚ the Harlem Renaissance Movement allowed their creative juices to flow and gave them an out to some the stressors of society during that time. During the Harlem Renaissance‚ African Americans would use art‚ music‚ stories‚ poems‚ etc. to express themselves. The Harlem Renaissance is a great movement in African American history. The Harlem Renaissance Movement got its name from the city in New York which kind of became the birth

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    Music During & Post World War II Highlife music has always been in the Ghanaian scenes‚ taking different names and different forms. The name “Highlife”‚ which was coined in the 1920s has already become a household name prior to the Second World War. During the world war‚ the British employed local popular music such as the Konkoma highlife marching songs in recruiting the Black servicemen and increasing their morale for war. Ghanaian dance orchestra musicians who are proficient in the reading of

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