BRIEF HISTORY OF MUSIC Music is a composition of three important elements which are rhythm‚ melody‚ and harmony. The roots of Western music are strongly influenced by classical music. Tracing back its history‚ classical music is divided into six different periods which includes music from the Gregorian chants to Beethoven’s symphonies to the contemporary artists. The longest and most distant era or period of musical history is the Medieval Era‚ otherwise known as the Middle Age Period. During
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History of Japanese Art The history of Japanese art is extensive enough to form an encyclopedia in its own right. We find that the Japanese have had a long and rich history of art that stretches back to ancient times. In fact some of the oldest artifacts known to man belong to the Japanese. The different eras of art have been given names according to the places where the government was located. Historians claim that the earliest inhibitors of Japan was a tribe called Ainu. They were the ones responsible
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The very first preludes were lute compositions of the Renaissance era. They were free improvisations and served as brief introductions to larger pieces of music or particular larger and more complex movements; lutenists also used them to test the instrument or the acoustics of the room before performing. Keyboard preludes started appearing in the 17th century in France: unmeasured preludes‚ in which the duration of each note is left to the performer‚ were used as introductory movements in harpsichord
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According to Baroque-Music.com the most common baroque instruments were “string instruments such as the lute‚ violin‚ viola‚ cello and double bass. Brass instruments like the trumpet‚ horn and sackbut [were also used]...Wind instruments included the recorder‚ flute‚ oboe and bassoon. Baroque keyboard music was often composed for the organ or the harpsichord
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The lute‚ which is pear-shaped and commonly has twelve strings‚ was one of the most versatile and most often used instruments during the Renaissance era. By plucking the strings with fingers‚ the sound was gentle and expressive making it the most suitable instrument
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Terms | Definitions | Sequence | Restatement of a pattern on successive or different pitch levels. | Duetting | Song performed by two. | Imitation* | Repeating a melody‚ with one voice entering at different times slightly altered. | Canon* | Several voices sing the same melody entering at different times. | Cantus firmus* | Polyphonic mass when each work is based on the same polyphonic work. | Stile recitativo | Style used in operas‚ oratorios‚ and cantatas where the text is declaimed
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Les Lumières were the first actors to play a fundamental role in my interest in the novel’s core value as a social testimony of the human world. In fact‚ studying the French Enlightenment throughout my education was respectively a true turning point and an inspiration for my approach to the novel as being both a major prop for the philosophical search of the self‚ and a potent political tool that contributes in shattering the status quo. In the light of this perception of literature‚ pursuing an
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Purcell’s ‘Dido & Aeneas’ Summarise the paragraphs in the square boxes and write your own ideas in the thought bubbles. Highlight any new information you come across‚ and summarise that in bullet points at the end. You could also add post-it notes with related points about Acis and Galathea around the outside. BACKGROUND This set work comes from the Baroque Era (c.1600-1750) This period in history witnessed a new exploration of ideas and innovations in the arts‚ literature and philosophy. Italy
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manifold‚ depending upon one’s point of view‚ but I think they are all important symbols of the passing nature of vitality and life itself. The flowers‚ once brilliant and lovely‚ are now withering in their vase. Music‚ represented by a man playing a lute in a portrait on the wall and by numerous music related items (a recorder‚ a conductor’s
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“An experiment on a bird in the air pump” was oil painted by Joseph Wright; He was best known for his paintings of industrial scenes‚ and for his dramatic use of lighting famously known as furnace light and candlelight. This artwork (completed in 1768) is also one of his artwork expressing one of the days in the industrial revolution. However here in this artwork‚ he has depicted a scene of a traveling scientist demonstrating an experiment which proves suffocation. As the art work expresses‚ a scientist
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