compose and perform at the same time. Four ingredients that help music swing are steady beat‚ syncopation‚ lilting quality‚ and rising and falling of the melodic line. Charles Mingus was a jazz bassist known for his composing and improvising. Dizzy Gillespie was a modern jazz trumpeter who devised a highly syncopated style of improvising. Jazz musicians usually begin playing a tune they all know and then they make up their own music. Chapter 2 Jazz musicians follow common practices while performing
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Catholic Church After the fall of Rome‚ the Christian Church split into eastern and western Churches. The western Church became the Roman Catholic Church. Religion was an important part of medieval life. Many question if the Catholic Church was positive or negative during the middle ages. This essay will explain why the Church was a negative aspect during the medieval times. According to A Document 2‚ the Church started a court system called the Inquisition. The Inquisition included church officials
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Medieval Castles Castles were a vital part of medieval life. The architecture of these large dwellings was designed for military purposes. Life inside of a castle was extremely busy and smelly‚ as well as crowded. Famous medieval castles include Dover castle‚ the Tower of London‚ and Windsor castle. The architecture of a medieval castle was based on the need for military protection‚ rather than comfort and style. A “motte and bailey” style was commonly used as a layout for the grounds. This consisted
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Along with feudalism‚ a social and political system‚ goes an economic system called manorialism‚ which centered around manors. There were many key characteristics that defined the Medieval manor. A manor was a large estate owned by a feudal lord‚ and the most common form of a fief (Ahlin 1‚ Nardo 19). Manors included a castle or manor house‚ at least one village‚ and the surrounding farmland (Frey 22). Manorialism was the name of the system that included the services that the peasants on a manor
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disprove the known fact that methods of torture during medieval times were both cruel and most definitely did not fit the crime in which they were intended to compensate for. This paper is intended to confirm the media’s portrayal‚ specifically Hollywood‚ of the tortuous methods of a time period where the techniques and procedures utilized to prove a point were perceived as reasonable. Contrary to most popular opinion‚ methods of medieval torture were actually chosen with much deliberation and
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the back pews even the small children. Other ladies aren’t wearing a formal attire instead they some wore a blouse with the back open‚ spaghetti strap with a see through bolero or blazer. Others were wearing a skirt that is above the knee. The church at Anabu Kostal just finish an extension of a multipurpose hall behind as it was announced every mass and how much their expenses were. There were so transparent about the money that they collect which is good because people there can really do know
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Heroism in medieval times was different than it is today. Much of it was based on power over beauty‚ or wealth over intelligence. When faced with the decision of looking brave but being dumb‚ or looking cowardly while being intelligent the majority of the heroic people would have chosen the first option. In the example of Theseus (Canterbury Tales:The Knight’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer) although he was honored for his wise decisions he had the power and strength to stand fast against anyone who opposed
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The Physics and Components of Medieval Projectile Launchers Before the age of cannons‚ gunpowder‚ and modern warfare‚ projectiles were fired using machines generally identified as catapults. Civilizations in the middle ages were the ones to use the catapult the most‚ utilizing basic laws of physics to hit their target. We will look at different designs in catapults and how they function. Even today‚ launching projectiles is a lesson in physics. Catapults are no exception. From the great minds of
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History » Sports in the Middle Ages The sports of medieval Europe were less-well-organized than those of classical antiquity. Fairs and seasonal festivals were occasions for men to lift stones or sacks of grain and for women to run smock races (for a smock‚ not in one). The favourite sport of the peasantry was folk football‚ a wild no-holds-barred unbounded game that pitted married men against bachelors or one village against another. The violence of the game‚ which survived in Britain and in France
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During the medieval period it was full of several inhuman tortures. People would suffer prodigious amounts of pain through these events as they were punished for crimes. During the Middle Ages these tortures were seen as a normal punishments were meant to be slow and painful to the victims. Everyone who was penalized to death due to a crime was usually executed in public. Also‚ torture was a way for Roman courts to gather information‚ force confessions and for simple punishments for their opponents
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