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    buoyant and lively pace of the music is a complete contrast with the unmistakably cynical mood of the lyrics. The piece comprises of a mixed triple meter ranging from 3/4 to 6/8. Although Downland did not imply a specific performance style‚ the madrigal is often performed as a lute song with a soloist and a lute. The two selected pieces are that of Emma Kirby (1998) and the Ensemble Luxurians (2012). Despite both versions having a Soprano lead‚ we find distinct elements of differentiation

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    CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Music of any period reflects‚ in its own way‚ some of the same influences‚ tendencies‚ and generative impulses that are found in the other arts of that time (Donna‚ 2005). Thus the word "baroque‚" usually used despairingly by eighteenth-century art critics to describe the art and architecture of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries‚ came to be applied also to the music of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. After some years after the death of Johann

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    Every poem has a unique tone‚ form‚ and style‚ and can be defined through its genre and content. Christopher Marlowe’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love is an innocent and romantic pastoral poem‚ while Sir Walter Raleigh’s The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd is more realistic and skeptical. The two poems are similar in many ways‚ including structure and meter‚ but they also have contrasting central themes. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love has several distinct characteristics. It can be primarily

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    How does the website‚ “Black People Love Us!” and Eddie Murphy’s skit‚ “White Like Me” address whiteness and white privilege? Topics‚ Terms‚ Concepts‚ People‚ Phrases: Hegemony Dialectic I/not-I Identity is the Bane of Subjectivity’s … Madrigal v. Quilligan Double Consciousness Difference between Colored and of Color One-drop rule White Privilege and Whiteness Black People Love Us! “White Like Me” Passing Common characteristics & purposes of nationalist movements Possibilities

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    describe the music styles of the 1600s to the 1700s. The Baroque period was a time when composers experimented with form‚ styles and instruments and saw the development of opera. This new form of music developed because composers of the polyphonic madrigal style were looking for ways to convey dramatic expression. During the Baroque period‚ operas were derived from ancient Greek tragedy and there was often an overture at the beginning‚ a solo part. Opera was born in Italy around the year 1600 and Italian

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    loved before or after.” ( Maria‚ The Biography) Four‚ there were ten‚ not seven von Trapp children. Five‚ the names‚ ages‚ and sexes of the children were changed. Six‚ the family was very musical before Maria came but she did teach them to sing madrigals. Seven‚ Georg was a gentle‚ warmhearted man who loved participating in musical activities with is family‚ unlike the harsh man shown in the film at the beginning. This change may have made for a better story‚ with Maria being the soother for

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    kind of music was Gregorian Chant. As the Renaissance was the time of cultural awakening and development of arts and sciences‚ music became free of church and new styles appeared as instrumental and dance music and such kind of music as English madrigal. In Classical period musicians moved away from Baroque and Rococo styles to new tuneful and elegant music. Vienna – the centre. New styles of dancing: minuet‚ gavotte. + serenades‚ divertimenti. Names – Mozart‚ Beethoven< Schubert. Composers

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    Quotes: 1. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties... – hamlet 2. Man is born free‚ yet everywhere he is in chains. Rousseau 3. Modern society is rotten even at its roots. Rouseeau 4. Get back to Nature … Noble Savage .. SOCIAL CONTRACT - rouseeau 5. Reason is supreme . Human reason can solve every problem facing humankind. - descartes 6. A work of art is a public dream – frued – Oedipus complex 7. We live in an ordered‚ rational‚ understandable

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    Baroque Period as we know it today. Johann Sebastian Bach‚ born in the year 1685‚ was a German born composer‚ virtuoso organist and keyboard player‚ a violinist‚ and a violist. His career includes over 1100 known compositions including 224 Cantatas‚ 7 motets‚ 24 large scale works including passions‚ 274 chorales‚ 223 organ works‚ and numerous cannons‚ fugues‚ chamber music‚ and lute pieces. Most famous for being an organist‚ Bach used many German styles. Perhaps one of his most famous works‚ Bach’s “Well-Tempered

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    was a time of great productivity. He composed a great deal of music‚ including some of his most admired works: the opera Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)‚ his final piano concerto‚ the clarinet concerto in A major‚ a series of string quintets‚ the motet Ave Verum Corpus‚ and the unfinished Requiem mass. Mozart’s financial situation then began to improve‚ he no longer borrowed money and he began paying off his debts. His recently written works were bringing Mozart a lot of success. Mozart fell ill

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