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    Renaissance man were first pointed out in Italian Renaissance. One of the great thinkers of the Italian Renaissance‚ Leon Battista Alberti said that “A man can do all things if he will." Even though Italian Renaissance defined the Renaissance man‚ Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Oration on the dignity of man was the work that has set the perception of the Renaissance man on the people’s eyes. On defining the Renaissance man‚ Pico della said; "At last‚ it seems to me that I have understood why man is

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    Music of the Renaissance

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    Table of Contents BACKGROUND OF THE RENAISSANCE ERA 1 THE ‘REBIRTH’ OF RENAISSANCE MUSIC 3 THE FAMOUS COMPOSERS 4 SACRED AND SECULAR VOCAL GENRES IN THE RENAISSANCE 10 SACRED VOCAL GENRES: 10 SECULAR VOCAL GENRES: 10 INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC: 11 CHARACTERISTICS OF RENAISSANCE MUSIC 14 Words and Music 14 Texture 14 Rhythm and Melody 15 RENAISSANCE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 16 Recorders and flutes 17 Shawm 17 Dulcian 17 References 18 BACKGROUND OF THE

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    Middle Ages and Music

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    Middle Ages Dates:   1. What was going historically during this era?  What was life like? 2.  Who or what had the power? 3.  Who were learned or literate? 4.  Who were allowed to sing in church? 5.  Most of the music that was notated during the middle ages was sacred or secular? 6.  Was most medieval music vocal? 7.  What is Gregorian Chant?  Discuss its origin‚ texture‚ melody‚ rhythm‚ text.  How did it receive its name?  What is its purpose? 8.  When chant was notated‚ was the rhythm notated or

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    Analysis 5 Sicut Cervus Intro: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of spiritual music and the best­known 16th­century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He has had a marvelous influence on the development of church music‚ and his work has often been seen as the culmination of Renaissance polyphony. Palestrina’s masses show how his compositional style developed over time. One of the symbols of Palestrina’s music is that dissonances are

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    The Pope Marcellus Mass is a mass written by Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina. One of the Musical movements‚ it was Gloria of the Ordinary. The main theme of the Pope Marcellus Mass is praising God and Jesus Christ; the literal meaning of the entire title‚ “Gloria in Excelsis Deo‚” is “Glory to God in the highest.” Also a praise to the Holy Trinity‚ the Mass is usually performed a capella with a total of six voices‚ which is a multiple of three. It may not have been done on purpose‚ but numbers definitely

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    Cited: Hochschild‚ Joshua PhD. The Catholic Intellectual Tradition at Mount St. Mary’s. Ingham‚ Mary Beth. "The Catholic Intellectual Tradition." The Catholic Intellectual Tradition. 2007. Web. 09 Mar. 2012. . Pico‚ Giovanni della Mirandola. Oration on the Dignity of Man. The Western World. ed. Dr. Teresa Rupp. United States: Pearson Custom‚ 2012. 6-17. Print. Thomas F.X. Noble‚ Barry Strauss‚ Duane J. Osheim‚ Kristen B. Neuschel‚ Elinor A. Accampo‚ David D. Roberts

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    E***** W****** Professor W***** B****** The World of Humanism and Reform 15 February 2013 Humanism: The Egalitarian Movement The Humanist philosophy has egalitarian roots because of its ideal confidence in humans to decipher truth from falsehood without any need for external intervention. This assurance that people have no need for others but only themselves proves that each relies on his own understanding‚ therefore each man may reach his own conclusions instead of relying on the more privileged

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    1616). By Christopher Marlowe. Ed. David M. Bevington and Eric Rasmussen. New York: Manchester UP‚ 1993. 1-102. Print. Faust Book (English). Perseus Digital Library Project. Tufts University. Web. 8 Jan. 2010. <http://tiny.cc/MmID2>. Mirandola‚ Giovanni Pico della. Oration on the dignity of man. Washington‚ D.C: Regnery‚‚ Distributed to the trade by National Book Network‚ 1996. Print.

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    The development of vocal music is a wide spread journey‚ filled with many changes and branching off of core ideals. In order to understand the origins of the music we listen to today‚ we must understand the past‚ and how music has developed. Three periods vital to the development of vocal music includes the Middle Ages‚ the Renaissance‚ and the Baroque era. The music of the Middle ages was very religious. According to Music: The Art of Listening‚ the only type of music that was even recognized that

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    Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486 CE) If there is such a thing as a "manifesto" of the Italian Renaissance‚ Pico della Mirandola’s "Oration on the Dignity of Man" is it; no other work more forcefully‚ eloquently‚ or thoroughly remaps the human landscape to center all attention on human capacity and the human perspective. Pico himself had a massive intellect and literally studied everything there was to be studied in the university curriculum of the Renaissance; the

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