Charles Wuorinen writes: "In any medium‚ entertainment is that which we can receive and enjoy passively‚ without effort‚ without our putting anything into the experience. Art is that which requires some initial effort from the receiver‚ after which the experience received may indeed be entertaining‚ but also transcending as well. Art is like nuclear fusion: you have to put something into it to get it started‚ but you get more out of it in the end than what you put in. Entertainment is its own reward
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the work carries a far deeper significance. Candide primarily serves to reveal Voltaire’s Enlightenment philosophies through the satire of numerous 18th century institutions and realities. It reinforces concepts such as religious skepticism‚ cultural relativism‚ and secular thought. Voltaire ultimately addressees the reality of human existence and the path to fulfillment. Candide is a fitting Enlightenment doctrine in the context of an increasingly global and secular 18th century world (Spielvogel
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"Madonna" and "Venus" From Two Different Periods I have always been intrigued by the many depictions of "Madonna" and "Venus" therefore I chose to compare and contrast Parmigianino’s “Madonna of the Long Neck” from the mannerist style of the later Renaissance and Titian’s “Venus of Urbino” from Venetian Renaissance. First I will tell you a little bit about the historical background of both paintings‚ then I will prove my thesis by talking about exemplifies two artist’s style and the
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Reading Response on: “Crime and Ornament” & “Notes on Responding to Aalto’s Buildings” by Steven Groak Name: Muna Khalaf Ryerson Number: 500493953 Course: IRH -115 Professor: Aina Elias After reading both articles‚ it is easy for the reader to recognize both architects’ clear intentions towards their work‚ both having different attitudes regarding their outlooks on their buildings. In relation to Alvar Aalto
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The Spirit of the Classical Era : The Classical Era saw the convergence of two opposing schools of thought in society. The first was the leftover from the Baroque Era‚ which said that the nobility had absolute power of society. The second was from the middle class‚ who said that the nobility had gone too far with their power and should give some of their power over to the middle class. The result of this was many opportunities for composers. Not only could they have theirtraditional occupations
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What others say: The teaching philosophy at the Florida State University College of Music is very focused on technique and quality education. The first statement you see on the Music education page on the university website is‚ “Selection and preparation in music education at Florida State University is based upon an important yet extremely simple premise--it is‚ that every person involved as a learner ought to have the best instruction possible”. The premise of music education here is that every
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Music of Romantic Period The Period of Expansion (1820-1910) The Romantic Period Romantic music is a term denoting an era of Western classical music that began in the late 18th or early 19th century. It was related to Romanticism‚ the European artistic and literary movement that arose in the second half of the 18th century‚ and Romantic music in particular dominated the Romantic movement in Germany. Piano is the most important instrument of the Rmoantic Period Frederic Chopin Frédéric Chopin
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Two and three tier architecture gives a model application for developers to create a flexible and reusable application. The application is broken up into tiers and this allows the developer to just modify or create a layer instead of having to re-write the whole application again. Two tier architecture is a client-server architecture. In a two tier architecture the client talks directly to a server‚ with no intervening server(s). It has two hosts – the server and the client. Where the server controls
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Enlightenment period effect on the future of Latin America Two political revolutions arose from the Enlightenment philosophy: the French Revolution and the American Revolution. The motto of the French Revolution‚ “liberté‚ egalité‚ fraternité‚” captures of the ideas they were fighting for: liberty‚ equality‚ and rights.1 News of this overthrowing of the government reached many places‚ one of those being Latin America. During the colonial period‚ a great social gap developed between the peninsulares
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or more in sonata form. Sonata form is a piece of music in three sections‚ in ABA form‚ which are exposition‚ development‚ and recapitulation. 3. What is a coda? A coda is pieces at the end of a musical piece that are extended past the recapitulation. 4. What are the three different parts of the sonata form? Describe each part. The first part of sonata from is the exposition. The exposition is where the composer “exposes” the themes of the music which are the first subject group and the second subject
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