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    Describing a Place

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    in Bibione‚ and there was a large range of animals that you can see‚ including seals‚ lions‚ hippos and lots of goats! We went to the open market‚ where we bought 10 bracelets‚ 6 necklaces‚ a pair of shoes‚ earrings and 3 tops. When we went to Venice‚ all we bought was masks‚ masks‚ and a glass elephant for my brother‚ masks and more masks. My mother is a really big follower of St. Anthony; in fact she bought about 7 statues‚ 5 key chains and 2 magnets. During our stay in Treviso‚ there was

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    Venetian Macau

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    thank the heavens for Gillespie. Robert Hlusak‚ Artistic Manager – Theming‚ Venetian Macau Limited Built on a grand scale‚ the real impact of the resort lies in the design of its breathtakingly opulent interior. Replicating the beauty of Renaissance Venice with ornate mouldings and lavish decoration‚ the interior also features a ‘piazza’ in the Venetian style. Architectural canals‚ gondolas and singing gondoliers under a painted blue sky all add to the charm of the experience. Globally recognised as

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    Disegno and Colore

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    Disegno and Colore Painting in the 16th Century Venice was still caught up in a regional debate which pitted the idea of colore against the much more formal emphasis on disegno. This held sway in the rival Florence. By exploring this philosophical and provincial debate‚ I have drawn contrasts between the use of colour and outline in selected works by Michelangelo and Titian. I have also looked at to what extent are these attitudes to materials reflective of the social and spatial conditions in

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    Music Appreciation

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    Review Questions 1. What were the three forms of English madrigals? Describe each type. - Madrigal Proper‚ in this form‚ the madrigal was through-composed. It used quite a bit of word-painting‚ which is the matching of music to the words in the text. There also is The Ballet‚ which is a piece in which dancers tell a story through their movements and the music. Lastly‚ there is The Ayre‚ with is a form of madrigal that is performed in a number of different ways‚ including with or without

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    Sacred and Profane Love

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    art history has‚ and will always live on. He was born around 1440 in Cadoe‚ Italy‚ to an un-artistic family consisting of lawyers. As a young child‚ he quickly learned the value of money and management. As a young child‚ he and his family moved to Venice where he was pushed to study art. Before the age of fifteen‚ he studied under three well-known Venetian artists: Zuccato‚ Gentile and Bellini. Giorgione was his ultimate teacher. Titian was inspired by his bold‚ contemporary style of art. Titian

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    Rigoletto is an operatic masterpiece created by the Italian‚ Giuseppe Verdi. Rigoletto premiered on 11th March 1851 at Teatro La Fenice in Venice‚ Italy (Rous). It is a tragedy. It is storyline mainly revolves around three characters: the promiscuous Duke of Mantua; Rigoletto (a court jester)‚ and Gilda (Rigoletto’s fair daughter). Count Monterone curses the Duke for “sexually abusing” his daughter and arresting him after he protests against the duke’s immoral actions (Martin). He also curses Rigoletto

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    “Like a Virgin” was full of innuendos and inter-textual meanings and the video further expands the controversy of the song. Madonna was featured leaving the Brooklyn bridge on a boat and travelling to Venice. The action of the clip is shot in Venice’s Piazza San Marco and features a provocative-looking Madonna on a gondola‚ a lion walking between the columns of the piazza and the statue of San Marco and alternative scenes of the performer singing as she walked through marble rooms and wore a wedding

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    Music

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    1 21 November‚ 2013 MUS31-04 Middle Ages and the Baroque Period Music What is music? According to the definition‚ music is the art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous‚ unified‚ and evocative composition‚ as through melody‚ harmony‚ rhythm‚ and timbre. As we know‚ music had become a controversial topic throughout the world. Everyone knows music‚ everyone heard of music. Music represents our feeling‚ and used throughout the world. Music has been divided into many

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    Pound thought that in all times life has always presented fragments to the mind. This is the natural case…Since life presents fragments‚ it’s not surprising that our minds are inherently disposed to work with them. Though Pound’s fragments are perfectly definite‚ their implications are endless and contradictory (223-224). Pound also extracts from Greek mythology presenting the word in Greek. That is to say‚ Pound named H.D. “Dryad‚” the wood spirit muse of his earliest poems. “Dryad”‚ or “Δρυάς is

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    the renewed interest in the culture of classical antiquity after the period that Renaissance humanists labeled the Dark Ages. The European Renaissance began in Tuscany‚ and centered in the cities of Florence and Siena. It later had a great impact in Venice‚ and worked it was up across Italy‚ and up to Greece which later on the Greek brought together‚ providing humanist scholars to provide writing about the history of the Renaissance. The Italian Renaissance was a movement which gave the whole entire

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