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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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The Oboe HISTORY The oboe first appeared during the 17th century. Even though the oboe made its orchestral debut in France in 1657‚ its earliest ancestral oboe like instruments were first used around 2800 B.C. The closest predecessor of the modern oboe is an instrument also part of the double reed family called the shawm‚ which dates way back to its creation in the 1200’s. The first baroque oboe made out of boxwood was created in France for the purpose of entertaining the French court. Its
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Handel – And the Glory of the Lord And the Glory of the Lord was composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel. It is the fourth movement from his ‘Messiah’ works and is an Oratorio in the late Baroque period. It has a Metre of 3/4‚ meaning there are four crotchet beats per bar; its tempo is Allegro (Fast) until the end four bars‚ where is changes to Adagio (Slow/Calm). The piece is in the key of A Major (F#‚ C# & G#) but frequently modulates. At bar 21‚ the key modulates to E Major (F#‚ C#‚ G#
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playing the sly. By the time he was only ten years old he had mastered his skills playing the organ‚ oboe‚ and violin all thanks to Frideric Wilhelm Zachow who had taken him under his wing. From age eleven to age seventeen Handel performed church cantatas and chamber music‚ which did not receive much attention. When Handel turned eighteen he accepted a position at the Hamburg Opera’s Goose Market Theater playing the violin. In 1705 Handel began to compose opera’s‚ which made his career skyrocket.
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Henry IV. (1589-1610) He was assassinated by a Catholic Was a Huguenots (calvinist) James 1:8. Double minded main Matthew 16:26. Gain whole world and lose soul Advisor was de sulle Cardinal Rochelieu Chief council to Louis XIII (1614-43) Great cardinal Real ruler of France Founded French absolute monarchy Raison d’état - "reason of the state" The good of the state is the supreme good "Man is immortal‚ salvation is hereafter; the state has no immorality‚ it’s salvation is now or never"
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characteristics. Strangely‚ “Gratias agimus tibi” does not document any sort of dynamic qualities; therefore‚ Bach has left the dynamics up to the performers to differentiate their parts in a way that reflects both the music and its text. Much of the cantata matches the text Bach chose to utilize within the piece. The theme of thanksgiving starts in the bass section and progresses upward through the voices as it continues‚ in addition to the instruments of the orchestra. The trumpets play a
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Bartok’s The Bluebears’s castle was written for her 2nd wife: Ditta Pasztory‚ his story‚ they had 1 son‚ Bartok’s Third Piano Concerto was written for her TYPE OF COMPOSITIONS: He wrote stage and orchestral works‚ piano solos‚ string quartets‚ cantata and folk songs. He was an avid collector of folk songs. EARLY CHILDHOOD: When he was a kid‚ he can distinguish between different dance rhythms When he was 4‚ he was able to play 40 pieces on the piano He suffered eczema in the age of 5 At the
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styles greatly different from artistic styles of the time making it virtually impossible to draw parallels between the two. Instead‚ one needs to draw independent conclusions about Baroque music. One example which we heard in class was Handel’s oratorio called Solomon‚ Act III. The third act is good representation of music of the Baroque and was written by Handel in order to state how marvelous and powerful Baroque music was. One of the biggest changes in Baroque music is the development of free
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anyone familiar with dance. Latin American music has had a large influence on the form the dances have today. It was the mariachi bands of Mexico that stirred up the quick paced rhythms and playful movements at the same time that Cuba was embracing similar musical and dance styles. Traditional dance was blended with new‚ modern ways of moving‚ and became a whole new dance rage. The dances from those days evolved and were influenced by modern music as the sexy style and hip gestures became more accepted
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