Music in the Baroque Period Music is in everyone’s lives these days. You always see people with headphones in their ears or jamming out in their cars. Many people listen to music in the privacy of their homes‚ where they can listen to music as loud as they want and can sing along and not have anyone look at them funny. But do all these people who listen to music on a daily basis really know where it came from? A lot of people will say that Michael Jackson is the king of pop or that Elvis was the
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Trojan War and that for two reasons: because they were descendants of the Trojans and because the Trojan War offered them the opportunity to enhance the virtus (courage)‚ which is best expressed in war‚ and the pietas (religious respect) towards the homeland and family. Both (virtus and pietas) are the basics of the Roman morals. much
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The Iliad and the Odyssey are some of the best know books of antiquity‚ filled with the history and roots of the Greek people. Also belonging to this list of ancient texts is the Aeneid‚ the epic poem on the founding of Rome‚ and of the man who made it happen‚ a man who was seen and considered as the embodiment of Roman moral values. Because of this‚ the poem if suffused with many instances in which he is able to show the extent of his morality. It is through these examples that we catch glimpses
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emptiness of men in which also meant that they were misguided in their faith. Others thought that the statue stood for a more positive representation and for humans to open ourselves to nature and the universe instead of shutting out the world. Pieta was described in lecture as a term used in medieval and Renaissance paintings to describe Christ once he was taken down from the cross after being crucified by the Romans for being the Messiah. In the Byzantine icon image shown in the lecture depicts
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Republic. Cosimo was one of the wealthiest men in Europe and spent a very large portion of his fortune in government and philanthropy. He was a patron of the arts and funded public works. Lorenzo’s father‚ Piero de’ Medici‚ was also at the center of Florentine life‚ active as an art patron and collector. His mother Lucrezia Tornabuoni was a poet and writer of sonnets. She was also family friends with incredible figures like Luigi Pulci and Agnolo Poliziano and became her son’s advisor when he took over
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Florence‚ the Martelli’s. While he was with the family he was given his first instructions on becoming a goldsmith. The name of Donatello’s mother was unknown but Niccolo di Betto Bardi was his father and he was a wool comber in Florentine. His father was a member of the Florentine Wool Combers Guild. Donatello didn’t want to do what his father did so he took a different route. It is believed that he received his artistic training in a goldsmith’s workshop. There he learned about metallurgy and fabrication
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their army in enemies hands Florentines were “terribly frightened and anxious‚ expecting the enemy from hour to hour.” This was a dark time for Florence they were on the brink of destruction or so they thought since thought since the enemies were stopped. To think that this destruction could have been helped if the treaty of peace was kept between the Milanese and Florentines but as the Milanese said “In time of peace‚ while no one expected them to do anything‚ Florentines went to Germany” to get
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Vivaldi: An Almost Forgotten Genius In the 20th century several scholars of the famous Johann Sebastian Bach noticed a composer who kept popping up in their findings. It seemed as if this composer left an impeccable impression on Bach. Who is this guy? Thus the great search for Vivaldi begun. For centuries Vivaldi was forgotten‚ smothered by the fast growing Baroque artist and the dramatic change of the world’s taste in music. Regardless of that fact‚ Vivaldi’s name broke out of the grave and was
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the beginning of the seventeenth century came about as a combination of changes in particular areas of music. These changes were both revolutionary and evolutionary. Some were instigated intentionall y by certain influential groups‚ such as the Florentine Camerata‚ a group of musicians‚ poets and intellectuals who gathered under the patronage of Count Giovanni de Bardi in order to discuss and guide trends in the arts . 3 However some precursors to features of Baroque music are found far back in t
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Squarcialupi Codex The largest anthology of Florentine music of the late 14th and early 15th centuries‚ the Squarcialupi Codex is without equal in both content and ornamentation. “The Squarcialupi Codex documents a most ambitious undertaking on the part of early fifteenth-century Florentine compilers to assemble the native high-art music repertoire of the Trecento” (Reese). The largest contributor to this invaluable manuscript was Francesco Landini; he provided 145 pieces for the Codex and some
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