past as they still do. The distinction between "European" music and "American" music in the present day‚ lends itself to an age old dichotomy of musical correctness that can be traced back to Hopkinson and Billings. Mozart‚ Handel‚ Pergolesi‚ Corelli‚ and Hopkinson all produce "European" music and emulate the correctness and standard of traditional music. Hopkinson strictly wrote in a "European" style. He ironically wrote broadside ballads mocking the British and aimed to instill excitement
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Harping Tradition 1600 - 1845 The Irish harp has for many years been a great symbol for Ireland. Although now it is probably seen by most as just the image on the back of our coins‚ or on government letters‚ it has an extensive history rooted behind it. Here we will explore some of the historical background surrounding the harp; from its heyday until its unfortunate decline. For hundreds of years (11th Century onwards)‚ the bardic tradition flourished. Poets‚ Law-Makers‚ Storytellers and Musicians
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Roy Porter’s Bodies Politic is a well-documented study‚ rich in illustrations of visual and literary representations‚ of the social and cultural attitudes towards health‚ disease‚ mortality and doctors in Britain from the seventeenth century to the end of the Victorian age. Though the time- frame is clearly stated in the title‚ Porter has briefly but sincerely traced the cultural history of healing and doctoring in Europe since the Classical times‚ both in spiritual and pathological senses‚ and
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artists openly supported the Civil Rights Movement in their work and Mexican muralists were not considered to be of any importance to the fomalists that dominated the art world (Barlow 1999‚ 125). The mural scene began to grow in 1967 when Allan D ’Arcangelo painted the first decorative mural on the side of an East Ninth street tenement in New York City. In 1968‚ the first photo-realist mural were painted in Venice‚ California. The collective youth murals done in Latin areas of Chicago and New York
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…..And Your Name Is Jonah In the movie‚ And Your Name Is Jonah (1979)‚ there is a family that is going through some tough times. Jenny and Danny Corelli (Jonah’s parents) are seen walking into an institution to pick up their son‚ Jonah. There had been some confusion on the diagnosis; it appears that Jonah was diagnosed as mentally retarded. Jenny kept questioning and questioning if the new diagnosis was in fact correct‚ and was just dumbfounded. They could not believe that Jonah had been
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Dana Butler 12/08/14 Music of the 18th Century Derived from the Portuguese barroco‚ or “oddly shaped pearl‚” the term “baroque” has been widely used since the nineteenth century to describe the period in Western European art music from about 1600 to 1750. Comparing some of music history’s greatest masterpieces to a misshapen pearl might seem strange to us today‚ but to the nineteenth century critics who applied the term‚ the music of Bach and Handel’s era sounded overly ornamented and exaggerated
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The Novel: shades by Marguerite Poland Shades is a South African novel by the award-winning author‚ Marguerite Poland. Her academic credentials are impressive‚ as she has degrees from Rhodes and Stellenbosch Universities and the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She has studied Xhosa‚ Social Anthropology and Comparative African Languages‚ with a special focus on Zulu Literature. She has written for both children and adults‚ which is an unusual achievement. Of her eleven children’s books‚ The Mantis
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How far did the Boer War affect the British control of its African Empire? The Boer War was fought between the British and white Dutch settlers in South Africa 1899-1902. It had many effects‚ and led to the growth of anti-imperialism within British politics and society‚ and highlighted the incompetence of the British military. It also resulted in the formation of the union of South Africa and to the formation of a Dominion in South Africa. The whole idea of imperialism had changed – the meaning
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Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born in Venice‚ the capital of the Republic of Venice. He was baptized immediately at his home by the midwife. It is not known how the life of the infant was in danger‚ but the immediate baptism was most likely due to his poor health or to an earthquake that shook the city that day. Vivaldi’s official church baptism (at least‚ the rites that remained other than the actual baptism itself) did not take place until two months later. His father‚ Giovanni Battista‚ a barber before
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with a title such as ‘fantasy’. Contrapuntal style during this time was used within the constraints of the modal system‚ but the majority of contrapuntal features and devices of fugue style were still available to these earlier composers such as Corelli and Vivaldi. The earliest use of the word fugue in the 16th century actually meant canon strictly applied. This then developed into the fugue as known today. This is evident in the works of Josquin and Buxtehude‚ imitative contrapuntal ideas evolved
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