MUS HIST 3300/5300 Opera History Spring 2013 Terms and concepts for Midterm For the following terms and concepts from lectures and the assigned chapters in Grout & Williams: please be able to: 1) give a brief definition of each term‚ and 2) relate each term to the repertoire that we have studied Terms‚ by Week/Grout & Williams Chapter: Week 1/Chapter 3-4 Court opera Intermedio Monody (accompanied monody) Giulio Caccini. Le nuove musiche; “recitar cantando‚ cantar recitando”
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grandmother passed away december of 2008 and I was deeply saddened by this event. My music history teacher in high school played a few pieces for us from the classical period. I remember hearing the Marriage of figaro‚ Moonlight sonata‚ Don Giovanni‚ and a few others‚ but Moonlight sonata grabbed my attention the most. I began to learn this piece by ear as I had no prior piano knowledge. Little by little‚ the piece began to come along and i performed it in class to the best of my
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Musée Rodin described Auguste Rodin as the most remarkable sculptor in his time‚ where he seemingly made flesh out of marble. He was born in Paris on November 12‚ 1884 and known for creating “The Age of Bronze”‚ ”The Gates of Hell”‚ “The Burghers of Calais”‚ “The Thinker”‚ “The Kiss” and many other more (biography.com). According to his biography‚ Rodin created “The Gates of Hell” as a commissioned entrance piece for a “never built” planned museum; it featured the sculpted figures of “The Thinker”
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try to crossing the domain with the trade‚ because it is dangerous and took long time to get to other countries. Until the sail technique and been used for 1000 years. In1497‚ just five years after Columbus landed in the Caribbean John Cabot (Giovanni Cabotto)‚ an Italian whose ships were financed by England’s King Henry VII‚ landed on the shores of Newfoundland‚ off the east coast of North America. And this is how Canadian trade history start. The national people were the first arrive in
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Renaissance Northern Europe produced some of the greatest writers and thinkers the world has ever known. William Shakespeare‚ Thomas More‚ Francois Rabelais were some of the talented people from that time and place. William Shakespeare was a famous playwright‚ poet‚ and genius. His genius was in expressing universal themes in everyday‚ realistic settings. His work explores the complexity of the individual and the importance of the classics. Shakespeare’s love of words also vastly enriched the English
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discusses Earth and Mars known as the “Goldilocks Planets‚” this is because Earth and Mars both have the perfect environment for life to be sustained. I was first observed that Mars had evidence that it could sustain life in 1877‚ by the astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli. Schiaparelli drew a map of mars as an “earthly paradise.” This was because he observed that the planet had what appeared to be continents and water channels on the surface. Although‚ it was discovered that Mars has less water contents
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Backpacking can be traced in the 60s and 70s‚ which in turn followed the sections of the old Silk Road. Seventeenth-century Italian adventurer Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri has been cited by some authorities as one of the world ’s first backpackers Backpacking is an outdoor activity where a participant packs all of their gear into a backpack. This gear may include food‚ water‚ bedding‚ and perhaps shelter. This is one of the fast growing businesses in Australia and contributes to economy growth
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Shaping North America 350 million years ago- The Appalachian Mountains formed 225 million years ago- Earth’s supercontinent broke up into separate continents. 135-25 million years ago- Western North American mountain ranges formed. 10 Million years ago- North America’s basic geological shape is formed 2 Million years ago- The Ice Age begins; glaciers carve into the land creating formations such as the Great Lakes. 10‚000 years ago- The Ice Age ends Peopling the Americas Evidence suggests
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Henry Vaughan’s The Retreate In the poem The Retreate Henry Vaughan deals with the loss of the heavenly glory experienced during the childhood and expresses a fanciful desire to get back that original stage. The theme‚ on the surface level‚ appears very simple; but going into the deeper the reader will find that the poem is founded on the diverse European idealistic‚ psychological‚ religious/mystical and philosophical doctrines in the western culture. On the socio-cultural level‚ the poem can be
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For many people today‚ religion is not a huge part of their lives; of course there are people who are heavily devoted to their faith. What these people do not realize is that our whole world today is built upon the pillars of religion. Up until the late eighteenth century‚ religion was everyone’s entire world in Europe; everything they did was for the Church. Therefore‚ the Church was crucial to the development of our modern world. This can easily be seen by the Church’s influence on art‚ and the
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