words to paint pictures. Ascending and descending scales are featured in both compositions. Each scale parallels the text in both works. As Vesta Was Descending is upbeat has a joyful rhythm. The song is from The Triumphs of Oriana‚ a collection of madrigals honoring Queen Elizabeth‚ who was also known as Oriana. There are no instruments played. The song is about the attendants of the Roman goddess‚ Vesta‚ leaving her for Oriana. In the first line‚ descending scales are featured. Lines two through nine
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Italy in the 14th century‚ and spread throughout Europe by the end of the 16th Century. Developments in music included an increased respect for the rhythm and the sense of the words in text-setting‚ as exemplified by the adoption of a new type of madrigal composition in the 1520’s and at the end of the 16th century‚ the invention of opera. Medieval music was mainly sung and controlled by Monks. They were more of a gloomy‚ monotonousness sound that centered and pretty much all of it was about religion
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My Beliefs‚ Values‚ and Clinical Gestalt with Individuals and System’s Paper University of Phoenix HSBS 321 December 16‚ 2010 My Beliefs‚ Values‚ and Clinical Gestalt with Individuals and System’s Paper Introduction Working as a Clinician does not just require education. It requires a thorough look into your own values and beliefs. Working as a clinician also requires dignity‚ the capability of remaining humble‚ a good set of ethical standards and a big heart when it comes
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Personal Cultural Narrative Essay Background Information This essay examines my aesthetic cultural background and main influences throughout my life. I was born in Istanbul which is the capital city of Turkey; however‚ my father and mother were born in Konya. Turkey has played a major role in the history of the world. In regard to the fact that Turkey is an Islam country‚ Turkey’s importance in the world is really high. The main underlying reason for that is because Turkey is the only country
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Adam De La Halle and Ars Antiqua Time Period Life Summary Adam de la Halle is often referred to as the greatest of the long succession of post Medieval musicians. He was a poet‚ musician and innovator of the earliest French theater. He became famous for his use of polyphony and his theatrical productions. Adam originally trained for the clergy (the people of the church). Marriage interfered with his musical career; but with the help of some noble benefactors he was able to pursue musical studies
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The Life and Story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart better known as just Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was baptised January 27‚ 1756 in Salzburg on Getreidegasse street in the ninth house‚ which at the time was a part of the Holy Roman Empire but is now Austria. He was born to Leopold and Anne Maria Pertl Mozart in the same house he lived in until he was 17 with his mother‚ father and his big sister Maria Anne‚ she was his only sibling to survive infancy
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Heinrich Schutz 1585-1672 Born in Bad Lostriz in 1585 and moved to Landgrave in 1598 where he served as the choir boy and studied with Georg Otto. Schutz studied law at the Universtiy of Marburg‚ but was advised to instead study music with Gabrieli and Landgrave gave him the finanical means to do so. Heinrich Schutz studied with Giovani Gabrielli from 1609-1672. He composed a polychoral psalm setting that is much in the style of his teacher‚ Gabrielli. During this time Schutz was employed
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And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys‚ groves‚ hills‚ and fields Woods or steepy mountain yields And we will sit upon the rocks‚ Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies‚ A cap of flower‚ and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle; A gown made of the finest wool Which from our pretty lambs we pull; Fair lined slippers for the cold
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the Trecento” (Reese). The largest contributor to this invaluable manuscript was Francesco Landini; he provided 145 pieces for the Codex and some of those pieces are only found recorded there. “The manuscript contains over three hundred songs—madrigals‚ ballatas‚ and caccias—of which almost half are unique to this source. (Sadie) Pieces in the codex are arranged chronologically by composer with some pages left blank for the later addition of works. Each composer’s entry is accompanied by a full-color
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2. award: 0 out of 1 point The intellectual movement called humanism → focused on human life and its accomplishments treated the Madonna as a childlike earthly creature condemned any remnant of pagan antiquity focused on the afterlife in heaven and hell ebook & resources eBook page 92 Multiple Choice 92 3. award: 0 out of 1 point The first large body of secular songs that survives in decipherable notation was composed → during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
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