The most significant thing that I learned about Classical music is that there actually are different periods. Before this part of the course (Part 4),
seven liberal arts which were from the classical Greco-Roman system. These seven liberal arts are grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. The High Middle Ages also saw the growth of the church in the 11th century. The church wanted to strengthen the bureaucracy of the papacy by eliminating wrong doings among the clergy. The 12th century saw the horrors of the Inquisition. Bishops, under the order of popes held trials for Catholics who abandoned their faith. The accused…
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luther walked up to the door of the church and nails a piece of paper, 95 Thesis. It was 95 complaints of the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century. He felt that the church had become corrupted by power and greed. Had moved away from the commom man and moved toward the ELITE. Reformation : turned into the Protestant Reformation. Never intended to break away but Martin Luther had to run away because he had a price on his head The Catholic Church had two ways of attacking it. 1)…
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MEDIEVAL EUROPE: FROM THE FALL OF ROME TO THE RENAISSANCE A BACKGROUND READING LINKING CLASSICAL TO MODERN TIMES From approximately 200 B.C. to 476 A.D., the "civilized" areas of Europe and the Near East were dominated, ruled, and imprinted with a lasting influence from the Roman Empire. At its greatest extent, the Roman Empire stretched east to include Greece, Turkey, Syria, Mesopotamia and Persia; it stretched south to encompass Africa north of the Sahara from the Atlantic to Egypt; and, it stretched…
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| |8000 – 600 CE |600 – 1450 CE |1450-1750 CE |1750 – 1914 CE |1914 - Present | |Politics |Dynasties with emperors- mandate of |Japan borrowed from China |Fall of Ming from internal/external -|Abdication of Qing, unification of |Decolonization from Europe Nominally | | |heaven…
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XIV Versailles Music Is melodious in nature Represents “’perfect order’” (humanities PPT) of the universe Easy to recognize There is an emphasis put on rhythmic vitality and a melody which is attractive Terms Monopoly or recitative-“free declamation of a single vocal line with simple instrumental accompaniment for support”-Humanities PPT Arias-“moved away from declamatory recitative to musical numbers”-Humanities PPT Oratorio-“sacred text from the Bible set to music”-Humanities PPT Chorale…
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did the war begin in Bohemia? What was the Defenestration of Prague? 3. How did the Protestant Union and Catholic League shape the early phase of the Thirty Years’ War? 4. Why did Spain renew its war against The Netherlands? 5. Who did the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II hire to build an imperial army? Why did Ferdinand want a powerful army? 6. How did the individual states within the Holy Roman Empire react to Ferdinand II’s centralizing policies made possible by military victories? 7. Who was Gustavus…
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Used to generalize about parts of the earth’s surface. Movement- movement of people, things, and ideas between places… Events in other places can impact you personally. Movement of people can lead to the spread of ideas from one place to another (cultural diffusion). Allows is to see each place is part of a larger system of places, each one dependent on and influenced by others. 8) Old Stone Age- (the Paleolithic Age 2.5 million -> 8,000 bce) It was called “The Ice Age.” They started wearing clothes…
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but the world as a concrete reality in which all parts of the globe had come into contact with one another and begun to recognize themselves as part of a single human race—a process still underway. The spherical globe we had known about since the classical world; in the Middle Ages, readers of Dante took it for granted. Yet it was only because of a small expedition by a few men driven by a mishmash of personal ambition, religious motives, and the desire for profit that an old mathematical calculation…
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were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde.[15] The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities, achieved independence from the Golden Horde, and came to dominate the cultural and political legacy of Kievan Rus'. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland in Europe…
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Masturbation — From Stigma to Sexual Health A 15-year old girl asks, "Hi, I'm female, and I'm wondering how my sex is supposed to go about masturbating? I mean, it's easy enough for guys, but how do girls do it without seriously hurting ourselves." A 16-year-old asks, "Is it okay to masturbate?" Another 16-year-old asks, "Is it normal?" A 17-year-old young man asks, "Is it OK for males?" An 18-year-old asks, "It feels really nice, but is it bad for me?" A 15-year-old also asks, "Is it bad?"…
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