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The literature of Niccolo Machiavelli‚ Giovanni Pico della Mirandola‚ and Baldassare Castiglione’s greatly illustrated the fundamental characteristics of humanism‚ individualism‚ secularism‚ and a fascination with antiquity. Displaying and analyzing their various works of literature can define these characteristics in more detail. Humanism is a group of perspectives centered around humans and their values‚ capabilities‚ and worth. Machiavelli‚ Mirandola‚ and Castiglione were all humanist teachers
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Giovanni Palestrina‚ an Italian composer of the Renaissance‚ was born in February 3rd 1525/26 in Palestrina and died in February 2nd 1594 in Rome. As a child he moved Rome. By the age of 12 he was one of the choirboys at the basilica of Sta. Maria Maggiore‚ where he studied music between 1537 and 1539. In 1544‚ when he was 19 years old‚ he went back to his native town where he was made the organist of the cathedral‚ St. Agapito. Three years(1547) later he got married and had three boys. In 1551
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began to spread their ideas many mindsets began changing as well. Along with these mindsets ideas of religion‚ spirituality‚ art‚ psychology and identity‚ wealth‚ fame and accomplishment began changing and adapting. Minds being discussed include Giovanni Pico‚ Martin Luther‚ Albrecht Dürer and other free thinkers‚ including their push away from strict absolutism of religion and towards the study of the individual and the ‘real’ or natural world. Pico’s Oration of the Dignity of Man explained‚ man
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The philosophy of man is an intricate and multidimensional system involving complex problems rationalized by theoretical ideals. In writing the Oration on the Dignity of Man‚ Giovanni Pico della Mirandola approaches this study universally‚ wherein‚ humanism and the worth and dignity of the populace is affirmed. Saint Augustine’s Confessions attempts to explain the truth and philosophies of man‚ but does so with a different approach‚ referring to man as a product of society self-consciously
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Renaissance man were first pointed out in Italian Renaissance. One of the great thinkers of the Italian Renaissance‚ Leon Battista Alberti said that “A man can do all things if he will." Even though Italian Renaissance defined the Renaissance man‚ Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Oration on the dignity of man was the work that has set the perception of the Renaissance man on the people’s eyes. On defining the Renaissance man‚ Pico della said; "At last‚ it seems to me that I have understood why man is
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Middle Ages Dates: 1. What was going historically during this era? What was life like? 2. Who or what had the power? 3. Who were learned or literate? 4. Who were allowed to sing in church? 5. Most of the music that was notated during the middle ages was sacred or secular? 6. Was most medieval music vocal? 7. What is Gregorian Chant? Discuss its origin‚ texture‚ melody‚ rhythm‚ text. How did it receive its name? What is its purpose? 8. When chant was notated‚ was the rhythm notated or
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Table of Contents BACKGROUND OF THE RENAISSANCE ERA 1 THE ‘REBIRTH’ OF RENAISSANCE MUSIC 3 THE FAMOUS COMPOSERS 4 SACRED AND SECULAR VOCAL GENRES IN THE RENAISSANCE 10 SACRED VOCAL GENRES: 10 SECULAR VOCAL GENRES: 10 INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC: 11 CHARACTERISTICS OF RENAISSANCE MUSIC 14 Words and Music 14 Texture 14 Rhythm and Melody 15 RENAISSANCE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 16 Recorders and flutes 17 Shawm 17 Dulcian 17 References 18 BACKGROUND OF THE
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Analysis 5 Sicut Cervus Intro: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of spiritual music and the bestknown 16thcentury representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He has had a marvelous influence on the development of church music‚ and his work has often been seen as the culmination of Renaissance polyphony. Palestrina’s masses show how his compositional style developed over time. One of the symbols of Palestrina’s music is that dissonances are
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The Pope Marcellus Mass is a mass written by Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina. One of the Musical movements‚ it was Gloria of the Ordinary. The main theme of the Pope Marcellus Mass is praising God and Jesus Christ; the literal meaning of the entire title‚ “Gloria in Excelsis Deo‚” is “Glory to God in the highest.” Also a praise to the Holy Trinity‚ the Mass is usually performed a capella with a total of six voices‚ which is a multiple of three. It may not have been done on purpose‚ but numbers definitely
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