Five Musicological Fields: The study of music also known as musicology encompasses five distinct fields. These include the study of historical musicology, ethnomusicology, philosophy of music, psychology of music and acoustics (Nation-master, 2013). The first major field, historical musicology, is the study of musical origins including subjects such as composers, genres and musical notation. Ethnomusicology is the second major field of musicology and is based around the field studies on music in
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1 - Character must be of noble/high stature 2 - Hubris (tragic flaw) - pride blinds them 3 - Downfall 4 - Enlightenment (near the end of the play) 5 - Their death Someone of high position; in this time period, that meant royalty. He is 'universal,' meaning that everyone everywhere can relate to the kinds of problems or sufferings or emotions that the hero experiences. He has a 'tragic flaw' - this could be a personality trait (like greed, lust, ambition, jealousy, etc.), OR an error in judgement
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Chezelle Coqueran Prof. Jennifer Swoboda ART 123 – Art Appreciation 24 August 2011 A World of Art The world is full of art. Some art is easily recognizable and pleasant to the viewer. Some art work is challenging and confusing to the viewer. And yet there is still art work that is non-appealing and even controversial, but is still worthy of conversation or debate. In this art assignment I selected five different pieces of art, by five different artists. The art work has appealed to me for different
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Artemisia Gentileschi the Renaissance Feminist Artist Manuel Hernandez Devry University Abstract Why exactly is Artemisia Gentileschi considered an early feminist? Doing a brief search and looking into her artwork, even for a brief amount of time and you quickly see why she was considered so. Her gender as well as the things she went through and experienced in her life heavily influenced Artemisia Gentileschi’s artwork. Some of the more famous and controversial paintings focus on females as
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Rembrandt vs. Rubens Andrew Ulrich Prof. Hutson ART 38716-ART IN THE AGE OF REMBRANDT AND RUBENS 1/22/15 Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn were two of the most famous and successful painters in 17th century Europe. Rubens was a Flemish Baroque painter and was admirably recognized for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes and historical paintings of mythological characters. Rembrandt was a Dutch painter and printmaker, who was also known for his etching
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architecture. Our very own bahay -kubo, our mountain region dwellings are said to be similar with the other countries. Architecture, as an art, It is “subject to social, political or cultural influences”. It reflects the values of the society. we should provide an opportunity of more accommodating for the presentation, promotion and development of this art. The aim of this study is to give us the information about the architectural background of our country, not to prove that, but to give the
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biology student and a music/art enthusiast, I chose to analyze the natural sciences and the arts as they show differences in their knowledge framework and creation of knowledge decidedly. How reliant is the shared knowledge we use everyday in the context of these two AoKs? In the arts emotion, sense perception, and reason; shared knowledge can shape the personal knowledge of an audience in a consistent manner and according to the TOK curriculum the arts “encompass the creative production
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Matthew Reikowsky Professor Kirk Humanities February 17 2011 The Medici Bank During the time of the Renaissance there were many advances and going on in Florence and at the center of one of the industrial movements was banking. This movement was spurred on and enhanced by one of the most powerful families during that time. The Medici family. The Medici family was responsible for supplying the world with four popes, two queens of France, and they controlled Florence, with a few interruptions
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Heroic Society 1) List and briefly explain the features of a heroic society. Aristocratic warriors dominated Germanic heroic society (Evans 86). Loyalty was the main concept associated with this kind of lifestyle: tribal life was based on hunting and war, and from childhood Germans were trained to be hard workers (Caesar 21). Germanic tribes did not build cities. They preferred to settle in meadows, woods, or in other places that attracted them. Their dwellings were not attached together like those
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Didos Lament & Messiah: Ev’ry Valley By: Tabitha Watkins ARTS/340 Mood is the affections (to impress the mid or move the feelings of our emotions, emotional response). Composers of this time shaped or molded a musical language to depict the affections. Music is written to fit the needs of society in our always changing world. Church music during this time was very elaborate and music was usually only heard in the churches and if you were wealth enough during that time you could go hear music
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