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demonstrated in collection of pieces, "The Well-Tempered Clavier." With this discovery, the stage was set for Baroque music to flo...

tonal. However, there is also no denying that this tonality differed from what would come later (Chafe xv). A mode is a specific p...

In five pages this research paper considers the music of Heinrich Schutz, often regarded as the greatest 17th century German Baroq...

In twelve pages this paper examines how the designs of Zaha Hadid define contemporary Baroque of the 21st century. Ten sources ar...

architecture as though one were looking through a framed window. With each subsequent step in the process of establishing linear ...

In six pages this paper consists of the predominant portraiture of the Baroque period and includes discussion of Rembrandt, Judith...

used two themes, which were contrasted by the composer within a homophonic texture. In other words, the fugue depended on theme ...

and reality. It was a completely unique movement which "generated its own standards" and cannot, therefore, "be measured by class...

Ages to the beginning of the Renaissance (roughly from the fifth to the sixteenth centuries) (Artcyclopedia). Generally religious ...

J.S. Bach, such as pulsating basses and galant-sounding melodic lines (Baxendale, 2001). This has caused one critic to assert that...

At the same time, there was a new found wealth to come through the newly erupting middle class ("The Baroque" 2003). It was a time...

in 1640 Poussin returned to Paris and to decorate the Grand Gallery of the Louvre and receive royal favors. However, he soon becam...

period saw one of the most important changes in all of music history-the "transition from the medieval church modes to major-minor...

and an introduction of new and exploratory forms. However, the term has now also come to mean other forms of grotesquerie or absur...

Both Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach are cited among the giants of Classical and Baroque music. This paper exami...

In five pages 18th century English architecture is discussed in a consideration of Baroque and Georgian styles with various aspect...

played slightly louder, i.e. piano. The rhythm of the piece would be uniform 4/4 time, but the overall effect of the rhythm would...

describe the art from the baroque period they would include: spacious, dynamic, natural, colorful, passionate, sensual and versat...

of Johann Sebastian Bach clearly represent the elements of inert expression while, at the same time, project a distinct sense of p...

of Josquin in the manner in which one pair of voices appears to be pitted against another (Machlis 259). Claudio Monteverdis mus...

opinion that the money spent on these monumental tributes to the sovereignty of God could have better been spent on providing for ...

modern, the setting and the rising stars, were in the sky together ... As the rift between the spiritual and the material values w...

at heart. Some speculate that because his family had been poor, becoming a priest was his only way to get an education ("Antonio V...

Architectural fetishism came of age during the Renaissance. Classified as a magically empowered inanimate object, a fetish may ta...

strings. The piano has a heavy iron frame, thick strings (with some wrapped wire), pedals (including a sustain pedal), and one key...

In a paper of fifteen pages an examination of European history includes the Middle Ages, Baroque period, and The Enlightenment in ...

liked to envision men, the primary subject of sculpture, as regal and noble and strong characters. There was nothing more powerful...

Baroque" age in his music (Machlis, 1970, p. 277). Monteverdi is credited with composing the first actual opera (Felon, 1986, p. 2...

sense of awe and wonder at the complex beauty of the music. The classical music of Beethoven blends the varied textures of the o...

melodic line (that is to say, the voice is the main melodic instrument). This presents a strong monophonic texture, in that the vo...