This intonation is not well suited for Renaissance music as only the octaves are in perfect intonation, and vocal renaissance music was especially noted for its perfect fourths and fifths (Norton 158). ... The Renaissance had many iconic composers such as John Dunstable (1390-1453). ... Du Fay drew on French and Italian styles; some of this can be seen in his smooth vocal melodies, melismas, and meter changes that were similar to that of the ritornello in the Italian Madrigal. ... Text was largely important in both the Renaissance and Baroque periods but the manner in which they were used var...

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The gallery label in the museum provided important objective information about the piece including the fact that the piece was created through the commission of Cardinal Giacomo Serra, the papal legate to Ferrara (city in northern Italy). ... For example pre-renaissance elements of composition are inherently divergent than those of the Baroque period, just as the styles used in the Italian Renaissance are notably different than those in Germany during the Northern Renaissance. Taking into account all of the stylistic and compositional elements that appear in the piece, Samson Captured by the P...

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The Baroque rapidly developed into two separate forms; the strongly Roman Catholic countries (Italy, Spain, Portugal, Flanders, Bohemia, Southern Germany, Poland and Austria) tended toward freer and more active architectural forms and surfaces ; in Protestant regions (England, Netherlands, Northern Europe) architecture was more restrained and developed a sober, quiet monumentality impressive in its refinement. ... In painting and sculpture this was achieved by means of highly developed naturalistic illusionism, usually heightened by dramatic lighting effects, creating an unequaled sense of the...

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