Although it is difficult to clearly define the beginning of the Renaissance, there are particular aspects of this new music that were so monumental that it is impossible to deny the rebirth of music around the 1400s. ... This mass is a classic case of non-immediate Medieval, pre-Renaissance music. ... The chants are written all for the same voice ranges and typically isorhythmic, a technique that held over through the beginning of the Renaissance period. ... Melodically, composers used heterophony and never repeated melodies, which composers do later in the Renaissance to add to the immediacy...

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Throughout history, people have debated whether or not the Renaissance was a period of revolutionary change. ... Politics were the one aspect of society in which the Renaissance had little impact. ... Feudalism began in the Middle Ages, and was the main source of political power throughout The Renaissance. ... This proves how much power the Church held during the Renaissance, but it also shows the beginnings of citizens stepping away from believing everything the Church said, and how with the new scientific theories, the Church was losing much of it's influence throughout Western Europe. ...

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Lastly, artists in the high Renaissance s! ... Francis indicated a concern for naturalism, a popular idea among society throughout Italian Renaissance. ... Alberti, on the other hand, as an architect developed the pediment which became popular throughout the entire Renaissance. ... This, as a result, demonstrated the ideas of pride and freedom that the body and people should carry throughout the Italian Renaissance. ... For instance, beginning from the early Renaissance, new ideas of naturalism and realism began to appear by vital artists such as Mosaccio and Giotto. ...

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Continuity and Change across the Early Middle Ages, Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance is defined by several aspects. ... Other several aspects of change in the Renaissance was the division of city-states, and eventually change from signori to monarchy. In the terms of government and politics, the beginning of Early Middle Ages began when the last Roman emperor, 14-year old Romulus Augustulus was ousted out by German forces in 476 BC. ... The Renaissance characterizes the most drastic governmental change. ... Aspects of change in the Renaissance was the division of city-states, and eventual...

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It is vital that one sees these influences and how they carried on into the beginning of the Italian Renaissance, while also noticing how artists integrated elements of their own personal style. In Proto Renaissance painting, one can see how Byzantine influences were incorporated, such as the infamous gold background, while new elements were also experimented with, such as perspective and foreshortening. ... Sculpture during the Proto Renaissance period took a turn toward being influenced primarily by Roman sculpture. ... Also in Proto Renaissance painting, religious subject matter was extreme...

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In addition to a religious revolution, during the Renaissance, a scientific revolution was also beginning to flourish and expand. This new scientific revolution was significant in that it took away many of the old ideas of supernatural power and fate and replaced them with revolutionary discoveri...

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Summary of European History From Renaissance to Present A sharp break with medieval values and institutions, a new awareness of the individual, an awakened interest in the material world and nature, and a recovery of the cultural heritage of ancient Greece and Rome?'these were once understood to be the major achievements of the Renaissance. ... Nevertheless, the term Renaissance remains a widely recognized label for the multifaceted period between the heyday of medieval universalism, as embodied in the Papacy and Holy Roman Empire, and the convulsions and sweeping transformations of t...

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Although some explorers such as Marco Polo had gone on trips to places like the Orient to procure the luxuries needed by the upper classes, never had there been an exploration and expansion from the European continent as there was in the beginning of the 15th century. This age of discovery marked the beginning of the modern period in European history and was fueled by a wide range of reasons. ... The dominant three factors of the European Renaissance that prompted and promoted the exploration and settlement of the New World were the revival of learning and the development that went along wit...

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With deliberate echoes of the Renaissance, the Civil Rights Movement, and books such as "1984" and "Brave New World", Pleasantville makes clear that the rigid controls of both religious and political authority run contrary to human nature. ... With newfound enlightenment Betty is able to follow her once suppressed desires, beginning an affair with the soda-shop owner, Mr. ... Beginning in the Renaissance with the first relevance of humanism, and continuing into the modern issues of Roe versus Wade, women have challenged their dependence on a male-dominated society. ...

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The film is presented as a reflection on Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance going on during that time period. ... Director Isaac Julien seamlessly merges the documentary footage of the Harlem Renaissance along with the scripted scenes that are interpretations of the works of Langston Hughes as well as the other artists. ... Julien draws upon music, poetry, and film to celebrate identity and desire within the Harlem Renaissance. ... These scenes, however, are accompanied with the nightlife of the Harlem Renaissance where jazz music is played and men are drinking and having a good time. ...

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Beginning in the seventeenth century, there were many attempts to create unified and stable societies. ... Puritan's contained, in their culture, many aspects from the Renaissance, or a time period in which there were many new ideas nd theories, including Humanism and a newfound popularity of art and music. The Puritan's love of literature and belief in Humanism were heavily influenced by the Renaissance. ...

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Shakespeare was heavily influenced by Queen Elizabeth's patronage and approval as she was fearful of the stability of her heirless monarchy and coupled with her conversion to Protestantism, much of the political and religious conflict emerging from the Catholic Elizabethan ideology, shifting into the Renaissance, manifests in the tragic play, Hamlet (1603). ... In Hamlet, Claudius has disrupted the Greater Chain of Being and subsequently, King Hamlet's Ghost has corrupted Hamlet's Renaissance mindset and morals in demanding he avenge his father's death. ... At the beginn...

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His defeat of a contingent of Arabian cavalry in the battles of Poitiers and Tours marked the beginning of the Carolingian Empire. ... Although this book is compiled of two unique approaches to the life of Charlemagne, three common themes representative of this time period prevail: the political system of feudalism, the dual power of church and state, and the rebirth of culture in the Carolingian Renaissance. ... The final theme was that of the Carolingian Renaissance. ... The church was also connected to the Renaissance through the continuation of education in the monasteries. ...

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That explains why the Renaissance artist Botticelli depicted her on a giant scallop shell. ... These different myths of her creation are just the beginning of the discrepancies throughout her eternal existence. ...

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Quintilian, a Roman rhetorician during the Renaissance period, stated, "Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite". ... Near the beginning of the work, Galileo's appetite for food is significantly less important than that for knowledge, as he firmly holds on to his belief that humanity will readily accept the knowledge he provides. ... While Galileo gives up his duty as scientist, Andrea takes on Galileo's role, marking the new beginning in a continuous cycle....

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A Visitation to an Art Museum It is amazing how an early museum visitation can impact students at the beginning of an Art Appreciation class. ... It was fun having access to such rich and beautiful works of different contemporary and renaissance artists which are not only very expensive but also can rarely be found in other museums. ...

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This period from the mid-to-late 1960s to the mid-to-late 1970s has come to be known as the Hollywood Renaissance or "New Hollywood."" ... Beginning in the 1980s and continuing through today, studios, now parts of large media conglomerates, viewed movies as products with lucrative possibilities at the box office, on television and video, and in merchandising. ...

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Truly one of the nineteenth century's Renaissance women, Francis Ellen Watkins Harper was a poet, novelist, essayist, journalist, abolitionist, feminist, Christian writer, and temperance and women's rights organizer. ... The irony of this poem is present from the very beginning where the reader can infer the tragic irony of a man, whose hard life had been given new purpose by his search for freedom, but he dies just before he can reach it. ...

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Samuel Johnson consolidated the phrase in 1779 in his critical writings "Lives of the Poets" when he noted "about the beginning of the 17th century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets". ... Donne's imagery focuses on the new (late 16th century) learning of the English renaissance and on topical discoveries and exploration. ...

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Just as the term "gothic" refers to the renaissance-era architecture styles of the dark ages, in this tale, Poe uses gothic in "The Fall of the House of Usher" to further visualize the haunted mansion and dreary landscape. We see this at the beginning of the story when the narrator describes the house with imagery like, "The windows were long, narrow, and pointed, and at so vast a distance from the black oaken floor as to be altogether inaccessible from within The general furniture was profuse, comfortless, antique, and tattered"(320-321). ...

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Mathematics is the universal language of the world that has been around for about 4,000 years and has been the most efficient way of making calculations and fundamental observations and measures about things, since the beginning of its creation. Basic arithmetic and geometry formed the basis of what the mathematical world had to offer at its very beginnings. ... This theory or concept came to be known as the "Harmony of the Spheres" and it would come to influence many great philosophers but was ultimately discarded in the Renaissance period of time. ...

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In the beginning of the play when Go Sankei tries to save Lady Kasei, who holds the emperor's son, he sacrifices his own son for the good of the Chinese Ming Empire. ... One would automatically assume that the society is much like that of Renaissance Europe, yet ideas such as self-sacrifice and the supernatural exist in the play. ...

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The very beginning of the play gives us a hint to the character of Edward, his irresponsibility towards his kingdom, as he writes in a letter to Gaveston, "My father is deceased; come Gaveston, and share the kingdom with thy dearest friend.... In the Renaissance political scenario, the King was the reflection of God, the omnipotent and all-powerful in a state: he is not comparable to any other being except for God. ...

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At the beginning of the sixteenth century, the Roman Catholic Church controlled the majority of religious, political and social power in Europe. ... Papal corruption, the print press, the Renaissance, and personal ambitions all played an influence in religious reform. ...

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