Western Humanities Ii

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Peace of Westphalia ends Thirty Years' War

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1648

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Glorious Revolution

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1688-1689

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French Revolution

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1789

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Hyacinthe Rigaud

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Portrait of Louis XIV in 1701

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Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Charles Le Brun

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Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles in 1678

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Jean-Antoine Watteau

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Embarking from Cythera 1717

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Jacques-Louis David

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Oath of Horatii 1784-85;

Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard 1800.

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Joseph Wright

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An Experiment on a Bird in the Air-Pump 1768

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Thomas Jefferson

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Monticello, Virginia 1770-84

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Francisco Goya

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The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters 1797-98;

Third of May 1808

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Empiricism

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Experience is the most important source of our knowledge or any source of knowledge; ALL KNOWLEDGE IS ULTIMATELY GROUNDED IN SENSE EXPERIENCE.

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Natural Law

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A principle, discovered by reason, which controls regularity in nature. Tends to replace spiritual explanations with science.

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Cuis regio, eius religio

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Whose religion, his religion

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Satire

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A mode of writing that praises and blames elements of a particular society.

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Thirty Years' War/ Peace of Westphalia

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Emphasizes the interest of state over church.

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Deism

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Rational religion/natural religion; god made the universe but sits back.

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Locke

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King is not above the law = Rule of Law

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Rationalism

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Reason is the most important source of our knowledge; we can know nothing beyond what we receive by way of experience. (Descartes)

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Tabula Rasa

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A blank slate

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Skepticism

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Denial that genuine knowledge is possible.

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Spener

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Lutheran clergyman, "The Father of Pietism" 1635-1701

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Zinzendorff/Herrnhut

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Emphasized conversion as joyful, not sorrowful. Was unified with all churches no matter denomination / The Lord's watch

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Pietism

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Transformed Christianity

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Fugue

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A form where a melody is stated in one part alone, then another part enters with the same melody.

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Chorale Prelude

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A single statement of the chorale tune is present but with some emphasis on "word painting"

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Word Painting

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Depicting text in music.

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Opera

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a dramatic story that is sung and staged throughout.

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Oratorio

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A sacred dramatic plot that is sung but unstaged.

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Back

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Perfected "fugue" 1685

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Handel

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Composed opera 1685

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Rococo

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Shell work

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Neoclassicism

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Sharp edges, heroic figures, POLITICAL ATTITUDES

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Classic Period

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1730-1800. Central figures are Mozart and Haydn

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Sonata Form

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Exposition, development, recapitulation

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American REvolution

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1763-81

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French Revolution

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1789-99; Reign of Terror 1793-94

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Glorious Revolution

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Religious toleration, seperation of powers, rule of law.

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Romanticism

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Blending of reason and the irrational

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Beethoven

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Most important transitional figure. 1770-1827

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Napoleon

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Romantic hero turned tyrant. 1769-1821.

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John Wesley

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Organizes Methodism

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Methodism

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Open air preaching; scripture, tradition, reason.

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Copernicus

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Main proponent of the heliocentric model where the sun is the center.

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Kepler

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Helped make the laws of planetary motion.

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Galileo

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Invented the telescope; made the heliocentric model even more popuar.

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Rationalism

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Everything can be determined by reason.

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Enlightenment

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A general explosion of knowledge.

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Glorious Revolution

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James II (Catholic) and William of Orange (Protestant)

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Locke

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A political and social scientist who was a proponent for rights and natural rights.

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John and Charles Wesley

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Organized Methodism; Charles wrote a lot of hymns, and John preached from an open pulpit.

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Fugue

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The melody that is repeated in different voices and different ways.

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Chorale Prelude

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A hymn prelude or introduction to a service.

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Bach

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A Baroque composer.

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Baroque

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Very elaborate, many melodies, VERY STRUCTURED