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Humanities 1020 Study Guide Chapter 15-17. Identify each in complete sentences: 1. Council of Trent The main principal of the counter reformation, the Council of Trent was one of the Roman Catholic Church’s most regal councils 2. Jesuits A member of the Society of Jesus, which was a Roman Catholic order of priests, founded by Ignatius Loyola 3. Ignatius Loyola Ignatius Loyola was the founder of the Society of Jesus 4. Counter Reformation The reaction of the Catholic Church to the Protestant…

acts to the later Black, Dutch, Italian, and Jewish vaudevillians (DiMeglio 44-45). Some of these tropes are still successfully used today - Seinfeld, being a perfect example. A distant relative, Edward “Farfariello” Migliaccio, played the caffé concerto, the jook joints of the Italian circuit which had several venues around Little Italy, New York and especially on Bowery Ave. His acts played with the tradition of the typical Italian-immigrant dilemma: identity crisis, communication issues,…

From 1740 to 1760, Haydn worked hard and he came to know the leading Viennese musical figures along the way. (Geiringer, 1982) In those times, it was necessary to have sponsorship of nobility for support. In 1761, Hungarian Prince Paul Anton Esterházy, contracted Haydn and asked him to be assistant kapellmeister, or composer for the Prince. The contract included an exclusivity clause that required the Prince’s permission for any outside compositions. When Prince Paul died in 1762, his brother…

Antonio Salieri was born on August 18, 1750 in Venice, Italy. He died on May 7, 1825 in Vienna Austria. His operas were introduced throughout the late 18th century. He came from a family of merchants and both of his parents died but, he continued studying music in Venice. He studied the violin and harpsicord from an early age and through the family of Mocenigo, Salieri had free admission to the school of St. Mark's in Venice His first opera, Le Donne letterate, was produced at the Burg-Theater…

Wolfgang Mozart was born on January 27th, 1756 and died in 1791. By the time he hit age 6 he could do almost everything including: playing the harpsichord/violin, improvise figures, write minuets, and read music perfectly. By the age of 8, he wrote a symphony. At the age 11, he wrote an oratorio; at 12, he did his first opera (Kamien, 210). Mozart quickly established himself as the finest keyboard player in Vienna, and steadily built his reputation as a composer. After encountering many…

Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele or “Adorn yourself, O dear soul” is a chorale cantata written by Johann Sebastian Bach. A chorale cantata is a church cantata that’s based on both the melody and text of a single hymn. The cantata is based on the Lutheran chorale tune by Johann Crüger, Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele. Bach composed this specific one in his second annual cycle of writing cantatas, also known as, Jabrgang II. It was written for the twentieth day after Trinity, on October 22, 1724. The…

So many feelings and stories can be told through it. The fluttering heartbeat of someone falling in love represented by quick melismas of a flute or a violin, deep sadness and grief of a lost loved one expressed through a cello concerto, and many other feelings speak to me through music. I have listened to different pieces to reflect on my feelings when I have lost loved ones or fell in love. Music is always there for me, and I can’t begin to count the number of times that I have…

Mozart (mother) and Leopold Mozart (father). Wolfgang has been playing the piano in public since the age of 6 and he doesn’t only play the piano, he plays the violin, oboe and trumpet. Also, he has written piano songs for symphonies, operas, solo concertos, chamber music, especially string quartets and string quintets, and the piano sonata, during the classical period. Furthermore, the classical period is between the baroque and romantic era, and approximately between the years 1750-1820.…

Handel’s “Messiah” is a beautiful piece of music set to biblical literature. Today most people recognize the “Messiah” due to its presence during the holiday season. It is currently used to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. However, in the 18th century, it was not performed during the holiday season like it is today in the twenty-first century. The “Messiah,” written in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, is full of scriptural text. Specifically, “Pifa(13), Recitative(14a), Accompagnato(14b),…

first performed in 1808 and achieved its fame shortly afterwards. Beethoven was a major composer who help music transition from the classical to the romantic era. Beethoven did not only compose 9 symphonies but he also composed a few piano concertos, violin concertos and many more. The symphony consists of four movements: Allegro con brio, Andante con moto, Scherzo allegro and Allegro. The fourth movement: This movement starts in C major which is unusual because normally a symphony ends in the…