Johannes Itten

history. An object rich in history and culture would be Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press. This object was the invention that historians consider brought civilization to an entirely new level of technological advancement (contrary to how insignificant it may seem). This change is often compared to when humans discovered iron which ended the Neolithic Era (New Stone Age) and brought about the Age of Empire (also known as the Iron Age). Johannes…

Media is being consumed by everyone daily. Whether it is for work purposes or recreational use, media has become essential for most individuals. It has become the normal way of living. It is important to acknowledge the significance of media in the society (Mike Gasher, David Skinner & Rowland Lorimer, 2012). The communication and media world will be forever evolving and growing. This commentary will illustrate how the concepts through chapters 1 and 5 expand my understanding of the media…

Modern Science would unarguably be completely different without the Scientific Revolution. It was a major moment in the history of Western Culture, not to mention science and it’s history as a whole. Out of the Scientific Revolution came modern science and things like the scientific method were created. Countless scientific discoveries came from the great research of key figures in the scientific revolution such as Newton, Galileo, and Copernicus. The scientific revolution took place in a…

More than four hundred years ago, Johannes Kepler declared to the world that Mars travels on an elliptical orbit in his magnum opus the Astronomia Nova. This new elliptical orbital model of Mars not only perfected the heliocentric model of Copernicus in terms of providing it with a sounder mathematical foundation, and rendering it more able to predict the motion of Mars better than any traditional geocentric model like that of described by Ptolemy in the Almagest, but also challenged the ancient…

During the early 17th century, many people were still very divided on the issues concerning the motion of the earth and the sun. The church argued for geocentrism while many other scholars and individuals argued for heliocentrism. However, this fight over the Earth’s movements was not only centered around the natural sciences, but the interpretation of the bible (Westman, 11/8). This discussion included a debate on the power and authority of the church due to the Bible influencing the view of…

There is a common saying that the pen is mightier than the sword, the idea implies that communication can always do more than even the biggest army every could. However, there is one limiting factor to the pen’s might, it is slow. It can write one letter at a time, regardless of whether the author is writing down new ideas or copying old ones, it can only produce text one letter at a time. Now this is not a major issue if only one copy of the text is needed, but suppose one hundred are needed,…

Schumann’s Involvement in Resurrecting J.S. Bach As editor and writer for his own music journal, Neue Zeitscrift für Musik, Robert Schumann made it his personal mission to write about worthy composers and lift them up as examples to the music community. He was tired of the “Philistines” of the current music establishment, such as Wagner and Meyerbeer, who he felt were commercial and pretentious. He brought Brahms and Chopin to Germany’s notice, because he felt that their music was “honest craft…

the years 1904-1909, and the love of Scriabin’s piano works showed in Prokofiev’s early piano pieces. He imitated some of Scriabin’s pianistic techniques in his early piano works like the “repeated-note arpeggios” and “wide-ranging bass”. But he soon turned to seek more radical musical language that completely departs from the romanticism, and during the years 1909-1914 he finished his composition classes and began his course to train as a pianist and conductor. It is in this time he gradually…

Ludwig Van Beethoven, was the composer who changed music more than any other composer, the sound of music and what the other composers that were to come after him thought. He wrote nine symphonies, five piano concertos, an opera and many pieces of chamber music that jolted music right out of itself. Beethoven changed music by creating a new era called Romanticism, influencing the other composers and changing the old methods by adding a special twist. The first way that Beethoven changed music…

Throughout history there have been many changes, discoveries and invention around the world. One of the more important inventions that changed the world completely was Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press. It’s many great consequences reshaped the world. The printing press was an amazing invention that became so extraordinary that it was used to print almost anything such as religious books, advertisements, and even literary works Working the Printing Press was hard. As it shows us in Document 1…