Lute

Orzaio who “follows the lead of many Renaissance artists” (8), giving women white, smooth, soft, long fingered, and delicate hands. His “Lute Player” displays a beautiful hand, but it does not seem believable. She holds the lute lightly with her thumb and perfect hand, making her very feminine. Men on the other hand, would grasp it tightly and in Artemisia’s Lute player the hands are formed, strong and capable of playing an…

When listening to Dowland’s music, a repetitive chorus carried throughout each piece. Sting himself performed the vocal parts of the work occasionally juxtaposed with his own lute playing, while his companion Edin Karamazov plays the lute. Eventually the lute went “out of style” according to Sting, however in Dowland’s day the lute symbolized a specialized instrument for those talented enough to strum each of its fifteen strings. Dowland’s music as a whole contains a melancholy, but also…

different message. “Popol Vuh” is a Mayan book filled with multiple myths one being on how humans came into creation. Likewise “Zahak the Dragon King” is a mytho-historical narrative, however this myth is found in the Iranian community. “Gassire’s Lute: A West African Epic” is, as stated in the title, an epic from the Western area of Africa. In this epic the message that it is trying to convey is that we are all who we are for a reason and we must accept our flaws. Lastly, the “Book of Job”,…

The electric guitar is the culmination of thousands of years of history and great effort to enhance the music that we know and love today. It has changed the way we use it in music in our recordings and live performances and still is a dominant instrument in many music genres. To really understand this particular instrument, one must understand its: definition, history, construction, uses, and prevalence/impact in music. To know what an electric guitar is, one must understand just what a guitar…

objects. It has been interpreted to represent the heavenly realm, according to Hendricks (2016). The lower shelf is thought to represent the earthly realm, as stated by Hendricks (2016). The lower shelf contains a globe of the earth, a song book, a lute and other objects, that reflects the earthly theme. Self-fashioning is reflected in the detailed attire that the two young men are wearing. For the first time in history the Renaissance period saw clothing used as a tool for self expression.…

able to add authority to his article and is also able to add credibility. Ta-Nehisi Coates quotes from Elizabeth Lutes Hillman "African-Americans comprised 10 percent of the armed forces but accounted for almost 80 percent of the soldiers executed during the war." Ta-Nehisi Coates, who is a writer for The Atlantic, is able to add to his own credibility, but aside from Elizabeth Lutes Hillman and himself, he also uses another writer, Ramesh Ponnuru, to add to his…

I. Arab Music and Culture a. Dates back to the 8th century. Music plays an extremely important role in intellectual life of the early Arabs. b. Arab countries never really developed their own court traditions or national music’s because of the prominence of the Ottoman Empire. c. Arab scales include quarter tones or microtones, which are notes that fall between the black and white keys of the piano. i. Some people find this makes the music sound out of tune. ii. Part of the essence and the…

You Us We All is a contemporary spin on the classical court masques of the 16th and 17th century. Court masques were a combination of music, drama, dance, and extravagant sets and costumes. These masques were mainly performed for the high nobles and aristocrats in the 16th and 17th centuries throughout Western Europe. This opera is classified as an allegory. According to the Carolina Performing Arts Website, an allegory is defined as a “literary device that conveys often abstract ideas beyond…

reggae, blues and other genres. The guitar ancestry draws back to Arab countries, where an instrument with many strings and a gourd sized body was brought from Spain. It was called an alu’de. This instrument and the word evolved into lute. By 16th century lute became a common accessory in music with pieces written explicitly for it. Though it was portable and light it failed to produce enough sound and less in a harmonic way. In this period,…

Michelagnolo Galilei, Livia Galilei, Unknwon Galilei, and Benedetto Galilei. Galileo was talented in a wide variety of things so he was considered a renaissance man. He loved math and physics. He loved to invent things and draw. He would play the lute with his father.…