Lute

The Renaissance was the change that brought music into the daily lives of the European people. Music before the Renaissance was mainly kept in churches and the King’s court (History). Many musicians during the Renaissance period learned about music from past centuries and found it urgent that music begin a new age (Music). In 1477, Johannes Tinctoris, Renaissance composer and music theorist, said, “Music written more than 40 years previously was not worth hearing.”(Music). This led to a big…

Bach’s music is more connotative and complex. Bach had composed 228 church cantatas( including 21 lost or incomplete), 49 secular cantatas( including 16 lost), 17 latin church music, 10 oratorios, 10 motets, 192 chorales, 75 sacred, 66 organ works, 7 lute works, 31 orchestral, 39 chamber works which include Bach sonata…

Music faced a major breakthrough during the Renaissance and the Baroque Period. It became an important part of the people’s lives. During the Renaissance most of the music were sacred music which basically means religious music. Along the sacred music secular music was beginning to flourish, and musicians started playing music in different places like courts and towns. Town musicians played music in feasts, weddings, and religious…

The earliest stringed instruments known to Archaeologists are bowl harps and tanburs.(3) The bowl harps were made with Tortoise shell and calabash. The next most common are types of harps. The world's museums contain many such "harps" from the ancient Sumerian, Babylonian, and Egyptian civilisations. Around 2500 - 2000 CE more advanced harps, such as the opulently carved 11-stringed instrument with gold decoration found in Queen Shub-Ad's tomb, started to appear.(3) A tanbur is defined as "a…

The Deception Can Originate from Oppression, Isolation, and Deprivation In the society, there is always a difference in strength and roles for men and women. Appearing in the play of A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, of which Ibsen’s intention of writing the play is to point out the dominant roles of men during Victorian times. According to Helmi Yusof of the "Feminist Classic A Doll's House Gets a Reboot." The Business Times, the play is an establishing feminist play. Due to when the play “First…

Gallery 607 allow for a great analysis of what really went on in 16th century Venice. Paris Bordone and Lorenzo Lotto both have a history with Titian, yet both could only accomplish just a modicum of the success that he did. Titian’s, Venus and the Lute Player, Lotto’s, Brother Gregorio, and Bordone’s, Portrait of a Man in Armor…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was one of the many staunch champions of feminism who expressed her thoughts on the subject through her widely appraised literary works. Gilman not only represented the struggles that women of her time were facing through these works, but her real life experiences also exemplify the obstacles that women had to face in order to get to the extent of equality that exists today. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born on July 3, 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut to Mary Westcott and…

The wife of the 40th president of the United States once said “As I’ve said before time is short, and life is precious. As Nancy Reagan continues to take on the legacy of her late husband Ronald Reagan she makes sure to capture the great things in life. Being an ninety­four year old is not easy for Nancy but she makes sure to take on the task of his legacy. Nancy Reagan was born July 6, 1921 in Flushing, Queens New York. Although her name given to at birth was Anne Frances Robbins. Later on in…

string instrument found in togaku music is the biwa. The biwa is the Japanese equivalent of the western lute. While there are a variety of biwas used in Japanese music across the different genres, the biwas used in gagaku music will either be the gogen-biwa or the gagaku-biwa, with the gogen-biwa having five strings and the gagaku-biwa with four strings. Different than western uses of the lute, in gagaku, the biwa is used only to mark time and rhythmically support the melody, not to create any…

The San Antonio College Guitar Studio Recital took place October 20, 2014. I first arrived at the McAllister Auditorium (1300 San Pedro Ave. S.A. TX 78212) at 7 PM. It was my first time in the colleges Auditorium, but not my first time experiencing a musical performance. I have attended several times the theatre to listen to the orchestra from my hometown. It is a marvelous experience. At the entrance I could appreciate an organ, which has had an important history in classical music, especially…