Renaissance music

"A man who limits his interests limits his life." – Vincent Price. The modern Renaissance man, Vincent Price, had many varied interests and talents, far beyond those that even most of his fans might be aware of. Many of his hobbies involved public-speaking, cooking, writing and his well-known and life-long love of art. Today I will discuss his acting career in three categories: stage, films, and voice acting. Vincent Price started his acting career in the 1930s after he graduated from Yale…

press also had a significant effect on society just by how they lived their lives on a daily basis but also the expansion of their knowledge which made more people want to be more educated. The printing press was tremendously influential in the Renaissance which led to the modern science and technology. Before the printing press came about, monks would take months or even years rewriting the religious texts from the Bible. For this reason books were very expensive to purchase…

dark eyes “nothing like the sun”, doesn’t have red lips or rosey cheeks, is dark skinned “her breasts are dun”, has black hair “black wires grow on her head”, and has no particularly beautiful scent or voice “in some perfumes there is more delight”, “music hath a far more pleasing…

these as the confluence of art and science; adoption of new artistic methods; reference to scientific subject matter; and the proliferation of art and the preservation of knowledge. While there were also advances in other forms of the arts, such as music and literature, I will focus on painting. The confluence of art and science Firstly, there were some important person-centred relationships between the arts and science. The most obvious example is Leonardo da Vinci, who excelled across a number…

Since the beginning of human history, there have been several obstacles that have shaped this planet—from the first existence of Homo sapiens, to the development of tools and art, to the creation of the first civilizations like those in Ancient Mesopotamia to great western civilizations that have derived during the time like Ancient Greece and then Ancient Rome. But society was not always structural in which technology kept rising for the better. The Dark Ages or better known as the Middle Ages,…

The world we live in is one based on ideas. But the concept of an original idea has faded away with time. Nowadays, it’s difficult to come up with an original idea considering the fact we have about five thousand years of recorded history predating us. Inspiration for almost every modern idea has come from works of the past. There hasn’t been a bigger source of inspiration within our history than that of the Ancient Greek Society. Their actions have left one of the biggest impacts in history on…

This is especially present during the artistic shift from the Medieval period to the Renaissance, where reappearing ideas become present in a different way. New forms of architecture to this day is consider one of the most important achievement that formed during the Renaissance era. the form of architecture used during the time mainly originating from mainly Greek and Roman times and styles. During the Renaissance time period, numerous architects such as Bartolommeo Bandinelli were known for…

made to produce sound. Throughout many eras of music, these instruments have been changed many times, mostly to improve the sound or quality of the sound. There is one particular instrument that has been around for a very long time that has been changed many times. This instrument is the organ. Organs can be very large instruments that are designed into the architecture of building in order to be able to house the instrument. The Baroque era of music is a particularly well known era for the…

The Late Middle Ages was a period which lasted from about 1300-1500 (14th – 15th century), the time between the end of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance. The late Middle Ages is reflected mainly in Europe. They were often called as the Dark Ages, even though even they were not all bad. Late Middle Ages brought the first crisis of European feudal society. The late Middle Ages had been a time of climate change, famine, war and poverty, In terms of the cooler climate, although the further…

This leads the Church to build massive Cathedrals, with intricate architectural elements and illuminated with stained glass windows. Although Europeans learned from illustrations on stained glass windows, relics they touched, clergymen's sermons, and music in the vernacular, they were not able to first-handedly read the source of their faith, the Bible. Practically everyone, from the king to the lowliest serf, was illiterate. However, clergymen had the ability to read and write, making the…