Functions of Music Music therapy Music therapy is a treatment method that involves using music to enhance health. There are many different approaches to music therapy, including creating music, listening to music, and talking about music. Although music therapy is often used to promote mental and emotional health, it may also help improve quality of life for people coping with physical health conditions. . In the 17th century, the scholar Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy noted that
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FAMOUS WRITERS & THEIR WORK Old English (Anglo-Saxon Period): writers: Caedmon and Cynewulf. work: Beowulf (by anonymous). 1200-1500: Middle English Period : Geoffrey Chaucer's(1343-1400) : The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde and Book of the Duchess. Other Major Poems The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowles, The Legend of Good Women. Prose Treatises Treatise on the astrolabe. Short Poems The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse ,Truth, Gentilesse, Merciles Beaute, Lak of
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1 – The symphony is an important genre that was created during the Classical period. Using examples of symphonies by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms, describe two [2] main features of the genre, and describe two [2] important changes or innovations that took place by the time Brahms composed his Symphony no. 1. Two main features of the genre are that there are four movements: sonata allegro, theme and variation, minuet, and then finale or rondo.Fast, usually an allegro and in what became known
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Comparison of Two Historical Art Periods: The Renaissance, Mannerism, and the dichotomy of Michelangelo Casey Ian Hill Western Governor’s University RIWT1 Task 1 The Renaissance The period commonly referred to as the Renaissance lasted from the late thirteenth to the early seventeenth century. Renaissance, or rebirth, was a time of great change. The people of all regions were just coming out of the Dark Ages, where religion and oppression were the treatments of the day. The Renaissance brought
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was frozen in the past, and this prompted archaeological excavators to delve into the life of these early residents. Frescoes found from the villas of Boscotrecase and Boscoreale give undisputable evidence of the affluent life o Romans during this period. The development of Roman paintings is depicted in four styles by Art historians and archaeologists. The first style (ca.
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go with the expectation that he would add up to something extremely unique. Haydn considered general music, additionally Latin, written work, number-crunching, and religion. Haydn was born amid the time of J. S. Bach and the last phases of the Baroque Period and contrapuntal music was settled. Haydn was truly impacted by advancements made by Bach's child, C. P. E. Bach, who, moving
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prevailing style of the 18thcent. In Great Britain and the north American colonies, so named after George I, II George and George III. Derived from classical, renaissance, and baroque forms. 3. POST COLONIAL PHASE (1790-1820) -architecture moved away from the English Georgian idiom and Neo-classical Elements were introduced Classic Revival Style Architectural Characteristics. * A more monumental type of state capitol
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dedicated to his music and before he passed away, he had composed over 600 pieces of work. About the time that Mozart came into the world of music, the world was experiencing a time of transition. Before the Classical era, the Renaissance and Baroque periods ruled the music, art and way of thinking. This time of transition also resembled the transition in government. The Roman Empire was beginning to divide into small, self run governments that were headed by groups of rich aristocrats. The Classical
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1922, Siqueiros returned to Mexico City to work as a muralist for Álvaro Obregón’s revolutionary government. Then Secretary of Public Education José Vasconcelos made a mission of educating the masses through public art and hired scores of artists and writers to build a modern Mexican culture. Siqueiros, Rivera and José Orozco worked together under Vasconcelos, who supported the muralist movement by commissioning murals for prominent buildings in Mexico City. Still, the artists working at the Preparatoria
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Modeste Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition was a piece composed for the sole purpose of immortalizing his friend, the famous Russian artist Viktor Hartmann and the images that he created. This piece created by Mussorgsky become one of his famous piano compositions that to this day many composers perform and orchestrate it. This piano piece was orchestrated by none other than the well known french composer Maurice Ravel, who turned this already influential piano piece into a remarkable orchestration
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