Renaissance

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Renaissance

• renaissance \ ren-?-sän(t)s
• According to Websters New Collegiate Dictionary
• 1. The transitional movement in Europe between
  medieval and modern times beginning in the 14th
  century in Italy, lasting into the 17th century,
  and marked by a humanistic revival of classical
  influence expressed in a flowering of the arts
  and literature and by the beginnings of modern
  science.
• 2. A movement or period of vigorous artistic and
  intellectual activity.
• 3. Rebirth, Revival

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Renaissance

• 1450 - 1600

People became curious about the world around them
and began to ask Why? and How?
This Rebirth brought about advances in science,
art, philosophy, exploration and discovery.
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Renaissance

• 1450 - 1600

Renaissance curiosity led artists to dissect
cadavers, explorers to travel the world, clerics
and lay people to question the authority of the
church and Leonardo da Vinci to question
everything, (Ferris, 99).
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Renaissance

• 1450 - 1600

INDIVIDUALISM new self-awareness and
self-assurance
HUMANISM importance of having knowledge and
skills in many different areas (languages,
literature, philosophy)
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• History

• 1440 Gutenberg invents printing with movable
  type
• 1452 Leonardo da Vinci is born
• 1465 First printed music
• 1469 Machiavelli is born
• 1478 Spanish Inquisition
• 1583 1486 Da Vinci sketches early helicopter
• 1485 Boticelli paints The Birth of Venus
• 1492 Columbus arrives in America
• 1503 Nostradamus is born
• 1508 Michelangelo Buonarroti paints the Sistine
  Chapel
• 1517 Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses
• 1519 Cortez conquers Mexico
• 1522 Magellan circumnavigates the globe
• 1525 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is born
• 1547 Miguel de Cervantes is born
• 1564 Shakespeare is born
• 1567 Claudio Monteverdi is born
• 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh discovers Virginia
• 1590 Zacharias and Hans Janssen invent the
  microscope

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• Art

Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci
Renaissance artistic characteristics Light and
Dimension Intrigued by the lines and structure of
the human body
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• Art

The Ambassadors, Hans Holbein the Younger
Renaissance artistic characteristics Light and
Dimension Intrigued by the lines and structure of
the human body
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• Art

The Adoration of the Magi, Sandro Boticelli
Renaissance artistic characteristics Light and
Dimension Intrigued by the lines and structure of
the human body
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• Architecture

Ca dOro Italian Gothic, Venice, 1422-1440
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• Architecture

Palace of Charles V Pedro Machuca 1485 - 1550
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• Architecture

Piazza del Campidoglio Michelangelo Buonarotti
1538
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• Sculpture

Stucco Relief Old Sacristy, San Lorenzo,
Florence, Donatello
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• Sculpture

Stemma of San Michele Luca Della Robbia
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• Sculpture

Moses Michelangelo Buonarotti
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• Sacred Music

Josquin des Prez 1445? 1521
Considered by his contemporaries to be the
greatest composer who had ever lived Perfected
the technique of imitative polyphony Wrote
mostly systematic, controlled religious music
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• Sacred Music

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1524? 1594
Assimilated Josquins techniques and adapted them
to his own style Wrote mostly systematic,
controlled religious music Implied homophonic
textures
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• Sacred Music

Martin Luther 1483 1546
Brought about the protestant reformation Believed
that church congregations should be able to
participate in the service through singing and
that some of the singing should be in the
language of the congregation Introduced the
Chorale
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• Secular Music

Secular (Non-religious) music was also composed
during the renaissance. Madrigals were the
Popular music of the day.

• Madrigals
• Madrigals were sung in the language of the
  singers.
• Madrigal texts described pastoral scenes and
  affairs of the heart
• Word painting and extreme emotional states were
  dramatically portrayed
• Madrigals were sung at social gatherings by
  small groups

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• Authors

Miguel de CERVANTES (1547-1616)
Don Quixote de la Mancha has been the subject of
several musicalizations including an opera by
Manuel de Falla, a ballet by Ludwig Minkus and a
Broadway musical by Mitch Leigh.
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• Authors

William Shakespeare 1564 1616
Wrote 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and numerous other
poems Coined the following words and phrases
accessible, amazement, assassination, barefaced,
bedazzle, belongings, circumstantial, courtship,
critical, dewdrop, downstairs, employer,
epileptic, exposure, fairyland, fanged,
fashionable, frugal, homely, impartial, ladybird,
lament, leapfrog, majestic, moonbeam, paternal,
puke, rant, reclusive, roadway, sacrificial,
schoolboy, silliness, useful, vulnerable,
watchdog, zany His plays have been the basis for
numerous operas, musicals, and ballets.