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Renaissance
It start with the fall of the Byzantine empire in 1453 and end with the French revolution in 1789.
This period brings very much chances in society and in culture.
There were new economic growth. -
476
Culture
The clergy create schools in the monasteries.
Something show important is that girls and boys can go to school and stop being illiterate.
They learn how to use logic.
They study deliveral arts , this arts are separate in two groups:
Trivium : grammar and logic.
Quadrivium : arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and theoretical music.
And the clergy teach people to believe in spiritual things because they are more important than beauty.
And mechanical arts became show important. -
476
Middle Ages
In the 476 d.c start the Middle Ages when the Roman Empire vanish after the smallpox. -
476
Society
It was divided in three classes :
- The clergy: To guide people in spiritual matters.
- The nobility : To defend the territory.
- The normal people : People that work in trades , commerce , agriculture and crafts.
The Roman Catholic Church was the most powerful political , economic and cultural institution of Europe.
Then they start to use logic and scientific and arts became to be importants. -
Jun 4, 1200
The Appearance of the music
Something some important that you need to know is that most of the time music was connected to religion things.
And start the music notation , that is the reason that we know how to play music.
And they can remember the music.
This notes are call neumatic notation. -
Period: May 6, 1486 to Oct 11, 1493
The discovery of America
During the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Christopher Columbus asked them for permission to search for new routes to reach Africa. And after the conquest of Granada, both kings agreed to finance their trip.
Christopher Columbus did not know of his discovery, as he died before it was known that he had not reached Africa, if not America. He goes to America in 1492 but he return to Spain in 1493. -
Apr 5, 1492
Disaparance of the Middle ages:
The Middle ages disapeared whit the fall of the Byzantine Empire and the discovery of America.(Cristobal Colon discoverd America)
All this things hapend in the year:
1492.
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Period: Jun 3, 1492 to
Golden Period
The golden period in which Castilian art and letters flourished, and which coincided with the political and military rise of the Spanish Empire of the House of Trastámara and the House of Austria.
In literature: thanks to the Golden Age, the Renaissance and the Baroque were the glorious stages of Spanish literature. Artistic and scientific movement that originated in Italy in the 15th century, and which spread throughout the rest of Western Europe in the 16th century. -
Period: Dec 24, 1547 to Dec 24, 1555
The battle of Mühlberg
On April 24, 1547, the battle between the emperor's troops and the Schmalkalden League took place in Mühlberg, which brought together the Protestant forces led by the German nobility. The battle was immortalized by Titian in his work Charles V at the Battle of Mühlberg. -
Baroque
The Baroque was a historical period in Western culture that was created by new artistic ideas and that, starting from different historical-cultural contexts, produced works in different artistic fields: literature, architecture, sculpture, etc.
The baroque was born in Italy, at the end of the 16th century.
In the 1600. -
Don Quijote de la Mancha
It was a well-known book during this time, it was written by Miguel de Cervantes and was published by him in 1605.
This book is about a man, Don Quijote, who goes crazy because of the books he reads and begins to think that his life is a fantasy, he is always accompanied by Sancho Panza and is in love with Dulcinea. -
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Thirty years war
The Thirty Years' War was a war that occurred during the baroque period in Central Europe between the years 1618 and 1648 (its name is due to the fact that it lasted exactly thirty years), in which most of the great European powers of the epoch.
Those who fought in this battle were the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, and the German Catholic League vs. Bohemia, the Evangelical Union, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, and Transylvania. The winners were Franco-Swedish. -
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Johan Sebastián Bach
He was a renaissance musician, he composed and played since he was a child (we was an good student), in addition to having, according to what they say, excellent qualifications.
They say that he was nearsighted.
He was born on March 31, 1685 and died on July 28, 1750.
He was born in Eisenach and died in Leipzig, both places are in Germany.
Some of his best works where , "El Espectro de la Rosa" , "L´Árlesienne ".
He have two kids , Johann Christian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. -
Spring
Spring” (1721). The first part of Vivaldi's famous “Four Seasons” for violin and orchestra is quite possibly the most popular baroque piece, especially its first movement. Joyful and melodious work has transcended unscathed after almost three centuries. -
Newton rules
Newton (1643-1727) devoted himself to practically all branches of knowledge, with a special interest in theology. He was a deeply religious man and, curiously, his Christian thought occupied him much longer than his scientific work.
He was an absolute pioneer in fluid mechanics, optics, differential calculus and the study of sound. Few fields of study escaped his overwhelming scientific intelligence. Among many other laws that he enunciated, Newton's Laws of motion stand out with their own name. -
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San José church
The church of San José is a Catholic temple located in the Centro district of Madrid, in Spain. It is located at 43 Calle de Alcalá, where the old convent of San Hermenegildo used to stand. -
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Treaty of Madrid
In 1750, on January 13, the Treaty of Madrid is signed, by which the problem with Portugal over the territories in America is solved. Seven towns of the Eastern Missions go to Portugal in exchange for Colonia del Sacramento. -
Classicism
Classicism took place between the Baroque and Romantic movements, during the second half of the 18th century (1750) , in which a series of historical events took place that drastically changed the social paradigm, such as the French Revolution of 1789 and the beginning of a new era: the Contemporary age. -
Baroque
The baroque disappeared in 1750, the 18th century, due to the death of Johan Sebastian Bach, a well-known and praised musician at that time. -
The Romantic period
The romantic period is a term applied to the literature of approximately the first third of the nineteenth century. During this time, literature began to move in channels that were not entirely new but were in strong contrast to the standard literary practice of the eighteenth century. -
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and piano teacher. His musical legacy spans, chronologically, from Classicism to the beginnings of Romanticism.
A curious fact could be that he was deaf and despite this he was one of the best musicians and composers of his time , it was said that Beethoven suffered from syphilis and later that his deafness was syphilitic, which is caused by lesions of the temporal bone.
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, was composed between 1804 and 1808. -
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Jane Austen
Without having married and leading a quiet lifestyle without much fuss, Jane Austen became known for Pride and Prejudice (1796), considered her best work, which was only published in 1813. In Pride and Prejudice, the author tells the love stories of the five Bennet sisters. -
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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn (Hamburg, November 14, 1805-Berlin, May 14, 1847), also known as Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy and by marriage Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, was an early Romantic composer and pianist.
Some of his most important works could be:
Gartenlieder, Op. These six songs for soprano, alto, tenor and bass were published in 1847.
Cantata Hiob.
Nocturne in G minor.
String Quartet in E sharp major, Allegro molto vivace. -
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Victor Hugo
Maximum exponent of French Romanticism, Victor Hugo signed enormous works such as 'Les Miserables' and predicted a future unity of Europe. Victor Hugo was a French Romantic novelist, poet, and playwright, as well as an intellectual engaged in 19th-century French politics. -
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The Spanish of Independence
The Spanish War of Independence was a military conflict that took place between 1808 and 1814 within the context of the Napoleonic Wars, which pitted the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom and Portugal against the First French Empire, whose aim was to install Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte, on the Spanish throne after the abdication of Bayonne. -
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Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn, whose full name was Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, was a German Romantic music composer, conductor, and pianist, and brother of fellow pianist and composer Fanny Mendelssohn.
More important works :
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn) Symphony No. 3 Symphony No. 4 Violin Concerto The Hebrides Paulus Elías. -
Classicism :
Classicism ended in the year 1827, a year that coincides precisely with the date of Beethoven death, although it is not known exactly if it was for this reason. -
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The bourgeois Revolution
The bourgeois Revolution is a historiographical concept that develops between the 18th and 19th centuries. It refers to a social movement with an important bourgeois component. This movement, in turn, proposes substantive political and economic changes.
Inspired by the ideas of the Enlightenment, the bourgeois class sought to release its productive and economic strength, achieve social ascent and reach spaces of political power. -
End of the romantic period
Some point to the end of the rise of romanticism in Spain in 1844 when Zorrilla's Don Juan Tenorio premiered. In Spain there is a bit of all this, mixed with other traditional and modern things, as in other countries. -
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Manuel de Falla
Who was Manuel de Falla?
Manuel de Falla , was a Spanish composer of musical nationalism, one of the most important of the first half of the 20th century.
He composed operas, operettas, works for orchestra, ballets, for choir, piano and guitar. He lived in Cádiz, Madrid, Paris, Mallorca, Granada, Buenos Aires, Villa Carlos Paz, Villa del Lago and Alta Gracia.
He was born on November 23, 1876 in Cádiz and died on November 14, 1946 in Alta.
One of his important composition was "El amor brujo." -
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Carlos Chávez
Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez, known as Carlos Chávez, was a Mexican composer, conductor, teacher, and journalist. Carlos Alberto Chávez Navarrete was shot eleven times on the night of Tuesday, August 12, 1997, after being called by a woman who made him leave his house. Sandra Edith González, nicknamed "The Queen", handed him over to the two men who kidnapped him. -
The 20th century
The twentieth century begins on January 1, 1901. What was called the Christian Era -- now called the Common Era to reflect the diversity of religions -- began in the year 1. Twenty centuries after the year 1 brings us to 1901, which puts the beginning of the twentieth century on January 1, 1901. -
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In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time, as its name suggests, narrates the search for something that constantly disappears and we cannot touch or measure with clocks no matter how hard we try: time.
Because time cannot be measured or bought, it passes and cannot be recovered. -
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The First World War
Name the countries defeated in First World War. Germany, Austria and Turkey were defeated in the First World War. The spark that ignited World War I was struck in Sarajevo, Bosnia, where Archduke Franz Ferdinand—heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire—was shot to death along with his wife, Sophie, by the Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914. -
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The Great Gatsby
"The Great Gatsby", through the eyes of the narrator, Nick Carraway, portrays that crazy decade of the twenties, marked by prohibition, jazz and the great parties that emerged on a world of illicit business, corruption and Unattainable dreams.
The Great Gatsby is a symbolically charged meditation on the United States as a whole in the 1920s, and in particular on the disintegration of the American dream in an era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess. -
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The Second World War
World War II began in Europe on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany on September , the war dragged on for six bloody years until the Allies defeated Nazi Germany and Japan in 1945. -
The 20th century ,
This century witnessed two world wars, the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Holocaust in Europe, the Cold War, revolutionary social equality movements, and the exploration of space. Follow the changes in this decade-by-decade timeline of the 20th century.
