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| the prevailing 17th centuryartistic and cultural style, characterized by an emphasis on grander, opulence, expansivenes and complexity |
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| a variation of the baroque style, specifically identified with the catholic churchpatronage of the arts and used to glorify its beliefs. |
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| a secular variation of the Baroque style that was identified with french kings and artists, was rootede in classical ideals, amd was ised mainly to ephasize the power and grandeur of the monarchy |
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| a variaiton of thr baroque style identified with dutch and english architects and painters who wanted to reduce Baroque granduer and exuberance to a more human scale. |
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| inflorid baroque style, the use of painting techniques to create the apperance that decorated areas are part of the surrounding architecture, usually employed in ceiling decorations. |
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| any musical instrument having a keyboard |
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| in music, the main theme. |
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| in fugue; contrasting variant to the subject. |
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| in music, a short transitional section played between the subject and countersubject |
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| in music the rapid alternation of two notes a stpe apart; used as a musical embellishment. |
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| a choral work based on religious events or scripture employing singers, choruses, and orchestra, but without the scenery and in a church or concert hall. |
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| in music, a recurring musical passage or phrase; ritornello |
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| a composition for one or more soloists and orchestra, usually in symphonic form with three contrasting movements. |
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| indtrumental music, that depicts a narrative, portrays a setting or suggests a sequence of events. |
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| the rapid repetition of two pitches in a chord; to produce a tremulous effect |
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| intellectual movement, based originally on discoveries in astronomy and physics, that challenged and overturned medieval views about the order of the universe and the theories used to explain motion. |
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| process of collecting data and making observstions; carrying out experiments based on the collected data and obsevations, and reaching conclusion. |
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| adding on to established theories in order to maintian their validity |
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| making reasoning from the general to the particular, going through the process of empiricism |
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| the belief that the sun i the center of th euniverse and that the earth and the other planets revolve around it. |
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| in political thought, a set of belies advocating certain personal, economic, and natural rights based on assumptions about the perfectability and autonomy of human being and the notion of progress, as first expressed in the writings of John Locke. |
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| the theory that children are born with a 'blank slate' |
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| an aristocratic person who experimented in science, usually as an amateur in the seventeenth century giving science respectability and a wider audience later in music a person with great technical skill. |
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