MUS 351 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Contenance Angloise, Guillaume Du Fay, John Dunstaple
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Homophony musical texture in which all voices move together in essentially the same rhythm. Humanism from the latin phrase studia humanitatis , the study of the humanities, things pertaining to human knowledge. Humanists sought to revive ancient learning, emphasizing the study of grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, and moral philosophy and centering on classical latin and. Humanists imitated ancient writers to learn a graceful style of writing and drew on their fund of stories and themes for new works; imitations became a central practice in music of the time. Sculpture, painting, and architecture statue of david by donatello first freestanding nude since roman times. Nakedness in the middle ages was used to show shame (adam & eve) Here, nudity shows the beauty of the human figure classical means are used to convey a religious theme, paralleling the church"s use of classical and humanistic studies this combination was truly new and characteristic of the renaissance.
