MUSI 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gregor Reisch, Virelai, Johannes Tinctoris
25 May 2016
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Name of the female protofeminist poet who wrote the really depressing poem that binchois set to music. Usually a sharp involved in the 6th (musical ficta) Pythagoras discovered that beautiful sounds in music were related to perfect whole numbers/ratios (5th, octave, 4th all sound beautiful because they are whole numbers) This was proof that god exists because all the beautiful sounds were perfect. Musica humana (music of the human body) Generally in a portrait of a woman, the woman is an allegorical depiction of music. Musica prattica: versus, they practice music. Musica theoretica: study and think about music, but not practice. Hans holbein the younger and his painting the ambassadors (1533) Anamorphosis distorted projection, must use special device to see image. Vanitas a type of allegorical painting, symbolic meaning behind everything painted: still-life painting, reminds you that life is fleeting, painting often contains decaying fruit (with flies), flowers, candles.
