Music 1711F/G Lecture Notes - Low Countries, Beautiful Music, Lorenzo Valla
1 Mar 2013
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Re-birth of the culture of greek antiquity into western culture. i. e. consonance and dissonance, music"s importance in culture, Academic re-birth through re-learning the greek texts. Extra texts come to the west when constantinople falls to the turks in 1453, as many refugees flee. They took their information (greek culture) with them. Financial strength comes to cities through trade. Cities develop financial systems, which gives people power and money, and a cultural mix. Most famous renaissance city with wealth and cultural/artistic elites. Cosime de" medici (1389-1464) used his wealth the influence politics in the city. Medici family contributed to arts in the city. Europe, platonic academy (modelled on an ancient greek academy from. Plato"s time), patron of many artists, sculptors, musicians. This creatse a city centre where all artists come i. e. sculptors, musicians, artists. N of alps cities that were centres of trade also became centres of wealth and culture. Trade cities become centres of cultural power.
