MUS325H1 Study Guide - Child Prodigy, The Musical Offering, Rococo
Document Summary
Unquestioning and uncritical reliance on the authority of the church and hierarchy in general (authoritarian regimes, monarchy, etc. Develops from philosophical thinking of descartes; cartesian philosophy embraces empirical methods. Vibrant intellectual movement rooted in rationalism and the power of reason. Rationalism; age of reason epitomized by work of voltaire and the philosophes (social reformers whose work culminated in the french encyclop die, Belief in human potential and endeavor, and the power of individual inquiry. Freedom to question everything; take nothing on faith. Submit everything to the rigor of reason and experiment, examination and inquiry. Man is a thinking being who can use his mind to probe and question authority/tradition. His music was allied with tradition; a devout lutheran committed to church music. Counterpoint; contrapuntal arts (canon, fugue) complexity of texture. Music with a spiritual purpose and transcendent intent a greater purpose. Baroque monumentality, e. g. a musical offering (1747) to frederick the.
