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Spanish Literary Eras and Poetic Techniques

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Spanish Literary Periods and Key Authors

Golden Age (Siglo de Oro)

  • Garcilaso de la Vega
  • Santa Teresa de Jesús
  • Fray Luis de León
  • San Juan de la Cruz
  • Luis de Góngora
  • Lope de Vega
  • Francisco de Quevedo

Romanticism

  • José de Espronceda
  • Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
  • Rosalía de Castro

Modernism

  • Rubén Darío
  • Antonio Machado
  • Juan Ramón Jiménez

Generation of '27

The Generation of '27 was a group of Spanish poets who gathered in that year to commemorate the death of the Baroque poet Luis de Góngora.

  • Vicente Aleixandre
  • Jorge Guillén
  • Luis Cernuda
  • Gerardo Diego
  • Rafael Alberti
  • Federico García Lorca
  • Miguel Hernández

Contemporary Poetry

  • Blas de Otero
  • Gabriel Celaya
  • Pablo Neruda

Essential Poetic and Rhetorical Devices

Phonic Resources

  • Alliteration: Repetition of one or more sounds to imitate
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Fifteenth-Century Spain: Politics, Thought and Lyric Poetry

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Fifteenth-Century Historical Events in Spain

Fifteenth-century historical events in Spain reflect a period of political turbulence. The nobility fueled multiple social revolts. Key events include:

  • The marriage of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon (1469).
  • The end of the Reconquest (1492).
  • The economy experienced a crisis in the early fifteenth century caused by social conflicts in the crowns of Castile and Aragon.

Thought and Culture

Thought and culture. In the 14th century a surprising flowering of artists and a renewal of ideas began to take shape in Italy. The most important factors were:

  • Rediscovery of Classical Antiquity: Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) and Dante were at the base of the resurgence of classical models. From classical antiquity
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Opera: History, Origins and Major Styles from Florence to Europe

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Opera

Opera (Italian: opera, "work") is a dramatic performance combining sung text and music, featuring soloists, chorus, and orchestra. Its parts include acts, music, and performed pieces such as arias, duets, trios, quartets, solo vocals, and concertante passages (soloist and chorus) on stage. It is a total art form, uniting music, theater, dance, and drama.

Origins: Sixteenth-Century Florence and the Baroque Antecedents

The Florentine Camerata de' Bardi

Humanists, musicians, poets, and intellectuals gathered in late Renaissance Florence under the patronage of Count Giovanni de' Bardi. They discussed how to guide the trends of music and drama. Among them were Caccini, Strozzi, Cavalieri, Galilei, and Ruccini.

Motivation: they believed music had

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Liturgical Sequence: Origins and Formal Structure

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1. Sequences

a. Origin of the Term and Liturgical Evolution

The term sequence comes from the Latin sequor, meaning "to follow," due to its position following the Alleluia in the liturgy. A monk of St. Gall, Notker Balbulus, recounted how he invented the sequence when he began writing words beneath certain long melismas to aid in remembering the melody.

Early on, the sequence separated from the liturgical chants and began to flourish as an autonomous form of composition. Hundreds appeared throughout Europe between the X and XIII centuries. There was considerable influence between the sequences and contemporary types of secular music.

Some sequences are close to the form of the hymn; Dies Irae, for example, is one such instance.

b. Characteristics

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Female Korean Actress Names: A Complete A-to-Z List

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Female Character Names

Below is an alphabetical list of female Korean names.

  • A

    Ahn Sun Young
    Ahn Yeon Hong

  • B

    Bae Doo Na
    Bae Jung Ok
    Bae Seul Gi
    Byun Jung Soo

  • C

    Chae Jung Ahn
    Chae Min Seo
    Chae Rim
    Choi Ja Hye
    Choi Ji Woo
    Choi Jin Shil
    Choi Jung Won
    Choi Jung Yoon
    Choi Kang Hee
    Choi Ran
    Choi Yeo Jin
    Choi Yoon Young
    Choo So Young
    Chu Ja Hyun

  • D

    Dan Ji

  • E

    Eugene

  • G

    Geum Bo Ra
    Go Ah Ra
    Go Eun Ah
    Go Eun Chae
    Gong Hyo Jin
    Gong Hyun Joo

  • H

    Ha Hee Ra
    Ha Ji Won
    Han Chae Young
    Han Eun Jung
    Han Ga In
    Han Go Eun
    Han Hye Jin
    Han Hyo Joo
    Han Ji Hye
    Han Ji Min
    Han Ye Seul
    Han Yeo Woon
    Heo Yi Jae
    Heo Young Ran
    Hong Eun Hee
    Hong Ri Na
    Hong Soo Ah
    Hong Soo Hyun
    Hwang Bo Ra
    Hwang In Young
    Hwang Ji Hyun
    Hwang Jung Eum
    Hwang Soo Jung
    Hyun Young

  • I

    Im Soo Jung
    Im Ye Jin

  • J

    Jang Jin Young
    Jang Nara
    Jang Seo Hee
    Jang Young Nam
    Jang Young
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Literary Devices: Syllabic Rhythm, Rhyme, and Semantic Resources

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Literary Devices and Their Functions

Literary devices are the linguistic means by which an author uses a series of resources to guide the reader in how things are said.

Syllabic Rhythm and Rhyme

Syllabic rhythm is produced by the periodic repetition of the same number of syllables in a series of verses. The sinalefa (when a word ends in a vowel and the next word begins with a vowel, they are counted as one syllable) is a key element. Whether the last word is acute, flat, or proparoxytone affects the syllable count. Rhyming verse involves the periodic repetition of sounds from the last vowel of a verse. If all sounds (vowels and consonants) are repeated, it's a full rhyme; if only vowels are repeated, it's an assonance.

Phonic and Morphosyntactic

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Romanticism in the 19th Century: Characteristics & Origins

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Information About Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century

Dates: Romanticism began at the end of the eighteenth century and covered the entire first half of the nineteenth century.

Definition

We define it as a school, movement, and flow. As a school, it had a leader, the French poet Victor Hugo, and had a manifesto in the preface of the book *Cromwell* (a drama). As a school, it was very important in France.

It was a literary and artistic movement, but it could be considered a stream because it washed away everything; it was in all the arts, philosophy, economics, politics, and even life itself.

Origins

The origins are Nordic; it began simultaneously in Germany and England, and immediately spread to France, expanding from there to the rest of Europe....

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Theatrical Design and Musical Theatre Essentials

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Scenic Design Essentials

Scenic Designer Script Analysis

A scenic designer's script analysis focuses on these five key elements:

Four Key Theatrical Styles

Scenic designers utilize four primary theatrical styles:

Designing "The Empty Space"

To address "the empty space," a scenic designer works through three stages:

Stage Lighting Design

Five Elements of Lighting Design

A lighting designer works with these five core components:

Motivated vs. Non-Motivated Light

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Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: Key Art Movements

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Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism was an intellectual reaction to the frivolous whims of Rococo. Enlightenment thought triumphed, illustrated by the discovery of Pompeii.

Characteristics

Neoclassical works emphasized the relation of space and structure, volume, and geometric forms. The exterior reflected internal structure, with horizontal and vertical lines and austere, classical styles. Proportion, balance, and harmony were central.

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Jazz: Povijest, stilovi i glazbeni sastavi

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Jazz je kraj 19. i početak 20. stoljeća u New Orleansu nastao iz bluesa, radnih i duhovnih pjesama te iz duhovnih nastalog gospela (pjevanje u „crnim“ crkvama). Riječ je o autohtonom američkom glazbenom stilu, spoju segmenata iz različitih dijelova svijeta: spoju američkih ritmova, europske melodije i afro-europske harmonije. Značajka jazza je improvizacija (glazba nije zapisana, izvodi se iz glave). Pisan je kao tema s varijacijama: postoji glavna tema, a zatim svatko svira svoju posebnu temu.

Sastavi u jazzu

Jazz sviraju dvije vrste sastava:

Instrumenti u sastavu:

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