Primitive and prehistoric Two Aztec slit drums, called teponaztli. The characteristic "H" slits can be seen on the top of the drum in the foreground Until the 19th century AD, European written music histories began with mythological accounts of how musical instruments were invented. Such accounts included Jubal, descendant of Cain and "father of all such as handle the harp and the organ", Pan, inventor of the pan pipes, and Mercury, who is said to have made a dried tortoise shell into the first lyre. Modern histories have replaced such mythology with anthropological speculation, occasionally informed by archeological evidence. Scholars agree that there was no definitive "invention" of the musical instrument since the definition of the term
I picked this book since Netanyahu covers a very well detailed historical background about the origins of the Spanish inquisition; which provides the main sources of my first point of the essay. Another source cited is the “The Spanish Inquisition, a History” by Joseph Perez and translated by Janet Lloyd, published in 2005. The information obtain out this book refers to the specific groups who were mostly affected within inquisitorial Spain, such groups were the Jews, and the Muslims, etc, who were removed from the Spaniard society by the Catholics Kings and the pope of that time. My second point of this essay is based on these ethnic groups. An additional source that I chose for my analysis was the “The Spanish Inquisition and the Inquisitorial Mind” by Angel Alcala.
Nonetheless, the combination of these two elements made these pieces potent enough to shape the beliefs of millions. The oldest piece in this exhibition is the Bull Lyre, which possibly dates from 2500 to 2400 BCE.As it was recovered from a royal tomb in Ur (present day Iraq), the Penn Museum in Philadelphia restored parts of this musical instrument. This piece derived from the artisans of Ur, who skillfully used gold, silver, lapis
“…French forge many alliances with various Indian tribes to folicite the fur trade. French fur trappers lived among the Indian, married and became part of Indian society.” (3) Spanish conquests claim most of the southern and southwestern regions, as well as a section of Florida, New Mexico and numerous cities in Texas and California. French colonies were located in parts of Canada, and Mississippi River. (1) Jones, Wood, Borstelmann, May, Ruiz “Created Equal”, 2014,Pearson Education (2) Jones, Wood, Borstelmann, May, Ruiz “Created Equal”, 2014,Pearson Education (3) UTA History Department, “French Canada” REACTION 1 WORKSHEET A completed worksheet is worth up to 10 points of
One part of the hippo's back has the outline of what looks like flowers in the blue copper salt decoration. The description of the piece informs that this type of sculpture was often mass-produced and placed in tombs as a reminder of the Egyptians' love of hunting. However, the legs of the hippos were broken to ensure they would be no threat in the afterlife. Apparently, herds of hippos were damaging to farmers' fields. The hippos became associated with chaos and the hunt for hippos became a metaphor for how the pharaohs could conquer evil.
Since the Greek language is so flexible, nearly all the upper-class Romans of the late republic and early empire used Greek for philosophical discussion and even for love-making. Greek language was the last words Julius Caesar used at the actual moment of his murder, and the emperor Marcus Aurelius kept his private spiritual diary in Greek. Back then, Greek language was a very international language to the European countries. English: Dark Age Of all the great modern European languages, English has by far the largest and most important early literature; and of course there was a huge amount of influence by Greek and Roman, beginning from the language itself. An example of English literature is an epic called Beowulf.
What Greek concept/value does this support? 4. List three Greeks in the land of Death who had fought alongside of Odysseus in the Trojan war. Book XII 1. Why does Odysseus put wax in the crew's ears?
The anatomy of the trumpet consisted of gourds at the end of tube creating resonance chambers. In the Mayan society they had many instruments and such as the conch that helped in war, hunting deer, and used in rituals. - Drums (Huehuetl) The drums were used in both the Mayan and Aztec culture as depicted by the picture to the left where an Aztec is using the huehuetl. These drum had their origins from the Mayans who created the drum big with wood making it unfortunate that these instruments never survived. The drums connects to an open resonance chamber without a membrane.
The Mayans used spears and traps to hunt animals like wild boar and deer. These traps were made from nets of long vines and leaves that would lead an animal to where the hunter wanted it to go. Their inventions were very cleaver; they laid out “trip wire” that would trigger a much larger spear like object that would kill a large animal instantly.
New instruments were introduced, including the tabla and sitar (1999.399), which soon became the most famous Indian musical instruments worldwide. Legend has it that the tabla was formed by splitting a pakhavaj drum in half, with the larger side becoming the bayan and the smaller side the dahini. The barrel-shaped pakhavaj drum, which was the ancestor of both the tabla and the mrdangam, has been depicted in countless paintings