Brian Guay Music History I Research Paper William Byrd was considered a great English composer of his time, one of the greatest. He wrote for several different genres including sacred music, and he also wrote secular vocal and instrumental music. Byrd lived during the Late Renaissance, a time of reformation and change. However, as people were breaking away from the Catholic Church, William Byrd remained Catholic. The church began to use English in services rather than Latin, however Queen Elizabeth allowed Latin to be used in some sacred music (Burkholder, Grout, Palisca, 222).
Composers such as Luigi Rossi, Jean Baptiste Lully and Francesco Cavalli, who were influenced by Monteverdi’s genius, followed closely behind. Claudio Monteverdi has often been heralded as the father of opera. However, although he may have been the first genius to ever compose an opera in the seventeenth century, he was not the first. The following passage accurately highlights this: It is sometimes not the originator of an idea, but the first person to show its full potential, who gives it a permanent place in human history. So it was with opera, whose first great composer was not Peri or Caccini but Claudio Monteverdi Monteverdi was born in Cremona, in northern Italy, in 1567.
A few composers who made music today possible by struggling through the aftermath of the Black Death epidemic would be; Jasquin Des Prez, (who was a big name at the time,) Pierre De La Rue, a very well proclaimed vocalist (The New York Time Company 2012, March 23. Top 8 Renaissance Composers Retrieved from http://classicalmusic.about.com.) One such composer whose name is still heard pretty often would be Johann Sebastian Bach; he is considered as one of the faces of classical music. Like all of us, he started out with baby steps, slowly learning the ways of music. Bach came from a family of musicians who brought him into the whole scene; his father was a director and had several uncles who were musicians (Christoph Wolff, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 2000.)
Palestrina was immensely famous in his day, and his reputation, if anything, increased following his death. Conservative music of the Roman School continued to be written in his style (known as the "prima pratica" in the 17th century), by such students of his as Giovanni Maria Nanino, Ruggiero Giovanelli, Arcangelo Crivelli, Teofilo Gargari, Francesco Soriano and Gregorio Allegri. Before he was 30 he published his first book of masses (1554), dedicated to Julius the 3rd and the following year he was promoted to singer in the Pontifical Choir. But later a decree of the new pope forbade married men to serve in the papal choir,
Cornejo, Andrea 05/29/15 Per.6 Ludwig Van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. Still to this day he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time. There is no record of when Beethoven’s actual birthdate, but there information of when he was baptized and that is where his story begins. Beethoven was baptized on December 17, 1770 in Bonn, Germany. His birth was during the Baroque musical time period.
Protestants do not recognize the power of the Pope, refuse many customs and values of the Catholic Church, put emphasis on the importance of understanding the Bible and embrace the doctrine of deliverance by faith alone. Protestantism includes abundant denominational groups, as well as Lutherans, Baptists, Methodists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Pentecostals and Evangelicals. Christian practices differ by denomination, but general essentials include a Sunday worship service, confidential and shared prayer, study and understanding of the Scriptures, and contribution in such rites as baptism and communion. Distinguishing Catholic practices consist of acknowledgment of seven overall sacraments, Sunday mass, dedication to the Virgin Mary and the saints, and admiration of relics and places connected with holy figures. Eastern Orthodoxy holds a lot of practices in relation with Catholicism, but is particularly distinguished by the vital role of icons: metaphorical images of Christ and the saints alleged to have provided a relationship to the spiritual world.
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Catholics believe that only good works from people was the only way to get to salvation, but Luther was trying to make people know that you do not need to pay to be saved you just got to follow God’s rules, be good, and follow Jesus´ footsteps. Luther translated the New Testament so that people could learn about Jesus and his teachings. The church back then made Catholics fear God, they did this to take advantage of Catholics and make them pay money to the church. Luther always said that Go was never going to leave us and that he was going to be always with us. He also preached that when the time was right you will go to eternal salvation and not doing by paying.
The Catholics may have been angry with the church but their church got reform and that’s what they wanted. The Catholic Church had no choice but to sale indulgence that was the pope’s orders and back in that time the Catholics followed the pope. The Catholic Church spent their money on unnecessary things. The church didn’t think wisely, but all of that changed because Martin Luther reformed the church and John Calvin helped. The pope lead the church and decided a person gets into heaven, but William Tyndale believes that if you believe in Jesus Christ as your Savoir then you’ll get into heaven, and I believe the same things as Tyndale, you shouldn’t have to prove yourself to the pope that you deserve to go to heaven and the pope shouldn’t get to decide.
Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach was an 18th century composer, musician and teacher. He was born on the 21st of March 1685 in Eisenach, Germany, to Maria Elizabetha and Johann Ambrosius Bach. Growing up Bach was taught to play the violin and harpsichord by his father and the organ by his famous uncle Johann Christoph Bach. Bach was a quick student and easily mastered the instruments given to him. At age 8 he attended the old Latin Grammar School where he learned to read and write and later joined the choir.