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- Ancient Greek theatre (7531 bytes)
7: ...ition holds that formal theatre in Athens evolved from festivals related to the cult of [[Dionysus]], ...
9: ... the Dionysia each year. The dithyrambs began as frenzied [[improvisation]]s. In the 600s BC, the poe...
17: ...have complete plays that survive extant. All are from Athens. They are the tragic writers [[Aeschylu...
21: ... Comedy|New Comedy]]. The only extant playwright from the period is [[Menander]]. One of New Comedy'...
35: ...ee doors between the skene and the orchestra. In front of the skene there may have been a raised acti... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
31: ...) was the nineteenth [[Prime Minister of Canada]] from [[June 25]] to [[November 4]], [[1993]]. Though...
39: ...ship of the party. A few years later she resigned from the legislature to run in the [[Canadian federa...
45: Campbell's quick rise to fame from a relatively unknown [[Cabinet of Canada|cabine...
47: ...y detested predecessor epitomised in the activist chant, "Kim, Kim, you're just like him."
51: - Renaissance (14795 bytes)
5: ...e [[French language|French]] translation, used by French historian [[Jules Michelet]], and expanded up...
12: ... concentrate on the Renaissance as the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age.
21: ... the humanist method of learning. These new ideas from the past (called the "new learning" at the time...
49: ...cumstances which helped these geniuses to come to fruition.
51: ...Burckhardt|Burckhardt]]. This argues for a change from collective neutrality towards the ''lonely geni... - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
9: ...nd rhythm cannot be specified. The simplicity of chant, with unison voice and natural declamation, is mo...
17: ...e. A German theorist of a slightly later period, Franco of Cologne, was the first to describe a syste...
19: ...as a stand-in for 4/4 time is actually a holdover from this practice, not an abbreviation for "common ...
21: ...emensis), [[Johannes de Muris|Jehan des Murs]], [[Franco of Cologne]], [[Johannes de Garlandia]] (Joha...
24: === Early chant traditions === - Religion (72319 bytes)
10: The word religion is thought to derive from one of two combinations of Latin roots. The fi...
25: ...sion, see [[approaches to distinguishing religion from non-religion]].
38: *An ethical framework, including a definition of activities whic...
53: ... Commandments]] of the [[Old Testament]], flowing from the beliefs rather than being defined by the be...
54: ...xt|texts they hold as sacred]] uniquely different from other writings, and which records or is the bas... - Meditation (26064 bytes)
7: From the point of view of [[psychology]], meditation...
12: ...ive activities such as deep breathing, humming or chanting to help induce a meditative state.
20: ...ces. It may serve simply as a means of relaxation from a busy daily routine, or even as a means of gai...
26: ...ool), as well as in [[Christianity]] ([[Gregorian chant]], for example), Jewish [[Kabbalah]], and in some...
32: ...rgy and spirits that can protect the practitioner from misfortune. - Pope Gregory I (3938 bytes)
40: ... [[604]]) was [[pope]] of the [[Catholic Church]] from [[September 3]], [[590]] until his death.
49: *''Commentary on Job'', frequently known even in English-language histories ...
51: *Some 850 letters have survived from his Papal ''Register'' of letters. This collect...
55: ... written any chants himself—the majority of chants written during this time were published anonymou...
63: *[http://christdesert.org/noframes/scholar/benedict/st.gregory.html Article abou... - Culture of Italy (11004 bytes)
23: ...ommunity. All religious faiths are provided equal freedom before the [[law]] by the [[constitution]]. ...
27: ...ans, mostly of Berber or Arab origin, came mainly from heavily Islamic [[Morocco]], though they have b...
31: ...es to the Modern era. Several famous artists are from Italy. Italy is also rich in [[Music]],[[cinema...
40: ...s, Roman dramatists tended to adapt and translate from the Greek. For example, Seneca's Phaedra was ba...
47: ...] for their own purposes, which were so different from Greek buildings as to create a new architectura... - Lyndon B. Johnson (32801 bytes)
22: ...ed [[Public school|public schools]] and graduated from Johnson City High School in [[1924]].
24: ...d the school [[newspaper]], and spent a year away from his studies teaching school, Johnson somehow ma...
27: ...erms in the [[Texas legislature]] and was a close friend to one of Texas's rising political figures, C...
29: ...ded some of the men who worked around President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], as well as fellow Texans su...
31: ...y known as Lady Bird), a young woman who was also from Texas. After only a short period of dating, the... - List of national anthems (17969 bytes)
4: ...s are listed only if they have an anthem separate from or in addition to that of their mother country.
21: ...]''||''[[Let_us_all_unite_and_celebrate_together|African Union Anthem]]
69: |[[Belize]]||[[Land of the Free]]
75: |''[[Biafra]]''||''[[Land of the Rising Sun (national anthem...
101: |[[Cameroon]]||[[Chant de Ralliement]] (Rallying Song) - Dervish (2938 bytes)
1: ...erity, similar to [[mendicant order|mendicant]] [[friar]]s.
3: The term comes from the [[Persian language|Persian]] word ''Darvish...
10: ...nditions, superficially similar to Christian monk fraternities. Various orders and suborders have appe...
12: ...r were influenced by, the [[Chishti]] order. Each fraternity uses its own garb and methods of acceptan... - European-influenced classical music (18917 bytes)
10: ...450. Chant, also called plainsong or [[Gregorian Chant]], was the dominant form until about 1100.
29: ...usic'' is occasionally used: it designates music from a period in musical history covering approximat...
33: ...formance practices. Normally, this ability comes from formal training, which usually begins with lear...
37: ...-note details) in the score. Indeed, deviations from the composer's intentions are sometimes condemn...
51: ...essible', (trashy?) Frank Zappa's work 'simple', (Frank Zappa is considered by many a serious composer... - Greek theatre (7531 bytes)
7: ...ition holds that formal theatre in Athens evolved from festivals related to the cult of [[Dionysus]], ...
9: ... the Dionysia each year. The dithyrambs began as frenzied [[improvisation]]s. In the 600s BC, the poe...
17: ...have complete plays that survive extant. All are from Athens. They are the tragic writers [[Aeschylu...
21: ... Comedy|New Comedy]]. The only extant playwright from the period is [[Menander]]. One of New Comedy'...
35: ...ee doors between the skene and the orchestra. In front of the skene there may have been a raised acti... - Nation state (6102 bytes)
11: ...gese]], a large ethnic minority presence, notably from [[Brazil]] means that it is not a nation-state.
14: ...claimed that [[Algeria]] was a [[departement]] of France. "Police actions" of the United states have b...
21: .... In the 14th and 15th centuries both England and France ran into obstacles in attempting to assimilat...
23: ...g political centralized [[state]]s— largely from the [[Treaty of Westphalia]] (1648). The nation...
29: ...rom organizations like the [[United Nations]] and from the [[corporate]] view of populations as market... - Musical notation (19883 bytes)
1: ...sician. A score can be constructed (laboriously) from a complete set of parts and vice versa.
3: ...matic scale]], and duration is shown in beats and fractions of a beat.
8: ...f musical notation was practiced by the Egyptians from the 3rd millennium BC and by others in the Orie...
10: ... until approximately the [[4th century]] AD; many fragments of compositions using this notation surviv...
12: ...n as [[Visigothic neumes]], but its few surviving fragments have not yet been deciphered. - Igor Stravinsky (26622 bytes)
1: ... classical forms. His oeuvre included everything from symphonies to [[piano]] miniatures.
12: ...]]). The ballets trace his stylistic development: from the ''L'oiseau de feu'', whose style draws larg...
16: [[Image:Stravinsky_picasso.png|frame|Stravinsky and [[Pablo Picasso]] collaborated ...
19: ...arried in [[New York]] where they had gone from [[France]] to escape the war in [[1940]].
21: ...lso able to attract commissions: most of his work from ''The Firebird'' onwards was written for specif...
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