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23. Early European Music - Page 87 Timeline. Period of Early Music circa 600 to circa 1600. musicians. Pope GregoryI. Giovanni Boccaccio. 13121353. Geoffrey Chaucer. c.1340-1400. Erasmus. 1469-1536. http://trumpet.sdsu.edu/M151/Early_European_Music4a.html

Early European Music - Page 87 This section of "Music in Our World" is under construction - watch for changes! Timeline Period of Early Music: circa 600 to circa 1600 musicians Pope Gregory I c.540-604 Odo of Cluny Guido of Arezzo c.995-c.1050 c.1163-1190 c.1160-1225 Franco of Cologne c.1225-c.1285 Adam de la Halle c.1237-c.1288 Philippe de Vitry Guillaume de Machaut c.1300-1377 Francesco Landini John Dunstable c.1390-1453 Guillaume Dufay Jean de Ockeghem c.1420-1497 Heinrich Isaac c.1420-1497 Heinrich Isaac Jacob Obrecht Josquin des Prez c. 1440-1521 c. 1485-1558 Cristobal Morales c.1500-1553 Antonio de Cabezon c.1500-1566 Giovanni da Palestrina c.1525-1594 Orlando di Lasso c.1543-1623 Tomas Luis de Victoria c.1548-1611 Luca Marenzio Giovanni Gabrieli c.1556-1612 Thomas Morley John Dowland Claudio Monteverdi art and architecture St. Gall monastery c.800 Pisa Cathedral St. Sernin C.1080-1160 Cluny Abbey Westminster Abbey Tower of London Bayeux Tapestry c.1088 La Madeleine Abbey St. Denis Matteo Notre Dame Chartres Cathedral Giovanni Cimabue 1240-c.1302

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Entertainment for the peasants: The poor had to wait until the harvest festivals and Christmas for pleasure. There were quarterstave bouts, archery contests, music and dancing. Entertainment for the "Nobility": While the nobility entertained themselves by hunting and playing music and games, they also brought entertainers into their homes. Among the performers were: jugglers, acrobats, tumblers, contortionists, minstrels, harpers and jongleurs, who would sing and played lutes and harps. The games the nobles played were: chess, checkers, cards and backgammon. They also went to the fairs and were entertained by: tightrope walkers, jugglers, musicians, singers, tame bears, trained monkeys. There was merchandise from local sources, Europe, the Middle East and Asia for them to buy. Some wind instruments: recorder (flute), cornet, trumpet, bugle, bagpipe, shawm (oboe). Some stringed instruments: fiddle, lute, gittern (guitar), vielle (viol), lyre, dulcimer, psaltery, and harp. They also had portable church-organs and tabor (small drum). Singing: Singers went under different names: troubadors (lyric poets and musicians 11th-13th c. France and Italy), goliards (same as minstrel), and the previously mentioned jongleurs and minstrels.

34. Fragments Of Tarot History – Page 1 Of 5 GT 43.) Additionally, “the resemblance between the circa 1300 Mamluk GiovanniBoccaccio (13131375) and Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) both cited other forms http://www.geocities.com/cartedatrionfi/Fragments/Pre-1440.html

Collected Fragments of Tarot History From the Bible to Tarot Page 1: Before there was Tarot Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 : Modern (Occult) Tarot Detlef Hoffmann 383-405 Rome, Italy Pope Damascus commissioned what was to become the standard Bible throughout the Middle Ages, Saint Vulgate . This Latin Bible was called the versio vulgata (common translation) and remains to this day the official scriptural text of the Roman Catholic Church. The Bible is an essential I Trionfi http://www.hti.umich.edu/r/rheims/ http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08341a.htm c.400 Spain Arelius Prudentius Clemens wrote Psychomachia http://www.richmond.edu/~wstevens/grvaltexts/psychomachia.html http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12517c.htm c.415 Saint Augustine , (354 - 430), bishop of Hippo, wrote The City of God http://www.ccel.org/fathers/NPNF1-02/ http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm c.524 Pavia, Italy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius , while confined to house arrest awaiting execution, wrote De Consolatione Philosophiae Consolation Consolation was the source for the Christian adoption of Fortuna and her Wheel, and passages of the

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36. World Music Early European Music Part Four. Timeline. Period of Early Music circa 600 tocirca 1600. musicians. 1312-1353. Geoffrey Chaucer. c.1340-1400. Erasmus. 1469-1536. http://www.collegeunits.com/courses/worldmusic/music300-tx/eem04.html

Elements of Music Elements of Music.Part 1 Elements of Music.Part 2 Elements of Music.Part 3 Elements of Music.Part 4 ... Elements of Music.Part 6 Arab Music Arab Music.Part 1 Arab Music.Part 2 Arab Music.Part 3 Arab Music.Part 4 Early European Music Early European Music.Part 1 Early European Music.Part 2 Early European Music.Part 3 Early European Music.Part 4 African Music African Music.Part 1 African Music.Part 2 Baroque Music Baroque Music.Part 1 Baroque Music.Part 2 Music of India Music of India.Part 1 Music of India.Part 2 Music of India.Part 3 Music of India.Part 4 ... Music of India.Part 5 Indonesian Music Indonesian Music.Part 1 Indonesian Music.Part 2 Indonesian Music.Part 3 Music of Latin America Music of Latin America Classical and Romantic Music Classical and Romantic Music.Part 1 Classical and Romantic Music.Part 2 Classical and Romantic Music.Part 3 Classical and Romantic Music.Part 4 20th Century Music 20th Century Music.Part 1 20th Century Music.Part 2 20th Century Music.Part 3 Early European Music- Part Four Timeline Period of Early Music: circa 600 to circa 1600 musicians Pope Gregory I c.540-604

37. STORIA DELL'INGHILTERRA FINO ALLO SCISMA ANGLICANO Translate this page conflitto con Tommaso Becket, Arcivescovo di Canterbury, circa i rispettivi Langland(ca.1330-1387) ei Racconti di Canterbury di Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400). http://www.homolaicus.com/storia/moderna/monarchie_nazionali/storia_inglese.htm

STORIA DELL'INGHILTERRA FINO ALLO SCISMA ANGLICANO Nel 1066 l'esercito normanno del duca Guglielmo (uno dei più potenti feudatari francesi) sbarca in Inghilterra col pretesto di poter ottenere la corona, essendo imparentato col re inglese Edoardo il Confessore, morto nello stesso anno. Gli anglosassoni residenti nell'isola si opposero, ma nella battaglia di Hastings ebbe la meglio Guglielmo, che restò re fino al 1087. I nobili anglosassoni furono privati di quasi tutte le loro terre: 1/7 di tutte quelle coltivate e redistribuite tra i normanni, oltre a gran parte delle foreste, se le tenne la corona. Le insurrezioni del 1069 e 1071 furono represse nel sangue. I baroni, coi loro vassalli, dipendevano dal re, che, per definire l'entità dei tributi da versare, impose una sorta di catasto, il Domesday Book , di tutte le proprietà, il bestiame, il numero dei vassalli e dei contadini: ovviamente la situazione di quest'ultimi peggiorò in maniera drastica. La popolazione inglese era di circa 1,5 milioni: il 95% viveva in campagna, di agricoltura. In alcune zone del sud e nord-est era diffuso l'allevamento di pecore e l'esportazione di lana greggia verso le Fiandre. La prestazione gratuita di manodopera (corvée) -che in genere consisteva in 3 giorni lavorativi nei campi del feudatario- era la prassi dominante nel mondo contadino, oberato anche da imposte, tributi, gabelle varie. I pochissimi contadini liberi, cioè non legati da rapporti di servitù alla terra, pagavano al lord una rendita in denaro. La chiesa, dal canto suo, esigeva la decima parte dei raccolti, del bestiame, della lana ecc.

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40. Sh: Shell Great Collection - Shell's Collection Of 20 Great Britons From 1972 Edited by Sir Arthur Bryant. Geoffrey Chaucer (circa 13401400). Pilgrimson their way to Canterbury Painting courtesy British Museum. http://www.whom.co.uk/squelch/shell_gb.htm

More News Home Luck ... Next Shell Great Collection - Shell's collection Of 20 Great Britons from 1972 ALFRED (849-899) King Alfred repairing the wall of the City of London. by Frank Salisbury; courtesy of The Gresham Committee. Portrait: Mansell Collection. Born at Wantage, youngest son of King Ethelwulf of Wessex. Succeeded to throne of a failing kingdom after a desperate victory over the Danes at Ashdown. At a time when all the other kingdoms of Christian England had been broken by heathen Scandinavian hordes, he continued to resist and, after being reduced to a last refuge in the Somerset marshes, turned the tables on the invaders at the battle of Ethandun. When the Danes were at his mercy he forgave them, making it possible for the two races to live together in peace in a single island. Became the first king of all England and spent his last years restoring its shattered civilisation and helping to re-educate its people. Edited by Sir Arthur Bryant GEOFFREY CHAUCER (circa 1340-1400) Pilgrims on their way to Canterbury: Painting: courtesy British Museum. Portrait: Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery. Son of a London vintner, who procured him a page's post in the household of one of the sons of Edward III. Served in the latter's French wars and employed on diplomatic missions to France and Italy, where he became a master of Romance literature. While serving as Controller of Customs at the Port of London, made his name in Court circles as an incomparable poet and story-teller. An original creative genius who, before any other, presented human beings in his works as separate and idiosyncratic individuals rather than types and who, in his Canterbury Tales; painted a picture of a whole society in the shape of 32 pilgrims riding together from a tavern to a cathedral and entertaining one another-and revealing themselves-with stories on the way.

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