religion
Title: religion
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religion
The spiritual attitude that dominated the Romanesque age was
not as strong and sure during the Gothic. In the earlier period, people
believed that the world was a God - inspired mystery that could be
expressed in simple, direct art. In the Renaissance that followed the
Middle Ages, people believed , as did the Greeks, in cultivating
rationalism and humanism. This change to a more secular age came
about through the subtle influences of a variety of …
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showed last 75 words of 1303 total…humanism, yet it still held to the scholastic attitude of the
Middle Ages. In the history of Western music, there have been two
basic schemes whereby harmony is achieved. Both of these schemes
require systematic notation, so composers may communicate their
ideas to musical performers. The countless anonymous composers of
the chants of the Middle Ages are an embodiment of a "God -
inspired," mysterious, creative power disassociated from the humans
through which it worked.
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