Spanish Baroque Architecture: A Regionalist Style

Introduction

The Baroque in Spain is a distinctive regionalist style, diverging from universal Baroque patterns. We can identify distinct Baroque expressions in Castile, Andalusia, and Galicia, each region boasting a unique personality. The first half of the 17th century marks the dawn of Spanish Baroque architecture, heavily influenced by Juan de Herrera and his masterpiece, El Escorial. The ideals of the Counter-Reformation facilitated the continuation of this architectural model.

The Original Baroque

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The Spanish Ballad: History, Origin, and Characteristics

The Spanish Ballad

The Ballads

The epic began to decline in the fourteenth century, and during the fifteenth century, epic poems were no longer written. Public taste shifted, and minstrels favored romances. These were poems with epic themes and narrative structures, although occasionally lyrical, that circulated through oral channels, separate from formal literature. In the late fifteenth century, learned poets became interested in these poems, which were incorporated into songbooks and became part

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Classical Period (1750-1825): Style Traits, Genres, and Composers

Classical Period (1750-1825)

Style Traits & Genres

Orchestra Size: Typically 25-30 players, sometimes up to 60.

Symphony

A 4-movement work for orchestra.

Sonata Form
  • Exposition: Introduces the themes.
    • First theme in the tonic key.
    • Bridge.
    • Modulation to a new key.
    • Cadence (in the new key).
    • Pause.
    • Second theme in the new key and of contrasting character.
    • Closing section (in the new key).
  • Development: Explores and transforms the themes.
    • Introduction of new themes.
    • Variations on original themes.
    • Rapid key changes.
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Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale: Analysis, Criticism, and Interpretations

The Winter’s Tale

2 Jacobean Shakespeare

– The mature, final, most artistic style of Shakespeare’s plays
– Dramatic maturity and theatrical crowning of his career
– Shakespeare at his best.
– It implies previous developments and dramatic experiments

3 The Winter’s Tale

Together with The Tempest, Cymbeline, and Pericles, it is generally referred to as one of Shakespeare’s late final plays or romances. They were written between 1608 and 1611. They share several characteristics:

– A child who is lost

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Baroque and Renaissance Literature, Opera, and Scientific Terminology

Baroque Literature and Opera

Subordinate Adjectives and Adjectival Nouns

Subordinate adjective (between commas) only: explicat.

Subordinate adjectival noun: Omit the background. The antecedent would be “the child” – it omits reference to what he does. Example: “that is entered is called Miguel.”

Adverbial Sentences

They may be proper or improper and relate to place, time, or mood.

Types of Subordinate Clauses

  • Subordinate Row: Nexos: well (s) who, after then, so, by accordingly.
  • Subordinate Conditional:
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Romanticism in English Literature: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Byron

Romanticism


In the last Thirty years of the 18th century a new sensibility became dominant Which came to be known in literature as romanticism, claiming the supremacy of Feelings and emotions. It included elements of nostalgia, emotionalism and Individualism, and it led to a new way of considering the role of man in the Universe. There was a growing interest in humble and everyday life and great Attention was paid to the countryside as a place where there could still be a Relationship with nature,

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