Question: Early Renaissance (1450-1500)

Answer: Found new inspiration in the classics, looked backwards to move forwards. Focused on the human being and their emotions instead of the mythical and divine→ major change from Middle Ages.

Question: Academies

Answer: Renaissance Florence. Noblemen gathered in these groups (not schools) to discuss the classics and the arts, a contemporary form is a book club yet with higher intellectual standing. First academy in Florence in1470.

Question: Art in the Early Renaissance

Answer: Explosion of artistic production in visual arts along with the most famous visual artists ever. Literary arts excelled as well→ Machiavelli, Shakespeare, etc.

Question: Music in Early Renaissance

Answer: The role of harmony becomes increasingly important, bottom voice takes on a more prominent role than the other voices. Led to imitative polyphony

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Question: Shift from sacred to secular music in E. Renaissance

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Question: Philip the Good

Answer: Most famous Duke of Burgundy, head of Burgundian Court in 1467. Burgundian Court dissolved 10 years after Philip was gone

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Question: Ways to achieve unity in the mass

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