Industrial RevolutionThe Industrial Revolution took place from the 18th to 19th centuries. It was a period largely focused on agriculture and rural development, and urbanization. Prior to this period, manufacturing was done in homes, using hand tools or basic machinery. Industrialization shifted manufacturing to powered, special-purpose machinery, factories and mass production. The iron and textile industries, along with development of steam engines, played very central roles in during this period. Transportation, communication and banking improved as well as manufacturing. Industrialization brought an increase in volume and variety of goods, and improved standard of living for some, it also resulted in poor employment and living conditions for the poor and working classes.
DID YOU KNOW?!BEETHOVEN LEARNT TO WRITE NOTES BEFORE HE COULD WRITE HIS OWN NAME.
"Turtle" SubmarineBelieved to be the first functioning submarine, David Bushnell's ideas were not totally original. Historians have found many 'submarine-like' inventions dating all the way back to Alexander the Great's glass barrel, 350 B.C. In 1776, Bushnell created the Turtle. It did not actually resemble a turtle, but more a walnut. It was 7.5ft tall and 6ft wide, made of oak and reinforced by iron. It held a single operator. Bushnell designed the ship for stealth attacks on enemy ships.
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Classical Music Characteristics and ComposersThe Classical period is defined by a return to symmetry and simplicity.
Classical music is often characterized by relatively short phrases of around four bars each, and an overall sense of balance. Texture, harmony and melody are much more simplistic than in baroque music. It is predominately homophonic, meaning most commonly composed of a single melody line with accompaniment; differing from the multi-textured polyphonic texture of baroque compositions. The Sonata form originated in the classical period and was adhered rather stiffly to the majority of classical composers.the sonata consists of three clearly defined sections. The exposition (introduction), the development section (a contrasting section in a different but related key), and the recapitulation (a return to the introductory material, returning to the original key).
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"Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth" - Ludwig van Beethoven DID YOU KNOW?!THE REASON THE TERM "CLASSICAL" IS USED IS TO REFER TO THIS ERA OF MUSIC IS THE COMMON STRESS ON BALANCE AND CLARITY OF STRUCTURE.
First VaccinationsSmallpox was a terrible disease where one in three people died, and survivors were left badly disfigured. Edward Jenner observed that milkmaids generally did not catch smallpox. He extracted liquid from cowpox sores of milkmaid and injected them into a young boy. Jenner's theory was that if he could inject someone with cowpox, the germs from the cowpox would make the body able to defend itself against the dangerous smallpox germs which he would inject later. He made two cuts on the boys arms and poured the liquid from the cowpox sores into the boys open wounds. The boy contracted cowpox, but not severely. Jenner then vaccinated him with smallpox. The boy did not contract smallpox; Jenner carried on with his innovation of vaccinations in the medical field.
DID YOU KNOW?!ANTONIO SALIERI WAS GOOD FRIENDS WITH FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN. HE ALSO GAVE MUSIC COMPOSITION LESSONS TO LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN.
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