Essays on Giulio

Revolutionizing the Musical Stage of Northern Italy

Although not as popular as Bach, Claudio Monteverdi, Schutz, Charpentier or Pachelbel. Barbara Strozzi was a representative name for Baroque music. Daughter of poet Giulio Strozzi's servant, born in 1617, she lived an intriguing life, later becoming the most respected and appreciated female composer of the 17th century. She was adopted by her mother's master, a rather famous Venetian intellectual, who saw to her musical education. Her first notable teacher was Francesco Cavalli, already reputable singer and composer. The news of her talent soon spread, and Nicolò Fontei dedicated her no less than two solo songs books, the first one ...

During Italian Renaissance the promotion of cultural and artistic patronage responded directly to specific needs of the Court as a new institution. Small regional states emerged from the fragmentation of the communal and feudal regime as a new political subject directly delegated by a higher authority such as the imperator or that the pope. Because of this structural nature of their power, the Italian princes were constantly looking for support, justification and recognition, both inside and especially outside of the boundaries of the territory ruled. In fact, the political activity of a prince would not existed without a specific focus on artistic and ...

In this modern era, people are making more and more use of the innovative and latest technology. With the evolution of technology, particularly with IPADS, people are using them heavily in their practice for educating children. They are now being widely used even to educate special children or children with disabilities such as autism (Achmadi, Kagohara, Van der Meer, O’Reilly, Lancioni, Sutherland, Lang, Sigafoos, Peter B, Vanessa A, & Marschik, 2012). Considering this fact, Leapfrog Genius has introduced iPAD for children having disabilities. The strengths of this iPAD, which is designed for children with age 4-9 having disabilities ...

Discussion 1

Howard Becker makes a claim that social groups normally create deviance by making specific rules whose infraction constitute deviance. When these rules are applied to particular people who are not part of the group, there are bound be infractions and as such, the people will be labeled as deviants. Howard’s point of view seems to suggest that deviance is not a quality of the act commited by an individual but is rather a consequence or a result of application of sanctions and rules to an offender. Personally, I agree with Becker’s assertion. It is very common in the society to ...

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Alexanian, Nicole, Wiebke Bebermeier, Dirk Blaschta, and Arne Ramisch

2012 The Pyramid Complexes and the Ancient Landscape of Dahshur/Egypt. Journal for Ancient Studies (3):131-133.

This short article demonstrates the changes in sand levels since the time of the Old Kingdom (About 2600-2150 BCE). Geomorphic and sediment investigations conducted by the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and the Institute of Geographical Sciences of the Free University of Berlin were able to determine the landscape during the Old Kingdom. Utilizing information from 80 sondages and several excavation trenches, researchers found that up to 7m of alluvial and aeolian deposits had occurred ...