Essays on Gregorian

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The vision 2030 for Saudi was designed to improve the local and the international position of the country along economic, social, political, and the peoples` dimensions. The plan was designed along three critical aspects that encompass the social, economic, people, and the political position. The three pillars that founded the plan were the vibrant society, ambitious nation, and the thriving economy. Along the vibrant society, the model focused on tapping the nation`s strong roots through the blending and optimizing on the natural resources and the community`s cultural heritages. The plan focused on developing and promoting fulfilling lives ...

The holiday plays a role in the process of socialization of the person, the perception of his role and relationship to social groups. With its emotional background, entertainment, unconventionality, often accompanied by joy and abundance, ability to use various benefits that are unavailable in ordinary time, gifts and entertainment and deviations from the usual rules restricting the behavior of people, holiday for many centuries attracts children and young people, deeply etching into their memory. It is a very important reason to identify oneself with other people – in the days of the feast, young people, often more clearly than in ...

Chapter One: Islamic Literature in the Middle Ages

In the early ages, literary salons were a part of the medieval Islamic culture. These salons were referred to mujalasat or mujalasa. The Mujalasat emerged in Iraq in the ninth century and greatly flourished in the tenth century (Ali, 2010). Thereafter, they spread from Iraq to the west, to Andalusian region of Spain, and ultimately to North Africa. The literary salons had an extended endurance and were part of the Islamic cultural practice well into the modern era (Ali, 2010). The Mujalasat was poetry sessions that flourished immensely particularly in the age before television had reached peoples’ living rooms. ...

Intercultural Communication

Before the arrival of the Portuguese in the year 1500, Amerindian people stayed in Brazil who spoke different languages. There were around six million Indians in Brazil who spoke 1,000 different languages. After arriving the Portuguese settlers encountered the Tupi people, who then controlled most of the Brazilian coast and used to speak a set of closely related languages. The Portuguese were called "Tapuias", by the Tupi people. In the first two centuries of colonization, a language known as ‘Línguageral’ was widely spoken by all, from Amerindians, Portuguese to the African and their descendants, and a vast area from Sao ...

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The word music originates from the ancient Greek word muses that mean the nine goddesses of art and science. Music was formed long time ago when European musicians composed it for notation of rhythms. Music is an art that makes an organized sound effect through the elements of rhythm, pitch, and dynamics and is an expression of feeling and thought. Every culture past or present follows music. Since music is a part of all times and places in one or the other way, it is probable to be present before the dispersal of humans around the world. For hundreds of ...

The Catholic Church and Her Magisterium define sacred music in Ecclesial Documents. In Catholicism there are specifics in the liturgy that describe the requirements for sacred music. Sacred music is not for ordinary usage and not for use by anyone outside the church. Sacred music is blessed and unique. The Catholic Church and Her Sacred Liturgies are the only ones who should use sacred music. Music plays an important role in the liturgy and the most beautiful music of Holy Week is the Gregorian chant. Gregorian chant is beautiful in both senses as prescribed by Catholic scholars; it is ...

- The numbers are adjectives where the cardinal numbers are used for counting items. The ordinal numbers show position or rank while the fraction numbers shows parts of shares or portions of something.

This shows that the origin of counting is from corresponding body parts e.g. the French used body parts like fingers in their counting to count numbers one to ten. - The Nile flooding is expected to be synchronous with the real year. The astronomers in ancient Egypt discovered that stars were more precise in making a calendar than the sun which they had used over ...

Considering how classical music continually evolves and changes from one era to another, compare and contrast the sacred and liturgical vocal music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Include in your essay discussion of representative composers and their musical works from the CD?

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Classical music is certainly one of the finest art forms and has developed extensively over the years to such an extent that today it can be merged into several different styles accordingly. The development of music from the vocal works of the Renaissance to the fully fledged symphonies by Mahler is definitely an issue which needs ...

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After the destruction of the Roman Empire, the church became on of the foundations of civilization. During the time of Gregory I the Great (590-694), the medieval papacy started exerting its power. Gregory’s accomplishment was to assert its authority and establish the temporal papal power. Gregory was a Roman aristocrat by birth and he witnessed the destruction of Rome. Gregory concluded that the world was coming to an end and therefore withdrew from it in order to become a Benedictine monk. Gregory was elected Pope in 590 and took the role of protecting Rome and the surrounding territory from the ...

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Despite the fact that there is a lot of science involved in today’s time and calendar management, the start of this journey was based on very flexible logic, one of the earliest Roman Calendars was based on a thirty day lunar cycle and included an eight-day market week. In reality this eight-day week did not have any scientific logic but was based on the fact that this was the time taken for processing of Goat’s cheese. The first calendar included four months of thirty days each and March, April, May and June were the months that were named based ...