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Portuguese sailors were pioneers of European exploration in the 15th-16th centuries, discovering routes around Africa to India and establishing trade with Asia and Japan. Vasco da Gama led the first fleet around Africa to India in 1498, starting a maritime route and establishing Portuguese dominance in trade between Europe and Asia for over a century. The Portuguese introduced many cultural influences to Asia, including new foods, the Portuguese language, musical instruments, and the concept of harmony in music.
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Portuguese sailors were pioneers of European exploration in the 15th-16th centuries, discovering routes around Africa to India and establishing trade with Asia and Japan. Vasco da Gama led the first fleet around Africa to India in 1498, opening an important trade route. Over subsequent decades, the Portuguese explored Southeast Asia and reached Japan, introducing European musical instruments, foods, and concepts like harmony that influenced Asian cultures.
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Portuguese sailors were pioneers of European exploration in the 15th-16th centuries, discovering routes around Africa to India and establishing trade with Asia and Brazil. Vasco da Gama led the first fleet around the Cape of Good Hope to India in 1498, starting a maritime route and establishing Portuguese dominance in trade with Asia for over a century through trading posts, diplomatic missions, and colonization of parts of Asia and Brazil. The Portuguese introduced many cultural influences to Asia, including new foods, musical instruments, genres, and the use of harmony in music.
Music in the Renaissance period
The Renaissance was a cultural and intellectual movement between the 14th and 17th centuries that began in Italy and spread throughout Europe. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and a rebirth of ideas from ancient Greece and Rome. Music expanded significantly during this period, moving beyond the church to noble courts which employed large chapels of musicians. Renaissance music was characterized by polyphonic compositions, with sacred music like the mass and motet dominating initially before the rise of secular genres like the madrigal and villancico. Several European schools of composition emerged across Italy, France, Spain and elsewhere to advance Renaissance music.
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The Gok Turks were the first Turkish empire who used the name "Turk". They originated from Central Asia in the 6th-7th centuries AD and were nomadic pastoralists and skilled metalworkers. The Gok Turks left important cultural legacies, including inscriptions describing their history and rulers. They influenced neighboring cultures through trade and migration while maintaining traditions like felt-making, kaftan clothing, musical instruments like the dombra, and foods like yogurt and ayran. The Gok Turks' syncretic religion called Göktanrı, emphasizing a sky god, helped pave the way for the later acceptance of Islam among Turks.
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Baroque music is characterized by order, liveliness, and tunefulness. It originated around 1600 and flourished between 1700-1750. Two main influences were the development of instrumental forms like the sonata and concerto in Rome, and the focus on counterpoint and fugue in north Germany. Composers across Europe incorporated elements from different regions, blending styles and spreading influences.
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The document provides an overview of pre-classical period composers Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frederick Handel. It discusses that Bach was born in 1685 in Germany, was part of a musical family, and was known for his mastery of fugue and works including the Well-Tempered Clavichord and Brandenburg Concertos. Handel traveled between Germany, Italy and England, and is remembered most for his oratorios, especially Messiah.
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Portuguese sailors were pioneers of European exploration in the 15th-16th centuries, discovering routes around Africa to India and establishing trade with Asia and Japan. Vasco da Gama led the first fleet around Africa to India in 1498, opening an important trade route. Over subsequent decades, the Portuguese explored Southeast Asia and reached Japan, introducing European musical instruments, foods, and concepts like harmony that influenced Asian cultures.
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Portuguese sailors were pioneers of European exploration in the 15th-16th centuries, discovering routes around Africa to India and establishing trade with Asia and Brazil. Vasco da Gama led the first fleet around the Cape of Good Hope to India in 1498, starting a maritime route and establishing Portuguese dominance in trade with Asia for over a century through trading posts, diplomatic missions, and colonization of parts of Asia and Brazil. The Portuguese introduced many cultural influences to Asia, including new foods, musical instruments, genres, and the use of harmony in music.
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The Renaissance was a cultural and intellectual movement between the 14th and 17th centuries that began in Italy and spread throughout Europe. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and a rebirth of ideas from ancient Greece and Rome. Music expanded significantly during this period, moving beyond the church to noble courts which employed large chapels of musicians. Renaissance music was characterized by polyphonic compositions, with sacred music like the mass and motet dominating initially before the rise of secular genres like the madrigal and villancico. Several European schools of composition emerged across Italy, France, Spain and elsewhere to advance Renaissance music.
Gok turks
The Gok Turks were the first Turkish empire who used the name "Turk". They originated from Central Asia in the 6th-7th centuries AD and were nomadic pastoralists and skilled metalworkers. The Gok Turks left important cultural legacies, including inscriptions describing their history and rulers. They influenced neighboring cultures through trade and migration while maintaining traditions like felt-making, kaftan clothing, musical instruments like the dombra, and foods like yogurt and ayran. The Gok Turks' syncretic religion called Göktanrı, emphasizing a sky god, helped pave the way for the later acceptance of Islam among Turks.
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Baroque music is characterized by order, liveliness, and tunefulness. It originated around 1600 and flourished between 1700-1750. Two main influences were the development of instrumental forms like the sonata and concerto in Rome, and the focus on counterpoint and fugue in north Germany. Composers across Europe incorporated elements from different regions, blending styles and spreading influences.
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Dance has a long history dating back 9,000 years, depicted in early cave paintings of people dancing to music. Many traditional dances practiced today can be traced to ancient civilizations like India, Greece, Rome, and China, where dance was used for celebrations, entertainment, and religious ceremonies. Specific dances like salsa and tango more recently developed in the late 19th century by combining influences from places like Cuba, Argentina, Africa, and Europe.
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Medieval music and musicians
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The Renaissance saw major developments in music, moving away from anonymity towards individual expression. It began in Italy in the 15th century and was characterized by polyphonic and homophonic styles with instruments playing a larger accompanying role. Religious and secular music grew more elaborate as composers like Palestrina composed masses and motets while national styles like the Italian madrigal and French chanson emerged. Instrumental music included dances for nobility and peasants.
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- The slave trade dramatically increased to supply labor for American plantations, devastating parts of Africa and changing its political/social structures.
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- 2. Portuguese sailors were at the vanguard of European overseas exploration, discovering and mapping the coasts of Africa, Asia and Brazil, in what became known as the Age of Discovery.
- 3. Vasco da Gama led the first fleet around Africa to India, arriving in Calicut and starting a maritime route from Portugal to India. Soon, after reaching Brazil, explorations proceed to southeast Asia, having reached Japan in 1542.
- 4. During the history of Portugal between 1415 and 1578, Portugal discovered an eastern route to India that rounded the Cape of Good Hope, established trading routes throughout most of southern Asia and sent the first direct European maritime trade and diplomatic missions to China and Japan.
- 6. The Portuguese language, was in 16th – 17th – 18th centuries the trade language of the Indian Ocean shores. Portuguese was used, not only in the eastern cities conquered by the Portuguese but was also used by many local rulers in their relations with the other European powers.
- 7. They trade sweet potatoes, maize, and peanuts, foods that could be cultivated in lands where traditional Chinese staple crops— wheat, millet, and rice—could not grow. They change sugar and spice too.
- 8. The Portuguese bought Chinese silk and sold it to the Japanese in return for Japanese-mined silver; since silver was highly valued in China, the Portuguese could then use Japanese silver to buy even larger stocks of Chinese silk.
- 9. The Portuguese being the pioneer European nation to make prolonged contact with the Orient, introduced new features, new musical instruments, new textures, new forms of vocalmusic and new genres of music.
- 10. New percussion instruments such as drums, cymbals; new string instruments such as the citterns, viola, violin and piano; new wind instruments such as the trumpet and organ were all introduced by the Portuguese to their Asian holdings.
- 11. The most important influence, however, is stems from the introduction of harmony – the combination of simultaneous notes to form chords – a feature of Western music.