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  2. Harmony - Wikipedia

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    Subordinate harmony is the hierarchical tonality or tonal harmony well known today. Coordinate harmony is the older Medieval and Renaissance tonalité ancienne, "The term is meant to signify that sonorities are linked one after the other without giving rise to the impression of a goal-directed development. A first chord forms a 'progression ...

  3. Counterpoint - Wikipedia

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    In counterpoint, the functional independence of voices is the prime concern. The violation of this principle leads to special effects, which are avoided in counterpoint. In organ registers, certain interval combinations and chords are activated by a single key so that playing a melody results in parallel voice leading.

  4. Richard Lynn - Wikipedia

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    The centre has also stated that "Lynn uses his authority as [former [7]] professor (emeritus) of psychology at the University of Ulster to argue for the genetic inferiority of non-white people." [24] Lynn was a frequent speaker at conferences hosted by the white-nationalist publication American Renaissance. [113] [23]

  5. False relation - Wikipedia

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    A false relation (also known as cross-relation, non-harmonic relation) is the name of a type of dissonance that sometimes occurs in polyphonic music, most commonly in vocal music of the Renaissance and particularly in English music into the eighteenth century.

  6. Henk Borgdorff - Wikipedia

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    From 1983 to 2002 he taught music theory and aesthetics in Hilversum (1983-1994), The Hague (1990-1994) and Amsterdam (1994-2002), with a focus on Renaissance counterpoint and philosophy of music.

  7. Transition from Renaissance to Baroque in instrumental music

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    In the years centering on 1600 in Europe, several distinct shifts emerged in ways of thinking about the purposes, writing and performance of music.Partly these changes were revolutionary, deliberately instigated by a group of intellectuals in Florence known as the Florentine Camerata, and partly they were evolutionary, in that precursors of the new Baroque style can be found far back in the ...

  8. Rosy retrospection - Wikipedia

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    It indeed found a rosy effect as subjects recalled (and predicted) their positive emotions being stronger than they actually were. But it also found recollections of negative emotions were recalled and predicted more intensely than was reported at the time (as an aside, the only significant predictor of a desire to repeat a holiday was the ...

  9. Renaissance philosophy - Wikipedia

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    The designation "Renaissance philosophy" is used by historians of philosophy to refer to the thought of the period running in Europe roughly between 1400 and 1600. [1]It therefore overlaps both with late medieval philosophy, which in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries was influenced by notable figures such as Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham, and Marsilius of Padua, and ...