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Music Is A Form Of Expression And Beauty

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The science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, combination, and temporal relationships produce a composition having unity and continuity; in layman’s terms, music. Music is an art that has evolved for many centuries. It is a form of expression and beauty. It has come a long way from beating rocks with sticks and listening to the sound. A drastic change took place during the Renaissance Period. The instruments changed, new genres emerged, and new composition techniques were used.
Renaissance means rebirth, and in a sense there was a rebirth.The Renaissance Period took place in Europe during the 14th and 17th centuries. Civilization immediately following the Middle Ages, conventionally held to have been characterized by a surge of interest in classical learning and values.

Fig. 1 In Fig. 1 you see a very elegant violin or viol which has very fascinating designs on the front and back of it. The author gives a very detailed description of the crafting of this fine instrument. As follows:
The maple back and sides are decorated with the Latin couplet "Quo unico propugnaculo stat strabiq[ue] religio" (By this bulwark alone religion stands and will stand). The motto has long been associated with a set of instruments that was thought to have been ordered for the court of Charles IX, possibly by his mother Catherine de ' Medici. The back of the instrument is decorated with fleurs-de-lis in the corners, a geometric design with floral ornamentation between the

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