Architecture and Music in the Baroque Period

The dichotomy of prohibition and acceptance of music in the Ghaznavid period

Abstract One of the important cultural issues after the domination of Islam is the attitude to music. In the analyses carried out by Islamic scholars, the use of music was distinguished into two permitted and non-permitted flows. As a result of the use of illegal music, two discourses of sanctions and acceptance were formed, which were qualitatively and quantitatively different. In the Ghaznavi...

music in ghaznavid period

the focus of this article is on music in ghaznavid (977 – 1186 ad) period. in addition to turkish culture, it was influenced by persian and arabic cultures. the aim of this research is to recognize the music of historical dynasty in middle iranian history (after the dominance of islam until modern times). this government is divided into three historical periods; in every period, the geographica...

Pleasure’s Poise: Classicism and Baroque Allegory in Poussin’s ‘Dance to the Music of Time’

‘Like all artists of his period, Poussin placed great weight on the clarity and legibility of an allegory.’1 Thus the verdict of Otto Grautoff, in his 1914 monograph on Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665), describing speci!cally the artist’s portrayal of earthly transience and vanity, ‘The Dance of Human Life’. Clarity was already a catchphrase in Poussin scholarship in Grautoff’s day, used most often ...

"Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque" by John Butt

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...