... this "tonalidad ha servido para generar un trato melodico nostálgico en donde se acoplan poemas de amor, textos melancolicos por la pérdida de una madre, particularidad que ha servido para definir al pasillo ecuatoriano como "la cancion de la nostalgia5, " "(cite). Pasillos were more commonly sung in duos until soloists became more popular around the 1960's. Additioanly, the songs typical ... ...

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... Renaissance, there are particular aspects of this new music that were so monumental that it is impossible to deny the rebirth of music around the 1400s. Guillaume de Machaut's mass, "La Messe de Nostre Dame " (Mass of Our Lady), is a polyphonic mass written in the setting of the ordinary mass. Machaut uses numerical symbols relating to the bible, which could only ... because in the Renaissance love becomes requited. The new aspect of it is the way that secular text is added to the cyclic mass. In Guillaume Du Fay's "Missa Se la face ay pale ", Du Fay uses his own song to set the cantus ...

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... social positions that would not have been available elsewhere (Edwards, 2010; Stevens, 2000). Figure 1 is a flow chart which represents the ranking in terms of authority in the Pietà. The prioress (la priora) was "the highest post open to a member of the Pietà girls and possibly to any Venetian woman. " (Berdes, 1993, p. 122), her duties included taking classes, attending special ceremonies and ... ...

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