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…. The opera of the romantic period tended to be influenced by baroque, and classical music. It was more of a combination of the two styles and formed one. Soon subjects in operas started becoming popular especially in Italy. Also tenors were now playing the heroic…

…by his disillusionment with secular political solutions. Auden's next volume, The Collected Poetry (1945), in which he revised, re-titled, or excluded many of his earlier poems, helped his reputation as a major poet. The Age of Anxiety: a Baroque Eclogue…

…glass windows were broken, images of the saints were destroyed, and pipe organs were removed from churches. The Catholic churches responded to this iconoclasm with the art style of baroque. Not until the Neoclassical style of the eighteenth century…

…Major, which was "Autumn", and Concerto No.4 in F Minor, which was "Winter." These songs basically created a stage for more program music because they took each season and put very realistic sounds and feeling into them. Composers or famous Baroques…

…complexity as time goes on. Instead, Bradbury treats his themes in what might be called a Baroque manner - changing the orientation, emotional tone, or relative prominence of the theme from story to story. In a way, this is like the variations on a theme…

…based his design on the Baroque style, considered trendy in England. The design broke away from straight lines and instead utilized curved ones, separating walls into different sections. Each section, however, along with the overall construction…

…power is momentarily arrested (Scribner 66). Present in this sculpture are three of the five characteristics of Baroque art: motion, a different way of looking at space and the introduction of the concept of time. Donatello and Verrocchio depicted David…

…the valuable secret was guarded carefully at Meissen. In 1718 a runaway workman carried the formula to Vienna. There its manufacture flourished under a great manager, Claude du Paquier, who was responsible for much fine porcelain in the baroque style. Other…

…;#8212;entered the mainstream of the nation's cultural life. By the mid-18th century Russians were producing ballets, operas, chamber music, baroque architecture, and novels. One example of brilliance of Russian artists is the city of St. Petersburg…

…to be known as the model European, baroque-style city. It was founded in 1703, following the Northern Wars, and proved to be a strategically important city, being the key to the Baltic trade. In 1711, Peter appointed a nine-man senate, which became the highest…