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Reading  Madrigal Music by composer Jacques Arcadelt  During the 16th century, the Renaissance produced major musical development through sacred and secular music.       Sacred music generally involved the musical form of the motet or mass, while secular music involved the rise of instrumental music and dance music using madrigals. Secular music was intended for a non religious audience, while the sacred music serves a specific religious purpose.       When describing the new styles arising in the Northern renaissance, many of these new styles were expanded upon many of the musical forms developed in the early Renaissance and High Middle Ages. "Composers also continued to write madrigals (songs for three or more solo voices based generally on secular poems).. This increasing complexity produced a significant change in character of madrigals, which were especially popular in Elizabethan England"(Cunnigham). The advancement of the ma...

     After learning about Michelangelo's history and art more in depth in Chapter 13, I wanted to discover more. When doing some more research, I stumbled upon James G. Cooper's article titled, "Michelangelo's Laurentian Library: Drawings and Design Process". I found his art inspiring and I wanted to learn more about the delicate process behind it, which is why I choose this article. Essentially, this article goes into his design process by studying his drawings that survived in the Laurentian Library.       This author carefully studied and replicated many of his sketches in order to truly understand his artistic process.  Cooper goes into his sketching process stating, "In all the surviving sheets the drawings are incomplete, and this is because the act of sketching was itself Michelangelo's primary vehicle for exploring and developing an idea. Each sketch inevitably led to a new idea and this led to a new sketch with there being ...