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WORLD CULTURES II HUM112040VA016-1204-001WEEK 4World Cultures II (HUM112040VA016-1204-001)Getting StartedCourse InfoMy ProfessorAnnouncementsGradebookStrayer Writing StandardsYour CourseWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6Week 7Help/ResourcesMedia GalleryCourse Tool HelpEmailDaily BonusWeek 4 Goya’s Tragic Vision and Industrializationstudent and instructor at the whiteboardWELCOMEWelcome to Week 4! Last week, you learned about the order and control of the neoclassical art and its relationship to both the American and French Revolutions. This week, you’ll explore Romanticism, a movement characterized by emotion, individualism, and nature. You will explore how this movement—emphasizing nature over industry—came at a time when farmers were moving from rural areas to big cities for manufacturing jobs. This period known as the Industrial Revolution, would bring great wealth to Great Britain but at the expense of its people and the environment.TO-DO LIST0% Quiz: Complete and submit Quiz 3, covering Chapters 25 and 26. Learn: Read Chapter 27, “The Romantic World View,” and Chapter 28, “Industry and the Working Class.” Learn: View the video lecture. Learn: Explore music and art related to this week’s readings. Discuss: Complete the discussion, Beethoven; Art and Protest in the 1800s. Assignment: Complete and submit Assignment 1: Essay.Mary Snyder, the head Strayer Librarian, has created a Library landing page for HUM 112 students to use for all three of our assignment sources. Click on the link below and you will find articles and information for your papers. https://strayer.libguides.com/HUM112 Here is some information as the link opens up: The purpose of this guide is to support students enrolled in HUM 112 and those interested in world history, culture, and religion.Research Strategies shares three time-saving research search strategies. Assignment 1 explains background research and suggests resources to jump-start your source list. Assignment 2 explains primary sources and active reading techniques. Assignment 3 suggests museums and explains centuries versus years. Ask Your Librarian outlines all the ways you may seek library and research help.Start working now on assignment one, due the end of next weekend, week four. WEEK 4 QUIZQuiz 3Click the link above to take the quiz.LEARNReadings Chapter 27, “The Romantic World View: The Self in Nature and the Nature of Self.” Chapter 28, “Industry and the Working Class: A New Realism.” MultimediaLecture: Goya’s Tragic Vision and Industrialization.MusicIn this week’s readings, we encounter a number of musical pieces, all of them covered in Chapter 27, pages 907–913. Ludwig van Beethoven: Eroica.On pages 907 and 909, there is a brief discussion of Beethoven’s Eroica (Italian for heroic), formally called Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat. This was first performed in 1804 and was composed in the two or three years leading up to that, a time when he was wrestling with increasing deafness and depression (pages 908–909).Beethoven personally embraced the ideals of the French Revolution and at some point seemed to admire Napoleon greatly—so much so that at some point, Napoleon’s name was in the title of this work and the work was dedicated to him. However, Beethoven changed this, renaming it Eroica and removing the dedication to Napoleon. One account says this was because of Beethoven’s disenchantment with Napoleon’s autocratic drift, especially as revealed when Napoleon finally proclaimed himself “emperor,” a move Beethoven despised. (See Why the Erioca? and Historical Overview.) But perhaps Beethoven’s reasons for the change were more pragmatic. In any case, the result was this masterpiece, which changed the direction of music forever. This work is considered transitional from the classical style of music perfected by Haydn and Mozart in the late 1700s to the Romantic style of music that would prevail for most of the 1800s.The first clip below is a 10-minute clip of the first movement. The second is a clip of the second movement, which shows short clips of it in three different versions. Note: Beethoven composed this for a bigger symphony orchestra and made it a much longer work than anything done by Haydn and Mozart. His work is also much more charged with emotion, drama, and change.Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 (Eroica), 1st Movement.Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 (Eroica), 2nd Movement.Beethoven: Fifth Symphony. On pages 909–910, we encounter a discussion of Beethoven’s famous Fifth Symphony, first performed in 1808. Read the description carefully and give this a listen:Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, 1st Movement.Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30, E major, Op. 109.Read about this beautiful piano composition on page 910. Then, give this a listen:Beethoven: Sonata No. 30, E Major, Op. 109, 1st Movement.Beethoven: Ninth Symphony, Ode to Joy.On pages 910–911, there is a fine discussion of Beethoven’s crowning work, his Ninth Symphony, first performed in 1824. (Beethoven died in 1827.) Note his innovation of combining a vocal chorus as part of this symphonic work. In the video below, Leonard Bernstein introduces Beethoven and this particular work. If you wish to get right to the music, fast forward (click and drag) to the 3:37 mark. Bernstein is conducting the Vienna Philharmonic. Give this a listen:Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, in D Minor, Ode to Joy. (Start music at 3:37 mark.)An English translation of the lyrics.Hector Berlioz: Symphony Fantastique.This is discussed on pages 911–912. This grand work is often presented as the great example of the Romantic style of music in the 1800s, a style that is emotional and given to drama. It was composed in 1830. Berlioz did this in a grandiose manner. Read carefully about “program music” and the idée fixe (“fixed idea”) as they relate to this work. You realize that a dramatic story is being told, not just a change of mood. Listen to the following clips: Berlioz: Symphony Fantastique, 1st Movement.Berlioz: Symphony Fantastique, 4th Movement (March to the Scaffold; artist hallucinates).Berlioz: Symphony Fantastique, 5th Movement (Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath).Felix Mendelssohn: Concerto in E Minor for Violin.This work was composed in 1844. Read page 912 carefully and note the skill required on the part of a violinist to play this. Sarah Chang demonstrates this skill in this video: Mendelssohn: Concerto in E Minor for Violin (start at 1:00).Robert Schumann: Widmung (Dedication). This is an example of a lied (plural lieder) of the Romantic style in the mid-1800s, which was normally a song for a solo voice with a piano. Read pages 912–913 carefully. Schumann composed the music for this in 1840 to celebrate his wedding. His wife, Clara Schumann, not only inspired some great compositions, she became a well-known piano virtuoso. One of the links below has the German lyric and translation. Watch and listen to the great Jessye Norman sing this in German: Widmung (Dedication), sung by Jessye NormanAn English translation of the lyrics.Frederic Chopin: Fantasie Impromptu.Chopin (pronounce SHOH-pan) composed this Romantic style work for the piano. Read page 913 carefully about this work and how it exemplifies Romantic style musicianship. Note the tempo changes. Then, give this a listen: Fantasie Impromptu.WEEK 4 DISCUSSION 1Beethoven; Art and Protest in the 1800sClick the link above to get started with the weekly discussion. If you need help with completing discussions, please watch this video for more information.Class, here is a quick video overview of the information in Chapters 27 and 28. Click on the arrow in the middle of the recording to help you study for quiz 4 found in week 5. Info on Chapter 27 will help you prepare for your posts in week 4 discuss topics as you choose your Romantic person of the week and look for a poem to share! Also, look over the power points in Instructor’s Insights covering these chapters. Thanks! Dr. McGeehan ESSAYEssayInstructionsChoose one of the three reading selections from the list of topic choices below. The focus is on a brief but important primary source material written by important authors. In each case, the subject relates to the problems of certain people who are oppressed or impoverished. In each topic, a different genre or approach is adopted to help readers see and perhaps address the problem. Read the selections as identified with each topic below. Write a 4–5 paragraph essay (350 words minimum) that analyzes the work following the list of things your paper should cover, given just after the topics.Topic ChoicesReading selection of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice. Her works are very popular today, with Austen reading clubs and all types of new books and events based on her ideas. In 2017, England printed new £10 bank notes bearing Austen’s image. Chapter 43 should be read in full.Reading selection from Samuel Johnson, No. 91. Sufficiency of the English Language, an essay first published in The Rambler. Johnson was the editor of two coffeehouse magazines, The Rambler (1750–52) and The Idler (1758–60), and was the author of Dictionary of the English Language. He was also the subject of one of the first biographies, by James Boswell. In his life, Johnson overcame numerous illnesses and handicaps.Reading selection of Olympe de Gouges’s Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (written in 1791). The selection should be read in full, with background provided on page 874 of our class text. You should also look at the revolutionary document of 1789 that she is “correcting,” called Declaration of the Rights of Man. Olympe de Gouges has the status of women as her main concern. The general context is the French Revolution and the attempts to redefine rights and status once one replaces monarchy.For the reading selection and topic you choose, your paper should cover the following:Introduce the writer and the situation that the reading is about.Using specific examples or lines from the reading, summarize the author’s key ideas and views.Examine the writing style and discuss the intended audience. How did you like this? How do the ideas relate to situations today?Additional RequirementsThis course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS) [PDF]. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.Include a title page containing the title of the assignment, your name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date of submission. The cover page and the source list are not included in the required assignment length (350 words minimum).You must use the class text and any sources identified (with links) above for the topic you choose, focusing on the main primary source of that author. If you use any additional source (optional), it must be from the University’s online library and of good academic quality for college work.The specific course outcomes associated with this assignment are:Present the viewpoint of an author on a chosen topic.Review the rubric in the Course Guide to see how your assignment will be graded on answer quality, logic and organization of the paper, and language and writing skills.For the reading selection and topic you choose, your paper should cover the following:Introduce the writer and the situation that the reading is about.Using specific examples or lines from the reading, summarize the author’s key ideas and views.Examine the writing style and discuss the intended audience. How did you like this? How do the ideas relate to situations todayTemplate: SWS HUM 112 Assignment One with section headings Template Winter 2020.docxHere is a link to a short overview of the topics and discussion of the paper itself, also sent to your via email. Please watch! https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/index.php/extwidget/preview/partner_id/956951/uiconf_id/43830551/entry_id/1_z03e6jc0/embed/dynamic