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...fifteenth century in music was one of those periods found in all the arts when the conflicting and chaotic principles of a previous era are becoming crystalized and unified so as to become powerful to rise to great heights in the succeeding generations. It was a century when the colorful troubadours and trouveres of the twelve and thirteen hundreds were gradually ceasing, with the disappearance of cortoisie, to sing their love songs throughout the country-side. Little by little their unwritten tunes were assuming a style which at least is intelligible to the modern...
...Scripture," said Thomas a Kempis sought to be read in the spirit in which it was written." This statement taken from the writings of an Augustinian monk holds true today as much as it ever did in the fifteenth century...
Translated from the Old French of Antoine de la Sale (Fifteenth Century) by Richard Aldington...
...Atlanta's new home of culture and the arts sits like a gem of truth, bowered in lovely green trees and shrubs, with the gentle rising sweep of lawn in front, on Peachtree street between Fifteenth and Sixteenth. Formerly the High home, it was given to the city, through the art association, by Mrs. Joseph Madison High, to be a perpetual home of art in this southern metropolis and to house the permanent collection which Atlanta will gather together for the inspiration and training of her gifted sons and daughters of the generations yet to come...
...came gradually to value their spiritual uses. Soon Herod was thumping his spear on the boards, and Judas went about his betraying in a long red beard, and Pilate could earn as much as ten shillings a week if he told his lines with a swaggering tongue. . . . In the Fifteenth century, roles were cast with a nice eye to harmony between the part itself and the trade of the man who was to play it. Plasterers created the world, shipwrights built the Ark, the chandlers were the Shepherds who carried the Star, butchers assisted in the Crucifixion. Christ...