03-28-2020, 06:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-29-2020, 02:41 AM by Eric the Green.)
The Renaissance that started in Italy at the turn of the 15th century was another such awakening. This began when Ghiberti won the contract to design the Baptistry doors in the Florence Cathedral. At that time Neptune and Pluto were aligned and opposed by Uranus. Through the following 120 years great artists arose, climaxing in the golden age of Michaelangelo, DaVinci and Raphael. Clark describes the Renaissance in two programs, the measure of all things: https://youtu.be/xxRGQzUOyhk
and the hero as artist:
https://youtu.be/h5fjKgI1ljM
The style of art, religion and politics that emerged from this awakening dominated Europe and the world for 500 years. The craftspeople of Florence continue the tradition.
Clark mentions how the French Revolution injured the products of The Great Thaw. But even though it was a 4th turning social moment, it had the characteristics of a second turning awakening as well. Perhaps that's something we can hope will happen in this new decade. As before, the new energy was building up. Clark described it as like sparks flying before a great eruption, or spray flying off the rock before a tidal wave comes. Mozart portrayed the growing energy of the revolution to come in his 41st symphony finale in 1788, and in fact he himself was a mason who was involved in the ferment of his time. This music was unprecedented and influenced all the greatest classical and romantic music that followed, and in it we can feel the intense ferment and aspiration of those times as well as appreciate the dynamic, elaborate form that surpasses all other music.
This obscure video includes all the repeats. Bernstein's performance is the most remarkable.
You can hear the famous 5-theme fughetta here: https://youtu.be/W-LUMhC6-V8?t=644
Woody Allen remarked that this unique symphonic moment proved the glory of God, because only God can follow the 5 themes at once.
But as Clark mentions, this preview era created by the "enlightened" aristocrats of the salons who questioned authority and sought change in society and by the aspiring thinkers of the age of reason led up to the heroic period that enraptured Europe and led the French to great advancements in democracy and social remedies, and then down the path to wars of conquest and betrayals of terror. It was expressed in the March of the Marseillaise, which in a real way was the source of all of romantic music, and of Beethoven as succeeding Mozart, as Clark relates in this documentary of this great awakening, starting with his Leonore Overture from Fidelio and including the 3rd Eroica Symphony and the hymn to liberty. The democratic Revolution and the Romantic Movement has all reverberated from that one inspired, heroic Marseillaise moment in July and August 1792 when Uranus (and Sun and Venus) opposed Pluto, and Saturn opposed Jupiter, Mars and Neptune all aligned, in one of the most potent planetary alignments in history; it reverberated not only in the great romantic arts that began then, and followed it for another century, but in the continued attempts to attain freedom through revolution that failed over and over again, and yet spurred on further progress and continues today to erupt and inspire people around the world. And the fallacies of hope that became apparent in the disillusion after a time of idealistic activism followed by the failures of the Revolution found its echo in the 1970s malaise that Bob described.
and the hero as artist:
https://youtu.be/h5fjKgI1ljM
The style of art, religion and politics that emerged from this awakening dominated Europe and the world for 500 years. The craftspeople of Florence continue the tradition.
Clark mentions how the French Revolution injured the products of The Great Thaw. But even though it was a 4th turning social moment, it had the characteristics of a second turning awakening as well. Perhaps that's something we can hope will happen in this new decade. As before, the new energy was building up. Clark described it as like sparks flying before a great eruption, or spray flying off the rock before a tidal wave comes. Mozart portrayed the growing energy of the revolution to come in his 41st symphony finale in 1788, and in fact he himself was a mason who was involved in the ferment of his time. This music was unprecedented and influenced all the greatest classical and romantic music that followed, and in it we can feel the intense ferment and aspiration of those times as well as appreciate the dynamic, elaborate form that surpasses all other music.
This obscure video includes all the repeats. Bernstein's performance is the most remarkable.
You can hear the famous 5-theme fughetta here: https://youtu.be/W-LUMhC6-V8?t=644
Woody Allen remarked that this unique symphonic moment proved the glory of God, because only God can follow the 5 themes at once.
But as Clark mentions, this preview era created by the "enlightened" aristocrats of the salons who questioned authority and sought change in society and by the aspiring thinkers of the age of reason led up to the heroic period that enraptured Europe and led the French to great advancements in democracy and social remedies, and then down the path to wars of conquest and betrayals of terror. It was expressed in the March of the Marseillaise, which in a real way was the source of all of romantic music, and of Beethoven as succeeding Mozart, as Clark relates in this documentary of this great awakening, starting with his Leonore Overture from Fidelio and including the 3rd Eroica Symphony and the hymn to liberty. The democratic Revolution and the Romantic Movement has all reverberated from that one inspired, heroic Marseillaise moment in July and August 1792 when Uranus (and Sun and Venus) opposed Pluto, and Saturn opposed Jupiter, Mars and Neptune all aligned, in one of the most potent planetary alignments in history; it reverberated not only in the great romantic arts that began then, and followed it for another century, but in the continued attempts to attain freedom through revolution that failed over and over again, and yet spurred on further progress and continues today to erupt and inspire people around the world. And the fallacies of hope that became apparent in the disillusion after a time of idealistic activism followed by the failures of the Revolution found its echo in the 1970s malaise that Bob described.