Senior year I took a history class that I remember specifically spending a lot of time on the Renaissance and Baroque era and how it actually got started. It's really interesting how religion and politics plays such a major role throughout the entire era.
At one point there was a great division between Catholicism and Protestantism, which is what essentually led to the Baroque era. When the Protestant Reformation took place, the Catholic church led a huge counter reformation. As a part of this phenominon they used art and it's great influential display as a type of campaign. I guess you could say it played a part of propoganda. Their number one goal was to appeal and influence the largest possible audience. This is were the Baroque theme started to play out and how it came to be. Baroque was very dramatic and emotionally appealing. It also exaggerates everything, of course making it much more likeable to the common person.
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I have also taken many history courses, but none of them have emcompasses the musical and ideological aspects of history. I am plesantly surpised at the amount of material that will be covered during this semester and I am really looking forward to learning about history from a different angle. I agree that the division between Protesantism and Catholicism was one of the major things that led to the Baroque era. It was then that many people were changing thier beliefs and beginning to think for themselves. This was a time of new and exciting things for all levels of society.
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