Promise of Renewal 112 week 6, History Homework Help

“Promise of
Renewal” Please respond to one
(1) of the following, using sources under the Explore heading as the
basis of your response – at this stage, citing support of/for your views should
be second nature: 

•Is there a modern example of
Western music today that defines nationalism, besides national anthems?  Can you
compare such a piece to a work by Tchaikovsky that you enjoy from this week’s
listening?  Discuss both the subject matter, as well as your own personal
reactions here to the work, and expand on how his work defines/d Romanticism? 
Why was music, again such a powerful artsform at this time and contributed to
‘renewal’?

•Choose an artwork with
females as the subject matter:  1) from a male artist, and 1) from a female
artist perspective from our Explore section.  Are there any gender roles that
you can define based on their work, and how each gender depicts women at this
time?  What do you think are the cultural influences shaping their ‘lens’?  What
modern example can you compare here?  Is there any comparison to how females
were defined through art in the late 1800s with females today?  Do share a
specific example to reinforce your analysis.

Explore:

Tchaikovsky

•Chapter 31 (pp.1039-1040),
famous overture and ballet music compositions; review the Week 6 “Music
Folder”

•Audio of musical compositions
on Tchaikovsky webpage , Kennedy Center Website at http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/artists/?entity_id=3651&source_type=C

•Video clip of Tchaikovsky
(1812 Overture) at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrsYD46W1U0

Artists’
Depictions of Women

•Chapters 31 and 32,
depictions of women by male artists Manet, Degas, Dewing, Eakins and by female
artists Cassatt, Morisot, Haudecort-Lescot, Sara M. Peale

•National Museum of Women in
the Arts at http://www.nmwa.org/explore/collection-highlights/18th%E2%80%9319th-century

•   National Gallery of Art
(search by artist name) at http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/artists.html?pageNumber=1