Blog

(1659-1695) an important English composer and keyboardist in the Baroque period, he was appointed composer to the King of England and was organist at Westminster Abbey where he composer famous dramatic music, both sacred and secular vocal music, and much instrumental music.

Born in Pisa, Italy, he is regarded as the founder of modern science when he developed the notion that the planets revolved around the sun rather then the earth. His science was considered religious heresy.

(1400-1474) a French composer who wrote more than 130 works in the Burgundian style.

German word for hymn or hymn tune. The congregational song or hymn from the German Lutheran Church.

(1525-1594) a prolific composer of works in the Franco-Flemish style. He became the most valued Catholic composer of his day.

Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge in England who wrote Philosophiae naturalis principia which supplied a complete proof of gravitational laws. He also developed calculus and invented the reflecting telescope.

“Creed,” one of the five texts of the Mass Ordinary.

Water (H2 O) is an example of  what chemical bond:

The primary coil of a transformer has 50 turns and its secondary coil has 200 turns. When a 12 V alternating current is applied to the primary coil of the transformer, what will be the secondary voltage? (Hint use the transformers formula: N1 /N2  = V1/V2) 

King of France in 1643 who enjoyed a seventy-two year reign and brought France to its peak of political power.