Music as a Mirror of History

Begin to contemplate the connections between composers and specific historical events. Grasp how Thomas Morley’s madrigals in praise of Queen Elizabeth I engaged with English national self-perception and myth, and how Leon Janá?ek and Frédéric Chopin responded to political events in key works. Take account of how the magnified emotions stirred by human conflicts feed artistic creation, and how artists have managed to convert the most terrible of human experiences into transcendent art.