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...social role as an artist – as a rebel rejecting contemporary conventions and ideals, with a personality and sexuality demanding psychoanalytic and existentialist interpretation. Caravaggio's personality and physiognomy have always featured in writing about him. This is something which makes him an ideal subject for modern methodological developments, particularly those...

...social function of music, but also how rhythm can shape and characterise a musical work. The famous short-short-short-long rhythm can also be referred to as a motif as it can be traced throughout the whole symphony and helps to create its structure. Here’s another extract from the third movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony – can you hear the rhythmic motif? Audio...