Bourgeois Culture
Music and Art of
the emerging Middle Class
Bourgeois Cultural Dynamic
- Emerging Middle Class of merchants and traders
- Success of Capitalism - Economic system of equal
competitors open and free as opposed to the closed system of the aristocracy
- Merchants engage in commerce and trade (Play
Tulip Trader Game)
- Makers and Producers of goods
- Guilds - organizations of people formed to
protect and develop mutual interests
- The New World discovered leads to unprecedented
economic growth
- Amsterdam Bourse
- Stock market exchange for global trade
- Dutch East India Company 1602
- American colonies
- The map obsession
and the quest for the New World
- Domesticity and the Bourgeois
home
- Still Life - Painting
of arranged objects
Bourgeois and Aristocratic Contrasts
- Bourgeois home
vs. Aristocratic palace
- Grandeur and size
- Small Bourgeois paintings vs. Grand Aristocratic sized
(inches as opposed to feet)
- Art on the wall Vs art as the wall
Bourgeois Music and the Home
- Harpsichord - Keyboard
instrument with plucked strings
- Intimate gathering in
the home for music
- Suite - Collection of dances played on the harpsichord
- Sonata
- Piece for solo instrument with harpsichord accompaniment
Humanities
Resource of Mark Hunter