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Musical Periods Middle Ages Rena
Musical Periods
Middle Ages Renaissance Romantic 20th Century
Composers Of
Dario Castello
Baroque Period 1600 - 1750
Artists Of The Baroque Era
Prominent Composers
Antonio
Vivaldi
Description
Baroque means highly decorated. Baroque music
is splendid, dressed up, and full of confidence.
It is also very complicated. It has
overlapping melodies, trills, and runs that decorate
the music like flowers on a birthday cake.
Opera appeared during this period. Opera is a
singing play, like a musical. Opera singers had to learn how
to sing very loud because there was no way back then to amplify
their voice. One famous opera singer defined opera as a
controlled scream.
There was a greater interest in instrumental music.
Two popular keyboard instruments of the day were the organ and
harpsichord. The violin was the queen of instruments during
this time. During the Renaissance instrumental music was
written for dances. Now instrumental music was written for its
own sake.
This was also the beginning of the orchestra.
Families of instruments began to appear during this time.
Composers would assign musical parts to certain instruments.
Composers would also use words to tell the musicians how to play the
music. Many of the musical forms that were used during this
time are still used today.
The composer's job was to make the music emotional.
Feelings like joy and pain were represented by musical themes called
motives.
Baroque music is polyphonic (many voices of equal
importance), giving music of this period a thick texture.
Music of this time is very emotional and expressive, too.
Counterpoint was used a lot during this period and
combines two or more lines of equal importance in a composition.
Counterpoint and polyphony are similar terms, but counterpoint is
usually used to describe music of the Baroque period. Listen
to
Invention No. 8 by Bach to hear two voices of equal importance.
The main elements of Baroque music are a strong
rhythm, terraced dynamics (passages of loud music followed by soft
music), and improvisation. Improvisation means to make
up the music as you go along.
Art and music were supported by the nobility--kings
and queens and dukes-- and the Catholic Church. People who
supported musicians were called patrons.
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