The Baroque – Part 3 Handel‚ unlike many other musicians during the Baroque period‚ was not born into a musical family. His parents actually had the wish for him to become a lawyer. Handel becoming a musician means that he had defied his family. Being a musician then as well as in any time-period posed as a profession which was insecure. This would be unless one could find an impressive position in the court or at church. Handel uses choral music to express a conflict through word-painting and
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Comparisons of the Renaissance and Baroque Periods Western Governors University Comparisons of the Renaissance and Baroque Periods It was the 14th century and Europe was shrouded in creative and intellectual “darkness” as a result of corrupt and oppressive religion. People lived with the burden of twisted theological rules that permeated both business and personal lives. In a small town in Italy‚ a group of educators and philosophers started re-examining the Classical
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Music in the Medieval Ages In the beginning of the Medieval Ages‚ a time of war and plague‚ music was rare. The only place music was played in the church in the form of a chant. Secular music was not popular‚ and there were instruments that had not been made yet. Musicians were mostly traveling performers who played in front of kings or other types of nobility. The development of music changed history. If the instruments of the past had been not invented yet‚ or the changes to the church were not
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The period of the Middle Ages is widely known amongst the people of the modern day. Told as a time of knights and castles‚ codes of chivalry‚ massive battles with bows and armored men with swords‚ kings and queens and royals ruling over the peasant class‚ and sometimes‚ even dragons and other folklore. Many have heard tales of King Arthur and the legendary Knights of the Round Table‚ or the popular and supported thievery of Robin Hood. However‚ what isn’t told on the same scale is how these feudal
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Baroque music is a heavily ornamented style of music that came out of the Renaissance. The baroque period lasted from 1600 until 1750 . Baroque music has some distinctive features which makes it different than any other style of music. Firstly‚ during the baroque era strings where the main section of the chamber orchestra‚ woodwinds and brass were also used for solo effects. Baroque music has a unique energetic driving rhythm. The rhythm is often short and melodic‚ rhythmic phrases were usual including
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Mannerism‚ which literally means "style"‚ was a period in European art that began in Italy in the final years of the Renaissance and lasted until it was replaced by Baroque‚ about 1520 to 1600. During this time‚ young artists were trying to establish their own style‚ with a new approach to painting and interpretation of the human experience. They had their difficulties as it were. Virtually everything that could be done‚ had been done. The artists of the Renaissance‚ masters such as Raphael
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OF MUSIC Western Art Music ( MUF106 ) LECTURER : Prof. Madya Hanizah Hj. Musib STUDENT NAME : NUMBER ID : COURSE : MUF106 - Western art music TITLE : Secular Music in the Middle Ages Secular music is non-religious music. Secular means worldly. Secular music developed in the Medieval period and was used in the Renaissance. Secular music in the Middle Ages included love songs‚ dances‚ and dramatic works. This music was not bound by the traditions of the Church‚ nor
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Music of any period reflects‚ in its own way‚ some of the same influences‚ tendencies‚ and generative impulses that are found in the other arts of that time (Donna‚ 2005). Thus the word "baroque‚" usually used despairingly by eighteenth-century art critics to describe the art and architecture of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries‚ came to be applied also to the music of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. After some years after the death of Johann
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Abstract Baroque music is considered both lively and tuneful and believed to express order. Derived from the Italian word barocco‚ meaning bizarre we now translate to English the style of music we call Baroque. Today the term Baroque has come to represent a clearly defined type of Music that originated around the 1600’s‚ coming full circle between the year 1700 to 1750. Typical of the baroque musicians active in Rome during this period was the popular Composer and violinist
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Antonio Vivaldi was one of the most influential composers of the Baroque period. He‚ along with many other composers‚ created some of the earliest European music familiar to us today (What is Baroque Music?). The Baroque period can best be described as using the power of music to communicate (What is Baroque Music?). The composers used a single voice that was accompanied by instruments‚ as well as specifying the instruments used‚ to capture the importance of the relationship between tonic and dominant
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