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For perspective, we begin before 1650, with Monteverdi. His opera Orfeo of 1607 did not redefine any new style in vocal music, but rather served to collect existing techniques and forms of the time combining such forms as recititative, airs, madrigals, ritornello, and recitativo arioso. It also was significant for its mature use of the orchestra, bringing together instruments from all consorts ñ the violins, the cornets, viols, organ, trombones, and others. Orfeo drew from all styles of secular music at the time, achieving a unity overall through the use of ritornello and the orchestra.…
Beethoven’s work was organized into the early, the middle and the late periods. The early period was from 1779-1802, and that’s when he composed his first and second symphonies. The middle period was from 1803-1814. He experimented with different techniques at that time. The late period was from 1815-1827, and his works reflect the transition into the Romantic period.…
Opera was very popular during the Baroque Era from the 1600’s to the early 1700’s. First gaining popularity in Italy, early opera was widely used for royal weddings or other important ceremonies. However, later in the sixteenth century in England, “stage plays were forbidden because…
one cantata a week while he was music director at Leipzig. Due to the pace…
musical notation using numbers to indicate chords, intervals, and other aspects in relation to the bass note of the music. Continuo is the harmony of the music.…
In Baroque Era, you can see the style throughout various of life forms in that time, for the purpose of this response, we are focusing on the architect and musical style of the Baroque Era. Bach’s composition No. 5 (Brandenburg), has polyphonic texture and uses the string and woodwind instrument family. You can hear the violins, flute, and harpsichord in this piece. The musical form of this piece is a three-part ritornello, and there are 3 movements. The movements go: (1) fast, (2) slow, and (3) fast. You can see the same type of texture used in the architect of the Town Hall in Munich, Germany. There are many individual layers to this structure that contribute to making this building a wonderful sight. Starting on at ground level, the Town Hall have these arch ways, followed by numerous amount of windows, and ending with pointed structures. This structure resembles a cathedral and it fits the Baroque style of music because the music…
Other musicians towards the end of this period were already stirring off in new direction. During the classical period, public concerts were becoming more popular and concert halls and opera houses were attended in all major cities. While classical music became more elite during the Enlightenment period. The Modern era had a new audience for popular music. Created by the birth of recordings, radio, and television. These new media had a voracious demand for music, and film music. When music used to be heard and performed at a concert, can now be heard and collected on the streets. Also, now even street music is performed nearly everywhere, in theaters, music videos, and much…
Within sixty years of the opera’s appearance, new concepts developed such as the aria, which similarly to a theatrical soliloquy, real time stops. “In an aria, the librettist provides words that pause and reflect and the composer creates music that interprets and deepens the emotions behind those words” (L12, 8:12). About “the year 1660, the aria had joined recitative as one of the two essential aspects of operatic dramaturgy” (L12, 30:21). “Unlike recitative in which the words carry the expressive message, in an operatic aria it is the music that carries the expressive message” (L12, 31:59). “The same Baroque advances in harmony; rhythm, motivic manipulation and melodic construction that led to the development of purely instrumental music…
The Baroque Era lasted from 1600 to 1750. It incorporated bold, powerful statements and the music was written for specific instruments, which was different from the Renaissance Era up to 1600. Also, the Baroque Era developed figured bass (basso continuo) and included improvisation which allowed for contrasting sections. One influential composer during the Baroque Era was J.S Bach. Bach was an involved musician who composed mainly to meet the needs of the positions he held. For example, as a church organist, he wrote works mainly for organ but also harpsichord, as well as cantatas for church, chorales, concertos, and chamber works. His compositions contained ornamentation that was typical in music during the Baroque Era, such as trills and…
During the end of the sixteenth century to the mid eighteenth century, the Baroque Era prospered in Europe and its provinces. This section studies the Baroque expressions and the political setting against which they created. The writing of this period incorporated various subjects and structures, some recognizable yet numerous new and inventive. As the government developed progressively absolutist the theater entered into a golden age in France. Three playwrights written by Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, and the comedic satirist Jean-Baptiste Poquelin also known by his stage name Moliere transformed French dramatic literature. In England, Stuart…
The term Baroque means an irregularly shaped complex form. It came from the irregularly shaped pearl meaning unnatural and strange. This is completely different, from a description of the music of the time. Musical styles greatly different from artistic styles of the time making it virtually impossible to draw parallels between the two. Instead, one needs to draw independent conclusions about Baroque music.…
In this era of music, Orchestration was developed and perfected. This era started the more common use of wind and percussion instruments in orchestra. Trios were also very common in this period as well. Classical music was also the first era of music to include Chorus, which is primarily used in modern music today.…
The orchestra as we know it now did not exist before the 17th century. At the start of this century the orchestra was just beginning and developing on from the renaissance era where orchestras had only just began to be used rarely and only in tiny groups, with a small range of instruments.…
I have grown as a global citizen by communicating ideas. In A.P. Euro I had to do a project called Baroque Art assigned by Mr. Dewaele and I had to find a piece of art during the Baroque Period (19th Century) to analyze the painting by looking at the emotions it had giving out in it and the feel for the painting/ style that was used to make me feel that way and why, as well as typing it up and presenting to the class about our piece we chose. Before the project, I wasn’t too sure about what the Baroque Period was like so I wasn't sure what to look for specifically in the paintings at the time. What helped me grow was looking at the art piece before I researched about it and after so I could understand what to look for to help me explain the piece, things I didn’t…