Baroque Music
Baroque Music :
music of Europe from about 1600 to about 1750.
Was characterized by symmetry and balance.
Derived from a spanish word “Baroque” meaning an irregularly shaped pearl.
The golden age of Violin making and development.
Character ist ics of a
Baroque Music1.Baroque Melody
• The beginning of Baroque Period coincided with the beginning of opera.
2.Baroque Harmony
• the central importance of a Baroque music.
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Baroque Vocal Music
1.Opera
2.Oratorios
3.Cantatas
4.Church
Music
Baroque Instrumental
Music1.Instruments of
the Baroque
Era.
2.Sonata
3.Concerto
4.Fugue
Types and forms of Baroque
Composition
BAROQUE VOCAL MUSIC
Opera-use music for communicative power of the Human Voice.
•Oratorios-devotional services
Cantatas-written for voice with instrumental accompaniment.
• Church Music-written for masses for the Catholic Churches.
BAROQUE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
Instruments of the Baroque Era-is the golden age of Violin makers.The development of Viola and Cello.
• Sonata-means “sound piece”.
Concerto-important works of a small orchestra.
• Fugue-a composition in which the subject is repeated by successively entering voices or notes.
FAMOUS BAROQUE
MUSICIANS AND COMPOSERS
Johann Sebastian Bach
-German composer who worked as an organist and composer.-known for the remarkable use of “counterpoint”,a technique in which two or more melodies are combined.
George Frederic Handel-a German composer who wrote music for the church and for royal celebrations.-the king enjoyed his one-hour piece and ordered it to be played three times.
Claudio Monteverdi-Italian composer,establised opera as a serious musical form.-composed opera’s for the first public opera house,which opened in Venice on 1637.
Alessandro Scarlatti
-italian composer,was among the foremost opera composers on the 18th century.-credited with popularazing the “Siciliana”,a slow lilting method.
Antonio Vivaldi-italian composer and violinist.-standardized the “concerto”,a musical piece with three contrasting movements.
Henry Purcell-seventeenth-century english composer-best known for the dramatic opera of Aeneas and Dido.
BAROQUE INSTRUMENTS
Harpsichord-developed in the 15th century.-popular solo instrument on the 16th and 17th century.
Viola-bowed instrument similar to a violin-alto voice in the family of stringed instruments in violin.
Cello-a large stringed instrument of the violin family that is held upright between a seated player's knees and played with a bow.-has a full deep sound.
Organ-a large musical keyboard instrument producing sounds at different volumes using compressed air passed through pipes.
Clavichord-member of the family of instruments known as keyboard chordophones.-oldest forms of keyboard instrument.
Flute-wind instrument with a high sound.-a wood instruement with a cylindrical narrow body.
Oboe-instrument made of wood and has 15 keys.
Trumpet-a brass musical instrument, It has a brilliant tone and a middle to high register.
Horn-a wind instrument that has a conical opening or derive from an animal horn or tusk.
Trombone-one of the most expressive and adaptable brass instrument.