Music Era Timeline The Baroque Period Started around 1600 and ended around 1750 Gave a more refined style of music than the Renaissance period Started because music was developing into something new ID: 604345
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Music During the Baroque PeriodSlide2
Music Era TimelineSlide3
The Baroque Period
Started around 1600 and ended around 1750
Gave a more refined style of music than the Renaissance period.
Started because music was developing into something new.Slide4
Characteristics of Baroque Music
More use of loud and soft dynamics due to the improved instruments.
Compositions started to be more refined. There was more of an emphasis on a single melody with accompaniment.
Use of basso continuo- played by the cello, bassoon, a keyboard instrument, or viola da
gamba
. It is a bass line that is written out and slightly improvised to accompany a melody.
More use of dissonance than in the renaissance period.Slide5
Reformed/New Ideas in the Baroque Era
The introduction of more refined styles of music both vocal and instrumental:
Operas
Oratorios
Cantata
Sonata
Concerto
Suite
The development of new and improved instruments.Slide6
Question!
Even though the Baroque period has a time frame, what helped quantify when the Baroque period started and ended?Slide7
New Instruments: The Serpent
Added a baritone/tenor range to the horn family.
Hybrid of a flute and conical cornet.
Used a mouthpiece just like brass instruments today.Slide8
New Instruments: The Natural Trumpet
Before the trumpet had valves.
There were holes that changed the pitch/timbre.
Musicians had to have a good ear for the correct pitches when playing this instrument.Slide9
New Instruments: The Baroque Oboe
Was created as the successor to the
shawm
.
Had three keys unlike the modern Oboe.
Was used in military bands until the invention of the clarinet.Slide10
His Majestys
Sagbutts and Cornetts
http://youtu.be/BzeIHcM_DQUSlide11
Ensemble Nova Academia
http://
youtu.be
/ODo-4HfYW58Slide12
Question!
What is unique about the instruments and the performances you have just viewed? What makes it unique from the music that you hear today?Slide13
Important Composers
Johann Sebastian Bach
George
Frideric
Handel
Antionio
Vivaldi
George Philipp Telemann
Henry PurcellSlide14
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Keyboardist, violinist, violist, and composer.
Made many contributions to music through his compositions.
Over 1100 compositions.Slide15
More on Bach
Most of his songs were cantatas, chorales, songs, and arias.
Many of his pieces are still performed today like the Bach Cello Suites.
Unfortunately a good amount of his music was destroyed through wars.
His death established the end of the baroque era.Slide16
ChristLag in Todesbanded
BWV 4
The text is based on a Lutheran hymn
Composed for Easter Sunday
Starts with the
Sinfonia
(All instrumental movement with strings and keyboard)
The piece then has seven verses that have either chorus or solo singers with accompaniment.Slide17
Question!
BWV is the way of categorizing Bach’s music. Does this mean that
ChristLag
In
Todesbanded
is an early or late composition of J.S. Bach? Why?