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.