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Baroque time period |
1600-1750 |
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Character of baroque |
1. Polyphonic with eleaborate orn melodies 2.terraced dynamics (soft vs loud |
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Most uses keyboards |
Harpsichord and organ |
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String orchestra with |
Keyiboard inst. and bass working as basso continuo |
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Job of court composer |
Composed music, sup concerts and cleaned instrument |
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Most citizens did not |
Attend royals concert but might hear composer at church |
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Concerto Grosso features |
2+ soloist and orch. Usually fast slow fast movements |
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Bach’s Brandenburg soloists |
Violen Flute Harpsi |
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Lengthy solo of harpsichord |
CadenZe |
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Fugue in G |
Pipe organ. 4 voices- soprano alto tenor bass. Polyphonic |
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Bach family |
20 kids. 4 are composers |
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Drama sung to music accompanied |
Opera |
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Libretto |
Text of opera. |
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Librettist |
Author |
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Solo song in opera |
Aria |
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Speech like song in opera |
Recitive |
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Music for group |
Chorus |
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Early operas based on |
Ancient myth and history |
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Opera invented by |
Group artists in Florence, 1600. Called Florentine |
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Early opera for |
Royalty |
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1st opera house |
1637 Venice. |
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Most famous opera singers |
Castrates. Range of women with lung of man. Castrates male singers. Revived highest fees. |
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Monteverdi Orofeo |
1st great opera composer. Most 12 pieces lost. BAsed on Greek myth |
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Purcell - Dido |
Most famous English composer. Last great till 20tg century. Pas 36 |
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Dido written for |
Girls boarding school. Based on poem by Virgil |
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Handel: |
Born in Germany 1685. Spends carewr in England. |
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Handel wrote |
Operas in Italian and Oratorios in English. Opera is staged. Oratorios are concert format |
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Both operas and oratorios |
Feat arias, recitives, and choruses. Both accomp by orch |
