Claudio Monteverdi

from the Portuguese word barroco meaning misshapen pearl describe the period in Western European music, describing the heavily ornamented music. During the first part of the Baroque period, many well known composers were from Italy, such as Claudio Monteverdi and Antonio Vivaldi. In the mid eighteenth century, from Italy it shifted to the German composers like Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. A lot of the forms that defines the Baroque music came from Italy, such as the…

reactionary art is contained by those Florentines, from which came the evolution of the pastoral drama to the first operas . I am of course thinking of the drama contained in the operas created by none other than Jacopo Peri and Ottavio Rinuccini, and Claudio Monteverdi with Alessandro Striggio . All of which are spoiled with the ideals of Florentine reform, like the Machiavellian machismo, which disseminates unabashed themes of nymphs, Roman and Greek tragedy, and gallantry lifestyles which…

In the coming decades, the original recitative had been revised. Monteverdi was an important figure in adopting the recitative style in the Baroque period. To do so, he incorporated short, lyric melodies amidst his recitatives. Also, the bass line imitated melodic motives that appear first in the vocal line (Ulrich 69) An example of Monteverdi’s new style of recitative comes from an excerpt from Act II of his L’Orfeo (1607). Monteverdi used his previous experience as a madrigal composer to build…

The Baroque Period has become known as one of the richest and most diverse periods in music history and lasted from about 1600 to 1750 AD. This period followed the Renaissance period and, at the beginning of the Baroque Period, it was marked by the development of what some musicians call the “second practice,” as differentiated from the “first practice” of the Renaissance (Hast, Dorothea E., et al. 271). European culture began to increase the importance of human feeling in the arts. According to…

Cultural Project: Italy In America, we have certain customs and traditions that we are comfortable with and what we live by. An example would be the celebration of Thanksgiving. It is an American holiday that we all look forward to. In other countries like Europe, they don’t have the same holidays, traditions or values. They have a very different lifestyle than we do in America, particularly in Italy. Italians eat different foods, listen to different music, and have a different education system.…

and with promoted aristocratic ideals, it transformed into a recitative. This was a type of lyrical speech sung by one person who expressed the texts dramatically. The most crucial figure in music during this time was an Italian composer named Claudio Monteverdi. His compositions combined the old practice and new practice of music, creating the transition from Renaissance music to…

extremely common in this period. Bach died in 1750 and only made it to the age of 65 years old. Johann Sebastian Bach was a composer in the Baroque Period. Other known composers in the Baroque Period were George Frideric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, and Claudio Monteverdi. Ben Haggerty known as Macklemore is not married…

their parts accompanied or unaccompanied by music in solos called arias and two or more singers called ensembles. The sixteenth century saw the beginning of operas which started as poems sung by musicians called Camerata (“society”). In 1607 Claudio Monteverdi first used an orchestra to accompany his opera, La favola d’Orfeo, creating the modern opera we know today. (London: Octopus Publishing Group, 2008) The nineteenth century saw the rise of the Romantic era of opera whose two competing…

Humanities 1020 Study Guide Chapter 15-17. Identify each in complete sentences: 1. Council of Trent The main principal of the counter reformation, the Council of Trent was one of the Roman Catholic Church’s most regal councils 2. Jesuits A member of the Society of Jesus, which was a Roman Catholic order of priests, founded by Ignatius Loyola 3. Ignatius Loyola Ignatius Loyola was the founder of the Society of Jesus 4. Counter Reformation The reaction of the Catholic Church to the Protestant…

“Performance” from Grove Music Online states: “Music-making is a virtually universal human activity. At its most fundamental, it is a form of private biological necessity […]. At its most elevated, musical performance is public property.” Within the last 5 decades, the practice of historically informed performance (hereafter HIP) has instituted itself as one of the most important concepts for performance of early music. Problems faced by today’s performers are: what makes a “good performance?…