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Trained in Renaissance style, but also adept to composing modern music for that time. Used dissonances in his music(madrigals) for text expression. Seconda Prattica/very expressive. 9 books of madrigals, masses, operas etc
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By Jacopo Peri and Giulio Caccini in Florence, Italy.
First Opera: Dafne (1597) -
Early Baroque Style: Monody: Secunda prattica, Basso continuo
The new Baroque style of singing with just a solo voice and basso continuo
The texture is homophonic (melody with accompaniment)
The “new style” as opposed to the older Renaissance choral style of polyphony
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Published Cantatas and Ariettas
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Venice
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Monteverdi composed this when he was 75 years old. Premiered in Venice
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Techniques for violin and composer
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Mid-Baroque cantatas:
Usually secular
In Italian
Composed for 1 or 2 singers with basso continuo and possibly a small string ensemble
Texts often about love, sometimes pretty suggestive, and were meant as entertainment -
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Singer, organist, composer. Worked in the court of Charles II. Dido and Aeneas (1689)
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Composer, master of baroque style.
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Born in Halle, Germany
Wrote orchestral suites, Messiah etc -
Master of Fugues
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Keyboard Virtuoso and had a progressive stlye
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Handel- 3 suites
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No lavish scenery – used Italian singers performing in English and British singers The public was pleased by the new genre Oratorios presented during Lent when operas were forbidden, thus doing away with the competition
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By Handel
52 separate numbers -
