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Period: 1567 to
Claudio Monteverdi
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 -
1576
Claudio Monteverdi
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Invention of Opera
By Jacopo Peri and Giulio Caccini in Florence, Italy.
First Opera: Dafne (1597) -
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Early Baroque
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
This is the first time in music history that homophonic melodies were favored in notation and in practice -
Period: to
Strozzi
Published Cantatas and Ariettas -
First Public Opera House
Venice -
The Coronation of Poppea
Monteverdi composed this when he was 75 years old. Premiered in Venice -
Period: to
Biber
Techniques for violin and composer -
Period: to
Mid Baroque
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 -
Henry Purcell
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Period: to
Henry Purcell
Singer, organist, composer. Worked in the court of Charles II. Dido and Aeneas (1689) -
Vivaldi
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Period: to
Vivaldi
Composer, master of baroque style. -
Handel
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J.S Bach
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Scarlatti
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Period: to
G.F Handel
Born in Halle, Germany
Wrote orchestral suites, Messiah etc -
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J.S Bach
Master of Fugues -
Period: to
Scarlatti
Keyboard Virtuoso and had a progressive stlye -
Period: to
Late Baroque
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Act of Union passed merging the Scottish and the English Parliaments, thus establishing The Kingdom of Great Britain
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Water Music
Handel- 3 suites -
Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer
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The Four Seasons-Vivaldi
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The English Oratorio
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 -
Messiah
By Handel
52 separate numbers -
Messiah
