Baroque

By Lissa G de Aquino
  • Period: 1567 to

    Cláudio Monteverdi

    Used dissonance in his music
    Seconds prattica (monody with dissonance - very expressive)
    Transitional figure from renascence to Baroque
  • Period: to

    Francesca Caccini

    Soprano
    First woman to compose operas
    Sung lead rôles in several early operas (sung in Peri's opera Eurídice at 13 years old
    Highest paid musician in Italy by the age of 20

  • Monteverdi becomes court composer for the Duke of Mantua

  • First opera, Dafne

    By Giulio Caccini and Jacopo Peri

  • Opera invented at Florence, Italy, by Jacopo Peri and Giulio Caccini

    At around 1600

  • First Extant Opera - Euridice

    By Caccini and Peri

  • Death of queen Elizabeth I

  • L'orfeu

    By Monteverdi

  • The 30 years war started

  • Period: to

    Barbara Strozzi

    Born in Venice
    Published 8 sets of songs

  • Heinrich Schütz performs Dafne, first German Opera

  • The first public opera theater opened in Venice

    Teatro de San Cassiano
  • Period: to

    Louis the 14th of France

    The sun king
    Accomplished ballet dancer

  • Arias became the most desired and appreciated pieces

    Aria is an extended piece for a solo singer

  • English civil war

  • The coronation of poppea

    Last opera of Monteverdi
    Composed when he was 75 years old
    Powerful emotionally
    Nero would have been a castrati
  • Period: to

    Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Bieber

    Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist
    One of the most important composers for violin, specially on the instrument's early years
    His technique allowed him to easily play 6th and 7th position, double stops, polyphony
    Experiment with scordadura

  • Cantata by Strozzi L'astratto

  • Period: to

    Arcanjo Corelli

    Was the master of the trio sonata
    Italian composer
  • Period: to

    Henry Purcell

    Singer, organist, composer of instrumental and voice music
    Wrote incidental music for plays
  • Period: to

    Charles II reign

  • Period: to

    Alessandro Scarlatti

    Father of Domenico Scarlatti
    Teacher in Naples, many of his students helped create the new classical style
  • Period: to

    Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre

    Was called "the wonder of our century"
  • Period: to

    François Couperin

    French composer (composed suites)

  • Bieber sonata No. 1

    Mid baroque violin sonata
    For violin and basso
    Embellished
  • Period: to

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Music director at the Pieta orphanage
    Composed many operas, much sacrad music and many instrumental works
    Wrote nearly 800 concertos
  • Period: to

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    German composer
    Composed more than 125 orchestral suites
    Helped establish the French-style orchestral suite in Germany
    Extraordinarily prolific
  • Period: to

    Jean-Joseph Mouret

    One representative composer from his french court
    Served the son of king Louis XVI
  • Period: to

    Domenico Scarlatti

    Keyboard virtuoso
    Served Portuguese and Spanish families
    Wrote over 500 sonatas for harpsichord, operas, cantatas and keyboard exercises
  • Period: to

    G. F. Handel

    Born in Halle, Germany
    Was one of the music directors at the Royal Academy of Music (London)
  • Period: to

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    One of the most skilled musicians in the Baroque
    Wrote a ton of music in all genres except opera
    2 volumes of figues
    English and French suites
    Italian Comcerto
    Orchestral concertos

  • Dido and Aenas

    By Purcell

  • Water music

    By Handel
    Suite in D major

  • Brandebourg Concerto No. 2 in F Major

    BWV 1047
    1717-1718

  • Esther

    Handel

  • St John Passion

    BWV 245
    Includes Chorales, recitatives, and arias

  • Le Quattro Stagioni

    The forum seasons, cycle of four violin concertos
    Each concerto is accompanied by a poem that is Believe he wrote

  • The English Oratorio

    By Handel
    Used Italian singers and British singers (all performed in English

  • Cantata No. 140 BWV 140

    Sachet Aug, ruft uns die Stimme
    Based on a Chore (Lutheran Hymn) by Philipp Nicolai

  • St Mark Passion

    Bach

  • Tafelmusik

    By Telemann

  • Messiah

    First performed in Dublin
    English Oratorio
    52 separate numbers
    3 parts (the first 2 are more often performed)