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Period: 1551 to
Guilio Caccini
Italian composer who was a founder of opera. Also a singer, teacher, and instrumentalist. -
Period: 1557 to
Giovani Gabrieli
Known for using instruments in sacred music. He was an Italian composer. -
Period: 1561 to
Jacopo Peri
Another founder of opera and contributed to using monody and recitative style in Greek tragedies. -
Period: 1563 to
John Dowland
A Catholic English/Irish lute player who wrote pieces for lute and some sacred pieces. He played lute for the King late in his life. -
Period: 1564 to
William Shakespeare
An English man who wrote plays and poems, he had a hand in building the Globe Theatre, where many productions of plays took place. -
Period: 1567 to
Claudio Monteverdi
An inventor of the seconda pratica. He was a very important composer in the early Baroque period. -
Period: 1570 to
Florentine Camerata
A group of people consisting of Caccini, Peri, Girolamo Mei, and Vincenzo Galilei, who met to discuss topics relating to the arts. -
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Orlando Gibbons
An English composer and keyboardist who wrote sacred music for the Anglican Church. -
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Girolamo Frescobaldi
A European composer who wrote keyboard pieces. He was influential in writing instrumental music. -
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Heinrich Schütz
A German composer who studied in Venice, Italy. He wrote the first German opera, but it was lost. -
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Early Baroque
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Giacomo Carissimi
Wrote Roman cantatas, masses, motets, oratorios. -
Jamestown Established
The first permanent English settlement in North America. -
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Barbara Strozzi
A singer and composer. She wrote madrigals, cantatas, and arias. -
The Scientific Method
Francis Bacon published Novum Organum Scientarium which pioneered the scientific method. -
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Giovanni Legrenzi
An Italian composer who wrote operas, oratorios, vocal works, and instrumental pieces. He was very influential in this time period. -
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Jean-Batiste Lully
A dancer and violinist who brought about French opera and ballet. Although he was born Italian, France claimed him. -
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Dieterich Buxtehude
Wrote sacred vocal works, organ works, and instrumental works. Bach had respect for him, as he was a very important organ composer before Bach. -
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Wrote masses, magnificats, motets, antiphons, psalms, oratorios, airs, cantatas, operas, and incidental music. He wrote French operas. -
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John Blow
An English organist and composer who wrote instrumental works, sacred works, songs, and duets and trios. -
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Middle Baroque
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Arcangelo Correli
An Italian composer and violinist who wrote sonatas and concertos in 6 published collections. -
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Johann Pachelbel
A well-known German composer and organist who wrote a lot of sacred and keyboard music. -
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Giuseppe Torreli
A violinist who contributed a lot to the development of the concerto through his trumpet and string compositions. -
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Henry Purcell
An English composer who wrote songs, anthems, sacred music, stage works, and keyboard pieces. -
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Alessandro Scarlatti
An Italian composer whose death ended the Baroque opera. He was a teacher in Naples, Italy, -
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François Couperin
One of the most important French composers of this time. He wrote both secular and sacred vocal works along with chamber music and keyboard works. -
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Antonio Vivaldi
An Italian composer who paved the way for Baroque instrumental music. He wrote many concertos and sonatas and had a great influence on orchestral music. -
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Georg Philipp Telemann
A German composer who, at the time, was more well-known than J. S. Bach. He had a great influence on concerts in Germany. -
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
A French composer who doubled as a theorist. He wrote dramatic works, instrumental works, and keyboard pieces. -
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Johann Sebastian Bach
A very famous composer who wrote a great amount of sacred music. He was a master of counterpoint and is a musical icon today. -
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Georg Friedrich Handel
A German musician who invented the English oratorio. He was greatly respected by Beethoven. -
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Domenico Scarlatti
A keyboard composer who served for royalty in Portugal and Spain. He had a progressive compositional style. -
Laws of Motion
Isaac Newton published a book containing his laws of motion. -
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Johann Joachim Quantz
A German composer and flutist who wrote sonatas, concertos, capriccios, and vocal works. -
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Late Baroque
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
A Neapolitan composer who died at the age of 26. His works were romanticized after his death and on of his pieces sparked a war in France.