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The Florentine Camerata is formed not-so-secret society of musicians working together to make music behave.
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The early operas begin. Giulio Caccini, Jacopo Peri, Claudio Monteverdi are some composers of early opera.
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approx beginning
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The time in which music became was beaten into submission and became polyphonic and made more sense in the modern harmonic way.
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An awful war between pretty much all of Europe. Think the Spanish Empire and the Holy Roman Empire versus everyone else.
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An awful war between pretty much all of Europe. Think the Spanish Empire and the Holy Roman Empire versus everyone else.
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Columbus lands at Plymouth Rock and unintelligently assumes its India without any evidence
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Schutz's opera Dafne is performed as the first German opera
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French composer famous for many works that are very frilly and majestically French.
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Girolamo Frescobaldi creates the "Fiori musicali" known to influence J.S. Bach later.
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Venice opens first public opera.
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Famous Danish composer
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Claudio Montiverdi publishes his famous madrigals
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People learned that they are being taken advantage of... Enough said.
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an opera in which King Ulysses returns home and finding his wife being beleaguered by suitors kills the suitors brutally with arrows.
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sadness
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German composer; wrote a bunch of difficult(at the time) violin works
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A vesper in which Schutz is showing very baroque ideas. He later switches back to reduced and simple harmonies.
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First opera house built in Vienna
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Italian composer; he pretty much set the violin up for success as a principal instrument
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First German opera house built
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German born composer, ended up in England. Composer-businessman who wrote pretty much anything
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German composer, stayed in Germany mostly, wrote everything musical except opera. Just cause
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Italian; composed a lot of keyboard works. So many keyboard works
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A weird love story where the Queen of Carthage Dido marries the hero Aeneas. Eventually Dido says "nah, man" and rejects Aeneas who is being tricked. She then commits soliloquy suicide to be super dramatic
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Sounded terrible and couldn't stay in tune, they eventually added an iron plate to keep it in tune.
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Very nice concertos
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Another love drama where a triangle becomes a quadrilateral of sorts. Eventually all is well in the end and everyone lives happily ever after. Except for Eurilla who orchestrated some bad stuff that helped the protagonists.
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Just kidding, actually he died.
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AKA C.P.E. Bach
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figured out some forms that occurred in music and defined the sonata-allegro form and others.
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J.S. Bach writes now famous concertos. Did it sell back then? Probably not.
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Bach pulls an I'm better than you on Handel. Debatable I suppose
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That Domenico's father Alessandro dies, but he wasn't really super important to music history in Herrings concise book.
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The first ever public concert house! The poor and the rich all huddled together for the common goal of listening to music! Must've smelled pretty bad. Anne Danican Philidor the founder is actually a man!
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An English ballad opera (satire of opera comique) in which some bad guys are the main characters. Macheath falls for the big boss' daughter Polly and gets owned because of it. He is a playboy and has too many women. He ultimately gets caught, tried and pardoned. He escapes with Polly. This opera destroyed the Italian operas popularity and caused Handel to withdraw from the world of opera
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He was haydn all along just waiting for his chance.
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A famous opera buffa, became a standard. In this opera a lecherous old man falls for his servant who wants to become the master. It is extreme parody of opera, and practically slapstick.
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He was very poor and starved to death.
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The most famous oratorio
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Italian composer who wrote a very catchy and famous minuet and trio.
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"The musical offering" better remembered as musicalicious to those who have humor.
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Bach's death signaled the end.
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The baroque period ended with his death. People just had to move on and transition, but man Bach wrote a bunch of stuff.
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Music is taken out of submission and pampered as though it were perfect. Becomes entertainment.
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Better known as the genius prodigy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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imparting a complex on English music for 300 years
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succeeded by C.P.E. Bach
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It is (bay-toe-vin) not (Beeth-oven). A sort-of-kinda classical composer. He was actually romantic transitionalist.
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Beethoven's father reveals now 8 year old Ludwig as a 6 year old prodigy! Confusing all but especially Beethoven!
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Another playboy opera where Don Giovanni conquers all the women. All of them.
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His name is too long, he died too young, he was too good.
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Beethoven's teacher was always Haydn so it was difficult to find him.
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Famous for the Barber of Seville and many other overtures and songs.
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a danceaholic
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The Looney Tunes is well known for this piece.
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This did not improve his disposition
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