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One of the founders of opera
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Noted for his use of instruments in sacred music
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Another founder of Opera; claimed to be the first in 1597 with his Dafne
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Leading composer of lute music
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English Playwright and poet
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Most important composer of early baroque era, inventor of new seconda prattica
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Group of intellectuals that met to discuss the arts, included Caccini, Peri, Girolamo Mei, Vincenzo Galilei
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Composer of Anglican Church
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First modern keyboard virtuoso and composer
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Most important German composer of the Middle Baroque
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Courts and Churches Primary institutions for musical production.
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Components of Recitative and monody
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Recitative: a style of text setting that emphasizes the natural rhythms and accents of speech. Pitch range was confined. Free Rhythm, tonality determined by diatonic scale. Introduction of homophony
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Organ, bassoon, oboe.
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Leading composer of Roman Cantatas
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Virtuoso singer and most prolific composer of cantatas in the 17th century
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Italian composer and organist
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Establisher of French opera and ballet; dancer and violinist
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German organist and composer; most important composer before Bach
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Composer of French opera
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English composer of odes
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Fugues, chaccones, and passacaglias, spread of Italian Opera, 1637 Venice opens first public opera house
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Lyrical bel canto arias and solo songs. Basso continuo and dotted rhythms. String instruments dominated.
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Most important Italian composer of sonatas and concertos, influential violinists
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German composer and organist
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Contributed to the development of the concerto around 1700
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Most important English composer in 17th century
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Important Italian composer
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French composer, keyboardist
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laid the foundations for late Baroque instrumental music , pioneer of orchestral music
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The most prolific German composer of his day
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French composer and theorist
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Considered the Baroque master, wrote no operas
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German musician; inventor of the English oratorio
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Son of Alessandra; keyboard composer and virtuoso
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German composer; flutist and flute teacher for Fredrick the Great in Berlin
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Opera seria, castrati
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Virtuosity with melody, basso continuo, era of sixteenth notes, homophony was modern style, polyphony was church style. Pianoforte prototypes