Baroque Timeline

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  • Period: 1550 to

    De'Calvalieri

  • Period: 1551 to

    Caccini

  • Period: 1557 to

    Gabrieli

  • Period: 1560 to

    Viadana

  • Period: 1560 to

    Praetorius

  • Period: 1561 to

    Peri

  • Period: 1562 to

    Bull

  • Period: 1563 to

    Dowland

  • Period: 1564 to

    Hassler

  • Period: 1564 to

    Shakespeare

  • Period: 1567 to

    Monteverdi

  • Period: 1567 to

    Campion

  • Period: 1568 to

    Banchieri

  • Period: 1570 to

    Rossi

  • Period: 1580 to

    Agazzari

  • Period: 1582 to

    Gagliano

  • Period: 1582 to

    D'India

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    Gibbons

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    Frescobaldi

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    Schultz

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    Schein

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    Scheidt

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    Manelli

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    Early Baroque

    Genres: Opera, ballets, masses, magnificants, vespers, motets, madrigals, cantatas, and oratorios. Stylistic traits: Homophony/polyphony, free rhythms, start of tonality, poetic form, binary form, markings begin to be used, contrast, basso continuo. Inventions: Opera, oboe.
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    Cavalli

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    Carissimi

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    Du Mont

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    Strozzi

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    Locke

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    Bontempi

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    Legrenzi

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    Kerll

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    Baltzar

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    Lully

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    Buxtehude

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    J.C. Bach

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    Charpentier

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    Blow

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    Middle Baroque

    Genres: Cantatas, opera, concerto, sonata, trio, ballets. Stylistic traits: recitative melodies, basso continuo, tonal system, homophony/polyphony, ritornellos, strings dominated. Inventions: Candy cane, pocket watch.
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    Corelli

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    Pachelbel

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    Steffani

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    Torelli

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    Purcell

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    Scarlatti

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    Kuhnau

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    Ariosti

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    Couperin

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    Caldara

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    Albinoni

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    Keiser

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    Vivaldi

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    Telemann

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    Rameau

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    J.S. Bach

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    Handel

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    Scarlatti

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    Porpora

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    Tartini

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    Vinci

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    Quantz

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    Late Baroque

    Genres: opera, cantata, oratorio, concerto, sonata. Stylistic traits: Fortspinning, basso continuo, steady tempos, 16th notes, diatonic system established, polyphony/homophony, ritornello, fuges, da capo aria, binary form, "hair pins." Inventions: Piano, tuning fork.
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    Martini

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    Pergolesi