The Baroque (1600-1725)

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  • Period: 1567 to

    Claudio Monteverdi

    provided a transition from Renaissance to Baroque
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    Francesca Caccini

    first woman to compose operas

  • Dafne

    First opera is composed by Caccini and Peri

  • Functional Tonality Beginnings

    Modern-day functional tonality starts developing

  • Italian Opera

    invented by Jacopo Peri and Giulio Caccini

  • Euridice

    first extant opera composed by Caccini and Peri
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    Early Baroque

    beginnings of the baroque period; functional tonality started to develop

  • Jamestowne

    first settlement of the colonial United States; did not end well
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    Barbara Strozzi

    adopted daughter of Giulio Strozzi; wrote music, cantatas

  • Submarine

    invented by Dutch builder Cornelis Drebbel

  • First public opera house opens

    first public theater opened in Venice, Italy
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    King Louis XIV of France

    disliked opera and strongly favored the ballet; was a beautiful ballet dancer and is a huge part of why ballet was so popular in France and opera took the backburner

  • Arias

    Arias were the most wanted pieces around this time

  • The Coronation of Poppea

    early opera composed by Monteverdi
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    Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Bohemian-Austrian composer that wrote a lot of violin music
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    The Commonwealth of England

    a time when Puritans thought theater was invented by the devil, so they forbade it

  • L'astratto (The Distracted One)

    Italian cantata written by Strozzi

  • Baroque Oboe (Hautbois)

    invented in France, where it was used to entertain the French court
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    Middle Baroque

    counterpoint, Italian operas, and French ballets were popularized
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    Arcangelo Corelli

    Italian composer; master of the Trio Sonata

  • Pendulum Clock

    invented by Dutch mathematician and scientist Christian Huygens
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    Henry Purcell

    worked in the court of Charles II when plays were allowed to begin again; brought together all the musical styles of Europe: Italian opera, grandeur of French music, the melodic quality of English music

  • Charles II allows theater

    Charles II issued patents for two theater troupes and performances immediately began

  • Cuckoo Clock

    invented in Germany
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    Alessandro Scarlatti

    father of Domenico Scarlatti; taught in Naples; his death ended the Baroque era of music
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    Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre

    French musician, harpsichordist and composer; "the wonder of our century"

  • Opera reaches England

    opera became popularized and spread and finally made its way to England

  • Champagne

    invented by French Benedictine monk Dom Pérignon

  • Biber: Sonata no. 1

    mid-baroque violin sonata composed by Biber; opening is written for violin and basso continuo
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    Antonio Vivaldi

    popular baroque composer; known as the greatest master of the Baroque concerto

  • pressure cooker

    invented by French physicist, mathematician, and inventor Denis Papin
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    Georg Philip Telemann

    German composer; helped establish the French-style orchestral suite in Germany
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    Jean-Joseph Mouret

    a representative composer from the French court; served the son of King Louis XIV
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    Domenico Scarlatti

    son of Alessandro Scarlatti; keyboard virtuoso and had a modern flare to his works
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    Johann Sebastian Bach

    famous German composer; greatest master of the fugue
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    George Frideric Handel

    German composer that used Italian opera influences

  • Pianoforte

    invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori
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    Late Baroque

    instrumental music took the front seat and composers became more and more commissioned

  • Water Music

    composed by Handel; performed for a royal party on the Thames River in London on 7/17/1717

  • Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major BWV 1047

    composed by Bach in his own specific form

  • St. John Passion, BWV 245

    one of Bach's passions; performed on Good Friday; includes chorales, recitatives (secco and accompanied) and arias

  • Le Quattro stagioni

    The Four Seasons; cycle of four violin concertos written by Vivaldi

  • Suite de symphonies

    composed by Mouret; written for an orchestra but is now performed as a trumpet solo with organ

  • The English Oratorio

    composed by Handel; sung in English by Italian singers

  • Messiah

    English oratorio composed by Handel; tells the story of Christ

  • The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080, "Contrapunctus I"

    composed by Bach