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Period: 1567 to
Claudio Monteverdi
Trained in the Renaissance style
Used dissonancec in his music (madrigals) for text expression
Seconda prattica: monodo with dissonance, very expressive -
Period: to
Francesca Cacinni
Soprano and daughter of Giulio Caccini
First woman to compose operas
Sang lead roles in early operas
Highest paid musica in Italy by 20 -
Dafne
First opera composed by Giulio Caccini and Jacopo Peri -
Opera was invented
Jacopo Peri and Giulio Caccini invented opera in FLorence, Italy -
Euridice
First extant opera composed by Caccini and Peri -
Period: to
Early Baroque
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Primo Libro delle Musiche a una e due Voci
Francesca Caccini published this piece -
Period: to
Barbara Strozzi
Mother was a servant to Giulio Strozzi who adopted Barabara
Published 8 sets of songs each set dedicated to a different wealthy person
Did not write opera but her songs and cantatas are very dramatic -
First Public theater opened in Venice (Teatro de San Cassiano)
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Period: to
Louis the 14th of France
He was an accomplished dancer who loved to show off his legs -
Arias becam the most deisred and appreciated pieces
An Aria is a piece for a solo singer that has more elaboration and coherance than recit. -
The Coronation of Poppea
Composed when he was 75
Early operas based on mythology
Premiered in Venice -
Period: to
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist
Lived in salzburg
One of the most important composers for the violin
Catholic scared music, violin sonatas, and enseble music
New technique of playing the violin allowed him to easily find 6th and 7th positions, play with double stops and polyphony, experiment with scordatura -
Period: to
Mid-Baroque
Usually secular
Italian
Composed for 1 or 2 singers witha basso continuo and possibly a small string ensemble -
Period: to
Arcangelo Corelli
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Period: to
Henry Purcell
Singer, organist, composer of intrumental and vocal music -
Period: to
Alessandro Scarlatti
Father of Domenico Scarlatti
Teacher in Naples
His death marks a better indicator of the end of the baroque -
Period: to
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre
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Period: to
Francois Couperin
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Period: to
Georpge Philip Telemann
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Period: to
Jean-Joseph Mouret
Composed operas, suites, and grand divertissements -
Period: to
Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard virtuoso
Served Portugese and Spanish royal families
Had a progressive style
wrote over 500 sonatas -
Period: to
J.S. Bach
Greatest master of the fugue -
Period: to
Late Baroque
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Contrapunctus 1 from the art of fugue
Bach wrote this collection at the end of his life and it was not published until 1751 after his death in 1750