The Baroque (1600-1725)

By Cadence Jimenez
  • Period: 1567 to

    Claudio Monteverdi

    a composer who helped transition into the Baroque style
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    Francesca Caccini

    first woman to compose operas

  • First opera composed

    First opera called Dafne was composed by Giulio Caccini and Jacopo Peri

  • Functional tonality

    tonality started to develop in this time. major and minor keys started to form and music started to sound a little more like we know it

  • Opera in Italy

    Jacopo Peri and Giulio Caccini invented opera in Florence

  • First extant opera

    First extant opera called Euridice was composed by Caccini and Peri
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    early baroque

    the beginning of the baroque period. things like functional tonality and such
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    Baroque guitar

    used gut strings
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    Jamestown

    first American settlement that untimely failed ending with a lot of death

  • Galileo introduces the telescope

    Galileo exhibits the wonders of the telescope to the pontifical court.
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    Barbara Strozzi

    adopted daughter to Giulio Strozzi who wrote music specificly Cantatas

  • first public opera theater

    first one to open in Venice
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    king Louis the 14th

    he was the ballet king which is a huge part of why they were popular in France. he called himself the sun king

  • Arias

    Arias are the most popular music at this time

  • The Coronation of Poppea

    Opera that premiered in Venice about mythology written by Monteverdi
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    Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Bohemian-Austrian composer who wrote may important violin pieces. he also wrote catholic sacred music.
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    Commonwealth in England

    a period of time where plays were forbidden because it was said it came from the Devil

  • L’astratto (The Distracted One)

    Cantata by Strozzi it has a Basso Continuo accompaniment. it is trying to depict sorrow and suffering
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    middle baroque

    counterpoint started happening leading to fuges and chaconnes
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    Arcangelo Corelli

    he made clear differences between the types of sonatas and was the master of the trio sanata
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    Henry Purcell

    he worded in Charles II court as a composer, singer, etc. he also brought together the the styles of Europe

  • Plays were unbaned

    Charles II made it so plays could happen again.

  • cuckooclock

    invented in Germany
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    Alessandro Scarlatti

    he was a teacher and his death marked the end of the baroque period
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    Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre

    she was called “the wonder of our century” and a french composer

  • Opera in England

    Opera made its way to England and became popular

  • Sonata No. 1

    Biber's sonata for violin. its one of the first sonata for violin
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    Antonio Vivaldi

    wrote many works and was considered the greatest master of the Baroque concerto. he had red hair!!
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    Georg Philip Telemann

    German composer who Helped establish the French-style orchestral suite in Germany and was a close friend to Bach
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    Jean-Joseph Mouret

    representative composer from this French court who wrote operas and suites
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    Domenico Scarlatti

    He had a progressive style and composed over 500 sonatas. he was a keyboard virtuoso
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    J. S. Bach

    German composer known for his fugues
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    Handel

    German composer but the Italian style influenced his writing.

  • Piano Forte

    invented by Boartolomeo cristofori
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    late baroque

    instrumental music became more popular along with public concerts church provided steady work for composers and performers but Opera was the real money maker

  • Handel’s Water Music

    was 22 movements performed for a royal party

  • Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major

    Bach published the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major.

  • Le Quattro stagioni

    also called the four seasons and was a cycle of four violin concertos accompanied by a poem thought ti e written by Vivaldi

  • Suite de symphonies

    Written for trumpets, violins, oboes, timpani, basses, bassoons, and organ: today the work is often performed as a trumpet solo with organ

  • The English Oratorio

    composed by handle sung in English by Italian singers.Oratorios was presented during Lent when operas were forbidden, so there was little competition.

  • Messiah

    written by handal. it was a English Oratorio and it told the story of Christ

  • Contrapunctus 1 from The Art of Fugue

    written by Bach but was left unfinished and was eventually published after his death. it has 14 fugues and 4 canons