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Period: 1550 to
de' Cavalieri
Italian; b. ca. 1550 -
Period: 1551 to
Caccini
Italian -
Period: 1557 to
Gabrieli
Italian; b. ca. 1557 -
Period: 1560 to
Viadana
Italian; b. ca. 1560 -
Period: 1560 to
Praetorius
German -
Period: 1561 to
Peri
Italian -
Period: 1562 to
Bull
English; b. ca. 1562 -
Period: 1563 to
Dowland
English; b. ca. 1563 -
Period: 1564 to
Hassler
German -
Period: 1564 to
Shakespeare
English -
Period: 1567 to
Monteverdi
Italian -
Period: 1567 to
Campion
English -
Period: 1568 to
Banchieri
Italian -
Period: 1570 to
Rossi
Italian; ca. 1570 - ca.1630 -
Period: 1580 to
Agazzari
Italian; b. ca. 1580 -
Period: 1582 to
Gagliano
Italian -
Period: 1582 to
d'India
Italian; b. ca. 1582 -
Period: to
Gibbons
English -
Period: to
Frescobaldi
Italian -
Period: to
Schütz
German -
Period: to
Schein
German -
Period: to
Scheidt
German -
Period: to
Manelli
Roman; b. ca. 1595/97 -
Invention of Opera
Peri's "Dafne," produced in Florence in 1598, was the first recorded opera -
Invention of Baroque Guitar
ca. 1600; replaced Renaissance lute as most common instrument found in the home -
Period: to
Early Baroque
Genres: opera, ballet, mass, magnificant, vesper, motet, madrigal, cantata, oratorio
Stylistic Traits: homophony & polyphony, free rhythms, beginning of tonality, poetic form, binary form, use of markings, contrast, basso continuo -
Period: to
Cavalli
Italian -
Period: to
Carissimi
Italian -
Period: to
Du Mont
Born in the Netherlands; schooled in France; b. ca. 1610 -
Period: to
Strozzi
Italian -
Invention of Earliest Human-Powered Submarine
Invented by Dutch builder Cornelis Drebbel -
Period: to
Locke
English; b. ca. 1621 -
Period: to
Bontempi
Italian; b. ca. 1625 -
Period: to
Legrenzi
Italian -
Period: to
Kerll
German -
Period: to
Baltzar
German; b. ca. 1631 -
Period: to
Lully
Italian -
Period: to
Buxtehude
Danish-German; b. ca. 1637 -
Period: to
J. C. Bach
German -
Period: to
Charpentier
French -
End of the Ming Dynasty
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Period: to
Blow
English; b. 1648/49 -
Period: to
Middle Baroque
Genres: opera, ballet, cantata, concerto, sonata, trio
Stylistic Traits: homophony & polyphony, basso continuo, recitative melodies, tonal system, ritornellos, strings dominated -
Period: to
Corelli
Italian -
Period: to
Pachelbel
German -
Period: to
Steffani
Italian -
Period: to
Torelli
Italian -
Period: to
Purcell
English -
Invention of Cello
Developed from bass violin ca. 1660 -
Period: to
Scarlatti
Italian -
Period: to
Kuhnau
German -
Period: to
Ariosti
Italian -
Invention of First Newtonian Reflecting Telescope
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Period: to
Couperin
French -
Period: to
Caldara
Italian; b. ca. 1670 -
Period: to
Albinoni
Italian; d. 1750/51 -
Period: to
Keiser
German -
Period: to
Vivaldi
Venetian -
Period: to
Telemann
German -
Period: to
Rameau
French -
Period: to
J. S. Bach
German -
Period: to
Handel
German-born English -
Period: to
Scarlatti
Italian -
Period: to
Porpora
Italian -
The Glorious Revolution
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Period: to
Tartini
Italian -
Period: to
Vinci
Italian; b. ca. 1696 -
Period: to
Quantz
German -
Invention of Piano
Invented ca. 1698/1700 by Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731) -
Period: to
Late Baroque
Genres: opera, cantata, oratorio, concerto, sonata
Stylistic Traits: polyphony & homophony, basso continuo, fortspinnung, steady tempos, 16th notes, established diatonic system, ritornello, fuges, da capo aria, binary form, messa di voce -
Period: to
Martini
Italian -
UK is Formed
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Period: to
Pergolesi
Italian -
Invention of Contrabassoon
Earliest surviving instrument built in 1714 in England