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Italian; b. ca. 1550
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Italian
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Italian; b. ca. 1557
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Italian; b. ca. 1560
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German
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Italian
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English; b. ca. 1562
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English; b. ca. 1563
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German
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English
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Italian
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English
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Italian
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Italian; ca. 1570 - ca.1630
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Italian; b. ca. 1580
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Italian
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Italian; b. ca. 1582
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English
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Italian
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German
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German
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German
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Roman; b. ca. 1595/97
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Peri's "Dafne," produced in Florence in 1598, was the first recorded opera
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ca. 1600; replaced Renaissance lute as most common instrument found in the home
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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 -
Italian
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Italian
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Born in the Netherlands; schooled in France; b. ca. 1610
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Italian
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Invented by Dutch builder Cornelis Drebbel
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English; b. ca. 1621
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Italian; b. ca. 1625
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Italian
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German
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German; b. ca. 1631
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Italian
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Danish-German; b. ca. 1637
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German
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French
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English; b. 1648/49
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Genres: opera, ballet, cantata, concerto, sonata, trio
Stylistic Traits: homophony & polyphony, basso continuo, recitative melodies, tonal system, ritornellos, strings dominated -
Italian
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German
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Italian
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Italian
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English
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Developed from bass violin ca. 1660
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Italian
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German
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Italian
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French
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Italian; b. ca. 1670
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Italian; d. 1750/51
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German
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Venetian
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German
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French
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German
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German-born English
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Italian
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Italian
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Italian
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Italian; b. ca. 1696
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German
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Invented ca. 1698/1700 by Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731)
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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 -
Italian
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Italian
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Earliest surviving instrument built in 1714 in England