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Trained in the Renaissance style, also adept at composing "modern music". Used dissonances in his music (madrigals) for text expression.
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Soprano and the daughter of Giulio Caccini, and the first woman to compose operas. Sang lead roles in several early operas: Sung in Peri's opera Euridice at age 13. Both her parents worked for the Medici Family, she and her sister Settima also.
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First opera; composed by Giulio Caccini and Jacopo Peri.
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Jacopo Peri and Giulio Caccini invented opera in Florence, Italy.
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First extant opera, by Caccini and Peri
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In which some of the most significant changes in musical style occurred, including the development of functional tonality as reflected in our modern major/minor key system. This tonal development took about 100 years, but its formal beginnings were in the early Baroque.
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Her mother was a servant to Giulio Strozzi who adopted Barbara. She studied under Francesco Cavalli at the Academia degli Unisoni, which was founded by Guilio for Barbara.
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This new establishment created a business-like atmosphere for operas and stage productions, and it created a new venue for public entertainment.
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Loved dancing; was an excellent dancer from age 13. Believed that ballet demonstrated important qualities of a society: discipline, order, refinement, and restraint.
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Composed when Monteverdi was 75. Premiered in Venice.
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Counterpoint was cultivated in instrumental genres resulting in fuges, chaconnes, and passacaglias. Instrumental music took a new lead creating new genres such as the concerto, sonata, and trio.
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Italian suite composer.
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Singer, organist, composer of instrumental and vocal music. Worked in the court of Charles II when stage plays were again allowed.
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The father of composer Domenico Scarlatti. A teacher in Naples; many of his students helped create the ew classical style. His death marks a bettter indicator of the end of the Baroque than does Bach's in 1750.
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She was called "the wonder of our century". The 17th century; French.
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French suite composer.
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German suite composer.
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One representative composer from this French court: served the son of King Louis XIV. Composed operas, suites, and "grand divertissements (entertainments)". Some of his works have been used for TV commercials and in other media.
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Keyboard virtuoso. Served Portuguese and Spanish royal families. had a progressive style; aware of his modern flare. Wrote over 500 sonatas for harpsichord, operas, cantatas, and keyboard exercises.
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Two very popular orchestral suites: "Music for the Royal Fireworks" and "Water Music". A German composer living in England writing Italian music.
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Is the undisputed greatest master of the fugue. Contrapunctus 1 from "The Art of Fugue" (1749). He wrote this collection at the end of his life, and it was not published until after his death.
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Born in Halle, Germany. Extraordinarily talented and intelligent. Worked in Italy early in his career, and absorbed the Italian style writing over 40 operas and many Italian cantasas.
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He was called the red priest because of his red hair. He wrote nearly 800 concertos of various types. Considered the greatest master of the Baroque concerto.
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By the late Baroque, instrumental music rose further in significance and importance. Serious opera, heroic opera that was called opera seria, was the first primary form of public musical entertainment.
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"The Four Seasons". Cycle of four violin concertos; word painting in instrumental music. Each concerto is accompanied by a poem that we believe Vivaldi wrote.
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Genre: English Oratorio. Has 52 separate numbers. Handel composed the work in 3 weeks, but "self-borrowed" old arias and cantata numbers to create new choruses and pieces.