Timeline #2 Baroque

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  • Baroque?

    The Baroque was an era of ornamentation
    (usually improvised) and extremes

  • Tonality

    This was the formal beginnings of functional tonality.

  • Melody

    Melody in homophony became the most expressive device in music. In early baroque the most expressive was recitative.

  • Form

    Binary form was still popular in instrumental music. Vocal music form was determined by the poetic form of the text.

  • Rhythm

    Rhythms were performed freely. A large repertoire for keyboard music emerged with more modern and complex rhythms

  • Guilo Caccini

    1551-1618

  • Giovani Gabrieli

    1557-1612

  • John Dowland

    1563-1626

  • William Shakespeare

    1564-1616

  • Instruments

    Baroque was the golden age for the organ, many improvements were made to stringed instruments.
  • Period: to

    Early Baroque

  • Jacopo Peri

    1561-1633

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    1567-1643
  • Period: to

    Middle Baroque

  • Melody

    recitative moved to more lyrical arias and solo songs

  • Rhythm

    Basso continuo gave music a rhythmic drive. Dotted rhythms were quite common

  • Dynamics

    They knew about crescendos and decrescendos but terrace dynamics were preferred

  • Fugue

    Fugues began to develop

  • Heinrich Schutz

    1585-1672

  • Barbara Strozzi

    1619-77

  • Giovanni Legrenzi

    1626-90

  • Jean-Bapiste Lully

    1632-87

  • John Blow

    1648/49-1708

  • Johann Pachelbel

    1653-1706

  • Giuseppe Torelli

    1658-1709

  • Henry Purcell

    1659-95

  • Instrumental music

    Instrumental music rose further in significance and importance.

  • Opera

    Serious Opera became primary form of public entertainment.

  • Court

    The court was the primary patron of the arts

  • Seventh chords

    Seventh chords were accepted as functional harmony

  • Rhythm in Late Baroque

    tempos were mostly steady in ensemble music. Basso continuo rhythmically and metrically drives beat

  • Late Baroque form

    Da capo aria form was most popular vocal form. Ritornello form was the most popular ensemble form

  • Timbre

    The notion of an "orchestra" began to take shape

  • Late Baroque melody

    melodies were governed by fortspinning and sequences

  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    1660-1725

  • Francois Couperin

    1668-1733

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    1678-1741

  • Jean-Philippe Rameau

    1681-1767

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    1685-1750

  • Georg Friedrich Handel

    1685-1759

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    1685-1757

  • Johann Joachim Quantz

    1697-1773
  • Period: to

    Late Baroque

  • Harmony

    Modern diatonic system of 24 major and minor keys was firmly established.