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Baroque music expanded
Baroque music expanded the size, range, and complexity of instrumental performance, and also established the mixed vocal/instrumental forms of opera, cantata and oratorio and the instrumental forms of the solo concerto and sonata as musical genres. -
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Baroque Period
Derived from the Portuguese barroco, or “oddly shaped pearl,” the term “baroque” has been widely used since the nineteenth century to describe the period in Western European art music. -
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the 30 years war begins
The Thirty Years' War was a war fought in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648, in which most of the great European powers of the time intervened. -
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High Baroque
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first blood transfusion
The first reported transfusion was between 1666 and 1667 with animal blood transfused to humans. In the early 1800s, human-to-human transfusion was developed. -
The construction of St.charles Borromeo Church
Is a church of religious architecture in Baroque -
Denis Pamplin invents the pressure cooker
The first pressure cooker was introduced by Denis Papin in 1679. He called it the “steam digester.” It used steam pressure to increase the boiling point of water and as a result cook faster. -
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transition to classicism
the rise of the galant style,evolving musical forms and changing performance practices