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strart baroque
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Rembrandt
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MUSIC AT THE SERVICE OF POWER
During this period power was in the hands of the monarchy, the aristocracy and the
Church. Kings, nobility and the Church became patrons of the best composers. One of the
reasons for this so-called patronage was a taste for culture and what it represented. music
was also used to display power and authority. -
MUSIC AT THE SERVICE OF POWER
El período barroco fue la edad de oro de la música. En las cortes de Europa, la música
se convirtió en protagonista de grandes eventos sociales. Cada país se convertirá en una identidad musical nacional
y abandonó el estilo internacional del Renacimiento. -
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE PERIOD.
Instrumental music experienced a breakthrough and achieved complete independence
of vocal music. Its development was due to the technical evolution of the instruments and the
birth of the baroque orchestra. -
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE PERIOD.
The Baroque orchestra contained bowed string instruments and other instruments
who played the basso continuo like the harpsichord. Also woodwind instruments, brass
or percussion instruments, depending on the function of each specific one
composition. Baroque orchestras had an average of twenty-five musicians. -
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE PERIOD.
The most important music forms of the Baroque era were the fugue, the suite. the
sonata and the concerto. -
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE PERIOD.
The fugue was one of the main Baroque forms for keyboard instruments. I finished of
a movement, based on the same musical idea, performed by different parts that
they started at different times and overlapped, giving an imitative counterpoint. -
end baroque