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Period: 1551 to
Giulio Caccini
One of the founders of opera -
Period: 1557 to
Giovanni Gabrieli
Noted for his use of instruments in sacred music -
Period: 1561 to
Jacopo Peri
Another founder of Opera; claimed to be the first in 1597 with his Dafne -
Period: 1563 to
John Dowland
Leading composer of lute music -
Period: 1564 to
William Shakespear
English Playwright and poet -
Period: 1567 to
Claudio Monteverdi
Most important composer of early baroque era, inventor of new seconda prattica -
Period: 1570 to
Florentine Camerata
Group of intellectuals that met to discuss the arts, included Caccini, Peri, Girolamo Mei, Vincenzo Galilei -
Period: to
Orlando Gibbons
Composer of Anglican Church -
Period: to
Girolamo Frescobaldi
First modern keyboard virtuoso and composer -
Period: to
Heinrich Schutz
Most important German composer of the Middle Baroque -
Development of functional tonality, basso continuo, Doctrine of Affections
Courts and Churches Primary institutions for musical production. -
Period: to
Opera invented in Florence, Italy.
Components of Recitative and monody -
Period: to
Melody, Rhythm and Harmony (Early Baroque)
Recitative: a style of text setting that emphasizes the natural rhythms and accents of speech. Pitch range was confined. Free Rhythm, tonality determined by diatonic scale. Introduction of homophony -
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Instruments
Organ, bassoon, oboe. -
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Giacomo Carissimi
Leading composer of Roman Cantatas -
Establishment of Jamestown in the Americas
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Period: to
Barbara Strozzi
Virtuoso singer and most prolific composer of cantatas in the 17th century -
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Giovanni Legrenzi
Italian composer and organist -
Period: to
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Establisher of French opera and ballet; dancer and violinist -
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Dieterich Buxtehude
German organist and composer; most important composer before Bach -
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Composer of French opera -
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John Blow
English composer of odes -
Period: to
Middle Baroque
Fugues, chaccones, and passacaglias, spread of Italian Opera, 1637 Venice opens first public opera house -
Period: to
Melody, Rhythm, Harmony
Lyrical bel canto arias and solo songs. Basso continuo and dotted rhythms. String instruments dominated. -
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Arcangelo Corelli
Most important Italian composer of sonatas and concertos, influential violinists -
Period: to
Johan Pachelbel
German composer and organist -
Period: to
Giuseppe Torelli
Contributed to the development of the concerto around 1700 -
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Henry Purcell
Most important English composer in 17th century -
Period: to
Alessandro Scarlatti
Important Italian composer -
Period: to
Francois Couperin
French composer, keyboardist -
Period: to
Antonio Vivaldi
laid the foundations for late Baroque instrumental music , pioneer of orchestral music -
Period: to
Georg Philipp Telemann
The most prolific German composer of his day -
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
French composer and theorist -
Period: to
Johann Sebastian Bach
Considered the Baroque master, wrote no operas -
Period: to
Georg Friedrick Handel
German musician; inventor of the English oratorio -
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Domenico Scarlatti
Son of Alessandra; keyboard composer and virtuoso -
Period: to
Johann Joachim Quants
German composer; flutist and flute teacher for Fredrick the Great in Berlin -
Period: to
Late Baroque
Opera seria, castrati -
Period: to
Melody, Rhythm, Harmony
Virtuosity with melody, basso continuo, era of sixteenth notes, homophony was modern style, polyphony was church style. Pianoforte prototypes