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Baroque Period
• 1600-1750
• Barocco
• Absolutism
• Bernini The Throne of St. Peter -
Monteverdi's L’Orfeo
• Duke of Mantua
• Alessandro Striggio
• Prologue, 5 Acts
• Ritornello
• 1613 St. Marks Cathedral
• Music was not published until 1609 and revised 1615 -
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First Public Concerts in England
- occurred in 1670s
- culmination of three trends
- birth of modern culture life (consumer culture)
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JS Bach
• Reception history
• BWV (Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis
• Organist, Violinist, Violist
• Influences
• Signature
• Important Positions:
- Weimar (1708-1717)
- Cothen (1717-1723)
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Handel
• Trained in Germany, then Italy, settled in England
• 1710, named music director for the Elector of Hanover in Germany
• 1711, Rinaldo
• 1714, Elector becomes King George I of England
• Royal Academy of Music (1718-1729) -
Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
• French influences
- French overture
- Homophonic choruses in dance rhythms
- Scene structure: solo singing and chorus lead to a dance
• Italian influences
- The presence of arias
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Antonio Vivaldi's L’Estro Armonico
- Harmonic Inspiration
- Published bu Etienne Roger in Amsterdam
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Brandenburg Concertos
• Margrave of Brandenburg
• Combines elements of solo concerto and the concerto grosso • Leipzig (1723-1750) (job description, Lutheran service) • St. Thomas Kirche Cantatas: Sacred (ca. 200) - 5-8 movements - Chorale Cantatas • Secular (ca. 20) -
Rameau's Traité de l’harmonie
• Codified practices of his contemporaries, especially Corelli
• Mostly influential of all Theoretical Works
• Became basis for teaching functional harmony
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The Well-Tempered Clavier volume 1
- 24 Preludes and fugues
- Equal temperatment
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Handel's Messiah
• Completed in 1741
• Premiered in Dublin, 1742 during Lent
• Mashiach = Anointed One
• Christos = Anointed One