Timeline Two: The Baroque (1600-1730s)

  • Period: 1567 to

    Caudio Monteverdi

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    Girolamo Frescobaldi

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    Baroque Period

  • 1st Opera

  • 1st Extant Opera

  • Instruments became more important than vocalists

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    Early Baroque

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    violin, cello, harp, Guitar and lute

  • Jamestown Founded

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    Barbara Strozzi

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    Tocattas/Canzonas/Dance Suites/Variation sets/Canzona/Balletto/Corrente

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    Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

  • Mid-Baroque Cantatas

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    Middle Baroque

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    Arcangelo Corelli

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    Henry Purcell

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    Alessandro Scarlatti

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    Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre

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    François Couperin

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    Antonio Vivaldi

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    Georg Philip Telemann

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    Jean-Joseph Mouret

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    Handel

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    Domenico Scarlatti

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    G. F. Handel

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    J. S. Bach

  • French and Indian War

  • Salem Witch Trials

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    Johann Hasse

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    Late Baroque

  • Le Quattro stagioni

    4 violin Concertos for 4 seasons accompanied by a poem
  • 1st Great Awakening