Baroque Era Music Appreciation

Baroque Era Dates

1600-1750

Themes/Topics

love stories, poems, text painting (notes literally ascending when the word is mentioned, or the opposite (descending))

Instrumental Music

-lute , viol de gamba

-shawms and sackbuts (early trombone)

-Pavane, Galliard - dance music, dance suites, ballet

-Still used to support voice very often (opera)

Virtuosity (virtuoso), mimic vocal music (imitation)

Boroque = Basso Continuo

Bosso continuo is the backbone of boroque music

Boroque Forms

Masses, service music

-opera, arias, da capo aria, recitative

Oratorio - halleluah

Ballets

Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Concerto for 2 Mondolins and Orch

-Ritornello —> a, a’, b, c, d, d’ —> Solo —→ Ritornello 2 —> a, c —→ Solo 2

J. S. (Johan Sebastian) Bach (1685 - 1750)

Most important composer

Exposition: Subject in 1 voice, answer in 2nd voice in key of dominant, 3rd iteration back in tonic, Countersubject (counterpoint in another voice), Development Final

Info about him:

Protestant, organist and keyboardist, composer, musical genius, German

Random Rococco Era

Crazy ornamentation, use of basso continuo

Macaroni - french style spread across europe

Composers: Rameau (1683 - 1764), Couperin (1668 - 1733)