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Baroque music
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Baroque music 1600-1750
art // music // literature // philosophy // architecture
started in Italy
Baroque - decorative (art, architecture)
baroque in music - ornamentation (decorative)
key composers : Bach, Vivaldi, Handel
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Bach
German
musical family
wrote choral pieces
religious
Baroque composer
had patrons (patrons - commissions) even from royaly
writen for masses and organ
wrote concertos
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Brandenburg Concertos 1711-1720
ensemble : concerto grosso - more than one soloist
two groups of instruments
ripieno - larger, accompaniment - usually string
concertino - smaller, solos - flute, violin, harpsichord
texture : dialoguing // antiphonal // alternate
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