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

Bach

German

musical family

wrote choral pieces

religious

Baroque composer

had patrons (patrons - commissions) even from royaly

writen for masses and organ

wrote concertos

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