Baroque Music notes
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- Characteristics of Baroque Music24
- Baroque Music Terms10
- Baroque Composers20
- Baroque Instruments and Performance5
- Baroque Musical Forms14
- Baroque Concerto12
- Bach's Brandenburg Concertos26
- Vivaldi and His Concertos16
- Corelli's Trio Sonata in D5
- Bach's Instrumental and Keyboard Music11
- Baroque Vocal Music and Opera13
- Bach Cantatas24
- Handel's Messiah11
- And the Glory of the Lord102
- Handel's Water Music5
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Brandenburg concerto no.5 in Dmajor score annotation Brandenburg concerto No.5 in D major - movement III gigue ternary stepwise no dynamics - the harpsichord cant play dynamic and it uses texture instead the subject is the violin and the answer is the flute - these are ...
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Bach: Cantata Ein feste Burg J.S Bach profile Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the ...
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BAROQUE PERIOD - creado desde un Mapa Mental CHARACTERISTICS Unity of mood: the doctrine of affection establishes that what is happy will be happy throughout and what is sad continues to the end. Composers molded the musical language to fit moods by using...
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Early Baroque Music (1600-1710 AD) - created from Mind Map Baroque Asthetic Basso Continuo Early Style
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Handel: 'And the Glory of the Lord' from Messiah - created from Mind Map Context Baroque 1600 - 1750 Bach, Handel, Purcell, Vivaldi Handel + Bach born = 1685 Germany - Italy - London Composed 1741 Concert halls + theatres Small choir + orchestra First chorus Oratorio = large scale composit...
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'And the glory of the lord' from messiah -Handel 'And the glory of the Lord' from Messiah -Handel essay Melody Throughout this piece the four main melodies are sung by an SATB (soprano, alto, tenor and bass) choir. Each melody is unique and are then combined and con...
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Baroque musical period Music : The Baroque period - Musical facts of that age 1600-1750 • Major and Minor scales. (Music before this style period was not based on Major and Minor Scales) • Polyphonic approaches to composition: 2 or more mel...
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Bach's Cantata movement 1 Bach's cantata movement 1: context: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was a big member of the church and was a recognised composer of lutheren church music. a Cantata is a vocal piece of music with instrum...
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Topics and Issues; Exam 1 Topics and issues What was the villancico? What were the European influences on that genre, and what were the South American influences? What were some similarities and differences between the historical development o...
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Music GENRE category of a given work determined by a combo of its performance medium and social function "style" Baroque FUGUE polyphonic based on one theme begins with voice/melody that melody is imitated in succession by ...
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Bach Cantata essay question · Characteristic features of Lutheran Church Music in the late Baroque era "Ich elender Mensch" (2013 A2 music) Written 3rd October 1723 for the 19th Sunday after Trinity Text is in German not in Latin (not Catholic) ...
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BAROQUE - creado desde un Mapa Mental Artistic period that goes from 1600 with the first preserved opera to J.S. Bach´s death in 1750. COMPOSERS PROFANE VOCAL MUSIC
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BAROQUE PERIOD - creado desde un Mapa Mental CHARACTERISTICS SECULAR MUSIC RELIGIOUS MUSIC
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Music for a while notes Mid to late Baroque period Terraced dynamics, ornamented melodic lines (for the singer, not in score), From Oedipus, act 1, scene 3, Theatre royal, Counter Tenor (equivilant to female mezzo soprano), Not a stand alone...
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BAROQUE PERIOD - creado desde un Mapa Mental CHARACTERISTICS SECULAR MUSIC RELIGIOUS MUSIC
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Bach's pedagogical materials BACH'S PEDAGOGICAL MATERIALS Sequential order 1. Clavierbüchlein vor Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: 15 two-parts inventions (Preludes): later Inventions 14 three-pa...
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Fugue terms and definitions Subject: the main melodic idea on which the Fugue is based Answer: the second appearance (or entry) of this idea, transposed to the 5th above. Exposition: the opening bars in which every part plays the main melodic id...
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Vivaldi: Concerto in D minor Vivaldi profile The red priest: Aside from two years in Mantua (1718-20) and his final months in Vienna, Antonio Vivaldi spent his life in Venice, from where his reputation and fame emanated. Venice had a unique ...
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Untitled Music revision notes Johann Sebastian Bach Born in Germany in 1685 Came from a family of professional musicians Was bought up by his brother because both of his parents died before he turned 10 ...
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Baroque Concerto - created from Mind Map COMPOSERS Instruments Musical Characteristiics
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"For Unto Us a Child is Born" From Handel's Messiah - created from Mind Map Opening Orchestral Ritornello bars 1-6 Bars 7-8 Key of G major 4/4 time signature
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