Baroque Music - 1600-1750
Music Styles
- Operas
- Sacred
- Cantatas - Not Staged
- Oratorios - Not Staged
- Dance Suites
- Orchestra
- Solo instruments
- Concertos
- Concerti Grossi
- Solo Concerti
- Fugues - solo keyboard
- Partitas - solo keyboard
Instruments:
Keyboard
- Harpsichord
- Organ
Strings
- Developed from viols
Woodwind
- Flute
- known as transverse flute
- Recorder
- known as flute Ă bec
- Oboe
- Bassoon
Composers
Italian:
Vivaldi
Corelli
Torelli
German:
Telemann
Handel (worked in England)
JS Bach
French:
Couperin
Lully
English:
Henry Purcell
Dynamics:
Subito - SUDDEN
stepped / terraced shadings - NO GRADUAL crescendos / diminuendoes
Melodies:
Short SINGLE BAR motifs
Highly ornamented
Use of trills, mordents, turns were popular
Rhythms:
- Strong
- Rhythmic impetus (drives melody)
Tonality:
Major and minor key system established
Musical Structure:
Binary form - AB format
Rondo form - ABACADA etc.
Terms:
Concerti Grossi -
Group of soloists and orchestra
Solo Concerti
Solo instruments and orchestra
Trills
Start one note above and quickly go back and forth between the written note and note you started on
Mordents
Similar to trills, but end on WRITTEN note and hold note longer
Upper mordent - between written and upper note
Lower mordent - between written and lower note
Turns
3 notes used - note higher, lower and written note.
- Play note above written
- Play written note
- Play note below written
- End on written
**for inverted turns - swap number 1 and 3 around.