These are the notes for the Baroque Period for the Seventh Grade Music Class:
Baroque Period: (1600 – 1750)
Comes from Greek referring to the art of the period, which was very magnificent with elaborate ornamentation.
Instrumental music became more popular.
Forms that were developed:
1. Sonata – a composition for solo instrument accompanied by a small ensemble
2. Fugue – a polyphonic composition
3. Overture – an instrumental introduction to an opera or an oratorio
4. Concerto - a composition for a full orchestra in three (3) movements using solo instruments
Rise of secular music, not as much music was written for the church
Start of the orchestra as we know it today, (see handout – note that the orchestra did not have a conductor)
Composers:
Claudio Monteverdi: (1567 – 1643) He wrote motets, madrigals, and Venetian opera
Alessandro Scarlatti: (1660 – 1725) He wrote motets, madrigals, and Neopolitan opera
Antonio Vivaldi: (1678 – 1741) He wrote sacred works, chamber music, and concertos
Jean Baptiste Lully: (1632 – 1687) He wrote ballets and opera
Henry Purcell: (1659 – 1695) He wrote operas, chamber music, choral music and sonatas for trumpet and other instruments
*Johann Sebastian Bach: (1685 – 1750) He wrote organ music, fugues, cantatas, chamber music and orchestral music
*George Frederic Handel: (1685 – 1759) He wrote operas, oratorios, suites and sonatas
For additional composers from the Renaissance, click on the following link to the Composer Paper.
12/11/2002