The Baroque – Part 3 Handel‚ unlike many other musicians during the Baroque period‚ was not born into a musical family. His parents actually had the wish for him to become a lawyer. Handel becoming a musician means that he had defied his family. Being a musician then as well as in any time-period posed as a profession which was insecure. This would be unless one could find an impressive position in the court or at church. Handel uses choral music to express a conflict through word-painting and
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Social and Cultural Background Baroque is a term borrowed from the visual arts and one that is used in many different senses. The Baroque Era applies to the years between 1600 and 1750. The most famous composers of this time were Bach‚ Handel‚ Vivaldi and Teleman. Politically it was an age of magnificent absolute Monarch’s. The most magnificent of all was Louis XIV of France. Louis ruled from 1634 until 1713. During this time the need to create a national culture or a regional
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1. Johann Sebastian Bach Coming in at number one is Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach was a genius keyboardist (mastering the organ and harpsichord) and brilliant composer. Bach brought baroque music to its culmination‚ writing music for nearly every type of musical form. Popular Works: Air on a G String‚ Double Violin Concerto‚ Brandenburg Concerto No. 3‚ B Minor Mass‚ and The Unaccompanied Cello Suites Ads Beethoven BustElementsOfHome.comLarge variety of composer busts. Great selections and quality
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eighteenth-century art critics to describe the art and architecture of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries‚ came to be applied also to the music of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. After some years after the death of Johann Sebastian Bach‚ the ornate‚ formal and strict form of the High Baroque became “old-fashion” and lost its favor. Music slowly began to change form the style and forms of the High Baroque to a simpler yet tuneful form around 1750. The period following the Baroque is
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composers. They are in order from 1st to 5th. As the first-most famous composer‚ Johann Sebastian Bach was consistently first place in online surveys. Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer who lived from 1685-1750‚ part of the Baroque Period. Bach wrote hundreds of pieces for organ‚ choir‚ as well as many other instruments. He spent most of his life as a church organist and a choir director. Even Bach‚ one of the famous ’3 B’s’ was inspired by other musicians. His music combines profound expression
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Johann Sebastian Bach Biography: Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21‚ 1685‚ in Eisenach‚ Thuringia‚ Germany‚ into a large and distinguished family of professional musicians. His father‚ named Johann Ambrosius Bach‚ was a violinist and trumpeter‚ employed by the city of Eisenach. His uncles were church organists‚ court musicians and composers. His mother and father died before Bach was 10. As an orphan‚ he moved in with
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similar to that of the Greeks‚ it helped create a new style that would last through the ages to what we know today as Opera. The Baroque period was marked today as the achievements of the two most known composers Johann Sebastian Bach and George Friederick Handel‚ but they were not the only composers of the Baroque period. Antonio Vivaldi was a composer during this period‚ manly known for his concertos “Four Seasons”‚ “Opus 3”‚ and his many student exercises. Antonio did not get his start as a
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late 16th century and focused on the subject of religious texts. Oratorios‚ unlike operas‚ perform without costumes‚ scenery or action and are often divided into two distinctive parts. Popular composers of the oratorio are J.S. Bach‚ Antonio Vivaldi‚ and George Frederic Handel. The cantata‚ in early history confused with oratorio‚ consists of recitatives and set pieces which include arias‚ duets and choruses often in religious
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(Shakespeare)‚ Zappa 7‚ Duple: (ex. Handel Water Music CML #73) Triple: (ex. Mozart Minuet #74) Monophony - single voice (not necessarily one voice). . . unaccompanied melody PLAY CML – Kyrie (chant) Song Texture (Homophony) - single voice with accompaniment most familiar texture PLAY CML (Mozart Sym. #40) - medium PLAY CML (Ravel Pavane) – complex Chordal Harmony – all parts move together (familiar choir texture) PLAY CML Arise Ye Russian People PLAY CML Bach: Chorale Polyphony - two or more
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The cantata addresses a religious topic‚ but it is not narrative. Rather it is a collection of commentary set to music‚ and the cantata is used in worship. In the religious music orb‚ the work methods of the two most important composers‚ G.F. Handel and J.S. Bach differed extensively. As early as the middle of the seventheenth century‚ the aria had supplanted the recitative as the most important musical component of the opera. This hierarchy remained intact throughout the Baroque period. The earlier
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