music

Johan Sebastian Bach

1658-1750 one of three great composers, came up with idea of counterpoint- two melodies going at once, orphaned at 10, married cousin and had 3 kids, second wife had 13 kids, not famous until way after he died, wrote over 800 pieces

G.F. Handel

1685-1759

G. F. Handel best composition

1741 hajualla

suite

A Baroque Suite is a collection of baroque dances often preceded by a prelude. They same key is used on all pieces but they are organized with contrasting tempo and time signatures. Other names for the suite are partita and sonata.

Doctrine of Affections

Baroque doctrine of the union of text and music

The Coronation of Poppea composer

Claudio Monteverdi

basso continuo

Figured bass, or thoroughbass, is a kind of musical notation in which numerals and symbols indicate intervals, chords, and non-chord tones that a musician playing piano, harpsichord, organ, lute play in relation to the bass note that these numbers and symbols appear above or below

G.F. Handel best vocal genre

Handel contributed works for organ and harpsichord to this genre. Suite. An orchestral genre that Handel composed works such as Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks for.

fuge

In music, a fugue is a contrapuntal compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject that is introduced at the beginning in imitation and which recurs frequently in the course of the composition.

G.F. Handel complants from baro

People wanted more drama from him

Johan Sebastian Bach church

St. Thomas Church

comon practice peroid

The Common Practice Period and the Evolution of Tonal Harmony. The Common Practice Period was a period of classical music in Western Europe, which spanned 3 centuries from approximately 1600 to 1910. ... The Baroque Period. ... The Classical Period. ... The Romantic Period.

florintine camarta

The Florentine Camerata, also known as the Camerata de' Bardi, were a group of humanists, musicians, poets and intellectuals in late Renaissance Florence who gathered under the patronage of Count Giovanni de' Bardi to discuss and guide trends in the arts, especially music and drama.

Dates

The major time divisions of classical music up to 1900 are the Early music period, which includes Medieval (500-1400) and Renaissance (1400-1600) eras, and the Common practice period, which includes the Baroque (1600-1750), Classical (1750-1820) and Romantic (1810-1910) eras.}

components of oprah

The opera is made up of five different components; Overature, Recitative, Aria, Chorus, and Ballet. Each different component has an important role in the piece as a whole. The overature is the main instrumental introduction to the opera.

Bach's Contrapunctus I, from The Art of Fugue

This work consists of 14 fugues and 4 canons in D minor, each using some variation of a single principal subject, and generally ordered to increase in complexity. "The governing idea of the work", as put by Bach specialist Christoph Wolff, "was an exploration in depth of the contrapuntal possibilities inherent in a single musical subject."[1] The word "contrapunctus" is often used for each fugue.

ground bass

a repeating melody, usually in the bass, throughout a vocal or instrumental composition

G.F Handel complant adressing

he made a drama about the messiah

bach music philosophy

he thought it was more logical than previos people

G.F. Handel job in 1720

he worked in a financal company

figured bass

in musical notation, a numerical shorthand that tells the player which unwritten notes to fill in above the written bass note

The Coronation of Poppea

nero, claudia

the new textures

polyphony

baroque era tuning

the new way of tuning

virtuoso

they were made because of the new instraments and the normalization of them