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Baroque 1600-1750

Baroque 1600-1750. Instrumental Music. 6 Features of Baroque Music. 1.  terraced dynamics – dynamics change suddenly 2.  unity of mood – a movement will stay in one mood only 3.  continuous melody – the melody continues to unfold and keep going.  Hard to find a cadence (resting place)

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Baroque 1600-1750

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  1. Baroque 1600-1750 Instrumental Music

  2. 6 Features of Baroque Music • 1.  terraced dynamics – dynamics change suddenly • 2.  unity of mood – a movement will stay in one mood only • 3.  continuous melody – the melody continues to unfold and keep going.  Hard to find a cadence (resting place) • 4.  continuous and driving rhythm – a rhythm pattern is usually repeated throughout, and builds momentum

  3. 6 Features of Baroque Music • 5.  chords and the basso continuo – strong bass line played by two players (harpsichord/organ and cello).  Chord progression, a set of tones that all belong to the same key • 6.  polyphonic texture – more than one melody is usually going on at the same time

  4. Instrumental Music • Sona - having to do with “sound” i.e., not vocal music

  5. Movement – a part of a work, sounds complete in itself with a beginning middle and end.  Think of it like a chapter in a book

  6. Vivaldi Spring • Solo Concerto - multi-movement work for orchestra and a soloist – features cadenza • Usually 3 movements Fast Slow Fast • Cadenza - the part in a concerto where the orchestra stops playing and the soloist is featured.

  7. Vivaldi Spring (cont.) • Program music – music that has an extra-musical idea to go along with it.  It might be a story, an idea, a picture, or a text.

  8. Toccata and Fugue • Prelude – a short musical work which “sets up” a larger work (Toccata in book) • Fugue – 1.  a method of composition using polyphonic texture and based on a single melody called a subject.  2.  a work that is written using the fugue method (think of it in the same way that rap has two meanings – to rhyme, and a type of song that features the rap method)

  9. Suite – a group of dances, usually all are in binary form (AABB)

  10. Passacaglia – a work that is built on an unchanging bass line that is repeated throughout • Canon – a rule, or a work that is built on a rule.

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