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The Baroque Period

The Baroque Period. 1600-1750. Baroque means ornamented or highly decorated. The Martyrdom of St. Teresa. Difference Between Renaissance and Baroque. Caravaggio’s David. The Reformation and Counter-Reformation.

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The Baroque Period

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  1. The Baroque Period • 1600-1750

  2. Baroque means ornamented or highly decorated.

  3. The Martyrdom of St. Teresa

  4. Difference Between Renaissance and Baroque Caravaggio’s David

  5. The Reformation and Counter-Reformation The entire 17th Century was a great big publicity war put on between the Catholic and protestant churches, each side vying to attract more customers--sort of like Coke and Pepsi do today--by spending tons of money on rock stars and pop-concerts—I mean on musicians and church-concerts. Each side was trying to convince the consumers that they were the best and only church from which to gain salvation.

  6. Baroque Advertising Strategies • In addition, both churches needed to emotionally connect with the people. • Therefore, an appeal to emotions through ornate magnificence seemed to be the best option. • They didn’t want to warn customers, like the medieval philosophy. They wanted to appeal to customers. • Hence, we come to the word “Baroque.”

  7. Plymouth Colony 1607

  8. Baroque Music • Like painters of Baroque, musicians of the Baroque style welcomed the strange, luscious, ornate, and emotionally appealing.

  9. Before Baroque Music was composed in a general sense, to be played by any instrument, or sung by anyone. Instruments were designed for only one key. They had to be retuned for a musical piece in a different key. During and After Baroque Music was composed for specific instruments, and for specific types of voices (alto vs. soprano). Musical instruments were redesigned to play in multiple keys, to accommodate the need for musical exploration. How Music Was Changed

  10. WORD PAINTING WAS A BIG PART OF THE BAROQUE ERA

  11. WORD PAINTING IS WHEN COMPOSERS CREATE A VISUAL PICTURE THROUGH SOUND

  12. MUSICIANS OF THE TIME WORKED IN:A NOBLE COURTRICH PERSONS HOUSECHRISTIAN CHURCH

  13. VIVALDI WAS ONE OF THE MOST PROLIFIC WRITERS OF THIS TIME PERIOD COMPOSING OVER 500 PIECES

  14. Antonio Vivaldi • Antonio Vivaldi was born on March 4, 1678 in Venice, Italy. • Vivaldi was a violinist and composer who also became a priest in 1703. He was known as the "Red Priest" because of his red hair. • He wrote hundreds of concertos, chamber works and operas in the Baroque style.

  15. HE WROTE MANY CONCERTOS WHICH IS A PIECE FOR ORCHESTRA AND A SOLO INSTRUMENT

  16. CONCERTOS HAVE A FORM THAT CONSISTS OF THREE MOVEMENTS:FAST-SLOW-FAST

  17. HANDEL WAS ANOTHER COMPOSER DURING THIS TIME. HE WROTE SEVERAL OPERAS AND ORATORIOS.

  18. George Fridric Handel Born: 1685 Died: 1759 Wrote: Water Music Royal Fireworks Music The Messiah

  19. ORATORIOS ARE PIECES FOR SOLO SINGERS, CHORUS, AND ORCHESTRA, USUALLY WITH WORDS TAKEN FROM THE BIBLE.

  20. Musical Instruments orchestra (string section) harpsichord organ piano

  21. Orchestra Mainly strings A few brass instruments trumpet trombone A few woodwind instruments flute

  22. Harpsichord frequently heavily decorated one dynamic level

  23. The strings on a harpsichord are plucked, not hit.

  24. Organ a bellows blows air through pipes of various sizes

  25. keyboard colors are reversed often two keyboards

  26. JOHANN SEBASTION BACH, ONE OF THE GREATEST COMPOSERS OF ALL TIME, LIVED DURING THIS TIME.

  27. Born: 1685 Died: 1750 Wrote: cantatas concertos Johann SebastianBach

  28. BACH WAS A CHURCH ORGANIST. ONE OF HIS MOST FAMOUS PIECES IS THE TOCCATA AND FUGUE IN D MINOR.

  29. fugue  Polyphonic form popular in the Baroque era in which one or more themes are developed by imitative counterpoint.

  30. WHEN BACH DIED IN 1750 SO DID THE BAROQUE PERIOD

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