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Title: Baroque Spirit


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Baroque Spirit
  • Dramatic contradictions
  • Absolute Monarchy
  • Conquest of the new world
  • Middle Class - Acquired wealth and power --
    Created culture of their own
  • Age of Reason - Newton/gravity
  • Intensely devout period - Protestant and Catholic
  • Musicians - under patronage or employed by church

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Baroque Music- Main Currents
  • In 1600, the beginning of the Baroque period what
    was the HOT new musical style? Describe
  • Who were the Camerata
  • What is the difference between MONODY and
    MONOPHONY?

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Baroque Music- Vocabulary
  • Stile Rappresentative
  • Monody - heightens emotion, power of text
  • Expressive style------gtgt opera
  • Basso Continuo - figured Bass - 2 instruments
  • Major/Minor - Tonic/Dominant
  • Equal Temperment - WTC
  • Baroque Rhythm - vigorous with regular accent

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Baroque Music - Vocabulary, continued
  • Terraced Dynamics
  • Virtuosity
  • Instrumental
  • Castrato
  • Improvisation (Baroque)
  • Doctrine of Affections
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