CONTENTS of Music History 102: As is usual with information on the history of Western music, this site has been organized according to the eras of history: After the collapse of the Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, Western Europe entered a time known as The Dark Ages — a period when invading hordes of Vandals, Huns, and Visigoths overran Europe. These years were…
Musical composition , the act of conceiving a piece of , the art of creating music, or the finished product. These meanings are interdependent and presume a tradition in which works exist as repeatable entities. In this sense, composition is necessarily distinct from . Societal perspectives Whether referring to the process or to the completed work, composition implies…
The 10th annual Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey s Summer Music Festival will be filled with the great music of four centuries and will feature an array of familiar composers and compositions as well as rarely heard masterpieces and brand new musical treasures. The festival opens at 3 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 2, at Dolan Performance Hall, The Annunciation Center, The College…
Founded in San Francisco in 1986, American Baroque brings together some of America s most accomplished and exciting baroque instrumentalists, with the purpose of defining a new, modern genre for historical instruments. The group s adventurous programs combine 18th-century music with new works, composed for the group through collaborations and commissions from American…
Over the last thirty years or so there has been an enormous rise in the popularity of Baroque music—that is, broadly speaking, the repertoire composed between 1600 and 1750. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons has become a ‘chartbuster’, the Pachelbel Canon and ‘Albinoni’s Adagio’ have individual name slots on the CD shelves (where did you discover this disc?), Bach’s ‘Air on…
Arts and Humanities Through the Eras COPYRIGHT 2005 The Gale Group, Inc. Idiomatic Composition. Baroque composers often wrote music for particular instruments, taking into account their special sounds and qualities—that is, their tonal and harmonic possibilities, their distinctive voice, and range of pitches—to produce works that often have been described as idiomatic…
The Donne Barocche, or Baroque Women, featured here are not singers or operatic characters, but composers, and the album, originally released on the Opus label in 2001 and rescued for reissue by Naïve broke new ground when it first appeared. All of the music comes from the last third of the 17th century and the first decade of the 18th. The names of composer/singer…
I don’t think there is a simple A, B or C is best answer to this. My personal preferences are in the order you listed (Baroque, Classical, Romantic) but a lot depends on the situation, who I might be listening with, their preferences, how we’re all feeling and so on. If a live performance, the calibre of the players or ensemble is really important, and I’d probably…
Aroque music describes a style of European classical music extending from the year 1600 to approximately 1750. It forms a major portion of the classical music canon being widely studied, performed and listened to by enthusiasts today. Among its composers are Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, George Frederic Handel, Henry Purcell, A. Corelli, and others. These…
Before the start of the classical period, baroque music was written in many forms by many composers over the course of 150 years. (Meet the top 10 baroque period composers.) Known for its inconsistency, baroque music encompasses the use of basso continuo, degrees of ornamentation, self-expression, open forms, and the formation of counterpoint. Think of the baroque…
Baroque was first used to describe the style of European 17th and 18th century churches and public buildings and hence means ornate, bizarre, exuberant, extravagant. Baroque styles are many: early, middle and late Baroque, Italian, French, English and German Baroque. Plus also the individual style of the composers. Baroque period or baroque era 1600 - 1750 i.e…
As a member of the Conservatory Orchestra, you’ll experience firsthand the advantages of playing in a large ensemble. You’ll also get a complete overview of orchestral repertoire, and that begins with examining both masterworks and lesser-known pieces of every era. The symphony orchestra has a large repertoire, and each stylistic period deserves attention. Do you…
MUSC 0550-0560 are prerequisite for a number of upper-level music courses. 0550 is offered every fall; 0560 is offered every spring. MUSC 0550: Theory of Tonal Music I MUSC 0560: Theory of Tonal Music II Computer Music Foundation (3) MUSC 0200: Computers and Music MUSC 1200: Seminar in Electronic Music – The Recording Studio as Compositional Tool MUSC 1210: Seminar…
Dramatic events in music around 1600 in Italy profoundly affected the music of Europe during the . Several groups of literati and musicians formed societies to revive the artistic principles of . They experimented with a type of drama that would use music as an adjunct to poetry. The musical result was the negation of , the reduction of melody to a position subservient…
