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…
Beginning early in the 17th century there emerged a chamber music idiom that both exemplified some of the defining stylistic traits of the Baroque era and proved to be popular over the entire span of the era-the trio sonata. This multi-movement type of instrumental work involved two active and often contrapuntal treble lines played, most typically, by a pair of violins…
The Baroque Period spans from 1600 to 1750. During this time there were increases in commercial activity, leading to an increase of power in the middle class, which ultimately lead to the Industrial Revolution. Opera was now emerging for the first time, with many opera houses being built. The two giants of the Baroque era were Bach and Handel. Bach s death in 1750…
A magnificent baroque-era composer, Johann Sebastian Bach is revered through the ages for his work s musical complexities and stylistic innovations. Synopsis Born on March 31, 1685 (N.S.), in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany, Johann Sebastian Bach had a prestigious musical lineage and took on various organist positions during the early 18th century, creating famous compositions…
Webster has defined Baroque Music as a style characterized by strict form and elaborate ornamentation. While this may be true, there is a deeper element in Baroque Music that has fostered its resurgence among music lovers the world over. One only has to listen to, for example, the Brandenburg Concerti of J. S. Bach or the wistful excitement in Vivaldi s Spring…
Italy Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643): A student of Marc’Antonio Ingegneri in Cremona, Claudio Monteverdi quickly established himself as one of the most significant composers of his time. In 1592 he was appointed suonatore di vivuola (viol and/or violin player) to Duke Vincenzo I of Mantua; his third book of madrigals, published in 1592, shows the strong influence…
[Princess Anne of Hanover] Who were the composers in this musically difficult period? [Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck] Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562 – 1621). This Amsterdam organist and composer straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque. He was one of the first major keyboard composers of Europe, and his work as a teacher helped establish the…
Music and Society is a series of eight books, designed to present music in a broad context of socio-political, economic, intellectual and religions life. In place of the technical and stylistic discussions that make up most histories of music, the reader will find music considered rather as a series of responses to social forces; the idea is not to explain simply…
Although our church did not have an organ until 1850, we did incorporate music into the services way back when. Stearn’s valuable History of Rindge explains that, in the early years, attention was paid to the encouragement of church music. In those years, a few members of the congregation had learned how to read music and the church was open to innovations in using…
The award-winning Oregon Sinfonietta, now in its 45th season and conducted by Dr. Donald L. Appert, is a full symphony orchestra of about sixty musicians that draws together community musicians from the greater Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington metropolitan area. The orchestra performs four free concerts per season at the Sunnyside Seventh-day Adventist Church…
What is “baroque, ” and when was the Baroque period? Derived from the Portuguese barroco, or “oddly shaped pearl, ” the term “baroque” has been widely used since the nineteenth century to describe the period in Western European art music from about 1600 to 1750. Comparing some of music history’s greatest masterpieces to a misshapen pearl might seem strange to us today…
