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Baroque music (UK: / b ə ˈ r ɒ k / or US: / b ə ˈ r oʊ k /) refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. [1] The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period , and was followed in turn by the Classical period after a short transition (the galant style ).
In the years centering on 1600 in Europe, several distinct shifts emerged in ways of thinking about the purposes, writing and performance of music.Partly these changes were revolutionary, deliberately instigated by a group of intellectuals in Florence known as the Florentine Camerata, and partly they were evolutionary, in that precursors of the new Baroque style can be found far back in the ...
The Venetian polychoral style was a type of music of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras which involved spatially separate choirs singing in alternation. It represented a major stylistic shift from the prevailing polyphonic writing of the middle Renaissance, and was one of the major stylistic developments which led directly to the ...
His repertoire includes Bach, [2] Vivaldi [3] [4] and other Baroque music composers. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He was a nominee in the category New Talents at the Victoires de la Musique in 2020, [ 7 ] being the first baroque violinist ever nominated for that award.
He believes that playing this style should be like singing and playing at the same time, more improvised rather than just playing the notes on the score. As Frescobaldi mentioned in his book " Toccate e partite d’intavolatura di cimbalo " (Toccatas and Partits Scored for Harpsichord, Book 1, 1616), players should not play strictly according ...
The importance of music was vital and created a pathway for Caravaggio to navigate Baroque music with the help of del Monte. [13] Music proved to be important to both artist and patron when it came to artistic rendering due to the movement ability to showcase the patrons wealth and interests when he hosted visitors in his home. [13]
Concertato is a term in early Baroque music referring to either a genre or a style of music in which groups of instruments or voices share a melody, usually in alternation, and almost always over a basso continuo. The term derives from Italian concerto which means "playing together"—hence concertato means "in the style of a concerto."
Johann Joachim Quantz (German:; 30 January 1697 – 12 July 1773) was a German composer, flutist and flute maker of the late Baroque period.Much of his professional career was spent in the court of Frederick the Great, where he served as the king's flute teacher.