Baroque

Music
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Guese, Japheth G.
Mandar, Marion Justine P.
Pineda, John Isaac
Waje, Laurence L.
Yray, Lani S.
Dayaday, Joshua Vincent
Doria, Sandra B.

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 Baroque
The Baroque period (1600-1750) refers to an era which includes
composers like Bach, Vivaldi and Handel, who pioneered new
styles like concerto and the sonata. The Baroque period saw an
explosion of new musical styles with the introduction of the
concerto, the sonata and the opera.

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Baroque
The loosening of the Church’s political control of
Europe meant that non-religious music could now
flourish, in particular instrumental music. The
idea that instruments should be grouped together
in a standard way created the first version of the
modern orchestra.

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Baroque
An important type of instrumental
music in the Baroque era was the
concerto. Two of the greatest
composers of concertos were Corelli
and Vivaldi. Opera encouraged
composers to devise ways of
illustrating moods in their music;
affecting the listener’s emotions
became a major objective in
composition during this period. “Archangelo Corelli”

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 Baroque
Opera spread to France and
England, composers such as
Rameue, Handell and Purcell
began producing great works.
Bach is regarded as one of the
greatest geniuses in the history
of music. He demonstrated a
standard approach to harmony
that dominated music until the
late 19th century.
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Notable Musicians of
the Baroque Era

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 Antonio Vivaldi

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 Antonio Vivaldi
•Antonio Vivaldi, in full Antonio Lucio
Vivaldi
•Born March 4, 1678, Venice, Italy
•Died July 28, 1741, Vienna, Austria
•Notable for concerto and the style of late
Baroque instrumental music.
“Giovanni Battista •Vivaldi’s main teacher was probably his
Vivaldi” father, Giovanni Battista Vivaldi
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 Antonio Vivaldi
• 1685 was admitted as a violinist
to the orchestra of the San Marco
Basilica in Venice.
• 1696 he made his first known
public appearance playing
alongside his father in the basilica
as a “supernumerary” violinist
• 1703 was appointed violin master
at the Ospedale della Pietà
“Ospedale della Pietà”

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 Antonio Vivaldi

• 1703–09; 1711–15 Vivaldi as violin master in Pieta

• 1716–17; 1735–38 Vivaldi as director of instrumental music in Pieta
• 1723–29; 1739–40 Vivaldi as paid external provider of
compositions in Pieta
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 Antonio Vivaldi
• Trained for the priesthood and
was ordained in 1703
• Soon after his ordination as a
priest, Vivaldi gave up celebrating
mass because of a chronic
ailment that is believed to have
been bronchial asthma.
• His distinctive reddish hair would
later earn him the soubriquet Il
Prete Rosso (“The Red Priest”)
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Johann Sebastian
Bach

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 Johann Sebastian Bach
• Born 1685, Eisenach
• Died July 28, 1750, Leipzig)
• He was a member of a remarkable family of musicians
• Was admired by his contemporaries primarily as an
outstanding harpsichordist, organist, and expert on organ
building

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 Johann Sebastian Bach
• Celebrated as the creator of the
Brandenburg Concertos, The
Well-Tempered Clavier, the
Mass in B Minor, and numerous
other masterpieces of church
and instrumental music
• 1735 he drafted a genealogy,
Ursprung der musicalisch-
Bachischen Familie (“Origin of
the Musical Bach Family”)
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 Johan Pachelbel

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 Johan Pachelbel
• Died March 3, 1706
• Pachelbel studied music at Altdorf and
Regensburg and held posts as organist in Vienna,
Stuttgart, and other cities
• 1695 he was appointed organist at the St.
Sebalduskirche in Nürnberg, where he remained
until his death
• He also taught organ, and one of his pupils was
Johann Christoph Bach, who in turn gave his
younger brother Johann Sebastian Bach his first
formal keyboard lessons.
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 Johan Pachelbel
• His organ compositions show a knowledge
of Italian forms derived from Girolamo
Frescobaldi through Johann Jakob
Froberger
• His popular Pachelbel’s Canon was written
for three violins and continuo and was
followed by a gigue in the same key
• His son, Wilhelm Hieronymous Pachelbel,
“Wilhelm Hieronymus was also an organist and composer.
Pachelbel”
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 George Frideric
Handel

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George Frideric Handel
• German (until 1715) Georg Friedrich
Händel, Händel also spelled Haendel
• Born Febuary 23, 1685, Halle,
Brandenburg [Germany]
• Died April 14, 1759, London, England
• a pupil in Halle of the composer
Friedrich W. Zachow, learning the
principles of keyboard performance
and composition from him.
“Friedrich Wilhelm
Zachow”
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George Frideric Handel
• German-born English composer of
the late Baroque era, noted
particularly for his operas,
oratorios, and instrumental
compositions.
• He wrote the most famous of all
oratorios, Messiah (1741)
• and is also known for such
occasional pieces as Water Music “Music for the Royal
(1717) and Music for the Royal Fireworks”
Fireworks (1749)
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