... ideal for the propagation of the faith. At the end of the Thirty Years War, when much of Austria, Germany, and Bohemia lay in ruins, the Baroque style became accepted for the rebuilding of religious, civil, and domestic structures. At first the architects came from Italy, but soon native architects came to dominate the field. The best known ... and Handel becoming popular in both Germany and England, while Couperin was a French Baroque composer. A common element of baroque music is counterpoint, the writing of separate melodies played against each other by different groups of instrumen...

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... type of structure was known to successfully establish a strong emotional influence on the audience. It illustrated strong contrasts in mood, volume, speed and expression, which was the ideal style in the Baroque age. In the Enlightenment era, music was transitioned into the rococo style in which entertainment and charm from the audience was the key objective. Francios Couperin illustrated the pre-classical ... the years 1668-1733. He composed French keyboard music with long dance suites similar to the Baroque age opera, however with a more fast pace and up beat edge. Following pre-classi...

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... expression and instrumental colour. There was a substantial change in the music that was being produced. During the Classical Era many younger musicians were developing and they found the old Baroque style of music to be too rigid and set in its own ways, they wanted something more spontaneous and dramatic, they no longer wanted to take one single emotion and express ... and an accompaniment that was clearly distinct. As well, new genres were discovered that completed the transformation from the Baroque era to the Classical in which one of the most important and developed was the sonata....

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... ; they played more quietly, and at a lower pitch. Sometimes despite the skilful counterpoint and glorious elements in their work, you can sense that Baroque composers were not yet entirely comfortable with the orchestra. Musical ideas can be passed round the orchestra in a rather disorganized way, e.g. If an ... violin, then why not? There was not a real understanding of how to write sympathetic and playable music. It's still true, however, that the baroque period was the turning point for the orchestra. The harpsichord was important because not all orchestras were conducted by a conduct...

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... of the major-minor system or tonality. One of the important instruments of this time, an ancestor of the piano, was the harpsichord. The Baroque period what characteristic of terraced dynamics, so the harpsichord had two keyboards to accommodate. Because the stings were plucked with quills and not struck ... the height of artistic achievement based on the standards of the Greeks and Romans. Piano music of this time has changed a lot from the previous Baroque style. The instrument itself was also coming into acceptance. Classicism was art as a mean of communication because it emphasized c...

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... The modernist movement can be seen to lie in the emergence during 1900 - 1914. The late 19th century saw Neo Gothic and Neo Baroque begin to lose their definition degenerating into an elaboration, which demonstrated little capacity for achieving architectural expression. At the turn of the century ... of the pre war futurists movement. Its revolutionary concern for the restructuring of society and its worship of the machine. They preferred the classical style. The modern movement in the America was high rise office development and was seen as loose broad, inclusive less intense then moder...

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... Linden became a major thoroughfare, St Hedwig's Cathedral, the FranzÖsischer Dom (French Cathedral), the Opera House, and the Fridericianum Forum were built, and the Tiergarten was re-designed in a Baroque style. These buildings still dominate Berlin's inner city. The king's appreciation of the humanities paved the way for a new era of classical architecture. As there was a large French influence in the ... city, which can still be seen today, several buildings around the city built in the French style of that time still remain.As Berlin was made the capital, and was influential at thi...

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