... , ricercare, canzona, and sonata. The genres provided more challenging approaches to playing than was offered in sacred or secular music. The Baroque Period (meaning abnormal or bizarre) spanned from the year 1600 to around 1750. The genres and styles developed in this period are very broad but general share characteristics like a sense of ornateness, movement of affections, polyphony of multiple voices, prominent bass ... a useful tool for the Catholic church to spread its faith. Giacomo Carissimi is a composer most famous for his use of oratorios Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was a fa...

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... in 1346 by a Franciscan Friar, the Ospedale della Pietà was lead by wealthy governors and forty board members with the goal of properly raising abandoned children in Venice during the Baroque period (Edwards, 2010; Selfridge-Field, 1986). Evidence indicates that as a religious institution, choral singing was made mandatory for all Pietà orphans (Arnold, 1965; Kolneder, 1970), ... suggesting that music already existed in the Ospedale before transforming into a music school in the Baroque period. Arnold (2009), Berdes (1993) and Selfridge-Field (1975) all maintain that since the earl...

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... the world ended up paving the way for the American and French revolutions towards the end of the eighteenth century. The architecture and visual images of the classical period differed greatly from the Baroque period and offered a more lightly coloured, graceful look with smoothly curving lines in the paintings and buildings. This new style was much more intimate and was given ... the beginning of many social and cultural revolutions. Unlike Renaissance music that took almost 150 years to change into Baroque music, Baroque music underwent a transition that quickly converted it to Classica...

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... Words such as elegant, controlled, logical, rational, intellectual and symmetrical were used to describe this era. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was influential for this period. Though he was only 35 years old when he died he was very productive considering the time of his life span. The fact that ... 's music is due to his intellect. He was able to understand and use every resource of musical language that was available in the baroque era. He could combine the patterns of French dances, the gracefulness of Italian melody and the intricacy of German counterpoint all in one ... it to be succin...

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... such as jazz and world music. The close explanation of classical era is generally defined by when the modern sonata form became from the rounded two-part form of the Baroque period. In this era, there was a development of the trio sonata emerging into the string quartet; concerto grosso into symphony concertante; and the occurrence of symphony and a new solo concerto ... of a given activity, section or even a measure of a piece. Neo-Classical metal music is another contemporary music genre that adapted the style of the past music form especially from the Baroque period. It is a style th...

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... been omitted in order to remain succinct): Medieval (500-1450 C.E.), Renaissance (1450-1600), Baroque (1600-1750, approx.), Classical (1750-1830), Romantic (1830-1910), and 20th Century, or Modern, (1900-2000). This essay will be discussing the Baroque period through the 20th Century period. Each of these different musical periods has its own distinctive style and sound that was shaped and ... innovations; individuals who defied convention and experimented with the pre-established harmonic structures of their predecessors. The first important period in music history is the Baroque Period...

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... . In the basso continuo soprano and alto voices in the music would be constructed on a platform of bass chords that gave meaning and structure to the music. During the Baroque period new forms of presenting music were invented. The cantata and oratorio were created as new forms of vocal pieces. Both of these forms had repeating phrases that structured the pieces ... played against an orchestra that differed on many musical, rhythmical and dynamic levels. The concerto was one of the most important forms of music that came out of the Baroque period. During the Baroque period there were man...

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... of music and in the following paragraphs I will be comparing all of them. The six periods of music are the Medieval, the Renaissance, the Baroque, the Classical, the Romantic, and the Twentieth Century. Music of the Medieval Period consisted of chant written for the church by monks and traveling musicians who remained anonymous. Chant is monophonic, speech like, and modal. During this ... , but there were some instrumental parts. Servants to the church or royalty composed most of the music of this period. In the Baroque period music became entertainment for a greater portion of society a...

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Following the Baroque Era of music came the Classical period. What lasted seventy-five year, from 1750 to 1825, was a very simple and expressive type of music, which placed a greater stress on ... clarity with regard to melodic 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 ... . While the instrumental works of the Classical Era were grandiose, the vocal works of the time did not make much of an evolution from those of the Baroque era, orches...

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... which he developed a distinctive individual style sometimes referred to as his "heroic "period," and a late period in which his work became even more individuated and often referred to as unorthodox, sometimes characterized as "transcendent " and "sublime. His work seemed to "combine the baroque ideas of Handel and Bach with his icons Mozart and Haydn. (Lane). The impact of increasing deafness on Beethoven ... 's music is striking. "If you combine the timeline of his hearing loss with the timeline of his compositions, it's really striking to me. I don't see how you can ignore that there'...

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... throughout the nineteenth century, Europe was considerably different than in the past. The dreams of freedom and equality were coming closer to reality. This vigor inspired everyone; the Romantic period was that time of artists, scientists, and great thinkers. In contrast to Classicism conservatism in expression with stress on refinement, balance, control, proportion, and symmetry, Romanticism emphasized ... the fantastic, and the boundless extremes. Driven by the disproportionate ideas, Romantic composers made the tiny piano piece and the lyrical song, which held no importance in the C...

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... throughout the nineteenth century, Europe was considerably different than in the past. The dreams of freedom and equality were coming closer to reality. This vigor inspired everyone; the Romantic period was that time of artists, scientists, and great thinkers. In contrast to Classicism conservatism in expression with stress on refinement, balance, control, proportion, and symmetry, Romanticism emphasized ... the fantastic, and the boundless extremes. Driven by the disproportionate ideas, Romantic composers made the tiny piano piece and the lyrical song, which held no importance in the C...

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... composers, however, such as Franz Joseph Haydn and Franz Peter Schubert also contributed to the classical era. Musicians of the classical era were influenced by those of the baroque era. The classical period in music tends to be associated with the movement called the Age of Reason or the Enlightenment, which began earlier in the eighteenth century. Following the scientific and ... into being, and commercial practices increasingly determined a composer's reputation and by the end of the century, the public's view of the composer had changed substantially. It was during the classical perio...

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