Compare and Contrast the Baroque Music and Jazz
The Baroque period spanned from 1600 to 1750. The baroque period can be divided into three parts: early (1600-1640), middle (1640-1680), and late (1680-1750). Although today most people recognize the latest part as the baroque music, the earliest part was one of the most revolutionary phases in music history. The early baroque composers rejected the polyphony texture of the late Renaissance music and favored homophonic texture. They also focused on harmony rather than the complexity of melodic lines. The growth of figured bass and counterpoint represents the development of harmony. However, by the late baroque period, polyphonic texture returned to favor.
Famous Baroque composers: - Johann Sebastian Bach Popular work: Air on a G String - George Frideric Handel Popular work: The Messiah - Antonio Vivaldi Popular work: The Four Seasons
It is difficult to define Jazz music, as there are many different styles and movements. A brief definition of Jazz would be: American music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and characterized by propulsive syncopated rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality. 1 But this does not tell everything about Jazz. Jazz developed from Ragtime around 1900 and about 20 different styles were born since then. 2 Examples are swing, bebop, bossa nova, free jazz and soul jazz.
Famous Jazz musicians: - Luis Armstrong - Chuck Mangine - Charles Mingus - Jogn Coltrane - Mary Lou Williams - Miles Davis - Nat King Cole
The main characteristic of this piece is unity of melody. This piece begins with joyful melody, which contains arpeggio and arch shape melody.
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Its mood of joyfulness remains throughout the piece. Base chords are mostly based on chords I, IV and V. At bar 9, a melody changes a little but the mood doesn’t change. The rhythmic patterns of the beginning of
Famous Baroque composers: - Johann Sebastian Bach Popular work: Air on a G String - George Frideric Handel Popular work: The Messiah - Antonio Vivaldi Popular work: The Four Seasons
It is difficult to define Jazz music, as there are many different styles and movements. A brief definition of Jazz would be: American music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and characterized by propulsive syncopated rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality. 1 But this does not tell everything about Jazz. Jazz developed from Ragtime around 1900 and about 20 different styles were born since then. 2 Examples are swing, bebop, bossa nova, free jazz and soul jazz.
Famous Jazz musicians: - Luis Armstrong - Chuck Mangine - Charles Mingus - Jogn Coltrane - Mary Lou Williams - Miles Davis - Nat King Cole
The main characteristic of this piece is unity of melody. This piece begins with joyful melody, which contains arpeggio and arch shape melody.
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Its mood of joyfulness remains throughout the piece. Base chords are mostly based on chords I, IV and V. At bar 9, a melody changes a little but the mood doesn’t change. The rhythmic patterns of the beginning of