1.) Purcell‚ Dido and Aeneas‚ Act III‚ Dido’s Lament (10 September 1659 - 21 November 1695) Purcell was an English Baroque composer. He has often been called England’s finest native composer. Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements but devised a peculiarly English style of Baroque music. His brief career began at the court of Charles II and on through the turbulent times of James II and finally into the period of William and Mary. Purcell’s music ranks among the finest
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Era‚ Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21‚ 1685 in Eisenach. Bach‚ the youngest child of Johann Ambrosius Bach‚ and Maria Elisabeth Lämmerhirt came from a family of organists and composers including his father Johann Ambrosius Bach‚ who was organist of the Lutheran Church in Eisenach‚ and his older brother Christopher whom took over the care of Sebastian at the age of ten when their parents passed away. Although taught a little from his father and brother Christopher‚ Bach learned most of his
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Defining the Humanities Paper University of Phoenix Introduction to Humanities - The Ancient World to Medieval Times HUM/100 Isabelle Rucks November 15‚ 2010 Defining the Humanities Paper Introduction The purpose of this paper is to define the humanities and explain how the humanities differ from other forms of human expression and inquiry. The author of the paper will describe a cultural event that she has experienced or encountered and explain how this cultural event expressed
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Johanna Sebastian Bach was a composer of the Baroque era‚ the most celebrated member of a large family of northern German musicians. Although he was admired by his contemporaries primarily as an outstanding harpsichordist‚ organist‚ and expert on organ building. Bach is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time and is 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
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and art of the 17th and 18th centuries that followed mannerism and is characterized by ornate detail. In architecture the period is exemplified by the palace of Versailles and by the work of Bernini in Italy. Major composers include Vivaldi‚ Bach‚ and Handel; Caravaggio and Rubens are important baroque artists.” (Bing Dictionary)
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Antonio Vivaldi was famous and influential as a virtuoso h. Violinist 9.) Improvisation is i. Music created at the same time as it’s performed 10.) The two giants of Baroque composition were George Frideric Handel and j. Johan Sebastian Bach 11.) A large court during the Baroque period might employ about ___ performers k. 80 12.) The position of the composer during the Baroque period was that of l. A high class servant with few personal
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Walls‚ Peter‚ ed. Baroque Music‚ The Library of Essays on Music Performance Practice‚ series editor Mary Cyr. Farnham‚ Surry‚ UK‚ and Burlington‚ VT‚ USA: Ashgate‚ 2011. ISBN 978-0-7546-2882-8. David Schulenberg Copyright 2012 © Claremont Graduate University In the sciences‚ there are foundational articles on which entire disciplines are founded. Physicists today rarely read the papers in which Einstein demonstrated the principles of the theory of relativity‚ but thousands of papers based
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Philippe Rameau were the masters of Baroque music in France. In England the total theatrical experience of the Stuart masques was followed by the achievements in vocal music of the German-born‚ Italian-trained George Frideric Handel‚ while his countryman Johann Sebastian Bach developed Baroque sacred music in Germany. Other notable German Baroque composers include Heinrich Schütz‚ Dietrich Buxtehude‚ and Georg Philipp
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THE CLASSICAL PERIOD (1775-1825) The Baroque period culminated in the masterpieces of J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel. In the middle of the eighteenth century‚ contemporaneous with the mature years of Bach and Handel‚ a new musical style developed that is known as Rococo or preclassical style. This style is most evident in keyboard and orchestral music‚ but it is mentioned here because it represented a transition from the Baroque to the Classical era‚ occurring between 1725 and 1770. In the world of painting
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once again to Paris then on his way home he stoped at Zurich‚ Donaueschingen‚ and again to Munich. During this trip Wolfgang met many musicians with whom he familiarized himself with there music along with the music of the greats such as J.S. Bach‚ Handel‚
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