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    Baroque Art

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    Baroque one big misshapen pearl STYLE ARTISTS and IMAGES VOCAB HISTORICAL NOTE Baroque art falls into the period of Counter-Reformation led by the Catholic church against the Protestants. Much of the Baroque art‚ especially in Italy‚ reflects reaction to Mannerism‚ but also the social turmoil of the time. According to the Council of Trent and the Catholic church artworks should be a clear‚ intelligible subject realistically interpreted in order to stimulate piety. This was part of the reason

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    BAROQUE ART

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    BAROQUE ART Art Appreciation –HUMA 205-1202A-05 Janice Miller AIU Abstract Baroque art is presented as an art style. Baroque art style is such diversity within in the Baroque period 1600-1770 because of the relationship to the era’s border and intellectual tendencies there was three important effects on the art. Which are‚ western Christianity‚ religious tensions‚ and the division of the Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. The Baroque artist appealed to their viewer

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    Music: Opera Terminology

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    Opera in the Classical Era What is Opera? 1. A dramatic work. This usually contains one or more acts‚ set to music for singers and instrumentalists. 2. Opera falls under the genre of Classical music 3. Opera is like a play where rather than speaking lines‚ they are sang. It contains music‚ costumes and a story. History - Opera first began in the 1600’s (The Baroque Era) -Nobles‚ poets and composers began to meet together in Florence‚ Italy around 1575. This group was called the "Camerata

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    Baroque Art

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    Baroque Art Styles Amber Eagler American Intercontinental University Abstract The author of this paper has chosen three works of art from the Baroque Style. The three works of art are as follows; Pieta‚ The Entombment‚ and Rembrandt’s Belshazzar. The author gives her insight about the painterly appearance of the works of art. In this paper‚ we will analyze these three paintings and how they fit into the Baroque time period. Baroque Art Styles This paper will start with an explanation

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    The Baroque Period

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    The Baroque period happened between 1600-1750. The word "baroque" comes from the Portuguese word barroco which means “misshapen pearl”; it is a negative description of the elaborate and heavily ornamented music of this period. Baroque music forms a major portion of the classical music canon‚ being widely studied‚ performed‚ and listened to. Composers of the baroque era include Johann Sebastian Bach‚ George Frideric Handel‚ Antonio Vivaldi and Georg Philipp Telemann. The development of functional

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    Baroque Era

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    Music Appreciation. Baroque Era saw the eruption of the opera‚ concerto and oratorio genre. Opera begun to spread throughout Europe becoming the ultimate multimedia experience of the day. Concerto became the most important orchestral genre during the period. While oratorio remained glued to its beginning of sacred religious vocal music. Each genre adding great composers to the already hefty list. Composer George Handel is most famous for the oratorio Messiah as well his opera Julius Caesar‚ while

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    Baroque Music

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    Baroque Music Opera was the new musical form of the Baroque period and it was very expressive of the baroque cultural values. By then end of the operatic form was stylized into a recipe‚ including improbable plots‚ small motivations for the characters‚ and magical transformations‚ which were signs of opera’s baroque nature. Oprheus united drama‚ dance‚ elaborate stage mechanisms‚ and scenery with music. Johann Sebastian Bach was one artist whose greatest legacy was religious music. His works

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    Baroque Instruments

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    Classical and Baroque instruments that are interesting and still used today. At the time beginning in the early 17th and 18th Centuries German‚ French and Italian composers were writing complex and expressive music. Baroque music was related to Church and court life. This was a time when wealthy people enjoyed parties and dancing. Instruments like the violin‚ harpsichord‚ clavichord and lute were being used for single melody and highly complex compositions. In the beginning of the 1700’s‚ operas were being

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    The Baroque Period

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    The Baroque Era By El-Fatih J. Ajala The Genres of the Baroque Period: Opera – “drama presented in music‚ with the characters singing instead of speaking” (Joseph Kerman‚ p. 87): One cannot speak of Baroque opera without mentioning the name of Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643). Monteverdi has the distinction of being known as the first great composer in the genre of opera‚ as well as the last true madrigalist of his time. He began writing his madrigals at a very early age and

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    The Baroque Period

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    Baroque Period (1600-1750) & Classical Period (1750-1820) The Baroque period is arguably the most revolutionary musical period in history. This period was used to describe the Western European music. This period contained tonality‚ instrumentation‚ and more complex compositions. This period also brought forth many famous musical composers‚ such as Vivaldi‚ Handel‚ and Bach. Most of their works are still used to this day to make compositions. Baroque music originated in Italy and that is where

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