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    The Baroque Era

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    January 2013 By Taseen Fahim | Music PD. 3 | Mr. Garibaldi Tabita Paul Ittleson | The Baroque Era of Music | Taseen Fahim January 2013 Mr. Garibaldi Tabita Paul Ittleson Music PD. 3 The Baroque Era of Music The Baroque period of European musical history falls between the late Renaissance and early Classical periods‚ that is‚ roughly a half century between 1600 and 1750. During the Renaissance‚ Europe had assimilated the humanism and rationalism of Greco-Roman civilization

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    was written in a strict three part melody with the strings. Brandenburg Concerto number 5 in D Major symbolizes the Baroque style with the showing of tones and shifts with the orchestra. This piece shows the range of violins‚ strings‚ flutes‚ and harpsichord used to create the orchestra. Baroque music is commonly known to use a lot more ornamentation when compared to classical music. During the period of Classical orchestras a range of 30 to 60 instruments were divided into four sections. The four

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    Sebastian Bach Harmony

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    to the other composers in his time‚ Bach explored much more harmony in his music. Bach’s music can contain extraordinarily ’jazzy’ chords and surprising dissonance‚ and will sometimes jump off to many different harmonic areas. The clavichord and harpsichord were the instruments Bach used in his time as the piano had not yet been invented. This is perhaps one of the

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    Bach Prelude and Fugue

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    Background Johann Sebastian Bach was as “the Father of Music” who devoted himself to music education in his later years and brought great influence to the classical music world. The Well-Tempered Clavier‚ a collection of solo keyboard music (harpsichord)‚ was a good example. J.S. Bach’s music requested high technical command and artistic beauty. With the purpose to explore the technical possibilities‚ J.S. wrote all 24 major and minor keys preludes and fugues which encompass an extraordinarily

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    Sebastian Bach” Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the greatest composers in western musical history. More than 1‚000 of his compositions survive. Some examples are the art of fugue‚ Brandenburg Concerti‚ the Goldberg Variations for Harpsichord‚ the‚ Mass in B-minor‚ the motets‚ and the Easter and Christmas oratorios. Bach came from a family of musicians. There were over 53 musicians in his family over a period of 300 years. His father Johann Ambrosius Bach‚ was a talented violinist

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    Pachelbel Info

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    Frescobaldi and Alessandro Poglietti‚ French composers‚ and the composers of the Nuremberg tradition. Pachelbel explored many variation forms and associated techniques‚ which manifest themselves in various diverse pieces‚ from sacred concertos to harpsichord suites. Pachelbel experimented with different ensembles and instrumental combinations in his chamber music and‚ most importantly‚ his vocal music‚ much of which features exceptionally rich instrumentation. son of Johann (Hans) Pachelbel‚ a

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    I would like to tell you about my visit to the one of the most beautiful museums in the world The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is located in the east of Central Park‚ being‚ in fact‚ part of it. The main entrance is the majestic and pathetic. The building has several floors are spacious‚ and each of the gallery halls like immerses the visitor in a parallel world. Whether it’s a bloodthirsty Aztec god figurine‚ rock reliefs by the ancient Sumerians‚ harmoniously ancient statue‚ sarcophagus with

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    Music Test Review

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    Transitional sections of the Fugue that offer either new material or fragments of the subject or countersubject are called to help m. Episodes 14.) The main keyboards instruments of the Baroque period were the Organ and the n. Harpsichord 15.) Members of the camerata wanted to create a new vocal style based on o. Music of the ancient Greeks 16.) Orpheus goes to Hades in hope of bringing who back to life p. Eurydice 17.) In an opera what happens

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    Music in different cultures English from this country has changed a lot over the years‚ mainly due to changes in technology. Starting with cave men making instruments from sticks and rocks‚ having people playing harpsichord to nowadays where people are able to either play music on an instrument themselves or create it on a computer. Due to a slow advance of technology in some places in Africa‚ the tribes over their have kept pretty traditional sticking to music on drums‚ harp like instruments‚ rattles

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    taken in by his older step brother/church organist‚ Johann Christoph. Christoph felt the need to provide Bach with musical instruction‚ which led him to enrolling Bach in a local school. In 1703‚ Bach received his first job playing the violin and harpsichord at the court of Duke Johann Ernst in Weimar. He was a great performer and he landed many job opportunities as an organist in many churches such as the New Church in Arnstadt. Bach also wrote many famous church cantatas. In 1717 he accepted a position

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