2. Guiding Through Western Music Part 1 Music History- Cuyahoga Falls High School

3. Baroque Music From the Years 1600-1750 This era was called Baroque because of the extravagant and bizarre qualities. Music now made room for homophony, one voice was clearly more important that the others. Click here to go to a website to learn more facts about Baroque Music.here Click on links to the left to learn more about baroque music! The Texture The Sound The Other Arts The Composers

4. Texture of Baroque Music Composers started writing more homophonic music, this made one voice more important than the others...thus the emergence of opera. This also made concertos popular. A concerto is when an instrumental soloist or small group play as the foreground and there is a background of accompanying music. Click to hear an example: Click house to go back. Bach: Cantata #211, BWV 211, "Schweigt Stille (Coffee Cantata)" - 2. Hat Man Nicht Mit Seinen Kindern

5. The Sound of Baroque Music Music began to exhibit bold contrasts in sounds; the contrasts would be between something loud and soft or something high and loud. Baroque music also became highly ornamented with flourishes and trills. Music often had a melody line coupled with a basso continuo. Click house to go back. Click here to learn about the instrument s of the Baroque Period Click to listen to Music for the Royal Fireworks:La Réjouissance by Handel. Notice the flourishes and trills in the trumpet part.

6. The Instruments of Baroque Music Instruments start to take over the music, rather than it being primarily vocalists like in the Renaissance period. The “star” instruments of the baroque era were: (Click on instrument name for more information about those instruments.) The harpsichord harpsichord The StringsStrings Flutes, oboes, and bassoons Flutes oboesbassoons Trumpet and French Horn TrumpetFrench Horn Back to “The Sounds”

7. What was going on during the time of Baroque Music? Artists were using a lot of contrast between light and darkness in their paintings. Architecture was becoming highly ornate. Churches spent large a lot of money on lavish decorations to display the churches authority. Arts (music, painting, architecture) was being used to project the power of the church and to convey sacred teachings. Click here to learn more about other Baroque Art Click house To go back

8. Some Main Composers Click on the pictures to learn more about each person! Click to go on...

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