1. I Can classify Baroque music Do Now: What is the Difference in record sales from 2010 to 2011? RTQ!

2. Baroque Music Part I 1600-1750

3. The Baroque Style baroque= ornamented –fills space with movement. Very rich and powerful rulers Luxury is the name of the game!

6. Baroque Lifestyle Absolutism: –A rulers right to have absolute power over their subjects. A king could throw a worker into jail because that worker wanted to quit his job.

7. Baroque Greats Scientific Discovery –Newton –Galileo Music Giants –Johann Sebastian Bach –George Frederic Handel –Antonio Vivaldi –Henry Purcell

8. HOT Question… Think of some events in history where people were oppressed by rulers and fought back?

9. Characteristics of Baroque Music Unity of Mood –A piece of music usually expressed only one feeling throughout the entire piece Repeating rhythm and melodies

10. Characteristics of Baroque Music Terraced dynamics- –the alteration between loud and soft like physically stepping from one level to another. Because of the harpsichord!

11. Chords and Basso Continuo Basso Continuo –Bass part usually played by two instruments: a keyboard instrument and a low playing instrument

12. Basso continuo

13. The Baroque Orchestra Baroque orchestras are small! –Usually only 10-40 players Basso Continuo + Strings –Brass, Woodwinds, and Percussion used very rarely!

14. The Baroque Orchestra

15. Baroque Forms Movements: –a piece that sounds fairly complete and independent but is part of a larger composition.

16. HOT Question… Think of one modern thing to compare a movement vs. whole work to… Movements- single, short Whole work- long, lots of parts

17. Music in Baroqe Society Composers made money by having a patron! Patron –someone who supported a composer by paying them for their music and requesting new music to be composed 3 rd hour start

18. Music in Baroque Society Music on demand! –Main source of entertainment in royal courts. One court might have an orchestra, a church choir, and opera singers

19. Music director –Composer who works for a patron –In charge of composing all the music at court. –Rehearsed the orchestra, choir, and all other musicians at court. Good –Pay and popularity were high –Compositions always performed Bad –Still a servant of the patron Music in Baroque Society

20. HOT Question… What are some modern day examples of Patron/Musician relationships?

21. The Elements of Opera opera: a drama in which some or all of the lines are sung to an orchestral accompaniment libretto: the text of the opera librettist: the one who writes the libretto overture or prelude: the orchestral introduction to an opera aria: a song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment recitative: a vocal line that imitates speech, accompanied by basso continuo

22. Early operas: Based on the Greek myth Written for aristocracy 1637: first public opera house in Venice, Italy Orfeo by Claudo Monteverdi, the first great opera

23. Output 3-2-1 Summary 3 important vocabulary terms from the Baroque Era with definitions 1 question you can answer using the other two levels 2 important facts about the music or lifestyle of the baroque