The Baroque Period

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The Baroque Period
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Music from the Beginning

• Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome
• The birth of Christianity
• The Roman Catholic Church
• Gregorian Chant
• Development of notation

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Music from the Beginning

• Music in the Middle Ages (800-1300)
• Minstrels, Troubadours, and Trouveres
• Polyphonic vs. Homophonic
• Music in the Renaissance (1400-1600)
• Historical events behind the Renaissance
• Revival of Greece and Romesort of.
• Madrigals
• Music printing (1470)
• The Reformation Martin Luther

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The Baroque Period (1600-1750)

• Baroque misshapen pearl
• Defining Characteristics
• Intended for the pleasure of less educated
  listeners.
• Ornate, fancy, detailed, intricate, elaborate,
  etc.
• Emphasis on the dramatic.
• Development of common musical notation and forms.

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Berninis Saint Teresa in Ecstasy
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The Baroque Period (1600-1750)

• The birth of Opera
• Peris Euridice
• Recitative and Aria
• Famous Baroque composers
• Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
• J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
• George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)