baroque music
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Baroque period (1685-1750)
Barroco “Pearl of the irregular”
Music for the “upper class”
Grandiose and elaborate ornamentation
Lively and tuneful
Elaborate and ornamented
Songs are not easily to sing or remember
Alternation between loud and soft
Strings, Woodwinds, Brasses, Keyboards and Percussions
Uses Harpsichord and organs
Born in Venice on March 4th, 1678 – July 28th,1741
Il Rieto Rosso or The Red Priest
Violin composer
Ordained priest
The Four Seasons
Gloria
Con Alla Rustica in G
Born on 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759)
German Composer
Became blind while composing
“The Messiah”
Music for the Royal Fireworks
Water Music
George Philipp Telemann
Arcangelo Corelli
Henry Purcell
Domenico Scarlatti
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Johann Pachelbel
Giovanni Battista Sammartini
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