The Musical Style Of The Baroque Period

The Baroque period began around the 1600’s until around the 1750’s. The Baroque era of music was one of the most revolutionary periods in music history. This era saw the development of functional tonality, brought new instrumental playing techniques and more elaborate and complex compositions. Baroque music was complex, tonal, and had clear common patterns of chords. This era also featured many well-known composers, such as Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi. This era also brought about developments in musical terms and concepts which are still used in today’s music.

Baroque era was where the most important turn in music took place with its unique arts and its controversial styles to music in its time.

The Baroque musical period occurred throughout Europe from 1600 to 1750. The compositions during this period had certain characteristics. Some of these characteristics included unity of mood, continuity of rhythm and melody, and most compositions, in the middle to late Baroque period, included polyphonic textures (Kamien, 2011). Many musicians, such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Arcangelo Corelli, thrived during this period. They composed hundreds to thousands of compositions in various different musical forms and each piece holds the characteristics of the Baroque period uniquely. This paper will review the

The Classical time period, which spanned a length of seventy years, from 1750 to 1820, was very different in nature from its predecessor, the Baroque time period. The Baroque era featured works that were ornamentally elaborate, where the artists and composers centered their works on a big, bold style that was dramatic in its composition. Artists and composers transferred strong feelings of tension and emotion into their works and it was common for there to be some type of action or movement happening within the work. Those who lived in the Classical time period, valued simplicity and wanted to return to the ideals of the Greeks. Therefore, the Classical time period is characterized by clear structural clarity, simplicity, smoothness, and symmetry. However, though the works took a step back from the grand movement of the Baroque era, the composers and artists of the Classical time period did lay out a tuneful and elegant style in their music and art. Out of the Classical era came many renowned artists and composers, two of those whom are artist Sir Thomas Lawrence and composer Ludwig van Beethoven (“NYU”).

The oddly-shaped pearl had quite an impact on Europe with its musical style, instruments, composers, and life. The impact still resonates today with our complex dynamics and solo/ensemble groups both chorally and symphonically. How the period got its nickname, however, is a story to be told. Whether historians choose to call the period an oddly-shaped pearl or just the baroque period the uniqueness still resonates. No other period has had as much effect as that of the baroque period of

The Baroque period is seen as the birth of “classical” music. It was fairly similar to music of previous years and added to the conformity of the time. When I was toddler, I had no choice in my life, just like every other child. We accept what is given to us, and learn not to misbehave if we want to be rewarded. One common trait of Baroque music is the continuity and repetition of both rhythm and melody.

The Baroque Music Era is one of the most influential eras of music in music history. One of the most famous and well-known composers from that era is Johann Sebastian Bach (McKay, Hill, et al., 2012). In this discussion we will be analyzing who Bach was and his place in history and critiquing his influences in both today’s musical society and the musical society in the Baroque Era.

The Baroque Period (1600-1750) was mainly a period of newly discovered ideas. From major new innovations in science, to vivid changes in geography, people were exploring more of the world around them. The music of the baroque period was just as extreme as the new changes. Newly recognized composers such as Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, and Monteverdi were writing entirely new musical ideas and giving a chance for new voices to be heard that were normally not thought of sounds. Their musical legacy is still recognized today, and is a treasured discovery of outstanding compositions being reiterated with every performance of them.

•The creation of the baroque style—an art style full of emotion, flamboyancy, symbolism, vigor, and subtlety—largely as a product of the Catholic Church patronage of the arts

The word concerto originated from the Italian word concertare, which means to join together. The concerto took on many different forms during the baroque era, and it wasn't until the late seventeenth century that the concerto took on its modern meaning; a piece of music that combined a solo instrument with orchestra or a group of soloists. It is usually composed in three parts, each movement distinguished by tempo changes. In the late sixteen hundreds composers gave rise to a this new form of orchestral music, which later became the most recognized and distinguished of all the other baroque genres. Such is a feature in the baroque era of turning old into something new so too the concerto was adapted into a new form. Similar was the vocal concerto,

Lasting from the mid-1600s to the mid-1700s, the Baroque period ushered in new styles of art and music. Music and art during that time exhibited a flowery, emotional feel. While the music may seem well-behaved, to the people living in that period it was music gone wild. The notes noodled up and down all over the sheet, such music and never been attempted before. Composers experimented with new styles and structures breaking many former rules of music. Prominent during this era was German-born composer George Frideric Handel.

The Baroque began around 1600, by which the Roman Catholic Church demanded that sculptures and paintings in the church scene should communicate to the uneducated rather than the well-informed. This style began in around Rome and Italy, and opened out to most of Europe. Baroque is a period of style that used dramatized motion and clear details, to create tension and drama in painting, theatre, sculpture, literature, music, architecture, and dance. In Baroque paintings, the gestures are more expansive than Mannerist gestures. The poses were less arcane and mysterious, portrayed stage gestures of opera, and less ambiguous. Baroque poses depend on contrapposto, symmetrical arrangement of the human figure in which the line of the arms and shoulders

The Baroque Period (1600-1750) was mainly a period of newly discovered ideas. From major new innovations in science, to vivid changes in geography, people were exploring more of the world around them. The music of the baroque period was just as extreme as the new changes. Newly recognized composers such as Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, and Monteverdi were writing entirely new musical ideas and giving a chance for new voices to be heard that were normally not thought of sounds. Their musical legacy is still recognized today, and is a treasured discovery of outstanding compositions being reiterated with every performance of them.

In 1600 a new style of music began to evolve, this form of music was

The baroque period of music commenced in the year 1600 and ended around 1750 (Fuller – “Baroque”). Its texture was mainly polyphonic (Fuller – “Classical”). Polyphonic means that two or more different melodies are played simultaneously (McComb). This provides an energetic rhythm, long melodies, and many ornaments. The most famous composers of this time period were Vivaldi, Corelli, Monteverdi, Purcell, Handel, J.S. Bach, and Couperin. Many new styles of music were introduced, such as operas, sonatas, oratorios, suites, fugues, and concertos. Orchestras began to develop, but it was not until the classical period when orchestral music was perfected (Fuller – “Baroque”).