Baroque period

in a concerto. A cadenza is an embellished solo section, usually placed at the end of the first movement of a concerto. Concerto defines as a word both meaning “competing “and “accommodating”. Contrast, is a popular aspect in a concerto during the Baroque

On April 13, 2016 I attended my first classical musical concert at Brooklyn College called “The Music for Strings 1”. The concert had various well known artists and amazing pieces which made it a hard decision to choose between. The music piece I chose is “Partita for Violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004, Verse Chaconne”, composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. The student who performed this piece, Sainatee Suarez, did an amazing job and kept me listening the whole time! Not much is known about Bach’s private

In the classical era Symphony was the time when live concert where perform more often. The concerts that during the past millennium, classical music has been created by some of the musical mind the world has ever seen with Beethoven, Mozart and many more. The wide of Range of genres that these great artist composers, including orchestral, instrumental, choral and opera. The era’s the music used the two theory of natural and pleasing variety and The two ideas that can be traced in all the elements

during Pacific Musicworks’s “Viva Vivaldi!” performed at the UW Meany Hall on a windy day in late February. The program, featuring some of the most phenomenal classic string performers around the region, presented a masterpiece by one of the iconic Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi, the Four Seasons. A collection of four concertos, each representing the four distinct seasons of the year, is revered as an exemplary programmatic work, where musical elements, melodic contours and dynamics conjures characteristic

majorly affected by the many worldwide events that have happened throughout time. The first classified era of music that set the baseline for what music would become was the Medieval Era. This spanned from 500 CE to the 1400 CE. For most of this time-period the Church had overwhelming power that controlled people’s day to day lives and the church used this power to limit how composers wrote music. The church only wanted monophonic or single voice melodies in the style of Gregorian chant. They also demanded

Musical Composers Baroque and Classical Orchestras – Differences Baroque Orchestras Classical Orchestras String section and basso continuo central to the orchestra. Other instruments are occasional additions. Standard group of four sections: strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion. Different instruments treated individually. Fairly small; generally 10- 40 players. Larger than baroque; great variation to the numbers of players. Flexible use of timbres, e.g. Timpani and trumpets used

from the Gregorian chant all the way to the Jazz of the 20th century. The current events, politics, religion, technology and composers can shape musical eras during time. Here I will look at the middle ages, renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic and twentieth century periods. I hope that a better understanding can be reached to why, when, where and who are the reasons for musical evolution. Middle Ages Beginning with fall of Rome in 476a.d. the first half of this millennium is referred

after the last session of the Council of Trent initiated the slow transition to the Baroque period, Guido Reni was born. The boy from Bologna would grow to become one of the predominant figures of this period that came into existence when he was a teenager. As a classicizing Baroque artist, the almost divine grace and elegance that Reni is able to portray in his artwork marks his presence and contributions to the Baroque era essential, even as his style and the expectation of artists developed and changed

The baroque era was full of influential composers, who would travel all over Europe, hear each-others music, and be influenced from all over the globe. Though music was suddenly more global, differences in nations where still audible in the music (most obviously between France and Italy). One of the era’s most famous composers was Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist and violinist (far left picture below). Born into one of the greatest musical families

during this period of time. These pieces were mostly written to be played on the harpsichord or the early pianofortes. Although most of the sonatas were composed in pairs, the D major sonatas, often performed together, formed a rare triptych of three sonatas. Sonata in D Major, K.491 is the second piece of the triptych, which was composed in 1756-1757. Similar to most of his other sonatas, Sonata in D major is in the binary form (AB-AB). The structure in dance movements of the Baroque period is