Music-Baroque orchestra
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- Created on: 09-04-13 15:02
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- Baroque Orchestra Music
- Period: 1700-1750
- Main centre: Western Europe
- Main Composers: Vivaldi, Handel, Bach
- Examples: The four seasons by vivaldi
- Orchestra consists of:
- Strings: Violas, Violins, Cellos and double bass
- Continuo instruments- a small group of instruments who play the continuo part
- Normally a bass line which indicates how to improvise harmonies
- Harpsichord or organ
- Woodwind: Flutes, recorders, oboes, bassoons
- Brass: Trumpets, horns
- Timpani
- Key features
- Simple, Diatonic harmonies
- Movements that keep the same mood throughout
- Terraced dynamics: Changes in volume are sudden rather than gradual
- Ornamentation: melodies are often highly decorated
- complex contrapuntal writing in some places
- Harpsichord
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