Baroque Era In Music

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  • Created on: 21-11-19 13:47
place/role of composers
servent status - wrote music when they were told
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main influences
church music
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target audience
everyone but mostly the rich
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employment of composers
patrons from the church and aristocracy/nobility
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perspective of society
upper class used music as a display of wealth and entertainment
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HISTORICAL/POLITCAL/SOCIAL contexts
wide gap between rich and poor / scientists used experimentation to prove theories rather than relying on religion / upper class french activity was French Versailles
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Song for this period?
Little Organ Fugue in G minor by J.S. Bach
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MELODY: long, flowing melodies HARMONY: close related keys DYNAMICS: no dynamics were written in RHYTHM: repeated, clear with drive and energy TIMBRE: organs FORM: fugue TEXTURE: polyphony
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main influences

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church music

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employment of composers

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perspective of society

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