4. JohannesVermeer: c.
1665
Girl With a Pearl Earring
Artemisia Gentileschi:
c. 1610
Judith Beheading Holofernes
Jot down your impressions of the Baroque art
5. Remarkable variety of musical style
Introduction of many new musical genres:
◦ Opera, cantata, oratorio, sonata, concerto, and suite
Two elements remain constant
◦ Expressive, sometimes extravagant melody
◦ Strong supporting bass
6. RENAISSANCE BAROQUE
◦ Direct, uncomplicated
lines for voices and
instruments alike
Two distinct styles:
1. Dramatic, virtuosic
vocal melody
2. “Mechanical” character
of instrumental music
Irregular phrase lengths
More exciting and
interesting
7. ◦ Remained constant throughout the era
◦ Purpose
Establish a strong bass
Ensure purposeful chord structure
◦ Requires two instrumentalists
Keyboard instrument plays chord progression
Sustaining instrument (cello, bassoon) plays
bass line
9. ◦ Repetition of motives at higher or lower
degrees
◦ First appears in Baroque music,
◦ Continues as a standard melodic procedure
10. ◦ CHORDAL HARMONY: supports melody and
is tightly bound to basso continuo
◦ Tonality distilled to major and minor keys
◦ Harmonies sound completely familiar to our
modern ears for the first time in music history
14. Basso ostinato common
Ritornello form emerges
Binary form for sonata and orchestral suite
Editor's Notes
Circa 1610,
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Figure 7.6 A Woman Playing the Theorbo-Lute and a Cavalier (c. 1658) by Gerard ter Borch. The bass strings are at the top of the instrument and off the fingerboard. The theorbo was often used to play the basso continuo in the seventeenth century.
Begin at 2:25. Musical Gravity G7 is drawn to C. Go to about 20 inute - 25 minutes if possible.