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Baroque Art, Music, and Architecture: Grand Scale and Dramatic Contrast
- 2. Flamboyant style ◦ Colossal proportions ◦ Abundant decoration ◦ Energetic ◦ Dramatic contrast
- 3. Baroque Architecture: Everything constructed on a grand scale St. Peter’s, Rome Versailles Palace/Gardens, France
- 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
- 8. HARPSICHORD OR organ OR Guitar CELLO OR bassoon OR Bass
- 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
- 11. ◦ Uniform character/mood for each section of a work ◦ Driving beat ◦ Propulsive rhythms
- 12. Becomes enormously varied ◦ Traditional instruments perfected ◦ New combinations explored Orchestra begins to take shape Terraced dynamics
- 13. Predominantly homophonic Emphasizes top and bottom lines Basso continuo supports the melody
- 14. Basso ostinato common Ritornello form emerges Binary form for sonata and orchestral suite
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- Circa 1610,
- The chateau is one of the largest palaces in the world. It has more than 700 rooms, 2000 windows, 1250 fireplaces, 67 staircases and more than 1800 acres of park. The chateau is one of the largest palaces in the world. It has more than 700 rooms, 2000 windows, 1250 fireplaces, 67 staircases and more than 1800 acres of park. In 1685, 36,000 people and 6,000 horses started the construction work of the 500 meters long palace, which took altogether 50 years.When Chateau de Versailles was completed, it could accommodate up to 5,000 people, including servants.
- 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.