Música Barroca

Baroque music

Index

Intrudiction

Characteristics

Vocal Secular music

Instrumental music

Secular Sacred music

Introduction

When

What

Periode or style of music

Between 1600 to 1700

Where

In Europe

Characteristics

Basso continuo

It is a bass line that accompanies the melody.

Contrast

-It is heard on the second click, between the musical parts. -They contrast instrumental groups with different timbres, vocal and instrumental parts, slow and fast movements.

Movement

-It can be heard in the third clip. -This effect of movement is sought through the use of a regular and very strong beat, as well as very fast rhythms.

Secular vocal music

Opera

• hugely important genre of vocal music in this periode.

• Theatre play set to music.

• The first opera is generally considered to be L’Orfeo, by composer Claudio Monteverdi, which premièred in 1607.

Elements of the opera

• Aria: solo song with instrumental accompaniment.

• Chorus: A group of singers with more than one person singing each part, like a choir.

• Recitative: a rhythmically free vocal style that imitates the natural inflections of speech and that is used for dialogue and narrative.

• Orchestra: When play only the instruments of the orquetra.

Sacred vocal music

New genres: Oratorio and Cantata

These genres were used by the different churches (Catholic, Lutheran) as a vehicle to transmit their doctrines.

Oratorios:

• They set religious stories to music, usually based on biblical texts.

• Unlike opera, there is no staging.

• It is performed by an orchestra, with choirs and soloists, without decoration or action.

Instrumental music

• In the Baroque period, instrumental music definitively became independent from vocal music.

• Music was composed with specific instruments in mind (as these had been perfected, there were many more options), creating genres that were purely instrumental such as the:

Fugue

suite

Concert

Concerto

In the baroque era, there were two variants of this genre:

Solo concerto:

Concerto grosso:

• Dialogue between a single instrument and the orchestra.

• Torelli, Vivaldi and Bach stand out.

• There was a musical dialogue between a small group of instruments, called concertino, and the rest of the orchestra.

• Corelli and Haendel stood out.

Suite

• A set of dances performed together.

• Usually slow and fast dances alternated.

• The most common sequence of dances was: Allemande - Courante - Sarabande - Gige.

Fugue

• It is a musical genre that is based on superimposing musical ideas called subjects.

• Its composition consists of the use of polyphony structured by