Baroque: Context

Question 1

What years were the Baroque era?

Answer 1

early 1600s to 1750

Question 2

Where did Baroque originate?

Answer 2

Italy

Question 3

What is a key SOCIAL element of the Baroque era?

Answer 3

social class and its effect on one’s life at the time. At the top of the hierarchy, was the nobility.​

Question 4

What is the Baroque period focused on?

Answer 4

religious ideas and how a monarch was chosen by God, which was later counterargued by philosophy​

Question 5

Which important styles were developed during the baroque era?

Answer 5

opera,concerto, and sonata

Question 6

What is patronage?

Answer 6

providing of financial support to an artist​

Question 7

What was the effect of patronage on composers

Answer 7

it was a way for them to find work

Question 8

where would composers work during this period

Answer 8

church or a patron​

Question 9

what was the bad side of patronage for composers

Answer 9

• Due to this being their only source of income, patrons would usually pay composers very little for their work​
• since composers had to strictly perform what their patron instructed, creativity was usually limited and prohibited the further evolving of music​

Question 10

Examples of famous baroque composers

Answer 10

Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Monteverdi, Scarlatti