CLASS: Oct 29, 2018

Question 1

BTEOTCYWBAT:

Outline the “baroque basics”

Question 2

BTEOTCYWBAT:

Describe the different defining characteristics of the baroque period.

Question 3

BTEOTCYWBAT:

Explain key musical characters of baroque music

Question 4

Answer 4

Composers are interested in representing reality. To make music sound like things happening in the real world.

Compare to English Madrigal. “Running down.” Eighth notes and descending. They are painting the picture of running with eighth notes, and down hill with the descending line.

In the Baroque period, it sounds like the singer is running. Where they are breathless and you hear their foot falls. Very dramatic, theatrical.

Instrumental music: Composers think about mimicking sounds of nature, animals, trees in the wind. Coocoo sounds.

Question 5

The baroque period is ______.

Answer 5

The baroque period is “in your face”. It’s wearing your heart on your sleeve. Compared to the early madrigal, Archedelt, putting little dissonances in the music. In order to understand that you have to know exactly what’s going on in the music and text and goes by fast. It’s subtle. Compared to Baroque where there is no subtly. It’s complicated and intricate.

Question 6

Answer 6

We saw this with Palestrina.

He carefully composed the Credo of that Mass in the new style. Homophonic.

When you get to the Agnus Dei. He’s in the old style. Sounds like Josquin.

He’s conscious of which style he is employing in which movement.

We see this in the Baroque Period. The “AGITATED SOUND”, war sounds. Essentially it’s repeated eighth or sixteenth notes. You hear it and think of war and conflict. A section of a piece. Points forward to the program music of the 19th Century. Berlioz Symphony Fantastique. He tells a story. You hear things happening in the story. You hear the guillotine and the head fall off the table.

Question 7

Answer 7

• Everyone still thinks the Earth is the center of the music
• GALILEO says no. The church goes crazy. It’s not what people are used to believing.
• KEPLER: Studies the orb of the planets
• Before this time, the stars in the sky were “the heavens”, now in the 17th century, it becomes something we can study. We can study how they are moving in relationship to each other. Sky and the Heavens become Space.
• NEWTON: Developing laws of physics and theorizing gravity.
• PERIODS:
  
  • Renaissance, humanism (works and bodies of humans)
  • Baroque, the interest shifts to things outside of humans towards the world around us.

Question 8

Answer 8

• Philosophy
  
  • Rene Descartes- “I think, therefore I am.”
  • Human’s ability to reason. Why do we reason? Meta.
• Scientific Method
  
  • What you have to prove something beyond a doubt
  • Scientific exploration, discovery, and development of ideas

Question 9

Answer 9

• This period the “Italian Age”
• Renaissance:
  
  • Northern Italy
    
    • Madrigals
  • Venice
    
    • Musical Center
  • This doesn’t change in the Baroque period
• Venetian Influence:
  
  • Instrumental music
    
    • St. Mark’s Basilica
      
      • Wind music
      • Balconies (two balconies on either side) “Concerted style”
  • Opera
    
    • Developement

Answer 10

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