Monday, November 22, 2010

Daily Warm Up for Tuesday, 11/23

Go to this website and explore!
http://www.baroquemusic.org/
In the comment section below, write 10 facts about Baroque music.

4 comments:

  1. 1. There are currently two schools of thought in the performance of baroque music: the "modern" and the "authentic".

    2. The German bow can play chords, an instrument of baroque music.

    3. The English word baroque is derived from the Italian barocco, meaning bizarre.

    4. As the 1600s progressed, so these different musical forms took on definite shape.

    5. Two major influences of baroque music in Germany were the Church and the State, or rather, States.

    6. In the music of JS Bach, the different forms and styles of the baroque came together and were brought to perfection.

    7. When Bach died in 1750 he left a legacy which summarized his art, his life's work in which he had, by general recognition, brought baroque musical forms to the peak of their development.

    8. Many instruments reached the peak of their development at the height of the baroque era.

    9. These days more and more people are seeking a return to music for the mind, music combining beauty with the order of an underlying architecture and structure.

    10. It has become fashionable over the last ten years to talk of “authentic” performances as if others are not, though in truth, the attempt to rediscover baroque music and its spirit has been with us since the mid-1800s.

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  2. It is very harmonius.
    I think it has a jig to it.
    My favorite song is concerto no.31
    I think it is sort of like wedding music.
    I think it has music from Dracula.
    the organs definatly hav an amazing sound.
    Very creepy.
    The organists are amazing.
    It is sort of like dance music.
    It has a very deep sound to it.

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  3. verry beautifull

    alot of musitions

    a whole lot of handel

    more bach than handel

    violins

    seculer

    organ

    harmonious

    vavaldi

    conchartos invented

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  4. baroque music is very compelling but i think the composers overdo it sometimes also alot of composers were in italy but the rest were in germany and moved to some other country.

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