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Baroque music (UK: / b ə ˈ r ɒ k / or US: / b ə ˈ r oʊ k /) refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. [1] The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Classical period after a short transition (the galant style).
The Baroque era took place from 1600 to 1750, as the Baroque artistic style flourished across Europe and, during this time, music expanded in its range and complexity. Baroque music began when the first operas (dramatic solo vocal music accompanied by orchestra) were written.
The Classical Period was an era of classical music between roughly 1750 and 1820. [1] The classical period falls between the Baroque and Romantic periods. [2] Classical music has a lighter, clearer texture than Baroque music but a more varying use of musical form, which is, in simpler terms, the rhythm and organization of any given piece of music.
17th–18th centuries. The Baroque (UK: / bəˈrɒk / bə-ROK, US: /- ˈroʊk / -ROHK; French: [baʁɔk]) is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s. [ 1 ] It followed Renaissance art and Mannerism and preceded the Rococo (in the ...
Ancient music extended from approximately 1500 BCE until the fall of Rome in 476 CE. Modernist, and Postmodernist music have been tacitly combined under the 20th century banner as defined by the calendar. However postmodernist music constitutes a separate era from the modernist, and extends into the 21st century which is musically a ...
In the years centering on 1600 in Europe [broken anchor], several distinct shifts emerged in ways of thinking about the purposes, writing and performance of music.Partly these changes were revolutionary, deliberately instigated by a group of intellectuals in Florence known as the Florentine Camerata, and partly they were evolutionary, in that precursors of the new Baroque style can be found ...
May 1 – George Frideric Handel begins the tradition of benefit performances of his oratorio Messiah at and for the Foundling Hospital in London. Farinelli is knighted by King Ferdinand VI of Spain. Ten-year-old Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf begins playing with the Viennese Schottenkirche orchestra. Bach dictates Chorale preludes BWV 666 and ...
Transition from Renaissance to Baroque (born 1500–1549) Composers in the Renaissance/Baroque transitional era include the following (listed by their date of birth): Philippe de Monte (1521–1603) Baldassare Donato (1525/1530–1603) Costanzo Porta (1529–1601) Jiří Rychnovský (1529–1616) Guillaume Costeley (1530–1606) Fabritio Caroso ...