MUSIC 1A03 Lecture 14: Music and Speech: Baroque Music
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Nov 3, 2014 music and speech: baroque music. History and histography there is overlapping between late renaissance and early baroque styles and practices distinguishing characteristics of baroque style: passion, communication. Scientific revolution changed the understanding of the natural world. Baroque art characterized by grandeur, spectacle, drama, theatrically, passion, and ornamentation. Opera is an expression of the baroque interest in theatricality and passion. Physiological understanding of the passions controlled by the four humors; passions of affects were depicted by stylized gestures in art. Johannes vermeer, and nicholas poussin grand, expressive, dramamtic buildings with a threatical quality (life stage settings) important figures include gian lorenzo bernini and francesco barromini. Recitative is distinguished from other musical devices (aria, chorus) in which music had priority common music techniques focus on single melody. Basso continuo (or thoroughbass ): a bass line supports this melody, and the middle register is filled out with chords, resulting in a three-part structure: melody, bass, and chordal accompaniment.
