MUS 048 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: George Frideric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1 Oct 2017
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Music from 1600 to 1750 is considered baroque borrowed from art history. Borrowed term from jewelers, applied to irregular shaped pearls. With help of recordings, baroque has grown more popular. Instruments were revived to play it, harpsichord, recorder, and high-pitched trumpet without valves. Most of baroque music dates from eighteenth century (1700 to 1750), classified as. Johann sebastian bach and george frederic handel were well-known composers of this period. Among them were alessandro scarletti and antonio vivaldi in italy, francois couperin and jean-phillipe rameau in france, domenico scarletti (son of alessandro) in spain, and georg philipp telemann in germany. From 1600 to 1750 this was also age of absolutism. (divine right of kinds, total unlimited power because chosen by god). Louis xiv of france became most powerful and ruthless monarch in europe. Still with us, in form of (godless) dictatorship. Telescope and microscope revealed first secrets; newton and leibniz invented calculus; newton developed laws of mechanics and theory of gravity.
