Music 1710F/G Lecture Notes - George Frideric Handel, Johann Mattheson, Music Theory

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What were the aesthetic ideals of the music in the baroque? (we define musical periods by changing musical ideals: what music should do) Architecture in the baroque: eg. versailles, hall of mirrors. Often, we do not think about the baroque period very well. After this period, people began to think about it as an excessive, oriented era. A baroque music is that in which the harmony is confused, charged with modulations and dissonances, the melody is harsh and little natural, the intonation is difficult, and the movement constrained. Animal spirits released when music is listened to. Music impacts our biological functions which causes us reproduces us to imitate that emotion. Following ancient greek and latin orators who believed that the use of certain modes of rhetoric influenced the emotions, or affections, of their listeners, the theorist-musicians of the late 17th and early 18th centuries argued that the.

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