MUSC 213 Lecture 6: Baroque
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Certain musical elements elicit specific emotions: keys, tempi, melodic snippets, etc. are combined to move the affections. Music functions as entertainment or as part of religious services. Alternation of large and small groups (instruments or singers) Rome was the center for sacred conservative music. Venice was the center for new secular music. St. mark"s basilica - venice, center for this style. Andrea gabrieli & giovanni gabrieli - choirmasters in transition. Variety in terms of dynamics, speed, timber, number of voices. Top and bottom most important (emphasis on basso continuo) 1680 - began to publish music (for the middle class) Took dance music out of opera and distributed individually. People take vocal composition and turn it into keyboard composition. Use point of imitation and translated to hands instead of voices. Instrumental versions of vocal renaissance music (with points of imitation) Take tune and then play variations of tune (generally originally a vocal tune)
