Music 2711F/G Lecture Notes - Jean-Philippe Rameau
2 Feb 2012
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The florentine camerata and the wisdom of the ancients. People in the 17th century didn"t refer to themselves as baroque. 18th century came around and they started calling the music from the past baroque. Seemed wrong and not natural and lovely first used to describe a rameau opera. People are looking to the past for models for the future. The florentine camerata: giovanni bardi (head of it 1520 - 1591) * rich florentine who wants to loves art. * found a collections of artists, who come to his house who play and talk about music. Florence is really rich, headed by the medici family, who are bankers. * began as merchants and started a bank in where they would loan money to spain, spain defaulted on their loans and things didn"t turn out well. * florence used to be a republic, but medici were granted by the pope to become grand. * married into very rich and powerful families.
