MUSIC 27 Study Guide - Final Guide: Kapellmeister, Goldberg Variations, Johann Sebastian Bach
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One of the tropes of the baroque era was the evolution of instrumental music in the middle ages, instrumental music was used for dance or background. Early baroque and the high or late baroque, and because of the fact that the peak of western music and the best composers of all time came about during the. Terraced dynamics - incremented changes in volume; used subtly harmonic rhythm tends to be very predictable. Baroque dynamics were usually static this was a remnant of keyboard instruments such as the organ and harpsichord tone color was less important to baroque composers. Baroque composers were more concerned with an instrument"s range not as concerned with the blending of instruments/their tone colors instruments were more interchangeable. Bach"s use of tone color - he loved the sound of the voice and oboe together. Johann sebastian bach (1685 - 1750) lived his entire life as a humble church and court music composer.
