MUS 048 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Fortepiano, Aria, Keyboard Instrument
1 Oct 2017
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Style features of late baroque music part i. If one characteristic as central to music of late baroque period, it would be methodical quality. Much compositions consists of inspired repetition and variation. As though composers had intended to draw their material out to maximum extent and wring it dry. Shorter pieces we"ll examine - pieces like prelude and fugue in bach"s the well- Tempered clavier and aria in handel"s opera julius caesar - contain little if any notable contrast in rhythm, dynamics, melody, texture, or tone color. Longer pieces, baroque composers tended to break them up into blocks of music that contrast with one another in obvious ways, but still homogeneous in themselves. This is case with bach"s brandenburg concerto no. 5, where orchestral and solo sections contrast clearly enough. Within each orchestral or solo section, however, things are usually quite regular. Music is brimming with energy channeled into highly regular, determined sort of motion.
