Late Baroque Music Part 1

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Classroom Text: Roger Kamien, Music: An Appreciation

Late Baroque Period

Rhythm repeated throughout
Polyphonic
Use of Harpsichord and the organ primarily
Works do not oscillate between happy and sad. Not much emotion is conveyed.
Opening melody often repeated with variation in different voices
Terraced Dynamics (piano to forte, vice versa, not gradual)
Correlation between music and text

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcUh-ggBfzI

Harmony

The Late Baroque Period (at around 1620) saw the use of chords and harmony using the major and minor scales. This included the use of the figured bass (or basso continuo). Essentially a composer would write a bass part and other instruments would play notes that complimented the chord progression. Numbers like I, IV, or V were used to denote the chords.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzua7P_0Kec

The concept of the basso continuo actually is comparable to a lead sheet used by a band today. Chords are listed on top. The bass played creates a bass line based on the chords and the rest of the ensemble plays notes that work in with the chord structure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ9qWpa2rIg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Vkq5xKkHQ

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