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The Baroque Music
The European music
composed between 1600 and 1750 was called baroque music. This music genre
gives a major importance to instruments. The greatest novelty belonging
to this period of time is the opera.
Some of the instruments were
improved and special books on instrumental music were written. The composers
began making their music to show their performers how to play a song, loudly
or feebly. They used Italian words: "forte", "piano" etc. This system is
used nowadays too.
"Concerto grosso" is a musical
composition for a small instrumental group. For example, "The Seasons"
by Vivaldi or "The Branderburgs Concerts" by J. S. Bach. The oratories
are religious stories performed by a choir, an orchestra and single singers.
The violin becomes a well-known instrument in Europe, especially in Italy.
There are famous Italian maestros such as Stradivari where violins build
in his workshop are very valuable.
The public concerts are present
during the baroque period. The audience pays for the performance and the
composers are no longer dependent on the church or on the Lord's court.
The suite also belongs to this period of time and due to the baroque. The
suite is a collection of dances played one after another.
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Madalina
Pavel
"Duiliu Zamfirescu" School,
Focsani, Romania
Teacher Petru
Dumitru
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George Frideric Handel
(1685-1759), composer of German birth but English by naturalization, one
of the greatest composers of the late Baroque period and, during his lifetime,
perhaps the most internationally famous of all musicians
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Johann Sebastian
Bach, the greatest of all the masters of music, came of a musical family
whose ancestors for nearly 200 years had been noted among the townspeople
of Eisenach, Germany.
The story is told that his
great-great-grandfather, a very jovial miller, used to sit in the door
of his mill-wheel went 'round and 'round grinding the grain. At the age
of ten, Johann's father-died and he went to live with his brother, also
a musician. As it was difficult to get music in those days, young Bach
used to copy his brother's music by the moonlight. At the age of eighteen,
he often walked for music, sometimes without food, en route to Hamburg
where he could listen to concerts.
Toward the end of his life,
Bach was a great favourite among the princes and kings. Nothing gives him
as much pleasure as heaving his many children and relations assemble in
the Bach home and play music.
Dana Iliescu
"Duiliu Zamfirescu" School,
Focsani, Romania
Teacher Petru
Dumitru
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