Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
ASO1 coronation anthems and oratorios, Baroque music (Handel) - Coggle…
ASO1 coronation anthems and oratorios, Baroque music (Handel)
-
-
-
Melody
reflecting the text, lyrical/dramatic
-
-
Instruments
-
-
minimal woodwind, brass and timpani
Texture
anything, but fugue is a big deal in the Baroque period
-
Composers
Handel - german born Baroque composer, favourite of George I of England.
-
-
-
Anthem
-
developed in mid 16th century for voices only, but commonly accompanied by instruments from the Baroque period onwards
Oratorio
-
solo voices, chours and orchestra
similarities with opera, though they are not staged or acted out
multi sectional form made up of chorus numbers, recitatives, arias and purely instrumental bits