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Baroque Period
Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the Brandenburg Concertos; instrumental compositions, keyboard works, organ and vocal music.
Bach
Although on the surface having nothing to do with Bach, parts of the piece is a directly copied version of the the Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846.
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Bach composed the Brandenburg Concertos,.
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Bach was a big fan of Vivaldi's work. Bach often borrowed themes from Vivaldi's concertos and used them in his own compositions.
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The Baroque period was known for its constant use of ornamentation throughout many of its pieces, such as trills, upper and lower mordent, and others.
Ornamentation
The Four Seasons uses ornamentation extensively. For example, in the "Spring" section of the song uses ornamentation for the higher notes to almost imitate the sounds of birds chirping.
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Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Along with Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel, Vivaldi ranks amongst the greatest Baroque composers.
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons is the best known of Vivaldi's works, in which he used music to represent the 4 seasons and things that represented them.
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The Four Seasons is a group of four violin concertos by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year.
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Basso continuo parts, almost universal in the Baroque era, provided the harmonic structure of the music by supplying bassline and a chord progression.
Basso Continuo
The Four Seasons utilises a basso continuo, often played by a harpsichord or other keyboard instrument
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The concerto grosso is a form of baroque music in which the musical material is passed between a small group of soloists and full orchestra.
Concerto Grosso
This piece is classified as a concerto grosso piece, and they are widely regarded as some of the greatest orchestral compositions of the Baroque era.
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"Ave Maria" is a popular setting of the Latin prayer Ave Maria. The piece consists of a melody by the French Romantic composer Charles Gounod that he superimposed over a version of Bach's Prelude No. 1 in C major.
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In classical music, a fugue is a contrapuntal, polyphonic compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches), which recurs frequently throughout the course of the composition.
Fugue
Most of the background music in Ave Maria comes from a fugue, which relies on repeating tones and voices to lead into a piece.
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The Brandenburg Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach is a collection of six instrumental works presented by Bach to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, in 1721.
It is a concerto for strings, with an ensemble that contrasts three trios -- three violins, three violas and three cellos -- the high, middle and low registers of the violin family.
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