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Baroque music - Coggle Diagram
Baroque music
Secular vocal music
Opera is a hugely important genre of vocal music that originated in this period. It can be defined as a theatre play set to music about non religius terms
The first opera is generally considereted to be L'orfeo, by composer Claudio Monteverdi
Religious vocal music
Instrumental music
In the baroque period instrumental music definitively became independent from vocal music. This created several genres such as the concerto, suite and fugue
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Suite
The other important instrumental genre is the Baroque period was the suite de danses, a sequence of dances
Oratorios were made by putting to religius stories, normally based on texts from the bible. In oratorios, unlike opera, there is no staging
Cantata were made by putting music to religius texts, unlike oratorios, they don't tell stories
Historical auditorium
The style concitato is a technique that consists of using very fast rhythms on one or several notes to create on effect of movement or dinamic
Johann Sebastian Bach was born on 21 March 1685 in Germany. He has 20 childrens. Bach is not only the best Baroque composers but one of the most important in the story of music. Felix Mendelson rediscovered his music.
The baroque instruments
The organ
The organ was an instrument that developed greatly during the Baroque period. Composers like Bach played it masterfully, Some espectacular pipe organs were built in churches and cathedrals.
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The feeling of a lot of movement and a very mechanical as well as very fast rhythm, occurs especialy in instrumental music