Transcript The Baroque Era - davenantperformingarts

The Baroque Era
Bach, Harpsichord & Clavichord, Concerto, Madrigal, Sacred
Music
BACH
- 1685-1750
- Bach was a German Composer
- Organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist of the Baroque period
- His most famous works consist of: The Mass in Bminor, Toccata And Fugue In D Minor,
Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring and Air On A G String
- Bach composed cantatas, large scale choral works, chorales, sacred songs,
preludes, canons and sonatas.
- During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, Bach
was widely recognised for his keyboard work. Mozart, Beethoven,
Chopin, Robert Schumann, and Felix Mendelssohn were among
his most prominent admirers; they began writing in a more
contrapuntal style after being exposed to Bach's music.
Beethoven described him as the "Urvater der Harmonie",
the "original father of harmony".
Toccata And Fugue In D Minor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho9rZjlsyYY
Air On A G String
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMkmQlfOJDk
THE CLAVICHORD & HARPSICHORD
- The clavichord is a European stringed keyboard instrument known from the late Medieval, through the
Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras.
- It was widely used as a practice instrument and as an aid to composition, not being loud enough for larger
performances.
- The harpsichord is a stringed keyboard instrument, differing from the clavichord and the piano in having
plucked, rather than struck, strings.
- A harpsichord may have two keyboards or manuals rather than one, as a piano does.
- The harpsichord has a smaller range than typical modern instruments, it’s maximum dynamic is softer than a
piano’s; making crescendos, decrescendos, and accents impossible.
The Clavichord
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WuVVE2t-Vk
The Harpsichord
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71iUAFFQ8ik
A CONCERTO
- A concerto is a musical composition usually composed in three parts or movements, in which
(usually) one solo instrument (for instance, a piano, violin, cello or flute) is accompanied by an
orchestra.
-Started in the Baroque period and is still used today.
- Famous piano concertos include: Brahms’ No.2 B-flat Major Op.83, Beethoven’s No.5 E-flat
Major Op.73, Schumann’s Concerto in A minor, Op.54 and Rachmaninoff’s No.3 D minor Op.30
Schumann’s Concerto in A minor:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ5p5E3XCQ4#t=268
Rachmaninoff’s No.3 in D minor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsLsXGp0KJ4#t=96
A MADRIGAL
- A madrigal is a non-religious vocal music composition of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras
- The number of voices in a madrigal vary from 2 to 8 and are unaccompanied
- Most madrigals are through-composed
- The composer tried to express the emotion contained in each line of a celebrated poem
- An example of a madrigal is Monteverdi’s Ohime, Se Tanto Amate (That we studied at AS)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm90zyCwoDs
SACRED MUSIC
- Sacred music is music composed for religious use or through religious influence
- Opposite to secular meaning non-religious
- Sacred music has always been around and still is today
- Popular sacred music works include: Mozart’s Requiem in D minor, Handel’s Messiah,
Beethoven’s Missa solemnis in D Major Op.123 and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion
Mozart’s Requiem
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPlhKP0nZII