In this concert of baroque Latin American music, Chatham Baroque explores the contrast between two different musical traditions: the secular and the sacred. ... Its members include: Julie Andrijeski (baroque violin) moved to Pittsburgh to join Chatham Baroque in 1996. ... Julie Andrijeski has taught baroque violin at the Oberlin and Peabody Conservatories as well as baroque dance at Case Western Reserve University. ... He has recently performed with Jordi Saval's period orchestra, "Le Concert Des Nations," at Alice Tully Hall and the Library of Congress; The NY Collegium; AmorArtis Ch...

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Choral Music of the Baroque Era The baroque style of music was different than its predecessor the renaissance period, because music during the renaissance period was sung in the a cappella choral style, while in the baroque era instruments played a huge role. ... Monteverdi wrote the first operas of the baroque period. ... Catholicism found a new flame during the Baroque period. ... Composers There were many great composers of the Baroque period. ... The Baroque period was a time of religious, political, social, and artistic passion. ...

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During the Baroque period, the Catholic Church commissioned artist to create works that would reinforce its own historic tradition and authority in order to lure people back and regain its former power. The period of time was called the Counter-Reformation. ... Artist embodied creativity, a state of mind or expression of concerns about the period. ... The Baroque Movement was highly encouraged by the Catholic Church, the most important patrons of the arts during this period, in hopes of influencing the people to return to the traditional values of spirituality. ... Human suffering, violence...

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The Baroque era was a period of energy and motion. ... The Baroque organ, which was a instrument whose powerful resonance and striking variety of timbre was unsurpassed creating awe filled the interior. ... Some stylistic characteristics of Baroque art is the deep color and intense light and dark shadows. ... A Baroque organ is a pipe organ, which was built in a particular style and to certain specifications during the Baroque era. ... The Baroque organs had each pipe produce a single pitch, and pipes are provided in sets called ranks. ...

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According to the textbook, Baroque is defined as the seventeenth-century artistic and cultural style, characterized by an emphasis on grandeur, opulence, expansiveness, and complexity. ... Among the general characteristics of baroque art is a sense of movement, energy, and tension. Throughout the Renaissance and into the baroque period, painters sought a grander sense of space and truer depiction of perspective in their works. ... And the most excellent expression of Florid Baroque is the church of St. ... Actually coming between Baroque and Neoclassical, it was a style that grew out of the Ba...

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The Baroque period in Poland was alive for more than two centuries, beginning at the very end of the sixteenth century and lasting until the middle of the eighteenth century. The Polish Baroque writing style focused on richness of the form and consisted of metaphors, paradox, and conceit. ... As the Baroque period was coming to an end, Polish literature became a product of the Polish Commonwealth's declining history and politics. ... In conclusion, the negative impact of Sarmatism can be expressed through the use of symbolism, metaphor, metonymy, imagery, personification, allusion, and s...

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This period is well-known as the Baroque period. ... The first painting, Los Meninas, which is also known as "The Maids of Honor,"" is painted by Diego Velasquez during the Spanish Baroque Period. ... In the second painting, the Allegory of the Outbreak of War by Peter Paul Rubens from the Flemish Baroque period, light and dark also play a key role. ... The Las Meninas and the Allegory of the Outbreak of War are great examples of the Baroque Period for their ornate and elaborate nature. In addition, they are influenced by European politics, as the Baroque Period was. ...

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The word Baroque was first used as a term of disparagement often associated with the synonym for strange and bizarre. ... The Baroque period made great strides in the art world with paintings, sculptures, and even architecture. Many great artists made their names known during this time period. ... One of my favorite from this time period is Caravaggio. ... Although the Baroque period ended in 1725, people and artist still carried this period with them. ...

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"The Night Watch" at the Baroque Period In 17 ~ 18th, there is the baroque period that is a movement in European culture. ... (Bazin 5) Besides, it could be identified that Renaissance period concentrate on harmony, on the other hand, the Baroque period concentrated on expression of power rather than harmony or balance. In Baroque period, there was common view for several trends; it is expression of power instead of harmony of artworks. ... His painting "The Night Watch" is one of great works at Baroque period. ... This painting was successful and classified as Baroque. ...

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Following this, I will intricately explore/investigate all the relevant details of Borromini's "San Carlo alle Quattro" , a famous church from the period, from it's facade, to is plan forms, right up to it's dome roof and intricate painting and sculpture. ... Art historians, have traditionally emphasized that the Baroque period falls in a time which the Roman Catholic Church had to react against the many revolutionary cultural movements that produced a new science and new forms of religion (Reformation). ... During the baroque period new social and political systems resulted in ...

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Baroque was the style dominating the European art world throughout the 1600's, and in some countries even longer. The Baroque art period evolved from the Mannerist style of art, which dominated the late Renaissance Era, and its" single-most classification is the artists" preoccupation with light and the sense of emotion depicted in the artwork. ... Caravaggio was at the forefront of the Baroque period and influenced many artists including Gentilesche and Rubens. ... Peter Paul Rubens is a Flemish painter from the Baroque Era. ... Like many artists from the Baroque period. ...

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The Baroque Era featured such forms of music including: the Opera, the Cantata, the Oratorio, and the Concerto. ... The Baroque Era which was centered on the idea of absolute monarchy, saw a revolution from the middle class. ... Another type of music created and portrayed in the Baroque era was the sonata. ... Overall, the Baroque era was a very important time in the world's progress of music, art, and religion. This period saw the division of the Catholic religion into two distinct religions and the creation of one of the most interesting forms of entertainment the opera. ...

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Music composition roughly between 1750 and 1830 (post-Baroque and pre-Romantic) which covers the development of the classical symphony and concert. ... He states that the Classical period 2 was virtually unnoticed: its beginnings may be seen in a simplification of texture (in which a more chordal texture took the place of the luxuriant counterpoint of the late Baroque), a lightening of the tone almost to frivolity and triviality. ... Classical composers fas...

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The Baroque was an era characterized by constant turmoil which was reflected in the visual arts and architecture. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was influential for this period. ... He was able to understand and use every resource of musical language that was available in the baroque era. ... The Baroque and Classical ideas were very influential part of our history. ... Baroque ideas such as constant restless movement, elaborate ornamentation, and turbulent emotions influence much of Bach's ideas. ...

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Classical music was very different from the music in the Baroque era. ... Unlike Baroque music, classical music had a variety of different rhythms throughout a piece. ... Dynamics were also very different from the Baroque era. ... Another aspect of the Classical period was political. During the Classical period there were many world events. ...

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This paper will investigate the socio-political environment as well as the cultural-artistic context of the Ospedale della Pietà, focusing on its development during the baroque period. ... First established in 1346 by a Franciscan Friar, the Ospedale della Pietà was lead by wealthy governors and forty board members with the goal of properly raising abandoned children in Venice during the Baroque period (Edwards, 2010; Selfridge-Field, 1986). ... Its inclusion of upper-class students also greatly contributed to breaking the class barrier of Venetian society, Venice was a paradise for mu...

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Classical composers continued to use the same chords, harmonic progressions and cadences that were used by Baroque composers especially the rules of harmony that have governed Western music for centuries set up in the Baroque period. ... The close explanation of classical era is generally defined by when the modern sonata form became from the rounded two-part form of the Baroque period. ... The invention of a piano however replaced it and the woodwind section became a self-contained section, though some instruments were still used from the Baroque period. ... The Classical period was a perio...

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Music from the Renaissance and Baroque period in many ways reflect the mentality and setting of their times, each birthed upon the evolution and changes of profound ideas that became signature motifs of their place in history. ... This period is noted heavily for its revival of Greek and roman ideas, hence the name renaissance meaning "revival"(Sherrane 1). ... The rules for consonance and dissonance are iconic of this time period, and it sets it apart from the one before and after. ... The Baroque Period (meaning abnormal or bizarre) spanned from the year 1600 to around 1750. The g...

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Before the Medieval period came to an end a large population of Europe was taken out by the Black plague. ... All composers used Baroque styles in their music. ... " Baroque was also big in art and architecture. ... One being Baroque. Baroque architecture was very lively. ...

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The following essay will discuss the baroque period and how the Catholic Reformation, Protestant devotionalism, and the Scientific Revolution influenced it. The Baroque period generally refers to the years 1600 to1750. Classicism of the Renaissance has been replenished during the Baroque period. ... Handel influenced the baroque period with oratorio musical designs depicting a scriptural narrative. The baroque period was a time of change. ...

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During the Baroque period new forms of presenting music were invented. ... The concerto was one of the most important forms of music that came out of the Baroque period. During the Baroque period there were many new influential composers. ... Towards the end of the Baroque period, the great composer J.S. Bach shined and wrote some of the best Baroque pieces ever written, still Baroque in style, but giving way to the new classical period. ...

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The Classical Period began in 1750, the year of J.S. ... This led them to call this period The Age of Enlightenment'. ... The architecture and visual images of the classical period differed greatly from the Baroque period and offered a more lightly coloured, graceful look with smoothly curving lines in the paintings and buildings. ... Unlike Renaissance music that took almost 150 years to change into Baroque music, Baroque music underwent a transition that quickly converted it to Classical music in a relatively short period of time. ... Music historians later named the period the Classi...

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The six periods of music are the Medieval, the Renaissance, the Baroque, the Classical, the Romantic, and the Twentieth Century. ... In the Baroque period music became entertainment for a greater portion of society and servants or church music directors composed the music. Music in the Baroque period was polyphonic (with some homophony), had unity of mood, and tonality existed. The various forms of music in this period were the baroque suite, oratorio, opera, concerto, fugue and prelude. ... Also, all musicians of this period are freelancers. ...

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This essay will be discussing the Baroque period through the 20th Century period. ... The first important period in music history is the Baroque Period. However, in order to fully understand how Baroque style and Baroque music came to be, the Baroque period must be viewed in context with the other periods of music history. ... In the baroque period, composers began to learn how to effectively utilize the instruments for new found purposes, such as dances. ... Another essential Baroque composer was Antonio Vivaldi. ...

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Composers during the middle baroque period introduced a new level of the importance of musical instruments. ... For the first time in musical history, instrumental music became just as important as vocal music, during the late baroque period. ... Fugues were also made popular in the baroque period. ... Unlike the baroque period's use of a single mood carried on all the way through a movement, classical composers put emphasis on varying the emotions. ... The classical period also introduced the use of unexpected pauses found at various points in a piece of music, and unlike music of ...

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