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Baroque
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The word "baroque" comes from a Portuguese word used to describe
irregular ______________. It was applied to art, architecture and music that
were very _______________.
Two popular compositional techniques were ____________________ and
_______________.
CounterpointFugueThe ________________ was not invented until the end of the Baroque
period. The primary keyboard instruments of the time were the _________,
____________________, and ____________________.
Composers in the Baroque period standardized the rules about
_______________ that we still use today. This system was based on the
relationships between different __________________.
Some Important Baroque Composers:
Claudio Monteverdi- (1567-1643) Both a Renaissance and Baroque
composer. He wrote the first major _____________ called _____________.
Jean Baptiste Lully- (1632-1687) Italian-born French composer who created
a popular form of _________________________.
Dietrich Buxtehude- (c.1637-1707) Danish/German _______________ who
influenced many other composers.
Johann Pachelbel- (1653-1706) German composer/one-hit-wonder who
wrote __________________________.
Henry Purcell- (1659-1695) One of the finest English composers of all time.
Wrote the famous English opera ____________________________.
Antonio Vivaldi- (1678-1741) Italian composer and priest. Wrote 450
concertos, including the famous ______________________________.
Georg Frederich Handel- (1685-1759) German composer who lived in
England, writing operas and ________________________, including the
very famous __________________.
Johann Sebastian Bach- (1685-1750) Often considered ________________
_______________________________________. He was an obscure church
musician his entire life, not becoming famous until more than 100 years after
his death. Historians and music theorists use Bach as the standard for what
is acceptable.