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 Although
homophonic music was becoming
increasingly popular during this time in music
history, new forms of polyphonic music were
also developing simultaneously. Similar to
composers during the Renaissance,
composers during this period felt that the art
of counterpoint was essential to their
artistry. Two extremely strict forms of
imitative polyphony, cannons and fugues
were very popular at the time of the Baroque
era.
 To
prove their very expertise, composers
were sometimes expected to improvise
complex fugues at a moment's notice.
Imitative polyphony (more than one line of
music) still was an extremely important
factor in writing and playing music, while the
homophonic method (a musical technique
that displays a vast separation amongst the
melody line and the accompaniment) was
gaining acceptance and use quite rapidly.
This homophonic style eventually became
dominant in instrumental forms of music as
well.
A
sonata is an instrument al work for a solo
instrument performing alone or with
accompaniment, in three contrasting
movements, such as fast-slow or loud-softloud. Other new musical forms included
cantatas and oratorios, multi-movement
vocal works with instrumental
accompaniment. Oratorios were more likely
to be sacred, and were frequently based on
verses from the Bible. Cantatas could be
sacred or secular.
 Buonarroti,
Michelangelo
 Born on March 6, 1475
 Family background as child and adult (Today,
Caprese is known as Caprese Michelangelo).
His family had been small-scale bankers in
Florence, but his father, failed to maintain
the bank's financial status, and held
occasional government positions. the family
returned to Florence, where Michelangelo
was raised.
 Michelangelo
lived with a stonecutter and his
wife and family in the town of Settignano
Michelangelo arrived in Rome 25 June 1496
at the age of 21. He began work on a
commission for Cardinal Raffaele Riario, an
over-life-size statue of the Roman wine god,
Bacchus.
 Johann
 He
Sebastian Bach
was born on March 21st l685 to
the court trumpeter for the Duke of
Eisenach, Johann Ambrosius. His
sister and brother died when he was
young. His mother died when he was
nine, his father died nine months
later.
 He
had a soprano voice that earned him a
spot in the choir of the wealthy Michaelis
monastery at Lüneburg. After he lost his
soprano voice, he started playing the violin
for an orchestra, and a harpsichord for choir
rehearsals.
 Rembrandt
 He
was born in 1606, the 9th child of a miller
and a bakers daughter.
 He was especially well known for his portrait
work and religious pieces.
 Baroque
architecture began in Italy when
renaissance architects became bored with
the simple symmetry of the buildings so in
the 1600’s they began “baroque
architecture” which also means “odd”
 Thermometer
 Syringe
 Microscope
 Pendulum
 Pressure
Cooking
 Barometer
 Steam Engine
 http://www.artsz.org/rembrandt-great-
baroque-artist/
 http://library.thinkquest.org/16545/data/lo
w/baroque.htm
 http://baroqueera.awardspace.com/pendulu
m.html
 http://library.thinkquest.org//
 http://www.baroquemusic.org/bqxjsbach.ht
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