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Welcome to Music
History
RENAISSANCE TO
BAROQUE
Composers and their dates
 Giovanni Palestrina: 1525 – 1594
 Claudio Monteverdi: 1567 – 1643
 Antonio Vivaldi: 1678 – 1741
 Georg Philipp Telemann: 1681 – 1767
 Johann Sebastian Bach: 1685 – 1750
 Georg Friedrich Händel: 1685 – 1759
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
 Born near Rome: a small town called Praeneste
 Known for his Catholic music written for Rome
 Renaissance composer
 Wrote music using Polyphony
 Two melodies with two different rhythms played
simultaneously
 Composed 93 masses, 600 motets and various other litgurgical
music (psalms, hymns, etc.); he also wrote secular madrigals
 As a child, may have been a chorister in the cathedral
of Sant’ Agapit
 Died in Rome
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi
 Born in Venice, Italy
 Ordained a priest in 1703
 Known for composing the Four Seasons and Opus 3
 Also known for writing five-finger exercises for students
 Accomplished violinist
 Employed most of his life by Ospedale della Pietà
 Ospedali were homes for female offspring of noblemen and the residents
were well taken care of and well-trained in music
 Vivaldi was a teacher in this home for girls
 Composed concertos and operas
 Traveled to Rome, Prague and Amsterdam
 Conducted several of his own works
 Died in Vienna
Johann Sebastian Bach
 Born in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany
 Composer and Organist
 Considered the most important part of his family, his genius
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combined performance with creativity to produce his original
and incredible compositions
Left for Lüneburg in 1700 to study in a Latin school and there
sung in a choir
Achieved renown as a virtuoso organist
Known for composing famous organ works such as Toccata
and Fugue in D Minor and Prelude and Fugue in D Major and
many cantatas, 3 oratorios and many Latin works
Fathered 20 children: 7 from his first wife and 13 from his
second wife. Two children from his first wife, Wilhelm
Friedemann and Carl Philip Emanuel went on to become
famous composers
Died in Leipzig
Musical Terms
Renaissance and Baroque
 Cantata: a work for one or more voices with instrumental
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accompaniment
Opera: a drama set to music to be sung with instrumentalists
usually in costume
Motet: Latin sacred text usually designed to be sung in the
Catholic church
Madrigal: a poetic form set to music; sung in Italy and
popular in the late 16th and early 17th centuries
Oratorio: sacred text set to music with dramatic, narrative and
contemplative ideas; usually based on a biblical character and
similar to opera but without costume and scenery
Chamber Music: instrumental music composed for a small
ensemble with one player to a part
Concerto: a solo instrumentalist accompanied by orchestra