HUM 002A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Renaissance Music, String Instrument, Monophony
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Lecture 8: baroque music: the baroque aesthetic, roots: Refinements in instrument tuning (scales for wind instruments and string instrument tuned differently, Printing press: allowed music to be printed copiously: opera: development of secular and sacred music, affected other musical genres, terms, horizontal vs. vertical music: different sounds made by chords (stacking notes) Influenced by the council of trent: church encouraged artists to create emotional dynamic music, create emotional aspects of opera. Faster playing violins, think of terms in vocal melodies to translate into instruments, composed in way where voices cannot not mimic: used a 3 movement format : fast, slow, fast allegro, andante, Funded for life and placed on the pantheon. Tendency to stop music instead of having continuous music during silence. Influenced by opera: contrasts of music, variety of musical phrases, created a new, antonio vivaldi (1678-1741) instrumental genre. Influenced bach: joined priesthood and quit in 1705 to become a musician, a prolific writer and worked in an orphanage.
