MUS 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Arcangelo Corelli, Violin Family, Art Music
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Unit 1: patronage, power, and the performance of prestige: arcangelo. Wealthy people not only paid for the music but also the people playing. The pope in rome experienced challenges in power show wealth and power by commissioning art and sculptures in the church. Magnet for wealth through taxes and religious orders. All competing for power and dictating who will be in power. Woodwind, brass, organ lots of instrumentalists. Before time period = split into choirs. The king sponsored and paid for a great part of the theater, dance, painting, Joean baptist luilly in paris music and literature. Pope sponsored painting, architecture, devotional literature, and vocal music but avoided arts that were perceived as excessively secular (theater, dance, and instrumental music) Gained international fame exclusively in the realm of instrumental music in a culture where poetry was highly valued and vocal music was regarded by many as the most significant form of music.
