Baroque Music

• When did this period start?

  1600-1750
• What does Baroque mean?

  Bizarre, flamboyant and elaborately ornamented.
• What is Baroque used?

  A way to identify a particular style in the arts.
• What does Baroque do?

  It fills space - canvas, stone and sound with action and movement.
• Baroque is for artists interested in what?

  Creating an illusion - like a stage setting. Dramatic and Contrasting colours.
• Name examples of Artists?

  Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt
• Who is the style well-suited to?

  The wishes of Aristocracy- Integrated structures
• What did Louis XIV do (integrated structures)?

  He had Versailles' palace fused with Baroque painting, sculptures, Architecture, garden design a symbol of royal wealth and power.
• What was it like for Powerful Aristocracy?


  They were surrounded by luxury in contrast to commoners.
• What age was Germany living in and what did it mean?

  Age of absolutism - Rulers had absolute power.

  Germany was divided into 300 territories and was ruled by different aristocrats.
• What needed ongoing entertainment?

  Splendid palaces, Balls , Banquets, dinners.
• What was church?

  A powerful institution - used emotional and theatrical qualities of art to make worship more appealing. This helped to shape Baroque style.
• What Europe do?

  They divided into Catholic and Protestant areas.
• How did the middle class influence the development of Baroque arts?

  They commissioned paintings of realistic landscapes from everyday life.
• Scientific discoveries

  • Galileo
  • Newton
• Examples of mathematical laws in relation to science (prominent)?

  • New inventions.
  • Improvement in medicine.
  • Advances in mining, industry and navigation.
• Important composers?

  George Frederic Handel

  Johann Sebastian Bach
• When did Bach die and what relation does it have to Baroque?

  1750.

  Bach was known as the master of Baroque so his death marks the end of the Baroque.
• Other important Composers?

  Monteverdi, Purcell, Corelli, Vivaldi
• The divisions of the Baroque period and the late Baroque period?

  Early, middle, late.

  Most popular music from late.