Lauren Quick
MUS 110
Writing Assignment #1 The main style characteristics of the Baroque period include texture, rhythm, dynamics and emotion. A common feature of texture is known as basso continuo, which creates a strong emphasis in the bass instruments and voices. Rhythms are definite and regulars throughout the musical selections. Dynamics include abrupt changes from soft to loud sounds, instead of gradual ones. Composers of Baroque music talk about the importance of emotions. The theatricality of Baroque music conveys the audience to feel a certain emotion. This is very important to composers to analyze emotions and not mirror their own. The Baroque art and architecture affected the music and their irregularities. Both music and art have …show more content…
Concertos are large compositions for an orchestra. These compositions are full of movements and ritornellos or the beginning of the movement. Fugues are written in imitative polyphony and are built on subjects that appear in instrumental lines. Subjects are principal themes are fugues. They begin with expositions and have certain techniques called countersubjects and strettos. Strettos are when several voices come together at the beginning of a subject. Finally, baroque dances include minuets, sarabands, and gigues. These are written in compound and triple meters. Minutes and sarabands had a moderate tempo and gigues were similar to Irish jigs.
Famous vocal styles include operas, oratorios, and church cantatas. The components of opera are recitative techniques that give words a theatricality, arias that give a soloist more emotion and orchestral accompanied, and opera seria that let sopranos excel over other opera singers. Cantatas are compositions for soloists and instruments. Theses can also be described as secular. Oratorios, on the other hand, are strictly religious for orchestras and soloists. Johann Sebastian Bach used a single hymn stanza to end the cantata. He used gapped chorale that can be sung or played by one
MUS 110
Writing Assignment #1 The main style characteristics of the Baroque period include texture, rhythm, dynamics and emotion. A common feature of texture is known as basso continuo, which creates a strong emphasis in the bass instruments and voices. Rhythms are definite and regulars throughout the musical selections. Dynamics include abrupt changes from soft to loud sounds, instead of gradual ones. Composers of Baroque music talk about the importance of emotions. The theatricality of Baroque music conveys the audience to feel a certain emotion. This is very important to composers to analyze emotions and not mirror their own. The Baroque art and architecture affected the music and their irregularities. Both music and art have …show more content…
Concertos are large compositions for an orchestra. These compositions are full of movements and ritornellos or the beginning of the movement. Fugues are written in imitative polyphony and are built on subjects that appear in instrumental lines. Subjects are principal themes are fugues. They begin with expositions and have certain techniques called countersubjects and strettos. Strettos are when several voices come together at the beginning of a subject. Finally, baroque dances include minuets, sarabands, and gigues. These are written in compound and triple meters. Minutes and sarabands had a moderate tempo and gigues were similar to Irish jigs.
Famous vocal styles include operas, oratorios, and church cantatas. The components of opera are recitative techniques that give words a theatricality, arias that give a soloist more emotion and orchestral accompanied, and opera seria that let sopranos excel over other opera singers. Cantatas are compositions for soloists and instruments. Theses can also be described as secular. Oratorios, on the other hand, are strictly religious for orchestras and soloists. Johann Sebastian Bach used a single hymn stanza to end the cantata. He used gapped chorale that can be sung or played by one