2. Changes in musical notation.
New instrumental playing techniques.
More elaborated musical ornamentation.
What happened in the Baroque period?
3. Instruments of the Baroque period:
Harpsichord:
It´s like a piano
with double keyboard
& instead of hitting
the strings he moves a needle and it plucks the string.
Recorder:
It’s a type of woodwind
instrument.It was very
popular but
it declined in 18th century
because of the
Classical orchestra
5. Orchestral Organization
The last image was an image of the Baroque orchestra feature. The
figure of the conductor has evolved and has not always been as it is now .
The fact that finely conductor has been instructed to conduct was only a
matter of demands of the score, but sat in the harpsichord and often ran
from there , playing the same instrument that made the harmonic filler.
Other times it was the first violin that made these functions.
6. Main Composers in the Baroque period
The most important composers of the Baroque period were
Johan Sebastian George Frederich
Haendel
Bach
Claudio Monteverdi
7. Principal pieces of Baroque Period
Johann Sebastian Bach: sonata & fuge:
Orchestral Suite - 07 - Badinerie
George Frederich Haendel: "Messiah" hallelujah
Claudio Monteverdi: triumphal march
8. A little biography of Antonio Vivaldi
Vivaldi was an Italian composer and violinist , the most influential of his time has been
doubted for many years on the exact date of his birth . Having rejected the idea that he had
been born in 1675 , it has concluded that the day of his birth was the March 4, 1678 , by
the act of baptism . He studied with his father, Giovanni Battista Vivaldi , violinist in
the Cathedral of San Marcos. Vivaldi was the eldest of seven children , four boys and
three girls. The greatest work of Antonio Vivaldi was The Four Seasons.