Josquin des Prez(1450-1521)

Born in france Baroque music

Career started as a singer started in - Have a unity of mood and continuity of
different courts in Italy, france, and rhythm
even spent more time singing in Papal - Melody is continuous and repeated
choir in rome throughout the piece
Known as a Franco-flemish composer Terraced dynamics shifting of the intensity of
(polophonic vocal composer) a volume from soft to loud and vice versa
Martin Luther called him The master of
the Notes Vocal Forms
Wrote chansons (French songs) - Follow the monadic style of music
Wrote Ave Maria... Virgo Serena wherein a single voice part was
predominant and supported by an
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina(1525-1594) accompaniment
Most famous successor of Josquin des - Basso continuo or figured bass or
Prez thorough bass, consist of a written bass
Active Italian composer of sacred music line with numerals below the notes
who spent most of his time as a 1. Opera
choirmaster in rome - An art where musicians, both singers
Return church music to its simplicity and and instrumentalists, perform a
purity to satisfy the desires of church dramatic composition putting the
leaders libretto(text) and the musical score
together accompanied but the orchestra
Composition were often considered as a
or a much smaller ensemble
Perfect sacred music
2. Cantata
Greatest master of the roman catholic
- Italian word which means sung
church music
- vocal composition for a soloist or a choir
Has the title of The Prince of Music
accompanied by instruments
104 masses, more than 250 motets, 200
3. Oratorio
liturgical pieces
- extended musical drama with a
Wrote Sicut Cervus
narration based on religious matter
intended to be performed without
Baroque
scenery, action, or costumes
- from the Portugese barroco meaning
- Messiah is a well known oratorio of
an oddly shaped pearl
handle where the famous hallelujah
Baroque Period
chorus was taken
- Associated with features such as
ornateness, grandeur, and flamboyance
in architecture and painting
 Instrumental Forms Johann Sebastian Bach(1685-1750)
1. Concerto Grosso - Greatest composer of his time
- Most important orchestral music in the - Best organist, harpsichordist, and
baroque period master of the fugue
- Consist of mainly string instruments - Born on March 31, 1685 in Eisenach,
with few solo instruments called the Germany
concertino - His fathers death in 1695
- Tutti is composed of harpsichord as - Johann Christoph Bach, his brother
part of the basso continuo another - Attained his first post as organist in
stringed instruments Arnstadt, where he stayed until 1707,
- Brandenburg concerto in D major by followed by a year as organist in
Johann Sebastian Bach is a Famous Muhlhausen
concerto grosso - From 1708 to 1717, worked for Duke
- Consist of 3 movements: Fast, Slow, Fast Wilhelm Ernst of Weimar as court
- Christmas Concerto by Arcangelo organist
Corelli - 1714, worked for Duke Wilhelm Ernst of
2. Suite Weimar as Kapellmeister
- Group of works held together by story, - 1717, became the music director for the
mood, or idea Prince Leopold of Cothen(1717-1723)
- Instrumental music with different - 1723, music director and cantor at St.
movements in the same key based on Thomas Church in Leipzig.
dance music o be performed at a single Time when he started writing many
sitting great church music
- Baroque group of dances include - Mass in B Minor was not a liturgical
Partita, Overture, and Sonata de Camara work but a summation of his sacred
- Water music by Handel style
- Badinerie from suite no.2 in B minor - Art of Fugue (unfinished), is a
by J.S. Bach compendium of unequalled
contrapuntal techniques
Musical instruments - Composed for the church and his
- Trompe dauphine - Clavichord patrons
- Recorder - Man who never left his native country
- Oboe - Became Blind
- Violin - Died on July 28, 1750
- Viol His works:
- Lute 1. Prelude and fugue in C minor
- Harpsichord
 2. Cantata 56,82, and no. 140 Mass in B - 1708, Daphne and Florindo
Minor - While in Italy, he composed the operas
3. Gavotte from Suite no. 5 in G major, Rodrigo and Agrippina
Glory Now to Thee be Given, Jesu joy of - 1710, visited London where his opera
Mans Desiring Rinaldo was performed to great success
4. Sacred vocal works including 200 church - Englands favourite composer
cantatas, seven motets, - Lost his eyesight in 1753
magnificat(1723), St. John - Samson aria Total Eclipse! No Sun, No
Passion(1724), St. Matthew Moon
Passion(1727) - died as most renowned musical figure
5. Secular vocal works including 20 of his day, and a national treasure
cantatas like the cantata 208 (hunting - the man of the world
cantata) and 211 (coffee cantata) - a world traveller
6. Orchestral music which included suites, - he collapsed at the end of the
concertos for violins and harpsichords performance of Messiah
7. Organ music including over 150 chorale - died 3 days later at age of 74 in April
preludes, toccatas, fantasias, preludes, 14, 1759
fugues, and passacaglias - buried in Westminster Abbey
Fugue Messiah
- both an instrumental and vocal music - handels famous oratorio
- Compositional technique in which a - written in the span of twenty-four days
theme is extended and developed on August and September 1741 in
mainly by imitative counterpoint London
Subject polyphonic composite based on main - first performed in Dublin on April 13,
theme 1742
Countersubject different melodic idea that some of his works:
accompanies subject 1. over 40 operas including Almira(1705),
Episodes section between the subjects Rinaldo(1711), Giulio Cesare(Juluis
Fugue in G Minor bachs best known organ Cesar,1742), and orlando(1733)
pieces 2. oratorios including esther, Alexanders
Feast, Israel in Egypt, Messiah, Samson,
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Solomon; other sacred vocal music like
- Master of English oratorio and Italian Ode for the birthday of Queen anne and
opera ode for St. Cecilias day
- Born on Febuary 23, 1685 in Halle, 3. Orchestral music including water music
Saxony(germany) and music for the royal Fireworks,
- 1702, entered the University of Halle Polonaise from Concerto Grosso, Op.3,
- 1705, Almira and Nero were produced organ horn