Baroque (1600 - 1700)-Essay
Baroque music is a style of European classical music, this period is exactly a very important time in music history approximately extending between 1600 and 1750. This era is begin in music after the Renaissance and was followed by the Classical aera.
During this period, as there are many influential composer, such as Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Alessandro Scarlatti, Antonio Vivaldi, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Arcangelo Corelli, Claudio Monteverdi, Jean-Philippe Rameau and Henry Purcell. They wrote in many different musical genres, such as Opera and oratorio. The Opera invented in the late Renaissance, became an important musical form during the Baroque, with the operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Handel, and others. The oratorio achieved its peak in the work of Bach and Handel, especially Handel’s “Messiah”. But in this period, they have religious music, instrumental sonatas as well.
Moreover, voice and strings are most important instrument of Baroque music. In addition, they also have woodwinds, brass, keyboard/Plucked. Indeed, the two most universal stylistic elements of Baroque music is continuo, and ornamentation, such as trills, mordents and grace notes. Both involve the difference between what the compo ser wrote down and what the performer played. Both are elements of musical style which derived from Renaissance music and persisted into early Classical music.
The music of the Baroque period also had a tremendous impact, especially in the Catholic countries of central Europe. The Baroque style continued to be represented in sacred music through the end of the eighteenth century, the masses and oratorios of Haydn and Mozart, while Classical in their orchestration and ornamentation, have many Baroque features in their underlying contrapuntal and harmonic structure.
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