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LESSON STEPS. Anticipatory set: Show PowerPoint slides of Baroque art and architecture to students in the computer lab. Describe the “ornamental” features of art from the Baroque period and introduce Baroque music through playing an example from Handel’s Messiah showing ornamental style of the music. Steps:
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Even though in current times Baroque music is regarded as highly elegant, such an ideology was not always the case. In fact, the Baroque music style was, “taken to be a degenerate form of the renaissance” (Bukofzer, 1947, p.1). Comparatively, the music of the Baroque period seemed too overstated and exaggerated, because of the
The term baroque is an arbitrary term used for stylistic practices existing from 1600 to 1750. It may derive from the word barroco in Portuguese meaning “oddly shaped pearl.”. Originally used in a derogatory fashion to describe artistic trends of this time period, baroque has come to broadly refer to the century and a half beginning in 1600.
Two Practices of this Early Baroque • Prima Pratica -old style vocal polyphony – Music dominates text – Netherland and Palestrina style – AKA; stile antico or stylus gravis • Secunda Pratica -more adventurous Italian style – Text dominates music, use of affection – Old rules could be broken and dissonances used to evoke the text
Sculptural facades and decorative schemes emerge to the foreground (Hasol, 2008). 2. Architecture in the Baroque period Baroque architecture emerged in Italy as a reaction to the strict rules of the Renaissance. Rome is regarded as the birthplace of Baroque art which spanned all of the 17th century and the first half of the 18th (Hasol, 2008).
The Baroque ( UK: / bəˈrɒk / bə-ROK, US: /- ˈroʊk / -ROHK; French: [baʁɔk]) is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s. [1] It followed Renaissance art and Mannerism and preceded the Rococo (in the past often referred to as ...
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In the baroque, it is the spirit of the second practice—using the power of music to communicate—that came to dominate the era. The realities of patronage. Any discussion of a Baroque composer’s artistic philosophy should be tempered, at least slightly, by the reality of their lives.
