What are facts about Baroque music?

Answer 1

- Music is heavy on polyphony and counterpoints;

- The most common genre / technique of music were the fugues;

- The most used instruments were harpsichords, organs and violins;

- A lot of musical pieces had a religious theme / were ordered by the church;

- Important figures of the baroque music: Bach, Vivaldi, Monteverdi and Handel.

Answer 2

1. Classical Music comes in eras for example, baroque, renaissance, romantic etc.

2. Probably the most famous composer would have been Mozart.

3. Many composers knew each other.

4.one of the early instruments that was played was the Viol or the lute.

5.there are many types of music like a symphony, Opera, choral works, requiems, chamber music, Gregorian chant, the madrigal, and the mass.

6. the term "classical music was not made until the early 19 century.it was called the golden era of music.

7. You can make a variation of something but you need to keep the melody going.

8.A old piano type organ typed instrument is the harpisicord.

9.there are Folk Music as well.

10. Classical music typically uses very specific instruments, most markedly those invented before mid-10th century and adopted in the 18th and 19th centuries, such as instruments like violin, cello, viola, woodwind instruments, brass instruments and other instruments in the orchestra and solo instruments such as piano, harpsichord, organ and guitar.

Answer 3

1. It evolved, or grew out of, Medieval music.

2. It began around 1400.

3. It began in northern Italy, as did Renaissance art, architecture, sculpture, and literature.

4. It mostly incorporated vocal or choral singing, although many Renaissance era pieces of music were instrumental.

5. It started fading away in its birthplace, northern Italy, around 1600, being replaced by the Baroque era.

Beginnings of Baroque music

Italian composers such as Monteverdi had to create another new musical period in order to write operas, which incorporated things like basso continuo. Once the baroque style was invented, Monteverdi and others would not abandon it in future compositions.

Answer 4

Classical Music started in ancient Egypt. The good composers are: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach.