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Exploring the Baroque Musical and Visual Styles: An Analysis of Composition and Art

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A comparative analysis of Baroque music and art, highlighting key stylistic features and historical significance.

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    Baroque Musical Style 1 Running head: BAROQUE MUSICAL STYLE Baroque Style Listen to one (1) composition that demonstrates the qualities of the Baroque musical style. It may be from the Websites below or from this week’s Music Folder. Identify your choice, and describe it by relating key terms from the textbook to your selection. Explain what you like or admire about the work. Compare it to a modern soundtrack or song that evokes a similar mood.  Select two (2) Baroque style paintings from the Websites below that no other student has selected. Identify each as to artist, date, and title or description. From the summaries of the Baroque style’s features in our class text, identify specific key aspects of each painting that fit the Baroque style. Explain why you selected each and what you like or dislike about it. Compare this style to a modern film, type of film, or to a modern situation. Explore: Monteverdi and Vivaldi  Chapter 21 (pp. 707 - 710), Baroque music and composers; review the Week 1 “Music Folder” #1  Monteverdi’s Orfeo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ll_u870PG8 (lyrics with translation: http://introtomusicdeanza.wordpress.com/class - resources/examples - baroque/ )  Vivaldi’s "Spring" from Vivaldi: A Man For All Seasons at http://www.npr.org/2011/07/18/104868631/vivaldi - a - man - for - all - seasons and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFHPRi0ZeXE (background and lyric translation at http://www.baroquemusic.org/vivaldiseasons.html ) Baroque Visual Arts  Chapter 21 (pp. 689 - 691; 701 - 703) and Chapter 22 (pp. 715 - 720; 726 - 735); Baroque style and its characteristics; Baroque in the north  Baroque samples at https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/monarchy - enlightenment/baroque - art1/beginners - guide - baroque1/a/baroque - art - in - europe - an - introduction ; (also see http://www.artinthepicture.com/styles/Baroque/ and click on the names of the artists to see their works)  Examples of Baroque paintings from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam at https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/explore - the - collection/styles/baroque (click on images; go full - screen; click “ i ” for info on the artist and date and painting) Baroque Musical Style

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