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A 5 page paper on the the evolution of Baroque and Classical music, and the contributions of individual composes to that evolution. The paper presents technology and techniques that influenced those changes. Artists include: Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Beethoven, and Haydn. 4 bibliographical references.
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development of music outside the constraints of their eras. The Baroque period, between 1600 and the mid 1700s, marks a time in which new musical discoveries included opera, the polyphony
of voices sung in complementary fashion, and compositions for polyphonic music, where a number of instruments began to play together in complementary patterns.
The other main discovery of the Baroque period had to do with technology. It was a time when keyboards such as organs and pianos, and string instruments of the
violin family were being perfected. Improvements to the violin family were accomplished by the Amati family, Antonio Stradivari, and Arcangelo Corelli. Corelli gave the violin the ability for
concerto grosso music. (Comptons, 1994) The piano as we know it today, with dampening pedals and the ability to play both loudly and softly, was not invented until 1710.
(Greenburg) During the Baroque period, composers were also being employed as composers by churches or the aristocracy. Since Christianity was the main western religion, the composers generally wrote music
with a theological theme or sound. Even operas had a more ecclesiastical than secular sound, the sound that had originated the operatic form. However, several composers music shines
through the performance of ecclesiastic music because of their contributions within that context. Johann Sebastian Bach provided a unique sound of his own
by composing pieces for organ and voice (although he also composed for orchestra), and playing some of those pieces on the clavichord and harpsichord, which were no longer popular in
the world of composition (McComb, 1994). These instruments do not have the ability of playing loud and soft sounds; each key has the same basic "loudness." Bach was
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