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van Swieten. The discovery marked his<br />
music until his death.<br />
We ourselves should not forget Bach,<br />
and he can be a formidable anchor for a<br />
Baroque playlist. However the Baroque<br />
period saw a veritable explosion of music,<br />
as royalty, the nobility and the Church<br />
all became newly able to pay for it, and<br />
paying for it was fashionable. We have<br />
several hundred composers from which<br />
to choose. The time period: roughly<br />
1600 to about 1760. The style: pull up a<br />
good photo of the interior of a Baroque<br />
church (like the Brazilian one on this<br />
page)! It is full of life, some would say<br />
too much of it, too ornamented, too busy. It<br />
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is almost a theatrical stage, yet airy, full<br />
of light, not dark and Gothic. The eye<br />
is led upward, yet there is a profusion of<br />
detailed, sensual ornamentation to entice We remember when a number of competitors would<br />
it to dally on the way.<br />
put own. on line There only is only the the Red cover Priest image of Venice, and the school table as of a choirboy. When he was 20,<br />
In music, opera was born. The very Antonio Vivaldi, whose contents. Four Seasons Purcell took his teacher John Blow’s<br />
first opera, from around 1597, is lost, We would concertos tell them are <strong>that</strong> probably you don’t better go known fishing without job as organist bait. at Westminster Abbey.<br />
but we do have Monteverdi’s 1607 Orfeo. Sure, even we live than from the what Pachelbel you spend Canon through — also our Blow, site and a well-known composer, may<br />
Much which is modern can be traced the a pages Baroque of our piece print — issue. and then But you there could are spend have days stepped aside in favor of a young<br />
to this highly varied form, in which Couperin, reading Telemann, material Rameau, for Handel free. man he considered his better. (After<br />
drama, instrumental and vocal music had We think and Pergolesi. <strong>that</strong>’s the only way we can convince Purcell’s you of the early death, Blow went back<br />
equal time, each influencing the other. Let us choose UHF one difference, of the rare com- to the post.) Three years later Purcell<br />
Voices and instruments took up solo of why posers you might who speaks want English to trust us like with a native. the future became of your organist at the Chapel Royal<br />
roles within a group, and vocal or voice- He is in music fact a native, or home the theatre only Baroque system. as well — which may have resulted in<br />
like expressivity became important. We have English readers master: on Henry every continent Purcell, who except has Antarctica. scheduling problems.<br />
Although the chord was not to become a claim Most to of be them regarded discovered as the greatest us on line. Thirteen years after <strong>that</strong> he was dead,<br />
a foundation element until the Classical English They composer read a lot of all. of our free material. the cause undiagnosed, leaving a wife<br />
era, music started to be composed on<br />
And then they joined us.<br />
and two children. Four other children<br />
the basis of major or minor tonality, and<br />
had predeceased him. He was buried next<br />
support for a single, expressive melodic<br />
to the organ at Westminster Abbey and<br />
line.<br />
very widely honored and mourned.<br />
In performance, ornaments such as<br />
Not surprisingly, given where he<br />
the trill and the mordent (a partial trill)<br />
worked, Purcell’s output was very largely<br />
became common practice. Such “frills”<br />
vocal and choral. He composed a great<br />
were pleasing decorations, “helping” the<br />
many hymns, anthems and choral odes<br />
musical line but not developing it. They<br />
for the Church and for the court, as<br />
were used to show virtuoso ability, but<br />
well as songs and catches (part songs),<br />
they also served to help instruments<br />
an opera, Dido and Æneas, which is still<br />
like the guitar and the harpsichord,<br />
popular, and operatic dramas like his<br />
whose notes decayed fast, keep up with<br />
Faery Queen. The English theatre of this<br />
the sustained notes of the violin and the<br />
period was lively and popular, and in the<br />
organ. Bach wrote out a detailed table of<br />
last five years of his life he composed<br />
them in a little book, his Klavierbüchlein<br />
orchestral music for more than forty<br />
for his son Wilhelm Friedemann.<br />
plays. He produced other instrumental<br />
A list of even the best-known Purcell was typical of the period in work, in the form of airs, suites, trio<br />
Baroque composers takes up a good <strong>that</strong> he worked under the patronage of sonatas and keyboard music full of<br />
deal of a paragraph: Schütz, Monteverdi, the Church and the Crown. His father melodies which are still lifted today for<br />
Frescobaldi, Cavalli, Lully, Buxtehüde, and uncle were singers, gentlemen of the films and popular songs.<br />
Corelli, Purcell and the two Scarlattis, Chapel Royal; when his father died, his Purcell was a highly individual<br />
father and son. The many Bachs of the uncle took five-year-old Henry under his creator. He wrote no concertos, a form<br />
Baroque take up a few lines of their wing and got him admitted to the Chapel which, thanks to Vivaldi, Corelli,<br />
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