Composer - Baroque Flashcards
(14 cards)
Claudio Monteverdi - Italy
1567-1643
Born in Cremona - famous for violin makers (Stradivarius)
9 total books
Use of stile concitato (agitated style - prolonged repetitions of single notes)
Piece: Vespor Della beats vernigine
Allessandro Scarlatti - Italy
1660-1725
Born in Sicily
Naples
Rome
600 cantatas
Piece: Exultate Deo - old style, dotted rhythms, use of repeated pitches clue that this is not Renaissance
Giacomo Carissimi - Italy
1605-1725
Born near Rome
Turns down invitation to succeed Monteverdi at St. Marks in Venice
Held in high regard
Known as father of Latin Oratorio - responsible for its establishment and proliferation as a genre
Piece: Jepthe
Antonio Lotti - Italy
1667-1740
Hanover Germany
Moves to Venice
Ospedale - 4 girl orphanages that specialized in training music
Piece: Crucifixus
Giovanni Pergolesi - Italy
1710-1736
Born near Florence
Naples
Rome
Naples
Considered father of Opera Buffa
Piece: Stabat Mater
Antonio Vivaldi - Italy
1678-1741
Born in Venice
Trains to be a priest
Ordained priest (1703)
1737 left priesthood
Nicknamed the red priest
Employed at Ospedale
Most famous for instrumental
Piece: Gloria
Barbara Strozzi - Italy
1619-1687
Born in Venice
Powerful family (second to Medici family)
Involved in group of Incogniti (group of artists/academics, could include Monteverdi)
Piece: L’amante modesto
Isabella Leonarda - Italy
1620-1704
Family well connected in church
Enters convent
Taught and composed ar convent
Over 200 works
Known locally but not beyond
Piece: Magnificat
Jean-Baptistery Lully - France
1632-1687
Born in Florence
Moves to Paris
Ties to Royal privilege
Famous composer of opera
Known as a jerk
Dies by stabbing himself in foot
Marc-Antoine Charpentier - France
1643-1704
Born in Paris
Studies with Carissimi
Polychoral and concertato styles
430 motets
Piece: Messe de Minuit pour Noel
Michale Richard de Lalande - France
1657-1726
Born in Paris
Follows in Lully’s footsteps
70 motets (almost all grand)
Known as composer of motets as opposed to opera (Lully)
Piece: D profundis
Juan Gutierrez de Padilla - Spain
1590-1664
Born In Spain
Emigrates to Mexico
Puebla cathedral
Over 60 Villancicos
Piece: Exultate Justi - prima prattica style, square rhythms
Manuel de Zumaya - Spain
1678-1755
Born in Mexico
Appointed principal organist at cathedral
Expands musical forces (strings, horn, trumpets, woodwinds)
Thought of as one of the most skilled composers in Baroque Americas
100 Villancicos
Piece: Sol-fa de Pedro - expanded Baroque Villancico, multi sectional, use of solfege syllables, Rhythmically and harmonically diverse
Ignacio Jerusalem - Spain
Born in Italy
Mexico City - to play violin
Advocated for modern notation instead of white notation (like chant notation)
Literacy Reform
Piece: Que admirais mortales
