Question

Music and Extra-Musical Forces. The Baroque era saw some of the first works of program music (instrumental music depicting an extramusical idea, character, place, or story) and most famously a series of four concertos by Vivaldi called the Four Seasons. Chapter 4 discussed the first movement of the Spring Concerto.

• Listen to the Winter, Summer, or Autumn movement from this set of concertos.

• Read the English translation of the poems associated with the movement you have chosen.

• Write a description of the music that contains 250-300 words.

o Include three or more elements of music (melody, rhythm, texture, harmony, form).

o Use key terms that were introduced in chapters 1 and 4 of your textbook.

o Describe the music while focusing on how the music represents the season.

Answer 1

ANSWER: Generally, the baroque music was a vey long flowing many melodic lines too which also uses ornamentation. Actually it was a contrast between the loud and soft, solo and ensemble and a contrapuntal texture where there will be 2 or more than 2 melodic lines are combined. At the earlier stage many research findings showed that the Baroque music improves learnng of the foreign languages and also performance in some sort of tests. Also main theme is Music normally affects your brain waves. When it comes to slower baroques which includes Bach,Handel,Vivaldi or Corelli can create mentally stimulating environments for new sort of innovation. Always Baroque music focuses on a soloist, sometimes vocal, even sometimes instrumental and then gives them a main melody. several instruments such as piano,violin,a singer or may be trumpet might take the esteemed role of the soloist.

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