The Classical Music Book

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T he Baroque period of music started dramatically, with the performance of the world’s first opera, Jacopo Peri’s Dafne, staged ...

entertainment caught on elsewhere and influenced the development of the musical drama known as a “masque” in England. Since the ...

62 ONE OF THE MOST MAGNIFICENT AND EXPENSEFULL DIVERSIONS EURIDICE (1600), JACOPO PERI T he conditions for the birth of opera we ...

63 See also: Le bourgeois gentilhomme 70–71 ■ Dido and Aeneas 72–77 ■ Orfeo ed Euridice 118 –119 ■ The Magic Flute 134 –137 ■ Th ...

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66 M onteverdi’s Vespers for the Blessed Virgin of 1610 is one of the most influential collections of sacred works for voices an ...

67 The new style was taken up in most forms of music. The greater use of figured bass (numerals and symbols, indicating the harm ...

68 uses plainsong (single line unaccompanied Latin chants, associated today with monks and monasteries) as the basis of the seve ...

69 A page from a manuscript shows Monteverdi’s handwritten notation for L’incoronazione di Poppea (“The Coronation of Poppea”) o ...

70 LULLY MERITS WITH GOOD REASON THE TITLE OF PRINCE OF FRENCH MUSICIANS LE BOURGEOIS GENTILHOMME (1670), JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY T ...

71 A skilled violinist, Lully performed in his own works. He is thought to be the man holding the violin in François Puget’s pai ...

HE HAD A PECULIAR GENIUS TO EXPRESS THE ENERGY OF ENGLISH WORDS DIDO AND AENEAS (c.1683–1689), HENRY PURCELL US_072-077_Purcell. ...

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74 BAROQUE OPERA IN ENGLAND IN CONTEXT FOCUS Baroque opera in England BEFORE 1617 Lovers Made Men, a masque by Ben Jonson, is se ...

BAROQUE 1600 –1750 75 anthems and songs from the age of 16. Many of these early works show the depth of imagination that would l ...

76 BAROQUE OPERA IN ENGLAND A musical revival The creative foundations for England’s music and drama were in a poor state when C ...

BAROQUE 1600 –1750 77 descriptions of “valor,” “torment,” and Dido “languishing” in grief in her recitative “Whence could so muc ...

78 W hen, in 1517, Martin Luther penned the 95 theses that would trigger the Reformation, his main objections had little to do w ...