1. Baroque-Bach Mountain

2. Sweating the Small Stuff…
Ornamentation, details in Baroque art.
Dramatic art – Rembrandt, Rubens
Grand design for Baroque architecture
Scientific discoveries (Galileo, Copernicus). There was the Inquisition, however…
Exploration

3. Fancy lads Music becoming more extravagant Elaborate melodies
Harmony/counterpoint
Lively, yet precise approach to composition

4. Baroque Instruments… (Baroken Instruments?)
Orchestra began to resemble our modern instruments
Wind instruments – Oboe, flute, clarinet, trumpet, French horn, bassoon
String family – Violin, viola, cello, double bass
Keyboard music rose to prominence (harpsichord, especially)

5. Bach to the future! Composing for money was a thing! Late Monteverdi
Johann Sebastian Bach
George Frideric Handel
Henry Purcell
Alessandro Scarlatti and his son Domenico
Antonio Vivaldi
Johann Pachelbel