MUSC101 Modesto Junior College Baroque Instrumental Music Discussion

Baroque Instrumental Music

Discuss the Venetian school and its significance.

Discuss and compare the emerging instrumental forms such as the Concerto Grosso, the Sonata Da Camera, the Dance Suite, and the Organ Fugue. See if you can find Handels “Water Music”, listen to it, and describe this piece. If you cannot find this music try some of the other Baroque Instrumental music and critque it.

Describe the Basso Continuo and its function.

Finally, write a critque of the Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra 1ST(Spring)movement, by Vivaldi, CD1,TR 14.

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