The origin of Baroque music: Baroque originally meant irregularly shaped pearls and was an art form. Due to the popularity of this art style, later generations called it the Baroque period. The music produced during this period is called Baroque music.
Characteristics of Baroque music:
1. It has a strong and jumping rhythm, adopts the polyphonic method of polymelody and polyphonic music, and places more emphasis on the ups and downs of the music, so it pays great attention to the intensity, Changes in speed.
2. In terms of vocal music, Baroque music has a strong religious flavor. Religious music at that time played a large role in the development of Western music.
3. The phrases vary in length and the breath is longer. Whether it is vocal music or instrumental music, the melody is unprecedentedly gorgeous and complex, with quite a lot of decorative sounds and progressive sound patterns. Like Renaissance melodies, the progression of the tune often has a figurative, symbolic character. What is striking is the clear harmonic nature of the melody.
How you feel: Antonio Vivaldi: He wrote more works in his life than anyone else in the world. His most famous work: The Four Seasons, can awaken your feelings about different seasons:
① Beautiful bird calls in spring, thunder and lightning, the first appearance of spring water, beautiful girls, cute and lively shepherd dogs and his master.
② In the scorching summer, the cicadas are chirping endlessly, and then the rain suddenly falls, which makes you feel full of power.
③In autumn, think about the joy of harvest, the setting sun in the wild, and the great sound of the horn when returning with a load of prey
④In winter, in the cold snow season, you tremble and shiver , just want to run home early. Then suddenly, you are beside the fire, lying on the warm blanket, and reaching out your hands again, feeling the warmth invading you again and again.
Then, suddenly looking back, I found that the snow outside the window was still as heavy as ever, leaving only one footprint... I had so many thoughts