I do know that this post is well over 2 weeks late.I am sorry for the delay, and will make sure that I will get this blog up to date.The baroque period will come to an end very soon, making us come to the next period which is classical period.
This post is the post where we continue on from where we left.There will be not much connection, just on what happened in the period of the baroque period and how it has impacted/created the concepts that we know and use today.
Lets start of with Concerto which was initially used to describe any music for voices or or added instruments.Which evolved in the early 17th century to concerti ecclesiastic(Church music) an concerti di camera(chamber music).Now of course as time went on the music got much grander.
There were more aspects that were later focused on in the baroque period, one of them being Dynamic expression.Some examples of this would be When they would change the tempo making it either faster or slower and making sure that the composition is still perfectly sounded and compiles the listeners to listen to what the composer composed.Composers also played around with the aspect of quickly changing from the larger ensembles to the smaller ones.
The musician who came up with all this was a guy named Arcangelo Corelli.This musician used harmony in such a way that was never seen before.This was when you could compare pieces from the renaissance period of music to the baroque period of music.In the early stages of the baroque period, there was not much difference.Because Of this one musician,The Music was changed a lot.Arcangelo Corelli used to take his pieces to another level.Some of his performances involved as many as 80 musicians.This was big for his time, as the largest orchestras at the time had no more than 20 musicians.
Citations: Source 1-The classical Music book