History of music - Part II (Baroque)

Claudio Monteverdi: Ariadne´s complaint, Madrigals of War and Love
Girolamo Frescobaldi: Fiori musicali
Jean Baptiste Lully: Acis and Galatea
Arcangelo Corelli: La Folia, Concerto grosso in G minor
Johann Pachelbel: Canon
Henry Purcell: Three parts upon a ground
François Couperin: Pièces de clavecin
Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Guitar concerto in D major, Violin concerto in A minor, Concerto grosso in C major, Gloria
Georg Philipp Telemann: Suite in B flat major
Jean Philippe Rameau: Pièces de clavecin en concert

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Music

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• history
• music
• baroque
• Monteverdi
• Frescobaldi
• Lully
• Corelli
• Pachelbel
• Purcell
• Couperin
• Vivaldi
• Telemann
• Rameau

[Harmonieuniverselle]

Baroque music with baroque interpretation would be better.

[myhistoryofmusic]

@Harmonieuniverselle

It´s your opinion. But this is for longer discussion. I don´t like this "authentic" interpretation so much. In my opinion it´s not necessary to move back to primitivism. Why to play e.g. without vibrato - just because in past they didn´t know how to do it... Then you would also have to play Mozart with different clarinet, Chopin with different piano etc... Nobody knows what interpretation Bach would prefer.

[walkingon2001]

what is the introduction piece called?

[myhistoryofmusic]

@walkingon2001

It is Janacek´s Suite for strings

[thelightisahead]

I had no idea Rameau lived that long! Great vid :)

[myhistoryofmusic]

It is a mistake, sorry... Should be 1764.

[msviswan]

Thank you for this! I've been getting confused with Mouret's Rondeau and Vivaldi's the Four Seasons, Spring. Now I know the actual names and the difference.

[twooffour]

@myhistoryofmusic

"Why to play e.g. without vibrato - just because in past they didn´t know how to do it"

How about because it sounds better :D

Yes, classical and romantic music is actually played on contemporary instruments, even though it seems nowhere as popular as with baroque music - having that said, are you sure you wanna call authentic interpretation "primitivism"?

Listen to interpretations by the likes of Musica Antiqua, and then compare to Karajan - who's more primitive? :D

[anaclaraaralcana]

The best composer of video: Vivaldi. He's the best of baroque and perhaps, the best of classical music.

[vipersdragband]

@myhistoryofmusic I'm not sure what is actually "primitive" about not using vibrato. Many pieces of the time were written using more open strings which could't have vibrato. Usually when one takes the time to play Mozart with a historically accurate clarinet or fortepiano, one finds that the composers of the time were being very sensitive to HOW the instruments they were writing for should be written for. There's a lot lost in early music by not knowing the circumstances at play.

[GreenCertains]

I love the way you made this! XD

[carmenliujiawen]

where did u get all the songs from??

[zantoine]

i hate barocque romantism FTW

[98kiyoko]

4 people are stupid.

[Polluxgeminae]

What about Hotteterre, Quantz, Marais, Abel??

[Polluxgeminae]

@myhistoryofmusic Instead of a clarinet, it would've been a chaulemeau, instead of a piano, a pianoforte... Original instruments sound more appropriate to create an atmosphere.