"Baroque Style" Please respond to one (1) of the following, using sources under the Explore heading as the basis of your response:
•Listen to one (1) composition that demonstrates the qualities of the Baroque musical style. It may be from the Websites below or from this week's Music Folder. Identify your choice, and describe it by relating key terms from the textbook to your selection. Explain what you like or admire about the work. Compare it to a modern soundtrack or song that evokes a similar mood.
1. Gabrieli: Ricercar a 4 del duodecimo tuono
The Italian word "Ricercar" means to search out or pursue. But, it was used as a label for an instrumental musical composition of the late 1500s and early 1600s that explored a certain tone or motif. In this case, it was Gabrieli's musical exploration of the 12th mode or tone, which was the key or tonic note "C" in his system. Please read p. 694 for how Gabrieli achieved "surround sound" with this in Venice's great St. Mark's cathedral when he composed this in the 1590s.
2. Monteverdi: "Tu se' morta" from Orfeo.
The song title means "You are dead". This selection is a recitativo from the opera called Orfeo, written in 1607. See p. 696 for the meaning of this term and a description of this selection. The main character, Orpheus or Orfeo, has just learned of the death of his beloved Eurydice. The story comes out of ancient Greek myth and drama. Read p. 696 for more details on the story and this music.
3. Vivaldi: Spring, I from the Four Seasons.