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Why not Baroque Music?

Claude Debussy said "Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art."

Claude Debussy is trying state that a great-created piece of music makes the rules that rules don’t make up the music. In the Baroque era there were many works of arts that took many rules to create a beautiful piece of art. To create these works of art in modern day now, composers needed to understand the process of how they created it.

The foundations of understanding a piece of art in the Baroque era are, rhythm, harmony and the melody. If a modern listener of music understood the process and difficulty of making such a beautiful piece of art they would fall in love.

The first foundation to understand to deeply set your desires for Baroque music is rhythm. Rhythm is a huge part in any era of music. Rhythm is a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement of sound. Any era of music has similarities or differences in rhythm but Baroque rhythm was achieved through rhythmic continuous constant flow of music. The rhythm repeated its self throughout the music by having different kinds of patterns of music that would repeated itself. Some people might think that repetition would become too long, slow, or dull but this had an opposite effect in Baroque era making it even more interesting.

Composers in the Baroque would emphasize on the stronger beats. This in the

Baroque was a huge leap then to music before like Medieval Gregorian Chant.

Medieval Gregorian Chant was more andante (moderate slow, moving along) but then,

Baroque was the opposite making music allegro (lively, brisk, quick) changing of music

was interest more in the Baroque era. The Harpsichord was the main instrument that kept the constant beat th...

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...he differences now than before is that Baroque music is structure on a bass voice.

Bass voices were called Basso Continuo which consists of bass part together with figures underneath each note which identify the chord to be performed above it.

This was mainly performed with two instruments the harpsichord and organ which played basso continuo that makes up the chord. Basso continuo wasn’t only new effect in the Baroque era. Chromatic was then introduced.

Chromatic is a distance between a note to another note. The distance was a half step. This introduced the tuning that we have today for the piano, now making it possible for all keys. Baroque music has modulations now introduced from chromatic notes. A modulation is most commonly the act or process of changing from one key (tonic, or tonal center) to another making the music have more emotion and life.