Quarter Paper: Antonio Vivaldi And The Music Of His Time
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Throughout history there have been many distinct periods of time.
These various eras are all alike in a way because they all slowly flow
into each other. One of these unique times was called the Baroque period.
The Baroque time began during the 1600's and ended early during the early
1700's. The w ....
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.... drama in this type of music
and theatre was what made this time stand out from the rest.
The actual term "baroque" is extracted from "baroco" which is a
name used by medieval philosophers to identify a reasoning that writers of
the 16th century found absurd and pointless. On the contrary, Baroque
music is far from being absurd or pointless. The word "baroque" is
derived from that or from the word "barrochio" that is an Italian word
used since the middle ages to indicate shifty or tricky proc ....
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