From Renaissance to Baroque

In the High Renaissance, in the beautiful town of Florence, they started the

• Design of Baroque. First they studied earlier efforts and were very intersted of the achievements of ancient Greeks. One of the leading designers was Vincenzo Galilei. They really worked on the matter of giving emphasis to the text, to the poem. In this phase they also tested the new ideas when Medicis' had a great wedding in 1580's. The designers were given lots of money for testing! And when all seemed to work well, they continued.

• Test Implementation of Baroque. There were some brave composers like Caccini and Peri. These two actually formed two competing implementation teams for producing the first opera. To make the comparison of the two implementations easier, they used the same text about Euridice. Both claimed to have produced the first and best opera in 1600.

• Implementation of Baroque. One of the leading characters was Monteverdi. When the road was opened, he also went there with all his imagination and strength, and really established the new product. There were also others, who took part to this great new thing, for ex. Frescobaldi, just to name one more.

• General Use of Baroque. Every composer used the thing, some better, some worse. They wrote for many a media, but the text - or idea of a text - was there all the time.

• Design of Classicism. One of the leading characters was Bach, who was looking back, but also forward. His sons already were part of the implementaton phase. But that is another story. (Warning: Bach as one of the starters of the classisism - instead of final characters of the baroque - is my opinion, not generally accepted fact!)

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