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Chapter 13 Baroque Instrumental Music: Suite and Sonata Pages 128-135

Music Listening Today (6th Edition) by Charles Hoffer and Darrell Bailey Chapter 13: Baroque Instrumental Music: Suite and Sonata PART III Baroque Music Baroque Instruments

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Peter Usbeck/Alamy Music Listening Today (6th Edition) by Charles Hoffer and Darrell Bailey Chapter 13: Baroque Instrumental Music: Suite and Sonata PART III Baroque Music Pachelbel: Canon in D

• Forgotten for hundreds of years; now well known • Continuo plays eight-note ground bass • Three violin parts play 27 variations in imitation (canon)

Music Listening Today (6th Edition) by Charles Hoffer and Darrell Bailey Chapter 13: Baroque Instrumental Music: Suite and Sonata PART III Baroque Music The Suite

• Collection of dance music • Stylized for listening, not dancing • Usually written for keyboard instruments

Music Listening Today (6th Edition) by Charles Hoffer and Darrell Bailey Chapter 13: Baroque Instrumental Music: Suite and Sonata PART III Baroque Music Handel: “Hornpipe” from Water Music Suite • For strings and winds • Binary form repeated several times • Composed for King George I and party on Thames River

Music Listening Today (6th Edition) by Charles Hoffer and Darrell Bailey Chapter 13: Baroque Instrumental Music: Suite and Sonata PART III Baroque Music Sonata

• An instrumental work for one or a few instruments. • Corelli’s Trio sonata – Has four movements

– First movement is slow and solemn GettyImages /E+/

– Second movement has a fast tempo FierceAbin – Third movement has a waltz-like character – Fourth movement is similar to second movement

Music Listening Today (6th Edition) by Charles Hoffer and Darrell Bailey Chapter 13: Baroque Instrumental Music: Suite and Sonata PART III Baroque Music Three Important Baroque Composers • • Jean-Baptiste Lully • Georg Phillip Telemann

Music Listening Today (6th Edition) by Charles Hoffer and Darrell Bailey Chapter 13: Baroque Instrumental Music: Suite and Sonata PART III Baroque Music Summary

• Baroque instruments • Pachelbel: Canon in D • The Suite • Handel: “Hornpipe” from Water Music Suite • Sonata • Three Important Baroque Composers

Music Listening Today (6th Edition) by Charles Hoffer and Darrell Bailey