Composers Who Changed the Rules (Part 2)

Learn about composers who changed the rules (part 2): identify the influence of world music on western styles

🎵 Stage Brief #64

Baroque music (1600-1750) featured ornate melodies and the birth of opera.

🎯 Your mission

Listen with your eyes closed. Then open them and read about it.

⚡ The twist

Old doesn't mean boring. Some 300-year-old music still slaps.

What you'll learn

Baroque music (1600-1750) featured ornate melodies and the birth of opera. Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi are towering figures of the era.

Remember

🎧 Listen

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🎧 What instruments are NOT here that we'd hear today?

🎼 Notes on the staff

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🌟 Artist spotlight

🌟 Beethoven kept writing music even after he went completely deaf.

🤯 Mind = blown

🤯 Beethoven's 9th symphony is the song the European Union plays for itself.

Check your understanding · 1 of 3

What famous work did Beethoven compose while losing his hearing?

Check your understanding · 2 of 3

What genre originated in New Orleans around 1900?

Check your understanding · 3 of 3

What instrument did Johann Sebastian Bach primarily play?

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