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[ANTONIO VIVALDI] I just wanted to clean another CD case
Me: Why do I have the urge to write my posts educative? Why do I always want to educate people all the time???
Gf: Maybe it's not the people you want to educate.
Gf: Maybe you just want to gain the knowledge you wanted to get when you were a kid about things and you are kind to share that with people who may have the same experience.
Me:
Me: Huh.
Baroque era in art history is one of my favorite, because it's part of my special interest of different cultures, religions manipulates people through propaganda, and it is inevitable when people realizes that art can be used as a form of propaganda. Catholic church used art as medium to spread religious propaganda and make people coming back to their god-fearing ways. The grandiosity, the contrasts, the theme of competing opposing forces, calculative beauty, it was all part of it. There is a reason why 17-18th century churches look the way they are. You go inside and your jaw is just dropped, like you are entering into the realm of Heaven and yet you are just barely touching the surface, because what it promises it would be so much better... one day. When you die. And if you pay your taxes to the catholic church of course.
Baroque music is the first era of music, where the music wasn't written for explicitly to accompany vocalists or dances. No, this is the first time when they explicitly started to write music for specific instruments, they started to determine the overall atmosphere of the music through detailed instructions. This is where we can first start to talk about orchestras (strings mostly). This is the peak of polyphony in music itself.
The music itself also contains this grandiosity, dynamic, uses of contrasts, calculated structures. It's actually very great for studying and focus.
I enjoy baroque music, I jokingly called myself a BaROCKer in my teens because I loved when metal music used baroque music as inspiration but if you were to ask me what is my favorite piece, I wouldn't be able to answer and here is why:
Antonio Vivaldi
L'estro Armonico: Concertos Nos. 8-12
CONCERTO Op. 3. No. 8,
for Two Violins, Strings and Basso Continuo, in A minor, RV 522
Allegro, Largo, Allegro
CONCERTO Op. 3. No. 9,
for Violin, Strings, and Basso Continuo in D major, RV 230
Allegro, Largo, Allegro
CONCERTO Op. 3. No. 10,
for Four Violins, Violoncello, Strings and Basso Continuo, in B Minor, RV 580
Allegro, Largo, larghetto, Allegro,
CONCERTO Op. 3. No. 11,
for Two Violins, Violin, Strings, and Basso Continuo, in D Minor, RV 565
Allegro, Larghetto, Allegro
CONCERTO Op. 3. No. 12,
for Violin, Strings, and Basso Continuo, in E major, RV 265
Allegro, Largo, Allegro
I absolutely have no idea what am I reading here. I recognize the instruments and the numbers. :DDD
Because I am not a music student. :D But I am a dedicated bastard with thirst for knowledge. So here is a little snippet of knowledge, music for dummies like me.
First of all, some terms are in Italian.
What is Concerto? A composition for orchestra and one or more solo intruments with three-movement structure. The three-movements can be assembled from contrasting tempos.
What is Tempo? The speed, pace of the music and the overall indicator what is the mood and atmosphere of the music we are hearing. It's an instruction for the musician how they should play the piece.
Op: Opus, work number that is assigned to the composition. It indicates chronological order, or distinguishes pieces with similiar titles.
Allegro: The tempo is lively, spirited manner, for it depicts joy. It's fast, quick, and bright.
Largo: The tempo has slow, deep, wide character.
Larghetto: The tempo has to be a "little slower".
Minor Scale: These are also indicators about the mood of the piece. Songs played in minor scales are usually more melancholic, serious, pensive.
Major Scale: Songs played in major scale are more positive, bright, it radiates happiness.
Basso Continuo: "Continuous bass". An integral part of structure of baroque pieces and its role to provide a continuos harmonic bass framework for the solo instruments. This structure is actually still used in the modern western music.
RV: Ryom Verzeichnis, Ryom-Catalogue. It's the name of the person, Peter Ryom who made a catalogue of Antonio Vivaldi's music.
So yeah, after this little research, listening again the CD is a very much different experience now that the words on the case finally make much more sense. And feels like math and alchemy, lmao. :D
Gf: Maybe it's not the people you want to educate.
Gf: Maybe you just want to gain the knowledge you wanted to get when you were a kid about things and you are kind to share that with people who may have the same experience.
Me:
Me: Huh.
Baroque era in art history is one of my favorite, because it's part of my special interest of different cultures, religions manipulates people through propaganda, and it is inevitable when people realizes that art can be used as a form of propaganda. Catholic church used art as medium to spread religious propaganda and make people coming back to their god-fearing ways. The grandiosity, the contrasts, the theme of competing opposing forces, calculative beauty, it was all part of it. There is a reason why 17-18th century churches look the way they are. You go inside and your jaw is just dropped, like you are entering into the realm of Heaven and yet you are just barely touching the surface, because what it promises it would be so much better... one day. When you die. And if you pay your taxes to the catholic church of course.
Baroque music is the first era of music, where the music wasn't written for explicitly to accompany vocalists or dances. No, this is the first time when they explicitly started to write music for specific instruments, they started to determine the overall atmosphere of the music through detailed instructions. This is where we can first start to talk about orchestras (strings mostly). This is the peak of polyphony in music itself.
The music itself also contains this grandiosity, dynamic, uses of contrasts, calculated structures. It's actually very great for studying and focus.
I enjoy baroque music, I jokingly called myself a BaROCKer in my teens because I loved when metal music used baroque music as inspiration but if you were to ask me what is my favorite piece, I wouldn't be able to answer and here is why:
Antonio Vivaldi
L'estro Armonico: Concertos Nos. 8-12
CONCERTO Op. 3. No. 8,
for Two Violins, Strings and Basso Continuo, in A minor, RV 522
Allegro, Largo, Allegro
CONCERTO Op. 3. No. 9,
for Violin, Strings, and Basso Continuo in D major, RV 230
Allegro, Largo, Allegro
CONCERTO Op. 3. No. 10,
for Four Violins, Violoncello, Strings and Basso Continuo, in B Minor, RV 580
Allegro, Largo, larghetto, Allegro,
CONCERTO Op. 3. No. 11,
for Two Violins, Violin, Strings, and Basso Continuo, in D Minor, RV 565
Allegro, Larghetto, Allegro
CONCERTO Op. 3. No. 12,
for Violin, Strings, and Basso Continuo, in E major, RV 265
Allegro, Largo, Allegro
I absolutely have no idea what am I reading here. I recognize the instruments and the numbers. :DDD
Because I am not a music student. :D But I am a dedicated bastard with thirst for knowledge. So here is a little snippet of knowledge, music for dummies like me.
First of all, some terms are in Italian.
What is Concerto? A composition for orchestra and one or more solo intruments with three-movement structure. The three-movements can be assembled from contrasting tempos.
What is Tempo? The speed, pace of the music and the overall indicator what is the mood and atmosphere of the music we are hearing. It's an instruction for the musician how they should play the piece.
Op: Opus, work number that is assigned to the composition. It indicates chronological order, or distinguishes pieces with similiar titles.
Allegro: The tempo is lively, spirited manner, for it depicts joy. It's fast, quick, and bright.
Largo: The tempo has slow, deep, wide character.
Larghetto: The tempo has to be a "little slower".
Minor Scale: These are also indicators about the mood of the piece. Songs played in minor scales are usually more melancholic, serious, pensive.
Major Scale: Songs played in major scale are more positive, bright, it radiates happiness.
Basso Continuo: "Continuous bass". An integral part of structure of baroque pieces and its role to provide a continuos harmonic bass framework for the solo instruments. This structure is actually still used in the modern western music.
RV: Ryom Verzeichnis, Ryom-Catalogue. It's the name of the person, Peter Ryom who made a catalogue of Antonio Vivaldi's music.
So yeah, after this little research, listening again the CD is a very much different experience now that the words on the case finally make much more sense. And feels like math and alchemy, lmao. :D