Time Capsule Through the Renaissance to the Age of the Baroque

ideologies of the church that were once consider law. This movement played on people’s fears of damnation and artists’ perception and interpretation of the times made for more violent depictions of both religious icons and the masses of people.

The Early Renaissance experienced an explosion of music development, which paved the way to modern musical structuring. Most compositions of the time were meant to be sung, “during this period four principal types of compositions were prominent: Masses, Magnificats, motets, and the secular chansons with French texts.” (Ogan, 2001) Guillaume Dufay (1400-1474), was known to be the greatest composer of his time. Using a technique referred to “Word Painting” in which music is used to express the meaning of the written word. “Dufay, in many respects, paved the way for future composers to use greater imagination and ingenuity in musical composition.” (Ogan, 2001)

The Age of Baroque saw a further evolution of music into what is now referred to as classical music. An epic explosion of expression through complex musical structures on a scale that easily over powered the listeners emotions, and once the listener was engaged, the music could sweep the audience to the highest highs and lowest depths of sadness and despair. In no other musical form of expression is this more evident than in Opera. Opera is a culmination of vocal expression dancing and weaving through a tapestry of sounds woven by an instrumental accompaniment on a massive scale. In the Baroque Age, for music, Venice Italy was known as the city of music, the home to a number of musicians that continue to live through time. In the early seventeenth century, the pioneer of became Opera was an Italian

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