HOA 106 1st Edition Lecture 5 Outline of Last Lecture II History and Ideas A Protestantism B Domesticity C Capitalism D The Rise of Bourgeois E Scientific Revolution III Two Dutch Artists a Vermeer b Rembrandt IV Music a harpsichord Outline of Current Lecture V History and Ideas F Monarchy VI Painting a Van Dyck VII Architecture a Inigo Jones b Christopher Wren c Wren s Plan of London d James Gibbs VIII Music a Bach b Handel IX Music in Italy and Spain Baroque a Allegri b Vivaldi Current Lecture English Baroque History and Ideas o England is anti Catholic they had the Church of England The head of the royal family lead the church o Monarchy James I absolute monarch Charles I executed These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Civil War Commonwealth established Oliver Cromwell chosen to lead the country executed Charles II James II The restoration of the monarchy Power limited by parliament 1666 Great Fire of London Widespread plague William and Mary Dutch prince william of Orange co rules with Mary Stuart Painting o van Dyck Flemish painter who assisted rubens Imported aristocratic flamboyant painterly stlye to England Portrait of King Charles I at the Hunt oil on canvas Architecture o Inigo Jones Banqueting House Whitehall Palace London Introduced Palladio s renaissance to classicism to in England Symmetry and proportion o Christopher Wren Astronomer engineer architect St Paul s Cathedral London The only major cathedral to be built in the lifetime of one man Replaced the old cathedral destroyed in the fire of 1666 Compromised of gothic aisled nave transepts and Roman Baroque influences dome o Wren s plan of London After the fire of 1666 wren was commissioned to build 50 smaller parish churches and redesign the city The spires of the new churches were to point upward along the skyline leading to a visual climax at St Paul s The smaller churches are sometimes little more than a single spire St Mary le Bow London o James Gibbs St Martin in the Fields London Continues wren s tradition Synthesis of classical temple front and gothic spire Music o Johan Sebastian Bach The Baroque Organ Sound is produced by complex engineering of columns of air through pipes Toccata and Fugue in D Minor o George Frederic Handel German composer worked for the kings of England Oratorio Large scale musical setting of lengthy text usually biblical usually performed in concert style Hallelujah Chorus from the Messiah o Everyone stands Music in Italy and Spain Baroque o Gregorio Allegri Miserere Composed exclusively for the pope o Antonio Vivaldi Winter from the The Four Seasons Written to accompany poems describing the four seasons Program music Music reflects the drama and emotion of the words Concerto grosso form o A musical conversation between a solo instrument or small group of instruments and the full orchestra in three alternating parts