Question

Discuss and compare the emerging instrumental forms such as the Concerto Grosso, the Sonata Da Camera, the Dance Suite, and the Organ Fugue. See if you can find Handel's "Water Music," listen to it, and describe this piece. If you cannot find this music try some of the other Baroque Instrumental music and critique it.

Answer 1

From vocal to instrumental music

Step-by-step explanation:

The rise of instrumental music took place in the 16th century in Europe when instrumentalists, under the spell of Reformation, started to improvise on vocal themes, calling them transcriptions. On of the first Baroque style composers was Kapsberger, ´Il Tedesco della Tiorba´, one of the most celebrated Theorbo masters in Rome. Out of these ´improvisations´ arose complex (the use of counterpoints) and richly ornamented music centered in harmony, already used in religiously inspired vocal music. Water Music is a nice example of this development, a joyful theme that appears to emphasize the baroque qualities of nature´s liquid fountain.