Canata
-Italian
-secular
-three movements
-involved vocal and instrumental
-Lutheran
-sacred
-used chorus and ochestra
-many different movements with similar style
-based on Lutheran chorals, etc.
Claudio Monteverdi
1567-1643
-opera composer, madrigalist
-influenced opera to have different styles that would relate appropriately to the drama
Jean-Baptiste Lully
1632-1687
-developed French opera
-great musical leader in Louis XIV court
-director of orchestral music and superintendent of Music of the Chamber
Arcangelo Corelli
1653-1713
-instrumental music
-sonatas
-focused on melody, not on virtuosity
Antonio Vivaldi
1678-1741
Jean-Philippe Rameau
1683-1764
-succeeded Lully
-was more adventurous in his compositions
-wanted to standardize approach to music, so he focused on the triad and seventh