Virtually nothing is known of the life of Vito Ugolino
(? - 1750) who was an Italian Composer from the Baroque
period.
The Baroque era in music began in Italy around 1600 and
lasted till about 1750. Before it came the Renaissance
period, during which the concept of music had expanded
from a single line of melody (the Gregorian plainchant
of the Medieval age) to multiples lines which could be
sung or played simultaneously, and fit together
smoothly to make a harmonious whole.
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Virtually nothing is known of the life of Vito Ugolino
(? - 1750) who was an Italian Composer from the Baroque
period.
The Baroque era in music began in Italy around 1600 and
lasted till about 1750. Before it came the Renaissance
period, during which the concept of music had expanded
from a single line of melody (the Gregorian plainchant
of the Medieval age) to multiples lines which could be
sung or played simultaneously, and fit together
smoothly to make a harmonious whole.
There were two types of concertos which flourished
during the Baroque era. The first of these, championed
especially by Arcangelo Corelli, was the concerto
grosso (‘large concerto’), which featured a small
group of soloists — two violins and a
cello, for example — as a contrast in
texture with the full orchestra. The other kind of
concerto was the solo concerto, which gave the
limelight to just one instrument (most commonly a
violin, but there are concertos for all manner of
soloist — the oboe concertos by
Alessandro Marcello and Tomaso Albinoni are especially
beautiful).
One of the most important composers in the early
development of the solo concerto was Antonio Vivaldi,
who wrote more than 500 of them, for a wide range of
solo instruments — mostly to be played by
the highly talented girls at the Venetian orphanage
where he was the director of music. As the Baroque era
moved towards the Classical in the mid-18th century, it
was the solo concerto, with its opportunities for
virtuoso display and for song-like eloquence, which
took over from the concerto grosso as the favoured
form.
The word ‘Baroque’ wasn’t used until towards the
end of the Baroque period, and at first it was intended
as an insult! It comes from the Portuguese word
barroco, which meant a misshapen pearl, and it was
initially used to criticise this ‘modern’ music for
its shameless use of new and strange effects in order
to express moods and emotions.
Source: WikiPedia
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_music ).
Although originally composed for Mandolin, Violins and
Basso Continuo, I created this Interpretation of the
Concerto in G Major (Gimo 297) for Flute, Oboe & 2
Violins.
PARTITION