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Music Outside The Church (2337 words) |
 | Up to this, our study of music in the Christian Era has traced the development of the art as fostered by the Christian Church, and mainly among the people of Southern Europe, in whom there was a strong admixture of the Latin blood and spirit. |
| The music of the Church lacked measure or rhythm, as we may say, while the music of the people, closely associated with dancing, was rhythmic. |
| Their poetry and music were not elevated, for the members of the Guild were not of a standing and an education to give them real skill in the fine arts. |
| Music publishing in Baroque Europe (924 words) |
| It is generally accepted that baroque music "began" if one can use such a term in Italy, pointing particularly at Corelli as the originator of much that was to become commonplace in baroque musical forms. |
| Though Italy had pioneered the printing of lined music manuscript paper, actual scores were still printed using movable type, which was expensive, cumbersome, and too inflexible to reproduce clearly all the ties and other markings which are essential if the composer is to convey his intentions to performers with any degree of accuracy. |
| Another interesting side-effect was to spread Italian music throughout northern Europe, at the same time encouraging Italian composers to write for a wider musical taste. |
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