Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D
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  • Pilgrimages
    • The Blessing Thread 1: Mary Magdalene and the Contemplative Tradition: Provence
    • Pilgrimage 2: Wales and Ireland >
      • Beginning Your Pilgrimage
      • Schedule and Links
      • Doll Making with Polly Paton Brown
  • The Heroine's Path
    • Ariadne's Thread
    • Queens of Heaven and Earth
    • The Map of the Heroine's Path
  • Online Classes
    • Dante Retreat >
      • Welcome letter
      • Session One: Love, Loss and Longing
      • Session Two: Hot Sins
      • Session Three: Where Our Hearts Grow Cold
      • Session Four: Arriving on the Shores of Humility
      • Session Five: Returning to Innocence
    • 22 Days of Magdalene
    • The Mystic Path and Poetry of T.S. Eliot >
      • Week One: Prophet of Despair
      • Week Two: Beethoven, Dante and Eliot
      • Burnt Norton
  • Coaching
  • About
  • Journey 3: Iona and Scotland

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Week 4: The Passions of the High Baroque
The Birth of Opera: 

Economic life of a musician: Chapel, Court or Theater

“Baroque” orignated as an art history term meaning a gaudy, extravagant pearl or flamboyant, ornamental, elaborate, (overly) emotional. The very Apollonian Age of Enlightenment felt that music of the previous  Baroque era was excessively complicated and emotional,  simply "too much!"

Caravaggio Conversion of St. Paul
Bernini Ecstasy of St. Teresa
Chiaroscuro- interplay of light and shadow
Rise of the Harpsichord and orchestra
The Baroque is an era of intricate balance between the "Apollonian" virtues of clarity, order, structure and elegance and the "Dionysian" ideals of intense emotionalism and wild spirit
Prelude- improvisatory, “unbuttoned”
Fugue, Chaconne, Passacaglia- extremely structured forms


Antonio Vivaldi: Four Seasons- "Winter"
Domenico Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonata in b minor, K.27: an example of "too much" repetition
G.F. Handel:   Ombra mai fu (from the opera Xerxes)
                         Lascia ch'io panga (from the opera Rinaldo)
                        Passacaglia in g minor
                        Suite in E Major: The Harmonious Blacksmith

J.S. Bach:         Brandenburg Concerto No. 6: Interplay of Homophony and Polyphony
                         The Well Tempered Clavier Book One: Preludes in  C# Major, Bb Major and Bb minor


                       
           

Contact Kayleen Asbo: mythicamuse@gmail.com
  • Untitled
  • Pilgrimages
    • The Blessing Thread 1: Mary Magdalene and the Contemplative Tradition: Provence
    • Pilgrimage 2: Wales and Ireland >
      • Beginning Your Pilgrimage
      • Schedule and Links
      • Doll Making with Polly Paton Brown
  • The Heroine's Path
    • Ariadne's Thread
    • Queens of Heaven and Earth
    • The Map of the Heroine's Path
  • Online Classes
    • Dante Retreat >
      • Welcome letter
      • Session One: Love, Loss and Longing
      • Session Two: Hot Sins
      • Session Three: Where Our Hearts Grow Cold
      • Session Four: Arriving on the Shores of Humility
      • Session Five: Returning to Innocence
    • 22 Days of Magdalene
    • The Mystic Path and Poetry of T.S. Eliot >
      • Week One: Prophet of Despair
      • Week Two: Beethoven, Dante and Eliot
      • Burnt Norton
  • Coaching
  • About
  • Journey 3: Iona and Scotland