HISTORYOFMUSIC

17th Century. History of Music.

The Baroque Period of Music.

Best Classical Music from the 17th Century.

In 1600 this musical entertainment develops into a major performance. Entitled La rappresentazione di anima e di corpo (The representation of soul and body), with music by Emilio de' Cavalieri, it borrows the conventions of the newly developed form of opera - with arias, choruses and even ballets. It establishes a new tradition of dramatic religious music, which will take its name from the Oratory and which will lead (without the ballets) to such famous works as the St Matthew Passion and Messiah.