The Symbolic Meaning Of Vocal Music In The Baroque Period

Baroque is a period and also represents a style of art. Produced in the second half of the16th century Italy, it’s peak in the17th century, during this period and this style is not onlybelong to the art of music, it is a label of the mainstream era of the17th and18th centuryfeatures, vocal art style of this period is subordinate to the mainstream art style. Therefore,the vocal art of this period, the concert have the characteristics of the times, still works on asymbolic point. We all know that the Baroque period following the Renaissance, anotherperiod of the pursuit of humanistic concept of thinking big bang, the mainstream art style ofthis period reflects the long pent-up spirit of the world desperate to enjoy freedom,unrestrained indulgence. The theme of this era is positioned as a "deviant,""bizarre"self-release, while the subject was into all the arts, out of shape freedom in architecturalstyle, the pursuit of dynamic preferences of the rich and beautiful decor and sculpture,strong colors, commonly interspersed characteristics of the surface and oval-shaped space;in the pursuit of literary form, the contents of emptiness, language crafted exaggeratedemphasis on aristocracy; vivid art paintings of the human body momentum bold and intense,bright colors, emphasis on light and shadows. more emphasis than the Renaissance painterhumanistic sense。The Baroque period in the history of the world is a special, short-term social ideologythe turn of the transition period, a variety of complicated social classes, a variety ofmovement of ideas voices everywhere, and the restoration of the anti-restoration, religiousreform and anti-religious reform after another, forces the parties to come and go. Is aparticularly important period in the history of the Vocal Arts Baroque period, this period,opera was born, the advent of bel canto, homophony established in terms of vocal technicalstyle, in theory, subject matter broke through the past centuries face, with greatdevelopment of the castrato singer is gone with the sparkle today. Why the art of vocalmusic in such a regime change, the instability in the150years achieved such success? Thisshock the world "Baroque" style of singing is formed? The music is social music, theperformance of vocal phenomenon should be restored to the social environment, based onthe large background of social history was brought about by social, economic, political,cultural, aesthetic, artistic, as well as internal links between the kinds of disciplines of thearts profound analysis of the relationship between social forms and vocal forms of artisticexpression.