Traveling Through History
Explore-Vasco de Gama: Baroque
Explorer Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama in (1502), he helmed another journey to India that ships.In all de Gama's first journey covered nearly 24,000 miles in close to two years,and 54 of the crew's original 170 members survived.He subsequently made two other voyages to India and was appointed as Portuguese victory in India in (1524).Explorer Vasco da Gama was born into a noble family around (1460) in Sines Portugugal.
When he got old enough, young Vasco da Gama joined the navy, where he was taught how to navigate.Historians know little about why exactly da Gama still an experienced explorer,was chosen to lead the expedition to India in (1497).Calvert states that recounts the voyages undertaken by fifteenth-century Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama.Until then European ships had been of two man designs:one from the north and one from the Mediterranean.
Baroque Period
Because bask continuo,or through bass,remained standard practice until the end of the baroque period,the era is sometimes known as the the "age of the thorough bass".Different in the instrumental sounds after being ignored for decades,baroque music has become increasingly popular over the last fifty years.Contata: explains that an extended piece consisting of a succession of recitatives and set piece such as alr,duets and choruses.Originating in early 17th century Italy, the cantata beganas a secular works composed for solo voice and basso continuo,most likely intended for performance at private social gathering.
Many of these works were published suggesting that they performed by professional musicians and amateurs alike.By the middle of the century cantatas were published less frequently suggesting that performances were increasingly being done by professionals.