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"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore . . . whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." —SIR ISAAC NEWTON

Key Points

  • The Baroque era (1600–1750) was a time of turbulent change in politics, science, and the arts.
  • It was also a time of religious wars (Protestants vs. Catholics) and of exploration and colonization of the New World.
  • The era saw the rise of middle-class culture, with music-making centered in the home, church, and at the universities (in a group called the collegium musicum); art portrayed scenes of bourgeois life.
  • In the New World, music served religion through the singing of psalms, important to both Protestants and Catholics (CP 6).

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