Collegium Musicum

Bach's lifetime (1685–1750), a collegium musicum was a group of amateur musicians, primarily university students, who met to rehearse and perform for pleasure. The term is commonly used today to refer to ensembles of instrumentalists and singers that perform early music.

The Collegium Musicum is dedicated to the performance of early music (the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods of European music history) using historically appropriate techniques and instruments.

Each song is ultimately judged on these four elements:

1. Originality.
2. Melody.
3. Composition/Structure.
4. Lyrics.

The Collegium Musicum is one of Columbia University's leading choral ensembles and has been a part of University life since the mid-1950s.

Baroque music expanded the size, range, and complexity of instrumental performance, and also established the mixed vocal/instrumental forms of opera, cantata and oratorio and the instrumental forms of the solo concerto and sonata as musical genres.

The Baroque period is divided into three major phases: early, middle, and late. Although they overlap in time, they are conventionally dated from 1580 to 1630, from 1630 to 1680, and from 1680 to 1730.

5 Ways You Know a Melody is Working Well

1. You notice a definite contour.
2. You see that repetition of short melodic ideas plays a vital role in putting an entire melody together.
3. You can often point to a climactic moment in a good melody.
4. You notice a strong relationship between chords, melody and lyrics.

Taking a sudden interest in an instrument and learning everything there is to know before ever picking it up. Knowing just when to tune out the world In order to feel the sounds your instrument can make. And when that times comes that you can trust the bond within the walls of where you play it will be a musical gift.

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Baroque music characteristics include:

• High levels of ornamentation.
• Intricate and complex details.
• Heavily contrasting elements.
• High movement, especially compared to the music of other time periods.
• Sonorous, continuous bass line, which allowed the higher voices of the music to be as expressive as the composer wished.

The main genres of the early Baroque vocal music are: madrigal, motet, and opera. The main genres of early Baroque instrumental music include the canzona (also known as the sonata) and suite. The main genres of the late Baroque instrumental music are the concerto, fugue, and suite.