Musica Pacifica at California Jazz Conservatory

Musica Pacifica will present a program emphasizing the improvisatory aspects of Baroque chamber music. The program will consist of concertos and trios by Handel and Vivaldi, where High Baroque techniques of improvised melodic ornamentation will be highlighted. Demonstrations of typical 16th-century ground bass and variation patterns and how they were used to build more substantial compositions — by improvising on them and then by playing works of masters such as Merula, Uccelini, and Rossi who used these patterns in their own works — will also be reviewed. Throughout the program, there will be discussion on the art of basso continuo improvisation and how it developed during the Baroque period...

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Musica Pacifica will present a program emphasizing the improvisatory aspects of Baroque chamber music. The program will consist of concertos and trios by Handel and Vivaldi, where High Baroque techniques of improvised melodic ornamentation will be highlighted. Demonstrations of typical 16th-century ground bass and variation patterns and how they were used to build more substantial compositions — by improvising on them and then by playing works of masters such as Merula, Uccelini, and Rossi who used these patterns in their own works — will also be reviewed. Throughout the program, there will be discussion on the art of basso continuo improvisation and how it developed during the Baroque period. Musica Pacifica will perform their own arrangements of English Country Dance, in which they take traditional folk tunes and improvise melodic lines and harmonies.

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