Vitali’s works have experienced a revival in interest as musicians and scholars have sought to rediscover lesser-known composers of the Baroque era. The renewed focus on authenticity and performance practice ha
contexts of the music and musicians of the period by such internationally known scholars as Peter Holman, Louise Stein, Michael Talbot, Julie Anne Sadie, Stanley Sadie, and David Fuller, the Companion offers a fresh perspective on the musical styles and performance practices of the Baroque era....
Introduction to Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) was a German composer and musician whose mastery ofcounterpoint, harmony, and formshaped theBaroque periodand influenced every era of Western music that followed. Though largely unrecognized in his lifetime outside of Germany, ...
We are both free-lance musicians and have been pretty much our whole lives. Among other instruments, we both play steel drums. So naturally when we met we formed a steel drum duo and called ourselves Steel Baroque, because we played baroque era music on steel drums, and because we were ...
What do we do with a problem like Baroque Opera? One of the paradoxes of the modern revival of interest in Baroque opera is that it is a form unsuited to life today. We live in an era in... A Route to Mediocrity The Aminta Project ...
of the music and musicians of the period by such internationally known scholars as Peter Holman, Louise Stein, Michael Talbot, Julie Anne Sadie, Stanley Sadie, and David Fuller, the "Companion" offers a fresh perspective on the musical styles and performance practices of the Baroque era.DOI...
Head to the Scuola Grande di San Teodoro, one of Venice's oldest operas, and watch a classical performance Find yourself back in the 18th century, or the Golden Age of Venice as the actors perform in period costume Like watching the Greatest Hits of the Baroque, this performance embodies th...
leading the field in introducing historical instruments to many young musicians for over 20 years. Soniccouture worked with Martin Perkins and Joshua Sadler from BCU - choosing instruments to be sampled, sourcing players and advising on the best way to sample them....
Another running theme for people who fall in love with Baroque and early music is the pool of talented musicians who get their hands on a period instrument for the first time, usually after playing a “modern” instrument, and become smitten. I’ve lost track of how ma...
Music was freed from the necessity of words, and it now moved to dance rhythms rather than speech rhythms.The new style demanded new musical forms.It was in the Baroque era that some of the forms we know today began to take shape: the opera, the sonata, and the concerto.The person ...