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Giacomo Torelli. Act II. Scene X: The Courtyard of the King of Naxos, detail. Pinacoteca Civica di Fano, Fano, Italy / The Bridgeman Art Library Welcome to the online companion of Music in the Baroque and Anthology of Music in the Baroque (W. W. Norton,
The music in this collection mostly comprises complete Opuses from the respective composers. All the music has been sourced online from the Petrucci music library, at imslp.org. The corresponding editors, listed below, have made these works freely available through Creative Commons licences. While t...
A survey of the Baroque Period of music and an exploration of some of its most influential composers.
(the British Library charges per page). We were about to give up when Ivars thought to write to musicologist Colin Timms, who has written the authoritative book in English on Steffani (Polymath of the Baroque: Agostino Steffani and His Music), which is an amazing resource. We found a ...
Walls, Peter, ed. Baroque Music, The Library of Essays on Music Performance Practice, series editor Mary Cyr. Farnham, Surry, UK, and Burlington, VT, USA:...
In an official press statement, Pearlman said “these additions to the Resource Library represent a significant contribution to the early music field” and “it is a great pleasure to share these resources online.” Pearlman is internationally recognized as one of the leading interpreters of Baroque...
Read the full-text online article and more details about Music: The Delicate Harmonies and Timbres of Suzuki ; They Play Baroque to Perfection and Worship Our Pop Stars. Christopher Wood and Nicholas Barber Report on Music Trends in Japan....
We are not in the 40s after all - it's not difficult to go to the music shop (or online) and check out the plethora of great literature on baroque tradition. People who say that what Harnoncourt, Gardiner, Minkowski, Manze, Hogwood etc. do is speculation...well, those I find hardly...