Baroque music, a style of music that prevailed during the period from about 1600 to about 1750, known for its grandiose, dramatic, and energetic spirit but also for its stylisticdiversity. Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, K 64, by Domenico Scarlatti, played on the piano.(more) ...
A survey of the Baroque Period of music and an exploration of some of its most influential composers.
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Learn about the history of Baroque-period opera. Explore the lives and works of some of the most famous composers of opera music, Monteverdi and Lully. Updated: 11/21/2023 Table of Contents What is Baroque Opera? Composers of Opera Music in the Baroque Period Lesson Summary...
Drawing on sources in six languages, many of them hitherto unavailable to the English-speaking reader, and touching on the visual arts, architecture, music and literature, this study frees the word 'baroque' from being a term of periodisation (and too often, in English, a term of suspicion...
December 9, 2004 at 07:52 PM · Imagine The Rite of Spring played on Baroque "period" instruments with Baroque performance practice--that's how far off base some of our modern performances of Baroque music are. Not to slam a great player unnecessarily, but, after decades of listening to ...
We can be made aware of such present-day interdependencies of the arts and politics by looking into the past, into a period which is definitely over and gone forever; a period which is therefore an ideal basis for research in an interdisciplinary context. Seventeenth-century Baroque culture is...
Baroque music, a style of music that prevailed during the period from about 1600 to about 1750, known for its grandiose, dramatic, and energetic spirit but also for its stylisticdiversity. Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, K 64, by Domenico Scarlatti, played on the piano. ...
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was the eldest son of J.S. and Maria Barbara Bach, and a composer during the period of transition between Baroque and Rococo styles. W.F. Bach’s musical instruction was primarily from his father (who wrote for him, when he was te
The Baroque was a period in art history characterized by the exuberant use of ornaments and the combination of different arts for creating dramatic pieces. It started in Italy after the Renaissance and expanded to most of Europe between the 17th and 18th centuries. The Baroque was encouraged by...