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Includes short biographies.
http://www.lexcie.zetnet.co.uk/englishbaroque.htm
Biographical sketches of thirty-six composers from the period.
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Baroque Music Composers Albinoni Bach Biber Blow Buxtehude Caccini Carissimi Chambonnières Charpentier Corelli Couperin Frescobaldi Froberger Geminiani Gluck Händel Lully Metastasio Monteverdi Pachelbel Pepusch Pergolesi Peri Purcell Rameau Sammartini Scarlatti Scheidt Schein Schütz Stradella Tartini Telemann Torelli Vivaldi Zachau Back Home...Biographies of several composers, portraits, and in-depth illustrated history of the period.
http://www.rslade.btinternet.co.uk
List of names arranged by death date from Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers. Includes links to individual biographies and further resources.
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Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers Dictionary Entries Sorted by Death Dates Baroque Music by Claude V. Palisca BAROQUE Gibbons, Orlando (1583 1625 United Kingdom Schein, Johann Hermann (1586 1630 Germany Caccini, Francesca (1587 c. 1640 Italy Frescobaldi, Girolamo (1583 1643 Italy Lawes, William (1602 1645...Introduction to the period from Essentials of Music linked to details on historical themes, musical context, style, and composer biographies.
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Essentials of Music Eras The increasing importance of scientific investigation The culmination of royal despotism Development of the New World Artificiality and marvelous effect were valued in the arts Musical Context A time of experimentation Expanding roles for music A growing awareness of national...Inclusive list of fugues written in the 1600's, comprising all the relevant repertory up to date and links to classical musician pages.
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ON CLASSICAL. Fugue Lists: XVII Century Fuge is the largest collection of free Classical MIDI files on the web! 17th c. List of fugues and fugal compositions by composers lived in the XVII century [A B C D E F G H I, J K L...Composers, major styles and developments, illustrations, and Real Audio RAM sound files.
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Internet Public Library: Music History 102 Baroque was a time of a great intensification of past forms in all the arts: painting saw the works of Vermeer, Rubens, Rembrandt, and El Greco in literature it was the time of Molire, Cervantes, Milton, and Racine modern science...Brief studies of styles and composers from throughout the period. Links to related topics, including images, history, and clothing.
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The Salacious Historian's Lair Baroque Music Early English Baroque Classic Baroque Late Baroque I Late Baroque II Graphics and Contents Copyright N. Kipar 1998-2005....Alphabetical index of over 100 Wikipedia articles plus internal links to related material.
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Category:Baroque composers Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Baroque composers are those individuals who wrote music in the Baroque era, between 1600 and 1760. Articles in category Baroque composers There are 178 articles in this section of this category. A Agostino AgazzariFrançois d'AgincourtPaolo AgostinoDomenico AlbertiTomaso AlbinoniDomenico AllegriGregorio AllegriFelice...Traces the beginning of opera in Florence with links to biographies of composers and related material. From the Here Of a Sunday Morning radio program.
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HOASM: The Italian Seicento (17th Century) At the beginning of the seventeenth century opera was born in Florence,derived partly from the development of musical dialogs, and partly from the efforts of the Humanists to revive classical tragedy. Its essential means of exxpression was the solo song,...Follows the development of the new music from Italy with emphasis on Schütz and Schein. From the Here of a Sunday Morning radio program.
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HOASM: German Baroque Music (17th Century) Italians as the leading composers in Europe induced the more important German musicians to go to Italy for their training. Heinrich Schtz (died 1672) was the most accomplished German exponent of the new style, especially in the field of vocal...Overview of new musical developments with special focus on Purcell, Couperin, Lully, and Rameau from the Here Of A Sunday Morning radio program.
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HOASM: Western Europe from 1650 to 1750 England had an outstanding genius in Henry Purcell (died 1695 the Orpheus Britannicus most celebrated for his compositions for the great English dramas, but also a composer of universal range. In France Jean Baptiste Lully (died 1687 an Italian who...Summary of developments in Bel Canto and Opera Buffa as well as instrumental developments with links to biographies and related material from the Here Of a Sunday Morning radio program.
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HOASM: The Italian Settecento (18th Century) Italy the transition from the early to the late Baroque saw the division of solo song into declamatory recitative and cantabile aria, a procedure practised in Neapolitan opera, and particularly by its leading master Alessandro Scarlatti (died 1725 An unprecedented...Follows the popularizing of late Baroque musical styles, emphasizing Frederick the Great, Quantz, Graun, and Telemann. From the Here Of A Sunday Morning radio program.
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HOASM: The German Pre-Classics (1700-1760) Neapolitan tunefulness and French elegance, began to develop popular aspects. The solo aria was simplified into the simple religious song, dance song and pastoral song. at the smae time the acme of aristocratic music-making, in both opera and chamber music,...Background information, resources, and biographies and keyworks of the composers from The Conservatory at Humanities Web.
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The most important figure of the Early Baroque period was the Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi. He transformed music through his imaginative development of traditional forms. In particular, the dramatic styles of his madrigals (vocal compositions) anticipates the solo cantata and...Background information, resources, biographies, and key works of the composers from The Conservatory at Humanities Web.
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The greatest legacy handed down by the Late Baroque period was its enormous wealth of operas (such as Handel's Serse) and oratorios two of the greatest being the St. Matthew Passion by J.S. Bach and Handel's magnificent Messiah It is...Biographies of several composers, portraits, and in-depth illustrated history of the period.
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18th Century English Music Century witnessed a period of unprecedented prosperity. This was chiefly the result of a comparatively stable democratic Government and a flourishing international trade with a growing number of colonies supported by trusted financial institutions. Consequently, many industrious and successful merchants,...