Knowledge: baroque

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Links

Baroque Music: Composers 
http://baroque-music.com/frames/info/composers.shtml

Biographical sketches of thirty-six composers from the period.

Baroque Composers 
http://stevenestrella.com/composers/composersbar.html

List of names arranged by death date from Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers. Includes links to individual biographies and further resources.

Baroque: 1600-1750 
http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/eras/baroque.html

Introduction to the period from Essentials of Music linked to details on historical themes, musical context, style, and composer biographies.

Baroque Music 
http://www.baroquemusic.org/

Articles, suggested recordings, links, biographies, portraits, plus music samples, notes on performance, information on the lute-harpsichord and the Baroque violin bow, and background on organ builder Gottfried Silbermann.

Kunst der Fuge - 17th c. 
http://www.kunstderfuge.com/600.htm

Inclusive list of fugues written in the 1600's, comprising all the relevant repertory up to date and links to classical musician pages.

Music History 102: The Baroque Age 
http://www.ipl.org/div/mushist/bar/index.htm

Composers, major styles and developments, illustrations, and Real Audio RAM sound files.

Baroque Music 
http://www.kipar.org/historical-resources/music.html

Brief studies of styles and composers from throughout the period. Links to related topics, including images, history, and clothing.

Baroque Composers 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Baroque_composers

Alphabetical index of over 100 Wikipedia articles plus internal links to related material.

The Italian Seicento (17th Century) 
http://www.hoasm.org/PeriodV.html

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.

German Baroque Music (17th Century) 
http://www.hoasm.org/PeriodVI.html

Follows the development of the new music from Italy with emphasis on Schütz and Schein. From the Here of a Sunday Morning radio program.

Western Europe from 1650 to 1750 
http://www.hoasm.org/PeriodVII.html

Overview of new musical developments with special focus on Purcell, Couperin, Lully, and Rameau from the Here Of A Sunday Morning radio program.

The Italian Settecento (18th Century) 
http://www.hoasm.org/PeriodVIII.html

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.

The German Pre-Classics (1700-1760) 
http://www.hoasm.org/PeriodXI.html

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.

Early Baroque (1600-1680) 
http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=c&p=i&a=l&ID=3

Background information, resources, and biographies and keyworks of the composers from The Conservatory at Humanities Web.

Late Baroque (1680-1750) 
http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=c&p=i&a=l&ID=4

Background information, resources, biographies, and key works of the composers from The Conservatory at Humanities Web.

18th Century English Music 
http://www.rslade.co.uk

Biographies of several composers, portraits, and in-depth illustrated history of the period.

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