Baroque music

Baroque music refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. ^[1]

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1. 322 relations: Abendmusik, Absolutism (European history), Accompaniment, Air (music), Alessandro Scarlatti, Alessandro Stradella, Allemande, Anacrusis, Ancient Greece, André Campra, Angélique (instrument), Anthem, Antonio Caldara, Antonio Cesti, Antonio Lotti, Antonio Soler, Antonio Vivaldi, Arcangelo Corelli, Archlute, Aria, Austria, Bach-Jahrbuch, Baldassare Galuppi, Ballad opera, Ballet de cour, Bandora (instrument), Baroco, Baroque, Baroque guitar, Baroque music, Baroque pearl, Baroque trumpet, Baroque violin, Bass violin, Bassline, Basso continuo, Bassoon, Benedetto Marcello, Book of Common Prayer, Bourrée, British Isles, Brittany, Cadence, Cantata, Canzona, Carl Heinrich Graun, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Carlo Gesualdo, Carlos Seixas, Castanets, ... Expand index (272 more) » « Shrink index

Abendmusik

(German for "evening music", plural) usually refers to a series of musical concert held in the St. Mary's Church, Lübeck, Germany, begun in the 17th century and lasting until the early 19th century.

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Absolutism (European history)

Absolutism or the Age of Absolutism (–) is a historiographical term used to describe a form of monarchical power that is unrestrained by all other institutions, such as churches, legislatures, or social elites.

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Accompaniment

Accompaniment is the musical part which provides the rhythmic and/or harmonic support for the melody or main themes of a song or instrumental piece.

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Air (music)

An air (aria; also ayr, ayre in French) is a song-like vocal or instrumental composition.

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Alessandro Scarlatti

Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti (2 May 1660 – 22 October 1725) was an Italian Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas.

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Alessandro Stradella

Antonio Alessandro Boncompagno Stradella (Bologna, 3 July 1643 – Genoa, 25 February 1682) was an Italian composer of the middle Baroque period.

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Allemande

An allemande (allemanda, almain(e), or alman(d), French: "German (dance)") is a Renaissance and Baroque dance, and one of the most common instrumental dance styles in Baroque music, with examples by Couperin, Purcell, Bach and Handel.

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Anacrusis

In poetic and musical meter, and by analogy in publishing, an anacrusis (from, anákrousis, literally: 'pushing up', plural anacruses) is a brief introduction.

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Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.

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André Campra

André Campra (baptized 4 December 1660 – 29 June 1744) was a French composer and conductor of the Baroque era. The leading French opera composer in the period between Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau, Campra wrote several tragédies en musique and opéra-ballets that were extremely well received.

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Angélique (instrument)

The angélique (French, from Italian angelica) is a plucked string instrument of the lute family of the baroque era.

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Anthem

An anthem is a musical composition of celebration, usually used as a symbol for a distinct group, particularly the national anthems of countries.

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Antonio Caldara

Antonio Caldara (– 28 December 1736) was an Italian Baroque composer.

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Antonio Cesti

Antonio Cesti (baptised Pietro Cesti, 5 August 1623; died 14 October 1669), known today primarily as an Italian composer of the Baroque era, was also a singer (tenor), and organist.

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Antonio Lotti

Antonio Lotti (5 January 1667 – 5 January 1740) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era.

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Antonio Soler

Antonio Francisco Javier José Soler Ramos, usually known as Padre ('Father', in the religious sense) Antonio Soler, known in Catalan as Antoni Soler i Ramos (baptized 3 December 1729 – died 20 December 1783) was a Spanish composer whose works span the late Baroque and early Classical music eras.

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Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music.

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Arcangelo Corelli

Arcangelo Corelli (also,,; 17 February 1653 – 8 January 1713) was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era.

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Archlute

The archlute (archilaúd, arciliuto, Erzlaute) is a European plucked string instrument developed around 1600 as a compromise between the very large theorbo, the size and re-entrant tuning of which made for difficulties in the performance of solo music, and the Renaissance tenor lute, which lacked the bass range of the theorbo.

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Aria

In music, an aria (arie,; arias in common usage; diminutive form: arietta,;: ariette; in English simply air) is a self-contained piece for one voice, with or without instrumental or orchestral accompaniment, normally part of a larger work.

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Austria

Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.

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Bach-Jahrbuch

The Bach-Jahrbuch ("Bach yearbook" or according to the publication's website "Bach Annals") is an annual publication related to the composer Bach.

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Baldassare Galuppi

Baldassare Galuppi (18 October 17063 January 1785) was a Venetian composer, born on the island of Burano in the Venetian Republic.

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Ballad opera

The ballad opera is a genre of English comic opera stage play that originated in the early 18th century, and continued to develop over the following century and later.

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Ballet de cour

Ballet de cour ("court ballet") is the name given to ballets performed in the 16th and 17th centuries at courts.

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Bandora (instrument)

The bandora or bandore is a large long-necked plucked string-instrument that can be regarded as a bass cittern though it does not have the re-entrant tuning typical of the cittern.

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Baroco

In Aristotelian logic, baroco is a mnemonic word used to memorize a syllogism.

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Baroque

The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.

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Baroque guitar

The Baroque guitar (–1750) is a string instrument with five courses of gut strings and moveable gut frets.

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Baroque music

Baroque music refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. Baroque music and Baroque music are age of Enlightenment.

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Baroque pearl

Baroque pearls are pearls with an irregular, non-spherical shape.

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Baroque trumpet

The baroque trumpet is a musical instrument in the brass family.

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Baroque violin

A Baroque violin is a violin set up in the manner of the baroque period of music.

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Bass violin

Bass violin is the modern term for various 16th- and 17th-century bass instruments of the violin (i.e. viola da braccio) family.

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Bassline

Bassline (also known as a bass line or bass part) is the term used in many styles of music, such as blues, jazz, funk, dub and electronic, traditional, and classical music, for the low-pitched instrumental part or line played (in jazz and some forms of popular music) by a rhythm section instrument such as the electric bass, double bass, cello, tuba or keyboard (piano, Hammond organ, electric organ, or synthesizer).

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Basso continuo

Basso continuo parts, almost universal in the Baroque era (1600–1750), provided the harmonic structure of the music by supplying a bassline and a chord progression.

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Bassoon

The bassoon is a musical instrument in the woodwind family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges.

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Benedetto Marcello

Benedetto Giacomo Marcello (31 July or 1 August 1686 – 24 July 1739) was an Italian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher.

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Book of Common Prayer

The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) is the name given to a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion and by other Christian churches historically related to Anglicanism.

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Bourrée

The bourrée (borrèia; also in England, borry or bore) is a dance of French origin and the words and music that accompany it.

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British Isles

The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland), and over six thousand smaller islands.

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Brittany

Brittany (Bretagne,; Breizh,; Gallo: Bertaèyn or Bertègn) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.

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Cadence

In Western musical theory, a cadence is the end of a phrase in which the melody or harmony creates a sense of full or partial resolution, especially in music of the 16th century onwards.Don Michael Randel (1999). The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians, pp. 105-106.. A harmonic cadence is a progression of two or more chords that concludes a phrase, section, or piece of music.

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Cantata

A cantata (literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian verb cantare, "to sing") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir.

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Canzona

The canzona is an Italian musical form derived from the Franco-Flemish and Parisian chansons, and during Giovanni Gabrieli's lifetime was frequently spelled canzona, though both earlier and later the singular was spelled either canzon or canzone with the plural canzoni.

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Carl Heinrich Graun

Carl Heinrich Graun (7 May 1704 – 8 August 1759) was a German composer and tenor.

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, and commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach, was a German Classical period composer and musician, the fifth child and second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach.

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Carlo Gesualdo

Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (between 8 March 1566 and 30 March 1566 – 8 September 1613) was an Italian nobleman and composer.

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Carlos Seixas

José António Carlos de Seixas (11 June 1704 – 25 August 1742) was a pre-eminent Portuguese composer of the 18th century.

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Castanets

Castanets, also known as clackers or palillos, are a percussion instrument (idiophone), used in Spanish, Calé, Moorish, Ottoman, Italian, Mexican, Sephardic, Portuguese and Swiss music.

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Cello

The violoncello, often simply abbreviated as cello, is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family.

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Central Europe

Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Europe.

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Chaconne

A chaconne (chacona; ciaccona; earlier English: chacony) is a type of musical composition often used as a vehicle for variation on a repeated short harmonic progression, often involving a fairly short repetitive bass-line (ground bass) which offers a compositional outline for variation, decoration, figuration and melodic invention.

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Chalumeau

The chalumeau (plural chalumeaux) is a single-reed woodwind instrument of the late baroque and early classical eras.

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Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room.

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Charles Jennens

Charles Jennens (1700 – 20 November 1773) was an English landowner and patron of the arts.

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Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles VI (Karl; Carolus; 1 October 1685 – 20 October 1740) was Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from 1711 until his death, succeeding his elder brother, Joseph I.

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Chorale

A chorale is the name of several related musical forms originating in the music genre of the Lutheran chorale.

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Chorale prelude

In music, a chorale prelude or chorale setting is a short liturgical composition for organ using a chorale tune as its basis.

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Chorale setting

Chorale settings refer to a wide variety of musical compositions, almost entirely of Protestant origin, which use a chorale as their basis.

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Chord progression

In a musical composition, a chord progression or harmonic progression (informally chord changes, used as a plural) is a succession of chords.

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Christoph Graupner

Christoph Graupner (10 May 1760) was a German composer and harpsichordist of late Baroque music who was a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and George Frideric Handel.

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Cittern

The cittern or cithren (Fr. cistre, It. cetra, Ger. Cister, Sp. cistro, cedra, cítola) is a stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance.

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Classical music

Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.

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Classical period (music)

The Classical Period was an era of classical music between roughly 1750 and 1820.

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Claude V. Palisca

Claude Victor Palisca (24 November 1921 – 11 January 2001) was an American musicologist.

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Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player.

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Clavichord

The clavichord is a stringed rectangular keyboard instrument that was used largely in the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras.

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Common practice period

In European art music, the common practice period was the period of about 250 years during which the tonal system was regarded as the only basis for composition.

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Concertato

Concertato is a term in early Baroque music referring to either a genre or a style of music in which groups of instruments or voices share a melody, usually in alternation, and almost always over a basso continuo.

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Concerto

A concerto (plural concertos, or concerti from the Italian plural) is, from the late Baroque era, mostly understood as an instrumental composition, written for one or more soloists accompanied by an orchestra or other ensemble.

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Concerto grosso

The concerto grosso (Italian for big concert(o), plural concerti grossi) is a form of baroque music in which the musical material is passed between a small group of soloists (the concertino) and full orchestra (the ripieno, tutti or concerto grosso).

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Conducting

Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert.

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Contrabass

Contrabass (from contrabbasso) refers to several musical instruments of very low pitch—generally one octave below bass register instruments.

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Cornett

The cornett, cornetto, or zink is a wind instrument that dates from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods, popular from 1500 to 1650. It was used in a variety of situations, including performances by professional musicians, state music and liturgical music. It accompanied choral music. It also featured in popular music in what are now called alta capellas or loud wind ensembles.

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Counterpoint

In music, counterpoint is a method of composition in which two or more musical lines (or voices) are simultaneously played which are harmonically correlated yet independent in rhythm and melodic contour.

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Courante

The courante, corrente, coranto and corant are some of the names given to a family of triple metre dances from the late Renaissance and the Baroque era.

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Coverdale Bible

The Coverdale Bible, compiled by Myles Coverdale and published in 1535, was the first complete Modern English translation of the Bible (not just the Old, or New Testament), and the first complete printed translation into English (cf. Wycliffe's Bible in manuscript).

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Curt Sachs

Curt Sachs (29 June 1881 – 5 February 1959) was a German musicologist.

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Da capo aria

The da capo aria is a musical form for arias that was prevalent in the Baroque era.

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Dafne

Dafne is the earliest known work that, by modern standards, could be considered an opera.

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Dauphiné

The Dauphiné is a former province in southeastern France, whose area roughly corresponded to that of the present departments of Isère, Drôme and Hautes-Alpes.

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Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot (5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert.

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Denis Gaultier

Denis Gaultier (Gautier, Gaulthier; also known as Gaultier le jeune and Gaultier de Paris) (1597 or 1602/3 – 1672) was a French lutenist and composer.

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Der Messias

Der Messias, K. 572, is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 1789 German-language version of Messiah, George Frideric Handel's 1741 oratorio.

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Dieterich Buxtehude

Dieterich Buxtehude (born Diderich Hansen Buxtehude,; – 9 May 1707) was a Danish organist and composer of the Baroque period, whose works are typical of the North German organ school.

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Diminished triad

In music theory, a diminished triad (also known as the minor flatted fifth) is a triad consisting of two minor thirds above the root.

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Domenico Scarlatti

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757) was an Italian composer.

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Dominant seventh chord

In music theory, a dominant seventh chord, or major minor seventh chord, is a seventh chord, composed of a root, major third, perfect fifth, and minor seventh.

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Double bass

The double bass, also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched chordophone in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions such as the octobass).

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Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.

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Dramma per musica

A dramma per musica (Italian, literally: drama for music, plural: drammi per musica) is a libretto.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.

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Dulcian

The dulcian is a Renaissance woodwind instrument, with a double reed and a folded conical bore.

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Empfindsamkeit (music)

Empfindsamkeit (sentimental style) or Empfindsamer Stil is a style of musical composition and poetry developed in 18th-century Germany, intended to express "true and natural" feelings, and featuring sudden contrasts of mood.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Encyclopédie

Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Crafts, better known as Encyclopédie, was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, and translations. Baroque music and Encyclopédie are age of Enlightenment.

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Ennemond Gaultier

Ennemond Gaultier (Gaultier le Vieux, Gaultier de Lyon; also spelled Gautier or Gauthier) (c. 157517 December 1651) was a French lutenist and composer.

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Erdmann Neumeister

Erdmann Neumeister (12 May 1671 – 18 August 1756) was a German Lutheran pastor and hymnologist.

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Estienne Roger

Estienne Roger (1664 or 1665 in Caen, France – 7 July 1722 in Amsterdam) was a francophone printer, bookseller and publisher of sheet music working in the Netherlands.

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Euridice (Peri)

Euridice (also Erudice or Eurydice) is an opera by Jacopo Peri, with additional music by Giulio Caccini.

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Evangelische Verlagsanstalt

The Evangelische Verlagsanstalt (EVA) is a denominational media company founded in Berlin in 1946.

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Fantasia (musical form)

A fantasia (also English: fantasy, fancy, fantazy, phantasy, Fantasie, Phantasie, fantaisie) is a musical composition with roots in improvisation.

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Figured bass

Figured bass is musical notation in which numerals and symbols appear above or below (or next to) a bass note.

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Florentine Camerata

The Florentine Camerata, also known as the Camerata de' Bardi, were a group of humanists, musicians, poets and intellectuals in late Renaissance Florence who gathered under the patronage of Count Giovanni de' Bardi to discuss and guide trends in the arts, especially music and drama.

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Folia

La Folía (Spanish), or Follies (English), also known as folies d'Espagne (French), La Follia (Italian), and Folia (Portuguese), is one of the oldest remembered European musical themes, or primary material, generally melodic, of a composition, on record.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Fortepiano

A fortepiano, sometimes referred to as a pianoforte, is an early piano.

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François Couperin

François Couperin (10 November 1668 – 11 September 1733) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist.

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Francesco Cavalli

Francesco Cavalli (born Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni; 14 February 1602 – 14 January 1676) was a Venetian composer, organist and singer of the early Baroque period.

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Francesco Geminiani

Francesco Xaverio Geminiani (baptised 5 December 1687 – 17 September 1762) was an Italian violinist, composer, and music theorist.

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Francesco Maria Veracini

Francesco Maria Veracini (1 February 1690 – 31 October 1768) was an Italian composer and violinist, perhaps best known for his sets of violin sonatas.

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Franz Benda

Franz Benda (František Benda; baptised 22 November 1709 – 7 March 1786) was a Bohemian violinist and composer, who worked for much of his life at the court of Frederick the Great.

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Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano.

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French overture

The French overture is a musical form widely used in the Baroque period.

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Fugue

In classical music, a fugue is a contrapuntal, polyphonic compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches), which recurs frequently throughout the course of the composition.

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Galant music

In music, galant refers to the style which was fashionable in the upper-class societies of Western Europe from the 1720s to the 1770s. Baroque music and galant music are age of Enlightenment.

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Gaspar Sanz

Francisco Bartolomé Sanz Celma (April 4, 1640 (baptized) – 1710), better known as Gaspar Sanz, was a Spanish composer, guitarist, and priest born to a wealthy family in Calanda in the comarca of Bajo Aragón, Spain.

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Gavotte

The gavotte (also gavot, gavote, or gavotta) is a French dance, taking its name from a folk dance of the Gavot, the people of the Pays de Gap region of Dauphiné in the southeast of France, where the dance originated, according to one source.

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Georg Benda

Georg Anton Benda (italic; 30 June 17226 November 1795) was a composer, violinist and Kapellmeister of the classical period from the Kingdom of Bohemia.

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Georg Philipp Telemann

Georg Philipp Telemann (– 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist.

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George Frideric Handel

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (baptised italic,; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos.

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Giacomo Carissimi

(Gian) Giacomo Carissimi (baptized 18 April 160512 January 1674) was an Italian composer and music teacher.

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Gigue

The gigue or giga is a lively baroque dance originating from the English jig.

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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Giovanni Battista Draghi (4 January 1710 – 16 or 17 March 1736), usually referred to as Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and organist, leading exponent of the Baroque; he is considered one of the greatest Italian musicians of the first half of the 18th century and one of the most important representatives of the Neapolitan school.

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Giovanni Battista Sammartini

Giovanni Battista Sammartini (c. 1700 – 15 January 1775) was an Italian composer, violinist, organist, choirmaster and teacher.

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Giovanni Bononcini

Giovanni Bononcini (or Buononcini) (18 July 1670 – 9 July 1747) (sometimes cited also as Giovanni Battista Bononcini) was an Italian Baroque composer, cellist, singer and teacher, one of a family of string players and composers.

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Giovanni de' Bardi

Giovanni de' Bardi (5 February 1534 – September 1612), Count of Vernio, was an Italian literary critic, writer, composer and soldier.

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Giovanni Gabrieli

Giovanni Gabrieli (/1557 – 12 August 1612) was an Italian composer and organist.

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Giovanni Legrenzi

Giovanni Legrenzi (baptized August 12, 1626 – May 27, 1690) was an Italian composer of opera, vocal and instrumental music, and organist, of the Baroque era.

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Girolamo Diruta

Girolamo Diruta (c. 1546 – 1624 or 1625) was an Italian organist, music theorist, and composer.

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Girolamo Frescobaldi

Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi (also Gerolamo, Girolimo, and Geronimo Alissandro; September 15831 March 1643) was an Italian composer and virtuoso keyboard player.

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Giuseppe Tartini

Giuseppe Tartini (8 April 1692 – 26 February 1770) was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era born in Pirano in the Republic of Venice (now Piran, Slovenia).

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Giuseppe Torelli

Giuseppe Torelli (22 April 1658 Verona – 8 February 1709) was an Italian violist, violinist, teacher, and composer of the middle Baroque era.

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Glossary of ballet

Because ballet became formalized in France, a significant part of ballet terminology is in the French language.

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Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel

Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (13 January 1690 – 27 November 1749) was a German composer of the Baroque era.

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Hallische Händel-Ausgabe

The Hallische Händel-Ausgabe ("Halle Handel Edition") is a multi-volume collection of the works of George Frideric Handel.

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Harmony

In music, harmony is the concept of combining different sounds together in order to create new, distinct musical ideas.

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Harp

The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.

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Harpsichord

A harpsichord (clavicembalo, clavecin, Cembalo; clavecín, cravo, клавеси́н (tr. klavesín or klavesin), klavecimbel, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard.

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Händel-Gesellschaft

Between 1858 and 1902, the Händel-Gesellschaft ("German Handel Society") produced a collected 105-volume edition of the works of George Frideric Handel.

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Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (bapt. 12 August 1644, Stráž pod Ralskem – 3 May 1704, Salzburg) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist.

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Heinrich Schütz

Heinrich Schütz (6 November 1672) was a German early Baroque composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and one of the most important composers of the 17th century.

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Heinrich Wölfflin

Heinrich Wölfflin (21 June 1864 – 19 July 1945) was a Swiss art historian, esthetician and educator, whose objective classifying principles ("painterly" vs. "linear" and the like) were influential in the development of formal analysis in art history in the early 20th century.

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Henri Desmarets

Henri Desmarets (February 1661 – 7 September 1741) was a French composer of the Baroque period primarily known for his stage works, although he also composed sacred music as well as secular cantatas, songs and instrumental works.

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Henri Dumont

Henri Dumont (also Henry Du Mont, originally Henry de Thier) (1610 – 8 May 1684) was a baroque composer of the French school, born in the Southern Netherlands.

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Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell (rare:; September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer of Baroque music.

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Homophony

In music, homophony (Greek: ὁμόφωνος, homóphōnos, from ὁμός, homós, "same" and φωνή, phōnē, "sound, tone") is a texture in which a primary part is supported by one or more additional strands that provide the harmony.

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Hurdy-gurdy

The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings.

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Intermezzo

In music, an intermezzo (plural form: intermezzi), in the most general sense, is a composition which fits between other musical or dramatic entities, such as acts of a play or movements of a larger musical work.

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Italian language

Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.

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Jacopo Peri

Jacopo Peri (20 August 156112 August 1633) was an Italian composer, singer and instrumentalist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods.

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Jacques Champion de Chambonnières

Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (Jacques Champion, commonly referred to as Chambonnières) (c. 1601/2 – 1672) was a French harpsichordist, dancer and composer.

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Jan Dismas Zelenka

Jan Dismas Zelenka (16 October 1679 – 23 December 1745), baptised Jan Lukáš Zelenka was a Czech composer and musician of the Baroque period.

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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (April or May, 1562 – 16 October 1621) was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras.

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Jean-Baptiste Lully

Jean-Baptiste Lully (– 22 March 1687) was a French composer, dancer and instrumentalist of Italian birth, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style.

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Jean-Baptiste Senaillé

Jean Baptiste Senaillé (23 November 1687 – 15 October 1730) was a French born Baroque composer and violin virtuoso.

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Jean-Féry Rebel

Jean-Féry Rebel (18 April 1666 – 2 January 1747) was an innovative French Baroque composer and violinist.

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Jean-Henri d'Anglebert

Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (baptized 1 April 1629 – 23 April 1691) was a French composer, harpsichordist and organist.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher (philosophe), writer, and composer. Baroque music and Jean-Jacques Rousseau are age of Enlightenment.

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Jean-Joseph de Mondonville

Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (25 December 1711 (baptised) – 8 October 1772), also known as Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, was a French violinist and composer.

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Jean-Marie Leclair

Jean-Marie Leclair l'aîné (Jean-Marie Leclair the Elder) (10 May 1697 – 22 October 1764) was a French Baroque violinist and composer.

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Jean-Philippe Rameau

Jean-Philippe Rameau (–) was a French composer and music theorist.

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Jig

The jig (port, port-cruinn) is a form of lively folk dance in compound metre, as well as the accompanying dance tune.

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Johann Adolf Scheibe

Johann Adolph Scheibe (5 May 1708 – 22 April 1776) was a German-Danish composer and significant critic and theorist of music.

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Johann Adolph Hasse

Johann Adolph Hasse (baptised 25 March 1699 – 16 December 1783) was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music.

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Johann David Heinichen

Johann David Heinichen (17 April 1683 – 16 July 1729) was a German Baroque composer and music theorist who brought the musical genius of Venice to the court of Augustus II the Strong in Dresden.

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Johann Friedrich Fasch

Johann Friedrich Fasch (15 April 1688 – 5 December 1758) was a German violinist and composer.

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Johann Georg Pisendel

Johann Georg Pisendel (– 25 November 1755) was a German Baroque violinist and composer who, for many years, led the Court Orchestra in Dresden as concertmaster, then the finest instrumental ensemble in Europe.

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Johann Gottlieb Goldberg

Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (baptized 14 March 1727 – 13 April 1756) was a German virtuoso harpsichordist, organist, and composer of the late Baroque and early Classical period.

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Johann Gottlieb Janitsch

Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (19 June 1708 – c. 1763) was a German Baroque composer who wrote in the galant style, transitional between the Baroque and Classical periods.

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Johann Hermann Schein

Johann Hermann Schein (20 January 1586 – 19 November 1630) was a German composer of the early Baroque era.

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Johann Joachim Quantz

Johann Joachim Quantz (30 January 1697 – 12 July 1773) was a German composer, flutist and flute maker of the late Baroque period.

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Johann Joseph Fux

Johann Joseph Fux (– 13 February 1741) was an Austrian composer, music theorist and pedagogue of the late Baroque era.

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Johann Kuhnau

Johann Kuhnau (6 April 16605 June 1722) was a German polymath, known primarily as a composer today.

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Johann Mattheson

Johann Mattheson (28 September 1681 – 17 April 1764) was a German composer, critic, lexicographer and music theorist.

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Johann Pachelbel

Johann Pachelbel (also Bachelbel; baptised – buried 9 March 1706) was a German composer, organist, and teacher who brought the south German organ schools to their peak.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.

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Johann Stamitz

Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz (Czech: Jan Václav Antonín Stamic; 18 June 1717 – 27 March 1757) was a Bohemian composer and violinist.

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José de Nebra

José Melchor Baltasar Gaspar Nebra Blasco (January 6, 1702 – July 11, 1768) was a Spanish composer.

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Joseph Bodin de Boismortier

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (23 December 1689 – 28 October 1755) was a French baroque composer of instrumental music, cantatas, opéra-ballets, and vocal music.

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Joseph Haydn

Franz Joseph Haydn (31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. Baroque music and Joseph Haydn are age of Enlightenment.

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Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor

Joseph I (Joseph Jacob Ignaz Johann Anton Eustachius; 26 July 1678 – 17 April 1711) was Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from 1705 until his death in 1711.

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Key (music)

In music theory, the key of a piece is the group of pitches, or scale, that forms the basis of a musical composition in Western classical music, art music, and pop music.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers.

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King James Version

on the title-page of the first edition and in the entries in works like the "Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church", etc.--> The King James Version (KJV), also the King James Bible (KJB) and the Authorized Version (AV), is an Early Modern English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611, by sponsorship of King James VI and I.

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Kithara

The kithara, or Latinized cithara (κιθάρα |translit.

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L'estro armonico

L'estro armonico (The Harmonic Inspiration), Op. 3, is a set of 12 concertos for string instruments by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, first published in Amsterdam in 1711.

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L'incoronazione di Poppea

L'incoronazione di Poppea (SV 308, The Coronation of Poppaea) is an Italian opera by Claudio Monteverdi.

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L'Orfeo

L'Orfeo (SV 318), or La favola d'Orfeo, is a late Renaissance/early Baroque favola in musica, or opera, by Claudio Monteverdi, with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio.

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Languedoc

The Province of Languedoc (Lengadòc) is a former province of France.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor

Leopold I (Leopold Ignaz Joseph Balthasar Franz Felician; I.; 9 June 1640 – 5 May 1705) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia.

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Les Vingt-quatre Violons du Roi

Les Vingt-quatre Violons du Roi (in original orthography Les Vingt-quatre Violons du Roy and in English The King's 24 Violin-Family Instruments) was a five–part string ensemble at the French royal court, existing from 1626 to 1761.

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List of music students by teacher: A to B

This is a list of students of music, organized by teacher.

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List of operas by Claudio Monteverdi

The Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) wrote several works for the stage between 1604 and 1643, including ten in the then-emerging opera genre.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Louis Couperin

Louis Couperin (– 29 August 1661) was a French Baroque composer and performer.

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Louis Marchand

Louis Marchand (2 February 1669 – 17 February 1732) was a French organist, harpsichordist and composer.

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Louis XIV

LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.

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Loure

The loure, also known as the gigue lourée or gigue lente (slow gigue), is a French Baroque dance, probably originating in Normandy and named after the sound of the instrument of the same name (a type of musette).

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Baroque music and Ludwig van Beethoven are age of Enlightenment.

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Luigi Rossi

Luigi Rossi (c. 1597 – 20 February 1653) was an Italian Baroque composer.

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Lute

A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino,; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick.

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Mandora

The mandora or gallichon is a type of 18th- and early 19th-century lute, with six to nine courses of strings.

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Manfred Bukofzer

Manfred Fritz Bukofzer (27 March 1910 – 7 December 1955) was a German-born American musicologist.

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Mannheim school

Mannheim school refers to both the orchestral techniques pioneered by the court orchestra of the Elector Palatine in Mannheim in the latter half of the 18th century and the group of composers of the early classical period, who composed for the orchestra of Mannheim.

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Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 – 24 February 1704) was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV.

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Marin Marais

Marin Marais (31 May 1656, in Paris – 15 August 1728, in Paris) was a French composer and viol player.

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Masque

The masque was a form of festive courtly entertainment that flourished in 16th- and early 17th-century Europe, though it was developed earlier in Italy, in forms including the intermedio (a public version of the masque was the pageant).

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Mass (music)

The Mass (missa) is a form of sacred musical composition that sets the invariable portions of the Christian Eucharistic liturgy (principally that of the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and Lutheranism), known as the Mass.

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Melody

A melody, also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.

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Messiah (Handel)

Messiah (HWV 56) is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel.

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Michael Praetorius

Michael Praetorius (probably 28 September 1571 – 15 February 1621) was a German composer, organist, and music theorist.

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Michel Corrette

Michel Corrette (10 April 1707 – 21 January 1795) was a French composer, organist and author of musical method books.

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Michel Richard Delalande

Michel Richard Delalande (15 December 1657 – 18 June 1726) was a French Baroque composer and organist who was in the service of King Louis XIV.

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Minuet

A minuet (also spelled menuet) is a social dance of French origin for two people, usually in 4 time.

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Mode (music)

In music theory, the term mode or modus is used in a number of distinct senses, depending on context.

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Monody

In music, monody refers to a solo vocal style distinguished by having a single melodic line and instrumental accompaniment.

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Mordent

In music, a mordent is an ornament indicating that the note is to be played with a single rapid alternation with the note above or below.

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Movement (music)

A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form.

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Musette de cour

The musette de cour or baroque musette is a musical instrument of the bagpipe family.

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Music theory

Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music.

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Musical improvisation

Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians.

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Natural horn

The natural horn is a musical instrument that is the predecessor to the modern-day (French) horn (differentiated by its lack of valves).

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Neapolitan School

In music history, the Neapolitan School is a group, associated with opera, of 17th and 18th-century composers who studied or worked in Naples, Italy,Don Michael Randel (2003).

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Neue Bachgesellschaft

The Neue Bachgesellschaft, or New Bach Society, is an organisation based in Leipzig, Germany, devoted to the music of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Nicola Porpora

Nicola (or Niccolò) Antonio Giacinto Porpora (17 August 16863 March 1768) was an Italian composer and teacher of singing of the Baroque era, whose most famous singing students were the castrati Farinelli and Caffarelli.

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Nonchord tone

A nonchord tone (NCT), nonharmonic tone, or embellishing tone is a note in a piece of music or song that is not part of the implied or expressed chord set out by the harmonic framework.

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Oboe

The oboe is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument.

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Opéra comique

Opéra comique (plural: opéras comiques) is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias.

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Opéra-ballet

Opéra-ballet (plural: opéras-ballets) is a genre of French Baroque lyric theatre that was most popular during the 18th century, combining elements of opera and ballet, "that grew out of the ballets à entrées of the early seventeenth century".

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Opera

Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

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Opera buffa

Opera buffa ("comic opera";: opere buffe) is a genre of opera.

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Opera seria

Opera seria (plural: opere serie; usually called dramma per musica or melodramma serio) is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and "serious" style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to about 1770.

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Oratorio

An oratorio is a musical composition with dramatic or narrative text for choir, soloists and orchestra or other ensemble.

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Organ (music)

Carol Williams performing at the United States Military Academy West Point Cadet Chapel. In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means (generally woodwind or electric) for producing tones.

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Orlando Gibbons

Orlando Gibbons (bapt. 25 December 1583 – 5 June 1625) was an English composer and keyboard player who was one of the last masters of the English Virginalist School and English Madrigal School.

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Ornament (music)

In music, ornaments or embellishments are musical flourishes—typically, added notes—that are not essential to carry the overall line of the melody (or harmony), but serve instead to decorate or "ornament" that line (or harmony), provide added interest and variety, and give the performer the opportunity to add expressiveness to a song or piece.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Partita

Partita (also partie, partia, parthia, or parthie) was originally the name for a single-instrumental piece of music (16th and 17th centuries), but Johann Kuhnau (Thomaskantor until 1722), his student Christoph Graupner, and Johann Sebastian Bach used it for collections of musical pieces, as a synonym for suite.

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Passacaglia

The passacaglia is a musical form that originated in early seventeenth-century Spain and is still used today by composers.

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Passepied

The passepied ("pass-foot", from a characteristic dance step) is a French court dance.

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Passion (music)

In Christian music, a Passion is a setting of the Passion of Christ.

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Paul Henry Lang

Paul Henry Lang (August 28, 1901 – September 21, 1991) was a Hungarian-American musicologist and music critic.

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Pedagogy

Pedagogy, most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners.

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Piano

The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.

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Pierre Robert (composer)

Pierre Robert (c. 1618 – 30 December 1699) was a French composer and early master of the French grand motet.

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Pietro Locatelli

Pietro Antonio Locatelli (3 September 1695 in Bergamo – 30 March 1764 in Amsterdam) was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist.

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Pietro Torri

Pietro Torri (– 6 July 1737) was an Italian Baroque composer.

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Pipe organ

The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard.

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Pizzicato

Pizzicato (translated as 'pinched', and sometimes roughly as 'plucked') is a playing technique that involves plucking the strings of a string instrument.

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Plastic arts

Plastic arts are art forms which involve physical manipulation of a plastic medium, such as clay, wax, paint or even plastic in the modern sense of the word (a ductile polymer) to create works of art.

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Polonaise

The polonaise (polonez) is a dance of Polish origin, one of the five Polish national dances in 4 time.

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Polyphony

Polyphony is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice (monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony).

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Popular music

Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Prelude (music)

A prelude (Präludium or Vorspiel; praeludium; prélude; preludio) is a short piece of music, the form of which may vary from piece to piece.

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Provence

Provence is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the Italian border to the east; it is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the south.

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Psalms

The Book of Psalms (תְּהִלִּים|Tehillīm|praises; Psalmós; Liber Psalmorum; Zabūr), also known as the Psalms, or the Psalter, is the first book of the third section of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) called ("Writings"), and a book of the Old Testament.

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Rackett

The rackett, raggett, cervelas, or sausage bassoon is a Renaissance-era double reed wind instrument, introduced late in the sixteenth century and already superseded by bassoons at the end of the seventeenth century.

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Recitative

Recitative (also known by its Italian name recitativo is a style of delivery (much used in operas, oratorios, and cantatas) in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms and delivery of ordinary speech. Recitative does not repeat lines as formally composed songs do. It resembles sung ordinary speech more than a formal musical composition.

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Recorder (musical instrument)

The recorder is a family of woodwind musical instruments in the group known as internal duct flutes: flutes with a whistle mouthpiece, also known as fipple flutes.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Renaissance music

Renaissance music is traditionally understood to cover European music of the 15th and 16th centuries, later than the Renaissance era as it is understood in other disciplines.

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Ricercar

A ricercar or ricercare is a type of late Renaissance and mostly early Baroque instrumental composition.

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Rigaudon

The rigaudon, anglicized as rigadon or rigadoon, is a French baroque dance with a lively duple metre.

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Ritornello

A ritornello (Italian; "little return") is a recurring passage in Renaissance music and Baroque music for orchestra or chorus.

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Robert Ballard II

Robert Ballard II (c.1572 or 1575 – after 1650) was a prominent French lutenist and composer.

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Sackbut

A sackbut is an early form of the trombone used during the Renaissance and Baroque eras.

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Samuel Scheidt

Samuel Scheidt (baptised 3 November 1587 – 24 March 1654) was a German composer, organist and teacher of the early Baroque era.

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Sarabande

The sarabande (from zarabanda) is a dance in triple metre, or the music written for such a dance.

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Scherzo

A scherzo (plural scherzos or scherzi), in western classical music, is a short composition – sometimes a movement from a larger work such as a symphony or a sonata.

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Seconda pratica

Seconda pratica, Italian for "second practice", is the counterpart to prima pratica (or stile antico) and is sometimes referred to as stile moderno.

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Semi-opera

The terms "semi-opera", "dramatic opera" and "English opera" were all applied to Restoration entertainments that combined spoken plays with masque-like episodes employing singing and dancing characters.

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Serpent (instrument)

The serpent is a low-pitched early wind instrument in the brass family developed in the Renaissance era.

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Sinfonia

Sinfonia (plural sinfonie) is the Italian word for symphony, from the Latin symphonia, in turn derived from Ancient Greek συμφωνία symphōnia (agreement or concord of sound), from the prefix σύν (together) and ϕωνή (sound).

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Singspiel

A Singspiel (plural: Singspiele) is a form of German-language music drama, now regarded as a genre of opera.

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Solo concerto

A solo concerto is a musical form which features a single solo instrument with the melody line, accompanied by an orchestra.

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Sonata

Sonata (Italian:, pl. sonate; from Latin and Italian: sonare, "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian cantare, "to sing"), a piece sung.

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Sonata da camera

Sonata da camera is a 17th-century genre of musical composition for one or more melody instruments and basso continuo.

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Sonata da chiesa

Sonata da chiesa (Italian: "church sonata") is a 17th-century genre of musical composition for one or more melody instruments and is regarded an antecedent of later forms of 18th century instrumental music.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Stile antico

Stile antico (literally "ancient style"), is a term describing a manner of musical composition from the sixteenth century onwards that was historically conscious, as opposed to stile moderno, which adhered to more modern trends.

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Style brisé

Style brisé (French: "broken style") is a general term for irregular arpeggiated texture in instrumental music of the Baroque period.

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Stylus fantasticus

The stylus fantasticus (or stylus phantasticus) is a style of early baroque music, especially for the instrumental music.

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Suite (Bach)

Johann Sebastian Bach composed suites, partitas and overtures in the baroque dance suite format for solo instruments such as harpsichord, lute, violin, cello and flute, and for orchestra.

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Suite (music)

A suite, in Western classical music, is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral/concert band pieces.

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Sylvius Leopold Weiss

Sylvius Leopold Weiss (12 October 168716 October 1750) was a German composer and lutenist.

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Tambourine

The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills".

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Tangent piano

The tangent piano is a very rare keyboard instrument that resembles a harpsichord and early pianos in design.

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Tempo

In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for 'time'; plural 'tempos', or tempi from the Italian plural), also known as beats per minute, is the speed or pace of a given composition.

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Tenor violin

A tenor violin (or tenor viola) is an instrument with a range between those of the cello and the viola.

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Texture (music)

In music, texture is how the tempo, melodic, and harmonic materials are combined in a musical composition, determining the overall quality of the sound in a piece.

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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians.

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Theorbo

The theorbo is a plucked string instrument of the lute family, with an extended neck that houses the second pegbox.

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Timpani

Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.

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Toccata

Toccata (from Italian toccare, literally, "to touch", with "toccata" being the action of touching) is a virtuoso piece of music typically for a keyboard or plucked string instrument featuring fast-moving, lightly fingered or otherwise virtuosic passages or sections, with or without imitative or fugal interludes, generally emphasizing the dexterity of the performer's fingers.

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Tomaso Albinoni

Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era.

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Tonality

Tonality is the arrangement of pitches and/or chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, attractions, and directionality.

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Tragédie en musique

Tragédie en musique (musical tragedy), also known as tragédie lyrique (lyric tragedy), is a genre of French opera introduced by Jean-Baptiste Lully and used by his followers until the second half of the eighteenth century.

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Tremolo

In music, tremolo, or tremolando, is a trembling effect.

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Trill (music)

The trill (or shake, as it was known from the 16th until the early 20th century) is a musical ornament consisting of a rapid alternation between two adjacent notes, usually a semitone or tone apart, which can be identified with the context of the trillTaylor, Eric.

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Trio sonata

The trio sonata is a genre, typically consisting of several movements, with two melody instruments and basso continuo.

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Triple metre

Triple metre (or Am. triple meter, also known as triple time) is a musical metre characterized by a primary division of 3 beats to the bar, usually indicated by 3 (simple) or 9 (compound) in the upper figure of the time signature, with, and being the most common examples.

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Tritone

In music theory, the tritone is defined as a musical interval spanning three adjacent whole tones (six semitones).

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Trombone

The trombone (Posaune, Italian, French: trombone) is a musical instrument in the brass family.

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Venetian School (music)

In music history, the Venetian School was the body and work of composers working in Venice from about 1550 to around 1610, many working in the Venetian polychoral style.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.

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Viol

The viol, viola da gamba, or informally gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted, and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension on the strings can be increased or decreased to adjust the pitch of each of the strings.

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Viola

The viola is a string instrument that is usually bowed.

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Viola d'amore

The viola d'amore (Italian for "viol of love") is a 7- or 6-stringed musical instrument with sympathetic strings used chiefly in the baroque period.

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Viola pomposa

The viola pomposa (also known as the violino pomposo) is a five-stringed instrument developed around 1725.

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Violino piccolo

The violino piccolo (also called the Diskantgeige, Terzgeige, Quartgeige or Violino alla francese and sometimes in English as the Piccolo Violin) is a small stringed instrument of the baroque period.

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Violone

The term violone (literally "large viol", -one being the augmentative suffix) can refer to several distinct large, bowed musical instruments which belong to either the viol or violin family.

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Voicing (music)

In music theory, voicing refers to two closely related concepts.

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Western canon

The Western canon is the body of high-culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that are highly valued in the West, works that have achieved the status of classics.

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Western concert flute

The Western concert flute is a family of transverse (side-blown) woodwind instruments made of metal or wood.

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Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (22 November 17101 July 1784) was a German composer, organist and harpsichordist.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.

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Zarzuela

Zarzuela is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular songs, as well as dance.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_music

Also known as Baroque (music), Baroque musician, Baroque suite, Baroquesque music, Jesusurus, Late Baroque (music), Late Baroque music, Music baroque.

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