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If it's not Baroque Don't Fix It! - Some Facts About Baroque Music
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Tags: Baroque, Bach, Classical Music, Composers, German Composers
Baroque music is classical music which is still highly influential today. Many famous composers, such as Sebastien Bach created music during this era. Here are some quick facts about Baroque music.
| | Music form in the Enlightenment, a period from the 1500s to the 1700s. |
| | The original meaning of "baroque" is "shiny pearl", a strikingly fitting characterization of the architecture and design of this period; later, the name came to be applied also to its music. |
| | Writers and performers, such as Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi all helped baroque music bring in a great new era of music history. |
| | Use of the organ and piano gave this style of music a new medium to perform on. |
| | It is widely performed, studied and listened to. |
| | Famous songs from that era are J.S. Bach's Fugues, George Friedrich Händel's Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah, Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons, and Claudio Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610. |
| | During the period, music theory, diatonic tonality, and imitative counterpoint developed. |
| | More elaborate musical ornamentation, as well as changes in musical notation and advances in the way instruments were played also appeared. |
| | Baroque music would see an expansion in the size, range and complexity of performance, as well as the establishment of opera as a type of musical performance. |
| | Music conventionally described as Baroque encompasses a wide range of styles from a wide geographic region, mostly in Europe, composed during a period of approximately 150 years. |
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