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Baroque


Essays

Introduction

  • Baroque

Important centres

  • Italy
  • Naples
  • Paris
  • Rome
  • Germany
  • France
  • London
  • Venice
  • Leipzig
  • Austria

Genres

  • Concerto
  • Concerto grosso
  • Intermedio
  • Opera
  • Oratorio
  • Sonata

Concepts
 

  • Continuo
  • Fugue
  • Affects

Composers

  • Albinoni, Tomaso Giovanni
  • Bach, Johann Sebastian
  • Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von
  • Buxtehude, Dieterich
  • Caccini, Francesca
  • Caccini, Giulio
  • Carissimi, Giacomo
  • Cavalieri, Emilio de'
  • Cavalli, Francesco
  • Charpentier, Marc-Antoine
  • Corelli, Arcangelo
  • Couperin, François
  • Frescobaldi, Girolamo Alessandro
  • Froberger, Johann Jacob
  • Handel, George Frideric
  • Lully, Jean-Baptiste
  • Monteverdi, Claudio
  • Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista
  • Peri, Jacopo
  • Purcell, Henry
  • Rameau, Jean-Philippe
  • Scarlatti, Alessandro
  • Scarlatti, Domenico
  • Schein, Johann Hermann
  • Schütz, Heinrich
  • Strozzi, Barbara
  • Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon
  • Telemann, Georg Philipp
  • Vivaldi, Antonio

Poets and Librettists
 

  • Guarini, Battista
  • Rinuccini, Ottavio
  • Apostolo Zeno
  • Pietro Metastasio

 

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