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  2. Baroque music - Wikipedia

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    Baroque music (UK: / b ə ˈ r ɒ k / or US: / b ə ˈ r oʊ k /) refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. [1] The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period , and was followed in turn by the Classical period after a short transition (the galant style ).

  3. Baroque - Wikipedia

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    Common use of the term for the music of the period began only in 1919, by Curt Sachs, [132] and it was not until 1940 that it was first used in English in an article published by Manfred Bukofzer. [131] The baroque was a period of musical experimentation and innovation which explains the amount of ornaments and improvisation performed by the ...

  4. Dates of classical music eras - Wikipedia

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    Date ranges of classical music eras are therefore somewhat arbitrary, and are only intended as approximate guides. Scholars of music history do not agree on the start and end dates, and in many cases disagree whether particular years should be chosen at all. The 20th century has exact dates, but is strictly a calendar based unit of time.

  5. Outline of classical music - Wikipedia

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    Early music – generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1750). Originating in Europe, early music is a broad musical era for the beginning of Western classical music.

  6. Transition from Renaissance to Baroque in instrumental music

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    In the years centering on 1600 in Europe [broken anchor], several distinct shifts emerged in ways of thinking about the purposes, writing and performance of music.Partly these changes were revolutionary, deliberately instigated by a group of intellectuals in Florence known as the Florentine Camerata, and partly they were evolutionary, in that precursors of the new Baroque style can be found ...

  7. Baroque music of the British Isles - Wikipedia

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    Henry Purcell (1659–95), whose early career was devoted to secular music and later by sacred music. With the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Charles II made the court once more the centre of musical patronage in Britain, the theatres were reopened and, after the introduction of a new Book of Common Prayer in 1662, choral music began to be developed again. [2]

  8. Johann Sebastian Bach - Wikipedia

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    Johann Sebastian Bach [n 1] (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms, including orchestral music such as the Brandenburg Concertos; solo instrumental works such as the cello suites and sonatas and partitas for solo violin; keyboard works such as ...

  9. List of Baroque composers - Wikipedia

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    Baroque music; List of classical music composers by era; List of composers by name; Women in Music; There is considerable overlap near the beginning and end of this era. See lists of composers for the previous and following eras: List of Renaissance composers; List of Classical era composers