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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. 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

  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. Music of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The Philippines is known to have the first hip-hop music scene in Asia, emerging in the early 1980s, largely due to the country's historical connections with the United States where hip-hop originated. Rap music released in the Philippines has appeared in different languages such as Tagalog, Chavacano, Cebuano, Ilocano, and English.

  6. Outline of classical music - Wikipedia

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    Baroque (c. 1600 – c. 1750) – Period characterized by the development of tonality and a greater emphasis on contrast and ornamentation in music. Genres like the opera, cantata, oratorio, and concerto were developed during this time.

  7. List of Filipino composers - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of composers who are Filipino A. Rosalina Abejo (1922–1991) Nicanor Abelardo (1893–1934) Marcelo Adonay (1848–1928) Joey Albert ...

  8. Transition from Renaissance to Baroque in instrumental music

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    In the years centering on 1600 in Europe, 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 far back in the ...

  9. 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 ...