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For the performance of baroque music, A=415 Hz is the de facto standard, [42] while pre-Baroque music is often performed at A=440 Hz or A=466 Hz. [43] These pitch standards are intended to reflect the broad variation in pitch standards throughout the history of the recorder.
Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra: baroque orchestra (music director: David Shemer) Accademia Daniel : baroque chamber group Ensemble PHOENIX on period instruments: broad ensemble performing from Middle Ages to Early Romantic music on period instruments, working since 1998 (conductor & musical director Myrna Herzog) [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The recorder family, one of the many consorts of instruments available to Renaissance composers. One key distinction between Renaissance and Baroque instrumental music is in instrumentation; that is, the ways in which instruments are used or not used in a particular work. Closely tied to this concept is the idea of idiomatic writing, for if ...
A continuous bass was the rule in Baroque music; its absence is worth mentioning and has a reason, such as describing fragility. The specific character of a movement is often defined by wind instruments, such as oboe, oboe da caccia, oboe d'amore, flauto traverso, recorder, trumpet, horn, trombone, and timpani.
Important Baroque works composed specifically for the voice flute include the first four suites (in A major, D major, E minor, and B minor) from a set of six with accompaniment of archlute and viola da gamba, published in 1701 by Francis (Charles) Dieupart, [10] a Quintet in B minor for the unusual combination of two voice flutes and two transverse flutes with continuo, attributed to one of ...
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).
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2 violins & 2 recorders as soloists in the first orchestra (with cello in the third movement); 2 violins & 2 recorders as soloists in the second orchestra (with cello & organ in the third movement); basso continuo in the second movement assigned to theorbo or organ