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Conservatory: Classical Music at Humanities Web
- A carefully edited introduction to the composers, history, culture, and music of the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern periods. Detailed with considerable background material, illustrations, and commentary.

Renaissance and Baroque Music
- Course resources by Gordon J. Callon at McGill University.

Plaisir Courtois
- Dance group from Groningen, The Netherlands. Includes background information on renaissance, baroque and Viennese dance.

Hof-Dantzer
- Dancers from Austria, Germany and the Netherlands whose repertoire includes baroque stage dance, domestic dance from the Biedermeier period, and ballroom dance from the Strauss era. Includes information about their CDs of dance music, and CD-ROM on baroque dance.

Baroque Aria
- Dedicated to the operatic, cantata, oratorio, serenta and drama arias, this site presents editions, articles and discussions on the subject.

The Baroque Cantata
- Devoted to the baroque cantata repertoire (17th century and 18th century), with articles and editions within the genre.

History of Western Architecture
- Galleries of images arranged by period from Egyptian to Baroque, with basic information, courtesy of the Leo Masuda Architectonic Research Office.

Music 2233
... Music 2233 Baroque Music. site map ... Eighteenth-Century Resources – Music. Baroque Music, Comprehensive Sites ...




Baroque Music News

Veneziani warms winter / Baroque chamber ensemble plays at WSU - StandardNet


Veneziani warms winter / Baroque chamber ensemble plays at WSU
StandardNet, Utah - 19 hours ago
He studies cello, and said he is captivated by Baroque chamber music. "I like the stylistic elements, the overall feeling of Baroque music," Walker Stern ...

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Lied Center Presents Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Kansas City infoZine


Lied Center Presents Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
Kansas City infoZine, MO - Jan 8, 2009
In 2000, the orchestra and choir founded the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute (TBSI), held at the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto. ...

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No "brown-rice Bach" for conductor Nicholas McGegan - Seattle Times


No "brown-rice Bach" for conductor Nicholas McGegan
Seattle Times, United States - 8 hours ago
It ended up a Baroque show with music all from a 30-year period." McGegan is thrilled that internationally-renowned violinist Ani Kavafian will play with ...

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Hedrick to perform ---- and teach ---- at Classics gig - North County Times


Hedrick to perform ---- and teach ---- at Classics gig
North County Times, CA - 7 hours ago
The music goes so far back that it predates even the Baroque period, though Hedrick will present later compositions as well, all the way up into the ...

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LI ARTS: MUSIC & DANCE - Newsday


LI ARTS: MUSIC & DANCE
Newsday, NY - 18 hours ago
WHAT The Venere Lute Quartet presents "Dutch Treats: High Art From the Low Countries," featuring Renaissance and Baroque masterworks. ...

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Fiery Vivaldi - Barre Montpelier Times Argus


Fiery Vivaldi
Barre Montpelier Times Argus, VT - 17 hours ago
HANOVER, NH – The music of Antonio Vivaldi will resound with unusual earthiness, fire and abandon when the Venice Baroque Orchestra takes the stage of ...

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