ornate and increasingly emotive as the period went on. First of all, a couple little things to get you in the mood... Isabel Esain plays some thrilling Baroque virtuoso music on the viola da gamba: ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The baroque period in music stretches from the invention of opera around 1600 to the death of J.S ...

Baroque has become the background music of choice at some of the city’s busiest and arguably least aesthetically pleasing transit hubs. “It calms the frenzied traveler,” an Amtrak spokesman in charge ...

And pop music has certain chord progressions. It has a certain kind of catchy melody that you can follow, and it keeps coming back. And I think that there's something about a lot of Baroque-era ...

Now we want to convince those curious friends to love the spirited, sublime music of the Baroque period, which lasted about 1600 to 1750. We hope you find lots here to discover and enjoy ...

The chords used in major and minor tonalities were also major or minor - or diatonic. The use of ground bass was common in the Baroque period. Composers would use a ground bass to structure their ...

Orange — Baroque music may ... God alone” by the baroque era’s two master composers, Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. “I call baroque music prehistoric jazz.

particularly from the Holocaust era. Its concert Monday evening at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater featured a crack early-music group from Amsterdam, the Apollo Ensemble. The all-baroque ...

From Bach to Vivaldi, we’re got the rundown on which Baroque composers you should listen to. Right now. It was in the Baroque era – roughly 1600-1750 ... Beautiful Bach. Baroque music – and all music, ...

In classical music today, many composers from the Baroque era, roughly 1600 to 1750, remain well-known names — at least, the European ones do, like Bach, Vivaldi and Handel. But what about ...