Baroquemusic.org Website Review

This site contains everything you need to know about baroque music.. well, not quite. Because there's so much you can learn, so much pleasure to be gained not by reading about it, but by listening! For a start, click the two images below to do*nload 150 minutes each of Baroque (all major composers) and Bach (every aspect of his work). For further exploration our BAROQUE MUSIC LIBRARY with a broad selection of their music. Get to know the major baroque composers better through their portraits. baroque music? Baroque music expresses order, the fundamental order of the universe. Yet it is always lively and tuneful. Music reflects the mood of the times, then as now as always. Follow the development of music through this brief outline, from the earliest times to the present day, with baroque music in historical context.      BAROQUE MUSIC DEFINED Music and its performance has its fashions, like everything else. There are currently two schools of thought in the performance of baroque music: the modern and the authentic though both names are misleading. A little knowledge of these alternatives will guide you in Why not delve yet further into the world of baroque performance? Read about one of Bach's favorite keyboard instruments, custom-built to his own specifications, yet now almost impossible to hear on record.      THE LUTE-HARPSICHORD: A FORGOTTEN INSTRUMENT baroque bow which is never seen nor heard today, though popular in baroque Germany (check the accompanying illustration from 1732). The vital difference: the German bow can play chords - which makes Bach's pieces for solo violin infinitely more interesting, not to mention Biographical notes on some of the better-known baroque composers - Albinoni, JS Bach, Corelli, Geminiani, Handel, Scarlatti, Telemann and others - plus notes on influential musical centers and developments in different countries, illustrating the origins of baroque, and the      for whom Handel composed the Chandos Anthems)        .