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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).
The Classical Period was an era of classical music between roughly 1750 and 1820. [1] The classical period falls between the Baroque and Romantic periods. [2] Classical music has a lighter, clearer texture than Baroque music but a more varying use of musical form, which is, in simpler terms, the rhythm and organization of any given piece of music.
Transition from Renaissance to Baroque (born 1500–1549) Composers in the Renaissance/Baroque transitional era include the following (listed by their date of birth): Philippe de Monte (1521–1603) Baldassare Donato (1525/1530–1603) Costanzo Porta (1529–1601) Jiří Rychnovský (1529–1616) Guillaume Costeley (1530–1606) Fabritio Caroso ...
Johann Sebastian Bach [n 1] (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.He is known for his prolific authorship of music across a variety of instruments and forms, including orchestral music such as the Brandenburg Concertos; solo instrumental works such as the cello suites and sonatas and partitas for solo violin; keyboard ...
Dates of classical music eras. Music historians divide the Western classical music repertory into various eras based on what style was most popular as taste changed. These eras and styles include Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modernist, and Postmodernist. The 20th and 21st centuries are not musical eras in themselves, but ...
The Baroque (UK: / bəˈrɒk / bə-ROK, US: /- ˈroʊk / -ROHK; French: [baʁɔk]) is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s. [ 1 ] It followed Renaissance art and Mannerism and preceded the Rococo (in the past often referred to as ...