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  2. 1600 in music - Wikipedia

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    3 Classical music. 4 Opera. 5 Births. 6 Deaths. Toggle the table of contents. 1600 in music. 4 languages. Deutsch; ... The year 1600 in music involved some ...

  3. Baroque music - Wikipedia

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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 Baroque period is divided ...

  4. Transition from Renaissance to Baroque in instrumental music

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    In the years centering on 1600 in Europe, several distinct shifts emerged in ways of thinking about the purposes, writing and performance of music.Partly these changes were revolutionary, deliberately instigated by a group of intellectuals in Florence known as the Florentine Camerata, and partly they were evolutionary, in that precursors of the new Baroque style can be found far back in the ...

  5. Outline of classical music - Wikipedia

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    Early music – generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1750). Originating in Europe, early music is a broad musical era for the beginning of Western classical music.

  6. List of Renaissance composers - Wikipedia

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    Renaissance music flourished in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. The second major period of Western classical music, the lives of Renaissance composers are much better known than earlier composers, with even letters surviving between composers. Renaissance music saw the introduction of written instrumental music, although vocal works ...

  7. Music in the Elizabethan era - Wikipedia

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    Elizabethan music experienced a shift in popularity from sacred to secular music and the rise of instrumental music. Professional musicians were employed by the Church of England, the nobility, and the rising middle-class. Elizabeth I was fond of music and played the lute and virginal, sang, and even claimed to have composed dance music.

  8. Early music - Wikipedia

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    Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1750). Originating in Europe, early music is a broad musical era for the beginning of Western classical music .

  9. List of prominent operas - Wikipedia

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    Inspired by the folklore of Dalmatian hinterland, to the point where the boundary between the folklore and "classical music" ceases to exist, it is considered to be the best and most performed Croatian opera of all time. 1935 Die schweigsame Frau (Strauss). A comic opera based on a play by Ben Jonson. [202] 1935 Porgy and Bess (George Gershwin ...