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Composers during the transition from the Baroque to Classical eras, sometimes seen as the beginning of the Galante era, include the following figures listed by their date of birth: Romano Antonio Piacentino (c. 18th century)
Poussin and de La Tour adopted a "classical" Baroque style with less focus on emotion and greater attention to the line of the figures in the painting than to colour. Peter Paul Rubens was the most important painter of the Flemish Baroque style. Rubens' highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history.
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 ...
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 ...
A Baroque orchestra is an ensemble for mixed instruments that existed during the Baroque era of Western Classical music, commonly identified as 1600–1750. [1] Baroque orchestras are typically much smaller, in terms of the number of performers, than their Romantic -era counterparts.
Italian Baroque painters — during the 17th century and 18th century in Italy. Note: the assignment of painters to stylistic periods is somewhat arbitrary. This category gathers the names of painters who fit the following criteria:
The Colossal Baroque style is a name which has been coined to describe a number of musical compositions from the 17th and 18th centuries composed in an opulent, magnificent and large-scaled style. Such works frequently make use of polychoral techniques and often feature instrumental forces considerably larger than the norm for the Baroque period.
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