* Use of Vibrato in Baroque Vocal Music-Historical documentation, brief but clear scientific explanation, and a short bibliography

Baroque Vocal – Handel Apollo e Dafne La Risonanza Glossa

Baroque Vocal – Monteverdi, L ' Orfeo, La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina ( Glossa )

Baroque Vocal ( Record of the Year ) – Bach Cantatas Vol.

Baroque Vocal – Handel: Arcadian Duets.

Baroque Vocal – Monteverdi, Selva morale e spirituale, Cantus Cölln / Concerto Palatino / Konrad Junghänel ( Harmonia Mundi )

Baroque Vocal – Bach, St. Matthew Passion, Christoph Prégardien tenor Evangelist ; Matthias Goerne baritone Christus ; Christine Schäfer, Dorothea Röschmann sopranos ; Bernarda Fink, Elisabeth von Magnus contraltos ; Michael Schade, Markus Schäfer tenors ; Dietrich Henschel, Oliver Widmer basses ; Vienna Boys ’ Choir ; Arnold ( Teldec )

Baroque Vocal – Handel, Acis and Galatea, Les Arts Florissants / William Christie ( Erato )

Baroque Vocal – A Scarlatti, Il primo omicidio, René Jacobs ( Harmonia Mundi )

Baroque Vocal – Monteverdi, Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini ;

Early opera – Handel: Ariodante ; Wilhelmshaven Vocal Ensemble ; Freiburg Baroque Orchestra / McGegan, Harmonia Mundi

Baroque Vocal – Fourth Book of the Montev ; Concerto Italiano, Opus 111

Baroque Vocal – San Giovanni Battista Stradella.

Baroque Vocal – Handel.

Baroque Vocal – Handel.

Highlights include Concerto Italiano's recordings of the opera L ' Olimpiade, La Senna Festeggiante, Le Quattro Stagioni ( hailed as one of the best versions of the work by Gramophone ), Vespri Solenni per la Festa dell ' Assunzione di Maria Vergine ( a reconstruction of a possible Vespers for the Ascension of the Virgin Mary and 2004 Gramophone winner for Baroque Vocal ), and in 2004, an entire CD devoted to Vivaldi's Concerti per Archi.

Baroque and Romantic Vocal Music BIS-CD-127

Quasthoff won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance for the third time in 2006 with Rainer Kussmaul leading members of the RIAS Chamber Choir of Berlin Baroque Soloists in their recording of J. S. Bach: Cantatas.

* Baroque and Romantic Vocal Music BIS-CD-127, singing Sea Pictures by Sir Edward Elgar

Alessandro Scarlatti ( 2 May 1660 – 24 October 1725 ) was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas.

Andreas Schlüter ( 20 May 1664 – May 1714 ) was a German baroque sculptor and architect associated with the Petrine Baroque style of architecture and decoration.

Baroque dance is dance of the Baroque era ( roughly 1600 – 1750 ), closely linked with Baroque music, theatre and opera.

The leading figures of the second generation of historical dance research include Shirley Wynne and her Baroque Dance Ensemble which was founded at Ohio State University in the early 1970s and Wendy Hilton ( 1931 – 2002 ), a student of Belinda Quirey who supplemented the work of Melusine Wood with her own research into original sources.

In 1973, French dance historian Francine Lancelot ( 1929 – 2003 ) began her formal studies in ethnomusicology which later lead her to researching French traditional dance forms and eventually Renaissance and Baroque dances.

* Baroque or Bayon Style ( 1181 – 1243 ): In the final quarter of the 12th century, King Jayavarman VII freed the country of Angkor from occupation by an invasionary force from Champa.

The Rotunda and the Edicule's exterior were rebuilt in 1809 – 1810 by architect Komminos of Mytilene in the then current Ottoman Baroque style.

* 1657 – Michel Richard Delalande, French Baroque composer and organist ( d. 1726 )

1710 – 14 October 1740 ) was an Italian singer, harpsichordist, and composer whose works bridge the Baroque and Classical periods.

* 1685 – George Frideric Handel, German / British Baroque composer ( d. 1759 )

Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli ( 25 September 1599 – 3 August 1667 ), was an architect from Ticino who, with his contemporaries Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.

* 1677 – Nicola Fago, Italian Baroque composer and teacher ( d. 1745 )

** Baroque ( 1600 – 1720 )

George Frideric Handel ( German: Georg Friedrich Händel ; ) ( 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759 ) was a German-born British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos.

Georg Philipp Telemann ( 14 March 1681 – 25 June 1767 ) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist.

The French Baroque school is exemplified by composers such as Ennemond Gaultier ( 1575 – 1651 ), Denis Gaultier ( 1597 / 1603 – 1672 ), François Dufaut ( before 1604 – before 1672 ) and many others.

During the Counter Reformation and Baroque periods ( late 16th and 17th centuries ), the cult of Mary Magdalene saw a great, new popularity as the Catholic Church publicized her as an attractive, persusasive model of repentance and reform, in keeping with the goals of the reform Council of Trent ( 1545 – 63 ).

* Quicksilver ( 2003 ), volume I: The Baroque Cycle – Clarke Award winner, 2004 ; Locus SF Award nominee, 2004

* The System of the World ( 2004 ), volume III: The Baroque Cycle – Locus SF Award winner, 2005 ; Prometheus Award winner, 2005 ; Clarke Award nominee, 2005

* 1687 – Jean Baptiste Senaillé, French born Baroque composer and violin virtuoso ( d. 1730 )

* 1599 – Étienne Moulinié, French Baroque composer ( d. 1676 )

* unknown date – Gian Antonio Fumiani, Italian painter of the Baroque period ( d. 1710 )

The original façade and parts of monastery are in Lombard Romanesque style, some chapels in International Gothic, while the rest of building, include the big dome, was rebuilt in Baroque and Neoclassic style, by the Sardinian architect Antonio Cano in 1829-34.

In many pieces ( particularly those of early to mid Baroque composers such as Claudio Monteverdi, Giovanni Gabrieli, Francesco Cavalli, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Giovanni Battista Riccio, Dario Castello, Antonio Bertali, Pavel Josef Vejvanovský, Jan Křtitel Tolar, Michael Praetorius, Johann Hermann Schein, Samuel Scheidt, Sebastian Knüpfer, Johann Schelle, Johann Andreas Pachelbel, Giovanni Felice Sances, Johann Joseph Fux, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Andreas Hofer, Alessandro Stradella, Matthew Locke, John Adson and Heinrich Schütz ) the cornett is indispensable in performance, and the music suffers if other instruments substitute for them.

In the Baroque period, the term was also occasionally used for both vocal and instrumental compositions, such as Claudio Monteverdi's Scherzi musicali ( 1607 ), Antonio Brunelli's Scherzi, Arie, Canzonette e Madrigale ( 1616 ) for voices and instruments, Johann Schenk's Scherzi musicale ( fourteen suites for gamba and continuo ) or the scherzo of Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita No. 3 for harpsichord.

The Italian-born Antonio Verro ( c1636 – 15 June 1707 ) was responsible for introducing Baroque mural painting into England and served the Crown over a thirty year period.

Two of the most eye-catching creations of Spanish Baroque are the energetic façades of the University of Valladolid ( Diego Tomé, 1719 ) and Hospicio de San Fernando in Madrid ( Pedro de Ribera, 1722 ), whose curvilinear extravagance seems to herald Antonio Gaudí and Art Nouveau.

Nicola ( Antonio ) Porpora ( or Niccolò Porpora ) ( 17 August 16863 March 1768 ) was an Italian composer of Baroque operas ( see opera seria ) and teacher of singing, whose most famous singing student was the castrato Farinelli.

Antonio Francisco Javier José Soler Ramos, usually known as padre ( clergyman ) Antonio Soler, known in Catalan as Antoni Soler i Ramos ( baptized 3 December 1729, died 20 December 1783 ) was a Spanish composer whose works span the late Baroque and early Classical music eras.

Giacomo Antonio Perti ( 6 June 1661 – 10 April 1756 ) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era.

Founded in Padua in 1959 by Claudio Scimone, it has made a reputation especially with Italian Baroque music, recording many works by Antonio Vivaldi, Tomaso Albinoni, Francesco Geminiani, Benedetto Marcello and Giuseppe Tartini.

Baroque vocal – Antonio Caldara: Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis / Rene Jacobs, Harmonia Mundi

Late Neogranadino Baroque work, designed by the Spanish architect Antonio Garcia.

Antonio Caldara ( 1670 – 28 December 1736 ) was an Italian Baroque composer.

The distinctive Baroque style of Dudley's charts is in part attributable to the elegant engraving of Antonio Francesco Lucini.

It was rebuilt by Giuseppe Sardi for Admiral Antonio Barbaro between 1678 and 1681 and has one of the finest Venetian Baroque facades in all of Venice.

* the Pocito Chapel, which means chapel of the little well, a Baroque hermitage built around a ferrous waters well with healing properties ; the chapel was built by Francisco Antonio de Guerrero y Torres );

Eroica soloists include the aforementioned concert pianists ; violist Scott Slapin, the only artist to record the entire Bach Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin on the viola ; conductor and violinist Guillermo Figueroa, the only artist to record all three Bartók Sonatas for violin on a single CD ; lutenist F. Edgar Gilbert playing Lute music from the Baroque and Renaissance periods ; Carol Wood playing Early Music for harp and voice ; Andrea Steckermeier-Thiele playing contemporary harp works ; Dominique Piana performing traditional and contemporary harp works, Cellists Yehuda Hanani and Michael Rudiakov, each performing Johann Sebastian Bach's Suites for cello Solo ; Organist Richard Heschke ; Organist James Riker, opera tenor Camillo d ' Antonio, operatic sopranos Eileen Mager, Isolda Jones, Elin Carlson, and Alicia Solomon, and classical guitarists Jonathan Adams, Scott Morris, Glenn Strauss, Joseph Sullinger, Troy King, Susan McDonald and many others.

Acislo Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco ( 1653 – 13 April 1726 ) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period, best known for his writings on art theory and biographies of artists.

Yamburg's St. Catherine Cathedral was built in 1764-1782 to a late Baroque design by Antonio Rinaldi ( architect ) | Antonio Rinaldi

Another notable use is by Antonio da Correggio in the Duomo of Parma, which foreshadows Baroque grandeur.

* Antonio Cesti, Italian Baroque composer

" String Quartet No. 2 " includes movements in the Baroque style of Antonio Vivaldi (" The Fifth Season ") as well as a tango, waltz, hoedown, and others.