The Baroque is a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music.

English country dance survived well beyond the Baroque era and eventually spread in various forms across Europe and its colonies, and to all levels of society.

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.

Catherine Turocy began her studies in Baroque dance in 1971 as a student of dance historian Shirley Wynne.

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 dance

The pavane as a musical form survived long after the dance itself was abandoned, and well into the Baroque period, when it finally gave way to the allemande / courante sequence ( Apel 1988, 259ff ).

It developed in 16th century England, and was quickly adopted on the Continent where it eventually became the final movement of the mature Baroque dance suite ( the French gigue ; Italian and Spanish giga ).

Like the passepied, a Baroque dance movement, this variation is in 3 / 8 time with a preponderance of quaver rhythms.

* Branle, Baroque dance ( Spanish form )

An allemande ( also spelled allemanda, almain ( e ), or alman ( d )) ( from the French word for " German ") is one of the most popular instrumental dance forms in Baroque music, and a standard element of a suite.

The early 18th century bow referred to as the Corelli-Tartini model, is also referred to as the Italian ' sonata ' bow. This basic Baroque bow supplanted by 1725 an earlier French dance bow which was quite short with a little point.

Jonathan Littell's novel The Kindly ones is structured in different parts, each one of these named after a Baroque dance, the last part being called Gigue.

* Courant, an alternative spelling for the Baroque dance form, courante.

in Baroque violin might do a sub-specialization in Baroque music history or Baroque-era dance.

The triple-time hornpipe dance rhythm was often used by composers in England in the Baroque period.

Baroque Art is less complex, more realistic and more emotionally affecting than Mannerism.

The Rococo is sometimes considered a final phase of the Baroque period.

The basic military dress it is still worn in pictures into the Baroque period and beyond in the West ( see Reni picture above ), and up to the present day in Eastern Orthodox icons.

The madrigal, up until its development in the early Baroque into an instrumentally-accompanied form, is also usually in a cappella form.

The architectural style is a mixture of Victorian Gothic, Tudor and Dutch Baroque and was the subject of much bemused comment from those who worked there, or visited, during World War II.

Not surprisingly, the gallery is especially strong in Baroque paintings and includes notable works by Rubens, Tintoretto, Veronese, Cranach, Gerard David, Murillo, Mattia Preti, Ribera, van Dyck, and Doré.

Classical music has a lighter, clearer texture than Baroque music and is less complex.

It is a period where some composers still working in the Baroque style flourish, though sometimes thought of as being more of the past than the present — Bach, Handel, and Telemann all composed well beyond the point at which the homophonic style is clearly in the ascendant.

Behind the pavilion's stage is the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, an indoor venue for mid-sized performing arts companies, including the Chicago Opera Theater and Music of the Baroque.

The clavichord is a European stringed keyboard instrument known from the late Medieval, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras.

Early music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Baroque.

Probably because his work was idiosyncratic, his subsequent influence was not widespread but is apparent in the Piedmontese works of Camillo-Guarino Guarini and, as a fusion with the architectural modes of Bernini and Cortona, in the late Baroque architecture of Northern Europe.

The church is considered by many to be an exemplary masterpiece of Roman Baroque architecture.

San Carlino is remarkably small given its significance to Baroque architecture ; it has been noted that the whole building would fit into one of the dome piers of Saint Peter's .< ref >

) Renaissance and Baroque guitars are easily distinguished because the Renaissance guitar is very plain and the Baroque guitar is very ornate, with ivory or wood inlays all over the neck and body, and a paper-cutout inverted " wedding cake " inside the hole.

Most of Allegri's published music is in the more progressive early Baroque concertato style, especially the instrumental music.

The Miserere is one of the most often-recorded examples of late Renaissance music, although it was actually written during the chronological confines of the Baroque era ; in this regard it is representative of the music of the Roman School of composers, who were stylistically conservative.

Beginning with the Baroque era artists received private commissions from a more educated and prosperous middle class.

Composers who wrote solo harpsichord music were numerous during the whole Baroque era in European countries including Italy, Germany, England and France.

The pegbox for lutes before the Baroque era was angled back from the neck at almost 90 ° ( see image ), presumably to help hold the low-tension strings firmly against the nut, which is not traditionally glued in place, but is held in place by string pressure only.

By the end of the Renaissance the number of courses had grown to ten, and during the Baroque era the number continued to grow until it reached 14 ( and occasionally as many as 19 ).

Over the course of the Baroque era the lute was increasingly relegated to the continuo accompaniment, and was eventually superseded in that role by keyboard instruments.

When a student is taking western classical music lessons, music teachers often spend some time explaining the different eras of western classical music, such as the Baroque era, the Classical era, the Romantic era, and the Modern era, because each era is associated with different styles of music and different performance practice techniques.

Instrumental music from the Baroque era is often played in the 2000s as teaching pieces for piano students, string instrument players, and wind instrument players.

However, once a student learns that most Baroque instrumental music was associated with dances, such as the gavotte and the sarabande, and keyboard music from the Baroque era was played on the harpsichord or the pipe organ, a modern-day student is better able to understand how the piece should be played.

In recent years many of the " trouser roles " from the Baroque era, originally written for women, and those originally sung by castrati, have been reassigned to countertenors.

* 1703 – Johann Gottlieb Graun, German Baroque / Classical era composer and violinist ( d. 1771 )

15831629 ) was an Italian composer and organist of the early Baroque era.

Consensus among music historians – with notable dissent – has been to start the era around 1400, with the end of the medieval era, and close it around 1600, with the beginning of the Baroque period, therefore commencing the musical Renaissance about a hundred years after the beginning of the Renaissance as understood in other disciplines.

These multiple revolutions spread over Europe in the next several decades, beginning in Germany and then moving to Spain, France and England somewhat later, demarcating the beginning of what we now know as the Baroque musical era.

The development of the upper, " clarino " register by specialist trumpeters — notably Cesare Bendinelli — would lend itself well to the Baroque era, also known as the " Golden Age of the natural trumpet.