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Baroque and world
This taste for structural clarity worked its way into the world of music, moving away from the layered polyphony of the Baroque period, towards a style where a melody over a subordinate harmony — a combination called homophony — was preferred.
In addition to its choral duties in the chapel, the New College Choir has established a reputation as one of the finest Anglican choirs in the world and is known particularly for its performances of Renaissance and Baroque music.
The Camarin of the Immaculate in the church of San Diego is considered by historians to be the last Baroque building in the world ; it links the Baroque and Neoclassical styles ; it is the largest of the fewer than ten of these type of structures built in the whole continent.
Standing 26 metres ( 85. 3 feet ) high and 20 metres ( 65. 6 feet ) wide, it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city and one of the most famous fountains in the world.
With its characteristic butterfly plan, the Piazza di Spagna is one of the most famous images in the world, as well as being one of the most majestic urban monuments of Roman Baroque style.
A baroque-music festival has been held annually in Varaždin since 1971 ( Baroque Evenings ), and attracts some of the finest musicians and their fans from Croatia and the world.
Hungary is home to the largest synagogue in Europe ( Great Synagogue ), the largest medicinal bath in Europe ( Széchenyi Medicinal Bath ), the third largest church in Europe ( Esztergom Basilica ), the second largest territorial abbey in the world ( Pannonhalma Archabbey ), the second largest Baroque castle in the world ( Gödöllő ), and the largest Early Christian Necropolis outside Italy ( Pécs ).
This was a time of transition in music history, as the polyphonic style of the late Renaissance was giving way to the widely diverse practices of the early Baroque, and d ' India seems to have acquired an unusually broad grasp of the total stylistic practice in Italy: the expressive madrigal style of Marenzio, the grand polychoral work of the Venetian School, the conservative polyphonic tradition of the Roman School, the attempts to recover the music of the ancient world in monody and its larger vehicle, the newly developing opera, as well as the mannered, emotionally intense chromatic style of Carlo Gesualdo in Naples.
Other professional orchestras based in the city include the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, a chamber orchestra specialising in modern music with some world premieres ; the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, who give concert performances under music director Barry Wordsworth in addition to playing for the Birmingham Royal Ballet ; and Ex Cathedra, one of the country's oldest and most respected early-music and Baroque period instrument ensembles.
The new settings were magnificent in an Opera Baroque style, and the various Trocaderos of the English-speaking world have derived their names from this original, the epitome of grand Edwardian catering.
It offered magnificent in an Opera Baroque style, and the various Trocaderos of the English-speaking world have derived their names from this original, the epitome of grand Edwardian catering.
While explicitly recalling the melody of Handel's theme, the chromaticism of this variation adds to the sense of a world beyond the Baroque.
Designed by the Italian architect Gian Maria Bernardoni ( 1541 to 1605 ), the church is considered the first Jesuit temple patterned after Il Gesù in Rome, the first domed basilica with Baroque facade in the world and the first baroque piece of architecture in Eastern Europe.
Jacques Peletier du Mans's later encyclopedic collection L ' Amour des amours, consisting of a sonnet cycle and a series of poems describing meteors, planets and the heavens, would influence the poets Jean Antoine de Baïf and Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas ( whose Semaine is a Baroque description of the creation of the world ).
This structure was badly damaged in a 1356 earthquake, and by 1401 the city began building the current cathedral, one of the largest churches in the world and an outstanding example of the Gothic and Baroque architectural styles.

Baroque and additional
Baroque that is similar to Maxima with additional pieces and rules.
In 1994, the band released their debut album Memoire on Mana's newly founded independent record label Midi: Nette, and shortly after re-released it with an additional bonus track, " Baroque ", under the title Memoire DX.

Baroque and instruments
In the 1960s, the Swingle Singers used their voices to emulate musical instruments to Baroque and Classical music.
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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.
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The name " motet " was preserved in Baroque music, especially in France, where the word was applied to two distinct, and very different, genres: petits motets, sacred choral or chamber compositions whose only accompaniment was a basso continuo ; and grands motets, which included massed choirs and instruments up to and including a full orchestra.
The bore of the recorder is tapered slightly, being widest at the mouthpiece end and narrowest towards the foot on Baroque recorders, or flared almost like a trumpet at the bottom on Renaissance instruments.
The viol ( also known as the viola da gamba ) is any one of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed musical instruments developed in the mid-late 15th century and used primarily in the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
All the instruments of this museum are played by the Orpheon Baroque Orchestra, the Orpheon consort, or by musicians who receive an instrument for a permanent loan.
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The concerto, as understood in this modern way, arose in the Baroque period side by side with the concerto grosso, which contrasted a small group of instruments with the rest of the orchestra.
The cornett was, like almost all Renaissance and Baroque instruments, made in a complete family ; the different sizes being the high cornettino, the cornett ( or curved cornett ), the tenor cornett ( or lizard ) and the rare bass cornett.
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.
Although performance practice was previously confined to early music from the Baroque era, since the 1990s, research in performance practice has examined other historical eras, such as how early Classical era piano concerti were performed, how the early history of recording affected the use of vibrato in classical music, or which instruments were used in Klezmer music.
The viola d ' amore can regularly be heard today in musical ensembles that specialise in historically accurate performances of Baroque music on authentic instruments.
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These forms gradually developed into the trio sonata of the Baroque – two treble instruments and a bass instrument, often with a keyboard or other chording instrument ( harpsichord, organ, harp or lute, for example ) filling in the harmony.
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.
A sampling of his versatility in addition to numerous recordings of the standard classical repertoire would include his recordings of Baroque pieces using period instruments ; American bluegrass music ; traditional Chinese melodies including the soundtrack to the film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon ; the tangos of Argentinian composer Ástor Piazzolla ; an eclectic and unusual collaboration with Bobby McFerrin ( where Ma admitted to being terrified of the improvisation McFerrin pushed him toward ); as well as the music of modern minimalist Philip Glass in such works as the 2002 piece Naqoyqatsi.
In the mid-20th century, organ builders began to build historically inspired instruments modelled on Baroque organs.
During the age of Baroque music many composers were also virtuosi on their respective instruments.
Not content to limit himself to the standard Baroque trumpet repertoire, André also performed many transcriptions of works for oboe, flute, and even voice and string instruments.
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Gardiner is most famous for his interpretations of Baroque music on period instruments with the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists, but his repertoire and discography are not limited to early music.

Baroque and could
During the Baroque and Classical periods, recitative could appear in two basic forms: secco ( dry ) recitative, accompanied only by continuo, which was usually a harpsichord and a cello ; or accompagnato ( also known as strumentato ) in which the orchestra provided accompaniment.
Of the three leading architects of the Roman High Baroque, only Francesco Borromini fared not so well under Alexander ; this may be because he thought Borromini ’ s architectural forms willful but also Borromini could be notoriously difficult.
Ancient models were certainly very much involved, but the style could also be regarded as a revival of the Renaissance, and especially in France as a return to the more austere and noble Baroque of the age of Louis XIV, for which a considerable nostalgia had developed as France's dominant military and political position started a serious decline.
Several experts, including the former Curator of the Department of Renaissance and Baroque Painting in the Museo del Prado and current Director of the Moll Institute of Studies of Flemish Paintings, in Madrid, Professor Matías Díaz Padrón, suggest that this " could be a model " painted by Velázquez before the completed work which hangs in the Prado Museum, perhaps to be approved by the king.
In the Baroque and Classical periods, the word solo was virtually equivalent to sonata, and could refer either to a piece for one melody instrument with ( continuo ) accompaniment, or to a sonata for an unaccompanied melody instrument, such as Johann Sebastian Bach ’ s sonatas for violin alone.
The Beaux-Arts training emphasized the mainstream examples of Imperial Roman architecture between Augustus and the Severan emperors, Italian Renaissance, and French and Italian Baroque models especially, but the training could then be applied to a broader range of models: Quattrocento Florentine palace fronts or French late Gothic.
Beaux-Arts training made great use of agrafes, clasps that links one architectural detail to another ; to interpenetration of forms, a Baroque habit ; to " speaking architecture " ( architecture parlante ) in which supposed appropriateness of symbolism could be taken to literal-minded extremes.
Little that could be called Baroque can be identified in its cool classicism that looks back to the 16th century.
In the Baroque and Classical music era music could be performed as a background to other activities.
Leonard points out that " Stephenson seems to be telling us throughout the " Baroque Cycle " is that the actual way things really happened — the way systems of credit were created, or timber delivered — is just as kooky as anything that a fabulist could concoct out of the wild speculation of his or her own mind.
" He felt that he could use his writing to stir religious feelings ; and it is this pattern in his writing that has caused scholars to declare him a leading Baroque writer.
He is noted for his church music, most of which also survives in manuscript .. As could be expected for a composer of the Roman School, his sacred music was conservative, and mostly in the Palestrina style for the first part of his career ; however, after 1600 he experimented with some of the stylistic innovations which defined the beginning of the Baroque era, such as the concertato principle and the basso continuo.
A portmanteau of the words Baroque and Rococo, the term was originally used as a criticism of the characteristic ease with which the average listener could enjoy this style of music at the height of Baroque revival in the first half of the 20th century.
When contrasted with the serene single-viewpoint pose of the nearby Michelangelo's David, finished nearly 80 years before, this statue is infused with the dynamics that lead towards Baroque, but the tight, uncomfortable, verticality — self-imposed by the author's virtuosic restriction to a composition that could be carved from a single block of marble — lacks the diagonal thrusts that Bernini would achieve forty years later with his Rape of Proserpina and Apollo and Daphne, both at the Galleria Borghese, Rome.
The poetry adds to the chorale images, which the composer could use, for example in movement 3 the divine source of blood to cleanse the stains of sins, a Baroque phrase relying on, and.
His view of the transition from Naryshkin Baroque, the summit of Muscovite architecture, into loaned European Petrine Baroque as an organic process, however, was contentious from the start, and, according to James Cracraft, could not account for an abrupt demise of national architecture under Peter I and his successors.

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