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Baroque music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baroque music describes a style of European classical music approximately extending from 1600 to 1750. This era is said to begin in music after the Renaissance and was followed by the Classical era. ...
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Classical period (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The dates of the Classical period in Western music are generally accepted as approximately 1750 to 1825. However, the term classical music is used colloquially to describe a variety of Western mus...
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Opera appeared during this period. Opera is a singing play, like a musical. ... Counterpoint was used a lot during this period and combines two or more lines of equal importance in a composition. Counterpoint and polyphony are similar terms, but counterpoint is usually used to describe music of the Baroque period.
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Composers Of; The Baroque Period ... Prominent Composers of the; Baroque Period ... Musical Periods; Middle Ages; Renaissance; Baroque; Classical; Romantic; 20th Century...
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During this period there was further standardisation of instrument construction forms, and tablature notation started to develop into the early forms of modern music notations.
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The Baroque period of European musical history falls between the late Renaissance and early Classical periods, that is, roughly the century-and-a-half between 1600 and 1750. During the Renaissance, Europe had assimilated the humanism and rationalism of Greco-Roman civilization, had undergone the theological and...
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