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PAGES DEDICATED TO BAROQUE TOPICS

  • The Baroque Music Site

    The ULTIMATE in homepages for Baroque Music. The site specializes in composers and musical instruments, especially Baroque violins, harpsichords, and organs. This page has links to everything including some spectacular images of Baroque musicians and instruments.
  • Glossary of Baroque Music Terms

    Prepared by Tim Smith at the University of Northern Arizona.
  • What Does "Continuo" Mean? © 1997 by Bernard S. Greenberg

  • What is a "Chorale"? © 1997 by Bernard S. Greenberg

  • Anatomy of a Fugue ©1996 by Tim Smith

  • Keyboard Music of William Byrd from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book

    Harpsichordist John Sankey has recording all the keyboard works of Byrd (using a Midi keyboard and "quarter-comma" meantone tuning!) and has uploaded them to this site. You will need to be running a browser that has listening capabilities, such as "Netscape Communicator" (that comes with newer versions of Netscape) or "Quick Time" (that comes with Internet Explorer). These should automatically load when you click on the music link.
  • Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti

    Once again, harpsichordist John Sankey has undertaken the amazing task of recording Scarlatti's COMPLETE solo sonatas in Midi (!). This must be heard to be believed. For those of you more musicologically minded, you can access the 500-plus sonatas in both the Longo and the Kirkpatrick numbering systems.
  • Society for 17th-Century Music

    A page directed to musicologists and specialists interested in issues dealing with music of the late Renaissance and early Baroque.
  • Readings in 18th-Century Music

    A rich page of links to readings that deal with aesthetics and the complex issue of performance practice in the Baroque. This homepage was compiled by Tobias Plebuch of Stanford University for a graduate seminar in Baroque music.
  • "PIPE": A List of Period Instrument Performing Ensembles

    A remarkable compilation that features a staggering number of international early music ensembles, including where they are located, the name of the director, and often the names of the musicians and their instruments. This site has three major divisions: 1) performing groups that use principally period instruments (original or reconstructed), 2) groups that use a mixture of early and modern instruments, and 3) groups that use principally modern instruments. The list of groups in the first category is arranged alphabetically. The thousands of musical ensembles that use period instruments stand as a remarkable testimony to the vibrancy and currency of "early music" in modern life. There is so much to investigate here, it's best to start with an overview in the "abbreviated PIPE list." Congratulations to Brad Leissa and his associates for creating this extraordinary site.

    • FAMOUS BAROQUE COMPOSER LINKS
  • Russell MacNeil's Baroque Ring Site
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  • Basic Repertoire Lists for Baroque Composers Copyright © 1995-1998 by L.D. Lampson & Classical Net
  • Interesting Internet Sites for Some Major Composers

    The following sites vary in scope and detail. Some, such as the Rameau page, are relatively modest. The Lully homepage, on the other hand, is lavishly and lovingly maintained by a Lully expert at the University of North Texas. The Bach homepage is perhaps most the impressive result of many contributors and it will lead you to a virtual network of other sites devoted to Bach and his contemporaries. Some of the following sites also offer listening opportunities. (See the note above regarding software.)

  • PRINCIPALLY 17TH-CENTURY

    • Claudio Monteverdi

    Girolamo Frescobaldi

    Jean-Baptiste Lully

    Heinrich Schu:tz

    Arcangelo Corelli

    Henry Purcell
  • PRINCIPALLY 18TH-CENTURY:

    • Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    George Frederick Handel

    Domenico Scarlatti

    • RECORDINGS

  • Todd MacComb's Baroque Music Overviews Page


    • Is anything missing on this page?
    If you discover any interesting and useful sites relating to Baroque music,
    please send the URL to mipisani@vassar.edu.
    Thanks.
    Professor Michael V. Pisani
    Vassar College
    Dept. of Music
    Skinner Hall, no. 13
    Office Telephone: (914) 437-7323