Music of the Baroque
Today, Wednesday, March 9th, we explore the music of the Baroque era. We’ll be including the work of a wide range of composers.
Then at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific / 8pm or midnight UK time, there’s another chance to hear the latest episode of “Where Have You Been?”, our show on places to visit and things to do around the Second Life Grid, broadcast every Wednesday and Saturday.
Sometimes you just want to get out and see something new or different. This time, we are visiting a small venue on the edge of a continent that is just perfect for that sort of thing: The Decks, owned by Jack Vincent. Details are here.
And every four hours from 4am Pacific/noon in the UK, tune in for “The Engines of Our Ingenuity”, from the University of Houston, about the machines that make our civilization run and the people whose ingenuity created them.
Says Wikipedia on the music of the Baroque:
Baroque music is a period or style of Western music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750. This era followed the Renaissance music era, and was followed in turn by the Classical era, with the galant style marking the transition between Baroque and Classical eras.
The Baroque period is divided into three major phases: early, middle, and late. Overlapping in time, they are conventionally dated from 1580 to 1650, from 1630 to 1700, and from 1680 to 1750.
Baroque music forms a major portion of the “classical music” canon, and is now widely studied, performed, and listened to. The term “baroque” comes from the Portuguese word barroco, meaning “misshapen pearl”.
Key composers of the Baroque era include Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, George Frideric Handel, Claudio Monteverdi, Domenico Scarlatti, Alessandro Scarlatti, Henry Purcell, Georg Philipp Telemann, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Arcangelo Corelli, François Couperin, Giuseppe Tartini, Heinrich Schütz, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dieterich Buxtehude, and others, and you will hear many of them today.
