Baroque Music Resources

Useful Web Sites:

Baroque Music History	Timelines & Chronologies	Instruments	Baroque Dance
Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical Era Music: Composers		Classical Era Music	Bibliographies
Genre Studies (Baroque)	Iconographic Sources	Renaissance & Baroque Art	Eighteenth-Century Art
Online Scores for Study and Analysis		Acadia Early Music Archive	Facsimiles
Medieval Music History	Renaissance Music History	Online Music Scores (to Download)
General Reference Sources	Notation	Careers in Music	CCARH Publications: Scores & Parts
Online Journals and Magazines	Online Dictionaries, Glossaries, & Encyclopedias		Webcasters
Vaughan Memorial Library	Libraries, Archives, and Museums	Internet Resources, Libraries	Museums
Online Catalogue (WebCat)	General / Lists of Libraries	Specific Libraries	Online Archives
Reference Sources and Resources for Papers		Online Indexes & Research Databases
Grove Music Online   [Open access only to general information and demos; full access only by subscription]

Baroque Music History

• Grove Music Online   [Open access only to general information and demos; full access only by subscription]

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Baroque, General History

• Eighteenth-Century Resources [Jack Lynch, Associate Professor in the English department of the Newark campus of Rutgers University]
• Eighteenth-Century Resources – Music

Baroque Music, Comprehensive Sites

• Early Music FAQ ("The largest reference for European Medieval and Renaissance music on the web.") [Todd Michel McComb (mccomb @ medieval.org)]
• Link Index
• Site Outline
• Scores, Sounds & Sources
• Topics:

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• What is Early Music?
• What were the twelve modes?
• Voice Definitions and Ranges [Elizabeth Randell Upton]
• What was the first opera? [John Howell]
• Zarlino: Justesse a cappella à la Renaissance [In French; A mirror of a site designed to illustrate Zarlino's 16th century ideas on tuning, by Yves Ouvrard, Jean-Pierre Vidal, & Olivier Bettens]
• How were musicians trained? [Margo Schulter]
• The Genre of the Lamentations [François Velde]
• The Internet Public Library
• The Baroque Ideal [At: The Canons and Fugues of J. S. Bach (Dr. Tim Smith, N. Arizona U.)]
• The Baroque Ideal-a brief discussion of some principal concepts of Baroque Music
• Godfather of the Baroque
• Doctrine of Affections
• Basso Continuo
• Theorists
• Rameau & Fux
• End of the Baroque
• Climbing Parnassus
• Chronology of Bach Contemporaries [Graphical timeline]

Specific Topics

• THEMA [(Music) THEory of the Middle Ages], a hypertextual database!
• Basso continuo (Thoroughbass, Generalbass):
• What is basso continuo? [Early Music FAQ ("The largest reference for European Medieval and Renaissance music on the web.") {Todd Michel McComb (mccomb @ medieval.org)}]
• music theory online: figured bass [Music Theory Online (Dr. Brian Blood)]
• Bassus Generalis [Bernhard Lang]
• A "website...dedicated to translation and discussion of historical sources about basso continuo and perfomace practice."
• Reading from figured bass [Clifford Bartlett, King's Music; reprinted at Saraband Music]
• The Golden Mean & Fibonacci Numbers:
• The Golden Mean
• The Golden Mean [William Harris, Professor Emeritus, Middlebury College]
• Fibonacci Numbers, the Golden Section and the Golden String [Dr Ron Knott]
• The Golden Proportion [Eddy Levin]
• Male Altos & Sopranos, Countertenors, Falsettists, & Castrati:
• Male Sopranos & Altos
• "Male Sopranos & Altos is a social networking site for serious discussion on what voices today can approximate the beautiful alto and soprano castrati in classical music. Today we have rare male sopranos such as Radu Marian, Randall Wong or Michael Maniaci and male altos plus a growing number of better countertenors such as Andreas Scholl, Paul Esswood or Philippe Jaroussky. At Male Sopranos & Altos you may find videos, pictures, discography and articles about those exceptional singers. To get involved, you can register at our forums and start intelligent discussions with other members interested in the topic."
• Male Sopranos (Sopranists) on CD or the Renaissance of the Castrati Era [Andreas Kopp]
• Selected Literature on the High Male Voice: (A bibliography on male sopranos by Dorothe Kugler)
• All You Would Like to Know About the Castrati.........But Not Quite!! [Elsa Scammell]

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Genre Studies

[ Instrumental Music ]

Vocal Music       [  Sacred Music ]

• General:
• Chantez-vous français? Remarques curieuses sur le français chanté du Moyen Age à la période baroque, Avec quelques considérations sur le latin chanté des Français, par Olivier Bettens [at: Virga]
• Patricia M. Ranum, Musings on Word-Music Relationships in French Baroque Music [At: Patricia's musing at Panat]
• Aria:
• Musical Forms: Aria [Matt Boynick, The Classical Music Pages ("Extracted with permission from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music edited by Stanley Sadie")]
• Rondo and Ritornello Forms in Tonal Music [William Renwick, School of the Arts, McMaster University]
• Cantata & Song:
• Baroque Cantata [Cantata Editions]
• Musical Forms: Cantata [Matt Boynick, The Classical Music Pages ("Extracted with permission from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music edited by Stanley Sadie")]
• Musical Forms: Song [Matt Boynick, The Classical Music Pages ("Extracted with permission from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music edited by Stanley Sadie")]
• Musical Forms: Lied [Matt Boynick, The Classical Music Pages ("Extracted with permission from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music edited by Stanley Sadie")]
• Opera (ballet de cour; masque; tragédie lyrique; semi-opera):
• A Brief History of Singing [John Koopman, Professor Emeritus, Conservatory of Music at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin]
• Opera Develops: 1590–1680
• Opera Becomes Standardized: 1680–1760
• Ballet and Opera [Chris Whent, "Here of a Sunday Morning"]
• Rhetoric and Baroque Opera Seria [Eric T. Lam]
• Serious and Comic Opera in Eighteenth-Century Italy [Nancy Thuleen, Department of German, University of Wisconsin, Madison]
• Musical Forms: Opera [Matt Boynick, The Classical Music Pages ("Extracted with permission from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music edited by Stanley Sadie")]
• Musical Forms: Recitative [Matt Boynick, The Classical Music Pages ("Extracted with permission from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music edited by Stanley Sadie")]
• The Origins of Opera [Opera Guided Tour, PeoplePlay UK]
• The First Opera in the UK [The Origins of Opera, Opera Guided Tour, PeoplePlay UK]
• 18th Century Opera [Opera Guided Tour, PeoplePlay UK]
• Handel and Opera Seria [18th Century Opera, Opera Guided Tour, PeoplePlay UK]
• A Trip to the Opera [18th Century Opera, Opera Guided Tour, PeoplePlay UK]
• Castratos [18th Century Opera, Opera Guided Tour, PeoplePlay UK]
• Venus and Adonis: Robert Hugill muses on the marriage of music and words in the seventeenth century [Music and Vision]
• The Masque [Shakespeare's stage, Internet Shakespeare Editions]
• Examples of Masque Costume in the late 16th & Early 17th Centuries [Drea Leed, Elizabethan Costume Page]
• Purcell and English Semi-Opera [The Origins of Opera, Opera Guided Tour, PeoplePlay UK]
• Sacred Music:
• Spiritual Concerto and Church Cantata [Chris Whent, "Here of a Sunday Morning"]
• Concerts Spirituel [Chris Whent, "Here of a Sunday Morning"]
• Musical Forms: Mass [Matt Boynick, The Classical Music Pages ("Extracted with permission from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music edited by Stanley Sadie")]
• Musical Forms: Motet [Matt Boynick, The Classical Music Pages ("Extracted with permission from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music edited by Stanley Sadie")]
• Musical Forms: Anthem [Matt Boynick, The Classical Music Pages ("Extracted with permission from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music edited by Stanley Sadie")]
• Musical Forms: Oratorio [Matt Boynick, The Classical Music Pages ("Extracted with permission from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music edited by Stanley Sadie")]
• Oratorio [18th Century Opera, Opera Guided Tour, PeoplePlay UK]
• Musical Forms: Passion [Matt Boynick, The Classical Music Pages ("Extracted with permission from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music edited by Stanley Sadie")]
• Musical Forms: Psalm [Matt Boynick, The Classical Music Pages ("Extracted with permission from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music edited by Stanley Sadie")]
• Musical Forms: Chorale [Matt Boynick, The Classical Music Pages ("Extracted with permission from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music edited by Stanley Sadie")]
• Late Renaissance & Early Baroque, stylistic comparisons: 1. Sacred Music [GJC]

Instrumental Music       [   Suite  |  Variation  |  Keyboard Music   ]

• General:

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• Baroque Instrumental Music [J. Peter Burkholder, Music M401 History and Literature of Music I: Antiquity to 1750, Indiana University School of Music]
• Concerto:
• The Concerto in the Italian Settecento [Chris Whent, "Here of a Sunday Morning"]
• Handel's Orchestral Music [Chris Whent, "Here of a Sunday Morning"]
• George Frederick Handel: Organ Concertos [Chris Whent, "Here of a Sunday Morning"]
• Musical Forms: Concerto [Matt Boynick, The Classical Music Pages ("Extracted with permission from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music edited by Stanley Sadie")]
• Rondo and Ritornello Forms in Tonal Music [William Renwick, School of the Arts, McMaster University]
• Dances:
• Musical Forms: Minuet [Matt Boynick, The Classical Music Pages ("Extracted with permission from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music edited by Stanley Sadie")]
• Fugue:
• Musical Forms: Fugue [Matt Boynick, The Classical Music Pages ("Extracted with permission from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music edited by Stanley Sadie")]
• Anatomy of a Fugue [The Canons and Fugues of J. S. Bach (Dr. Tim Smith, N. Arizona U.)]
• Organ Chorale [Chorale Prelude], Chorale Variations [Chorale Partitas]:
• [Bach]: Partitas and Chorale Variations [JanEl B. Gortmaker, at site of: James Kibbie, The University of Michigan School of Music]
• [Bach]: The Orgelbüchlein [Hanna Song, at site of: James Kibbie, The University of Michigan School of Music]
• Overture:
• Musical Forms: Overture [Matt Boynick, The Classical Music Pages ("Extracted with permission from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music edited by Stanley Sadie")]
• (Chamber) Sonata:
• Musical Forms: Sonata [Matt Boynick, The Classical Music Pages ("Extracted with permission from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music edited by Stanley Sadie")]
• Musical Forms: Sonata da camera [Matt Boynick, The Classical Music Pages ("Extracted with permission from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music edited by Stanley Sadie")]
• Musical Forms: Sonata da chiesa [Matt Boynick, The Classical Music Pages ("Extracted with permission from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music edited by Stanley Sadie")]
• The Sonata in Seventeenth Century Italy [Chris Whent, "Here of a Sunday Morning"]
• The Sonata in the German Baroque [Chris Whent, "Here of a Sunday Morning"]
• The Solo and Trio Sonata in the Italian Settecento [Chris Whent, "Here of a Sunday Morning"]
• Suite:
• Musical Forms: Suite [Matt Boynick, The Classical Music Pages ("Extracted with permission from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music edited by Stanley Sadie")]
• The Ensemble Suite [Chris Whent, "Here of a Sunday Morning"]
• Variation:
• Musical Forms: Variation [Matt Boynick, The Classical Music Pages ("Extracted with permission from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music edited by Stanley Sadie")]
• Keyboard Music:
• The Toccata [Chris Whent, "Here of a Sunday Morning"]

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Baroque Dance

• The Institute of Historical Dance (Ghent, Belgium)
• John Playford, The Dancing Master [Jeff Lee, with facsimiles of the music (accessed from the Contents, not with each dance)]

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