Baroque music

style of Western classical music

thumb|250px|The first page from the manuscript of [[J. S. Bach's Baroque era motet, entitled Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf (BWV226)]]

thumb|right|A gavotte in Brittany, France, 1878 The gavotte (also gavot, gavote, or gavotta) is a French dance, taking its name from a folk dance of the Gavot, the people of the Pays de Gap region of Dauphiné in the southeast of France, where the dance originated, according to one source. According to another reference, the word gavotte is a generic term for a variety of French folk dances, and most likely originated in Lower Brittany in the west, or possibly Provence in the southeast or the French Basque Country in the southwest of France. It is notated in or time and is usually of moderate t

16th- and 17th-century period of cultural and literary flourishing coinciding with the rise of the Spanish Empire

thumb|upright=1.4|A sarabande in binary form by Johann Kuhnau

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technique of improvisation and accompaniment, common in Baroque music

thumb|right|Caccini, Le nuove musiche, 1601, title page

thumb|right|250px|Gigue rhythm.

thumb|upright=1.4|Bernardo Storace, last bars of Passagagli sopra A la mi re and beginning of Passagagli sopra C sol fa ut, from Selva di varie compositioni (Venice, 1664) The passacaglia (; ) is a musical form that originated in early seventeenth-century Spain and is still used today by composers. It is usually of a serious character and is typically based on a bass-ostinato and written in triple metre.

thumb|Borrèia in Auvergne, early 20th century

thumb|upright=1.35|A courante rhythm

right|thumb|Galliard in Siena, Italy, 15th century

thumb|250px|Passepied from opera-Entr'acte|interlude [[The Shagreen Bone]]

group of composers working in Venice during the Renaissance

music genre

Literally 'song' in Italian, a canzone (; : canzoni; cognate with English to chant) is an Italian or Provençal song or ballad. It is also used to describe a type of lyric which resembles a madrigal. Sometimes a composition which is simple and songlike is designated as a canzone, especially if it is by a non-Italian; a good example is the aria "Voi che sapete" from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro.

group of music composers

thumb|The Hornpipe by Andries Both The hornpipe is any of several dance forms and their associated tunes, played and danced in Great Britain and Ireland and elsewhere from the 16th century until the present day. The dance is still performed in competition. George Frideric Handel's hornpipe from Water Music is one of his most famous compositions.

thumb|350px|Siciliana rhythms.

In music, a villanella (; plural villanelle) is a form of light Neapolitan secular vocal music which originated in the Kingdom of Naples just before the middle of the 16th century. It first appeared in Naples, and influenced the later canzonetta, and from there also influenced the madrigal.

In music, a canzonetta (; pl. canzonette, canzonetti or canzonettas) is a popular Italian secular vocal composition that originated around 1560. Earlier versions were somewhat like a madrigal but lighter in style—but by the 18th century, especially as it moved outside of Italy, the term came to mean a song for voice and accompaniment, usually in a light secular style.

instrumental composition dating from the Baroque period

music genre

theory in the aesthetics of painting, music, and theatre, widely used in the Baroque era

musical composition for organ based on a chorale melody

The loure, also known as the gigue lourée or gigue lente (slow gigue), is a French Baroque dance, probably originating in Normandy and named after the sound of the instrument of the same name (a type of musette). It is of slow or moderate tempo, sometimes in simple triple meter but more often in compound duple meter. The weight is on the first beat, a characteristic emphasised by the preceding anacrusis, which begins the traditional loure. Another feature is the lilting dotted rhythm.

style of organ music in 17th-century Northern Germany

type of musical society that arose in German and German-Swiss cities and towns during the Reformation

thumb|upright=1.5|Sheet music for Carl Michael Bellman's [[Fredman's Epistle 80, Liksom en Herdinna, högtids klädd, one of several pastorales in the 1790 collection]] Pastorale refers to something of a pastoral nature in music, whether in form or in mood.

Sinfonia (; plural sinfonie) is the Italian word for symphony, from the Latin symphonia, in turn derived from Ancient Greek συμφωνία symphōnia (agreement or concord of sound), from the prefix σύν (together) and Φωνή (sound). In English it most commonly refers to a 17th- or 18th-century orchestral piece used as an introduction, interlude, or postlude to an opera, oratorio, cantata, or suite. The word is also found in other Romance languages such as Spanish or Portuguese. In the Middle Ages down to as late as 1588, it was also the Italian name for the hurdy-gurdy.

1725–90 series of public concerts in Paris

style of early baroque music

voluntary association

choir

early Baroque music style where the melody is shared between different groups

manner of musical composition

thumb|right|330px|Romanesca. . thumb|right|330px|Passamezzo and Romanesca melodic formula on D .

musical rhythm, especially used in Baroque music

secular vocal music in France in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period

Clavier-Übung, in more modern spelling Klavierübung, is German for "keyboard exercise". In the late 17th and early 18th centuries this was a common title for keyboard music collections: first adopted by Johann Kuhnau in 1689, the term later became mostly associated with Johann Sebastian Bach's four Clavier-Übung publications.

dance of the Baroque era

manner of musical composition

musical performance practice

The Seicento ( , ) is Italian history and culture during the 17th century. The Seicento saw the end of the Renaissance movement in Italy and the beginning of the Counter-Reformation and the Baroque era. The word means 'six hundred' and is short for , '1600'.

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form of programme music imitating a battle

trend in pipe organ building

music genre

thumb|right|500px|A simple partimento with figures to teach beginners. (Fenaroli Partimento No. 1, Book 1, Gj1301) thumb|right|500px| A partimento fugue for more advanced students. As students progressed, partimenti became unfigured. (Fenaroli Partimento Fugue 8, Book 5, Gj1418)

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