Compared to the control and carefully balanced proportions associated with the Renaissance, Baroque is known for its movement and drama. The first global style Baroque's influence extended from Italy ...

Naomi: Very dapper Ludwig! Ludwig: (gasp) What ist this !!! Naomi: This is an organ, a popular instrument of the Baroque period. It’s a little bit like woodwind or brass instruments, because it ...

The chords used in major and minor tonalities were also major or minor - or diatonic. The use of ground bass was common in the Baroque period. Composers would use a ground bass to structure their ...

The 17th and 18th centuries rode roughshod over the programming at the 92Y the other night, when that brilliant British ...

Trompe l'oeil paintings were known long before the Baroque period, and long after, for that matter—René Magritte is our greatest twentieth-century practitioner and, indeed, an artist to whom Jorge ...

Hammer Baroque, led by artistic director and Hamilton-based tenor Bud Roach, photographed here in Venice, presents music by ...

George Frideric Handel was one of the greatest composers of the Baroque period. Opera dominated Handel’s career, yet he was better known for his oratorios and instrumental works for several ...

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and soprano Julia Bullock invite us to listen to familiar pieces with fresh ears in ...

“They look quite different and sound quite different. For the listeners who are not used to hearing Baroque music played on ...