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4 days ago · George Frideric Handel, German-born English composer of the late Baroque era, noted particularly for his operas, oratorios, and instrumental compositions. He wrote the most famous of all oratorios, Messiah, and is also known for such occasional pieces as Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks.
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- What is George Frideric Handel famous for?George Frideric Handel, a German-born English composer of the late Baroque era, was known particularly for his operas, oratorios, and instrumental...
- What was George Frideric Handel’s early life like?George Frideric Handel showed a marked gift for music at an early age, becoming a skilled keyboard player by age 9. Although his father did not lik...
- When was George Frideric Handel born?George Frideric Handel was born on February 23, 1685, in Halle, Brandenburg (now in Germany).
3 days ago · Baroque instruments including hurdy-gurdy, harpsichord, bass viol, lute, violin, and baroque guitar. Baroque music is characterized by the use of complex tonal counterpoint and the use of a basso continuo, a continuous bass line. Music became more complex in comparison with the simple songs of all previous periods.
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23 hours ago · Jean-Baptiste Lully was the toast of the town in France during the Baroque era. The French King loved Lully, and today's Beautiful Music is a live performance of an excerpt from the composer's ...
3 days ago · The Baroque period (roughly 1600-1750) marked a change from one prevailing texture known as polyphony (multiple melodies) to a different texture known as homophony (one main melody with accompaniment, what became typical of modern music). Another characteristic is the use of different instruments versus an older preference for ensembles made of ...
4 days ago · opera, a staged drama set to music in its entirety, made up of vocal pieces with instrumental accompaniment and usually with orchestral overtures and interludes. In some operas the music is continuous throughout an act; in others it is broken up into discrete pieces, or “numbers,” separated either by recitative (a dramatic type of singing ...
13 hours ago · The music of baroque composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, and George Frideric Handel is renowned for its ability to transport listeners ...
3 days ago · Articulation in Baroque music tends to be more detached than in Romantic or modern music, reflecting the dance-based rhythms and textures that permeate much of the repertoire. Phrasing, too, is guided by the rhetorical and speech-like qualities of the music, often described in treatises of the time as ‘speaking’ the music.
