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In the arts, Baroque is both a period and the style that dominated it. The Baroque style used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, and music. The style started around 1600 in Rome, Italy and spread to most of Europe. In music, the Baroque applies to the final period of dominance of imitative counterpoint, where different voices and instruments echo each other but at different pitches, sometimes inverting the echo, and even reversing thematic material.
The popularity and success of the "Baroque" was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church which had decided at the time of the Council of Trent that the arts should communicate religious themes in direct and emotional involvement. The secular aristocracy also saw the dramatic style of Baroque architecture and art as a means of impressing visitors and expressing triumphant power and control. Baroque palaces are built around an entrance sequence of courts, anterooms, grand staircases, and reception rooms of sequentially increasing magnificence. In similar profusions of detail, art, music, architecture, and literature inspired each other in the "Baroque" cultural movement as artists explored what they could create from repeated and varied patterns.
The word baroque derives from the ancient Portuguese noun "barroco" which is a pearl that is not round but of unpredictable and elaborate shape. Hence, in informal usage, the word baroque can simply mean that something is "elaborate," with many details, without reference to the Baroque styles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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18th Century English Music - Biographies of several composers, portraits, and in-depth illustrated history of the period.
Baroque Composers - List of names arranged by death date from Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers. Includes links to individual biographies and further resources.
Baroque Composers - Alphabetical index of over 100 Wikipedia articles plus internal links to related material.
Baroque Music - Brief studies of styles and composers from throughout the period. Links to related topics, including images, history, and clothing.
Baroque Music: Composers - Biographical sketches of thirty-six composers from the period.
Baroque: 1600-1750 - Introduction to the period from Essentials of Music linked to details on historical themes, musical context, style, and composer biographies.
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