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The Age of the Baroque and Enlightenment 1600-1800: Music Summary
47,889 words, approx. 160 pages
1598 Dafne, one of the first operas, is performed at Florence. Landgrave Moritz of Hessen-Kassel hears 14-year-old Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672) sing at his family's inn...
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The Age of the Baroque and Enlightenment 1600-1800: Visual Arts Summary
46,603 words, approx. 155 pages
1597 The Bolognese painter Annibale Carracci begins his ceiling frescoes at the Palazzo Farnese in Rome, a key work in inspiring a new monumental and heroic style of history painting during the Baroque era....
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The Age of the Baroque and Enlightenment 1600-1800: Religion Summary
44,065 words, approx. 147 pages
1598 The Edict of Nantes establishes a limited degree of religious toleration for Calvinist Huguenots in France. 1606 Jacob Arminius, a Dutch Calvinist theologian, rejects predestination and...
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The Age of the Baroque and Enlightenment 1600-1800: Theater Summary
43,822 words, approx. 146 pages
1598 The Chamberlain's Men, the acting troupe of which William Shakespeare is an important member, takes up residence in the Globe Theatre in London. King Philip II dies in Spain. During...
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Baroque Information
4,281 words, approx. 14 pages
In the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural epoch, commencing roughly at the turn of the 17th century in Rome, that was exemplified by drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music.. In music, the term...
 


News and Journals
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The New York Observer
Bullish on Baroque Opera: A Maestro and His Acolytes
4/3/2005: 1,279 words, approx. 4 pages
"Handel is closer to us than many composers who came along years later," William Christie said as we were having coffee in the lobby of the Carlyle. He was in town with Les Arts Florissants, his celebrated, Paris-based troupe of musicians, who are dedicated to...
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The New York Observer
SoHo Museum Flees Yuppies, as the Met Goes For Baroque
9/18/2007: 663 words, approx. 2 pages
A few years back, Robert Hughes, former art critic for Time magazine and Goya biographer, wrote that sculptor Martin Puryear (b. 1941) was America’s greatest living artist, and damned if Mr. Hughes wasn’t close to the mark. New Yorkers will get an opportunity to make...
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The New York Observer
Gracious Hostess, Gifted Greek Go Baroque on Upper East Side
6/25/2006: 922 words, approx. 3 pages
This is what’s missing from so many of the restaurants I’ve been to lately: the feminine touch. Donatella Arpaia is the consummate gracious hostess. Tall and striking, with a mane of streaked blond hair, she patrols the packed white-and-yellow dining room in high heels and...
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The New York Observer
Gracious Hostess, Gifted Greek Go Baroque on Upper East Side
6/25/2006: 922 words, approx. 3 pages
This is what’s missing from so many of the restaurants I’ve been to lately: the feminine touch. Donatella Arpaia is the consummate gracious hostess. Tall and striking, with a mane of streaked blond hair, she patrols the packed white-and-yellow dining room in high heels and...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Essay Grade: 86%
Baroque Versus Classical
848 words, approx. 3 pages
Through comparison of the two musical eras, it is obvious there was a change in terms of texture, form and use of ornamentation but it is also obvious the Baroque era provided solid landing ground for the Classical period to take off.
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Essay Grade: 85%
Baroque Style
489 words, approx. 2 pages
Essay provides an explanation of the baroque style of writing.


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