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Site devoted to the Australia-based Scarlatti Project - devoted to researching, performing and recording the works of the 18th century Italian composer Alessandro Scarlatti ...

Dedicated to the baroque cantata repertoire, this site intends to further the opportunities to research and perform this vast and fascinating genre. Cantatas, arias etc.

The Porpora Project has been established in order to display and support the investigations into the life and music of Nicola Porpora by performer and musicologist James Sanderson. ...

Makers of two dozen baroque and classical flutes scrupulously copied after great historical models; information and research tools.

Baroque-music.co.uk - a directory and resource for baroque music performers and researchers with a UK bias. Now including a diray service to avoid concert date clashes.

Tell me when this page is updated What is 'Natural' Vibrato | Vibrato as ornament vs. Continuous Vibrato | Historical Evidence | A Matter of Taste | Bibliography | Suggested Recording Artists | Links Use of Vibrato in Baroque Vocal Music Introduction The topic of performance practice in early music has produced a veritable flood of emotionally charged criticism from both sides of the ...

Stuff-Everyone-Should-Know(TM) Series Aesthetics - Music - Baroque If it ain't Baroque In every way Baroque music is like a teen-ager. Ok, maybe not in the pimply-faced-criticize-everything-even-though-you-don t-pay-for-it kind of way we have come to expect from our modern teen-agers. But what is a teen-ager anyway Simply put; a teen-ager is no longer a child and not yet an adult. It is that ...

Music of the Augustan Age Historical Background Let me take you back in time to April 1694, to Dresden, the residence of the Electors of Saxony who were descended from the champions of the German Reformation. An event that was to create the most brilliant and extravagant period in its cultural history is about to take place. When Friedrich Augustus succeeded to the electorate upon the unexpected ...

Dedicated to the baroque aria and operatic repertoire, this site intends to further the opportunities to research and perform this vast and fascinating genre. ...