D Major (2 Sharps - F#, C#
D E F# G A B C# D
A Major (3 Sharps - F#, C#, G#)
A B C# D E F# G# A
E Major (4 Sharps - F#, C#, G#, D#)
E F# G# A B C# D# E
E Minor (1 Sharp - F#)
E F# G A B C D E
Three Typical Genres of Baroque Music - and Characteristic Movements
Suite
Overture
Dance I
Dance II
...etc.
Opera
Overture
Recitative
Aria - Duet, Trio, Quartet, etc.
Chorus
...etc.
Concerto
Fast
Slow
Fast
Birth-Death Dates for J.S. Bach, his 3 stylistic periods (cities of activity),
and characteristic music written during each time
J.S. Bach - 1685-1750
Weimar - Organ
Cothen - Instrumental
Leipzig - Vocal
Listening
[8567] Claudio Monteverdi - Vespers: I. Deus in Adjutorium
(God is in this place)
[8585] Heinrich Schutz - Saul, Saul
[8659] Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas: When I Am Laid in Earth
(Dido's Lament)
[8678] Antonio Vivaldi - Gloria: I. Gloria
[8685] J.S. Bach - Organ Fugue in G Minor ("Little")
[8685] G.F. Handel - Messiah: Hallelujah
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Renaissance and onward with the Music Historians,
meeting them by
heading
down
the
legendary
freeways
and
byways;
returning
divertingly,
dizzingly,
multiple
back
roads,
all
cardinal
points,
leading
eventually
spectacularly
north
on
680...
to compose page 6 Ezra Pounds, Op. 263: I. Exile / Return (Ezra / Nehemiah),
on the
50th day of
spring,
high down 4
to 57...
