Baroque Music

An exploration into the use of improvisation, harmonic substitution, text-setting, word-painting and time-signature implications in French recitative, 1680-1733.

by Alex McCartney

La poetica dello scarto

by Luca Rossetto Casel

Relazione

Elusione delle forme di danza nella Partita per flauto solo
in la minore BWV 1013 di Johann Sebastian Bach
Elusione delle forme di danza nella Partita per flauto solo
in la minore BWV 1013 di Johann Sebastian Bach

Cinematic Neo-Mannerism or Neo-Baroque? Deleuze and Daney

by Sjoerd van Tuinen

Good and Bad Beats: Changes in the musical notation of rhythm in the Baroque as an expression of baroque values

by Philip Rice

Written for Baroque Performance Practice course at Westminster Choir College, Fall 2011. Instructed by Dr. Andrew Megill

An investigation of the changes to rhythmic notation and rate of tactus from the Renaissance into the Baroque period,... more An investigation of the changes to rhythmic notation and rate of tactus from the Renaissance into the Baroque period, particularly how these changes reflect larger philosophical changes in the Baroque and Enlightenment.

The Angelic Polyphony in Kotor Churches : Echoes of the Council of Trent in the art of the Bay of Kotor

by Ivan S. Vukčević

- Draft version;
- Presented in Conference 'Music and Propaganda in Visual Arts', Warsaw 2012.

As Baroque period followed changes in spiritual aspect of art and architecture after the Council of Trent, that manner... more As Baroque period followed changes in spiritual aspect of art and architecture after the Council of Trent, that manner was implemented in art in the Bay of Kotor too, especially in painting and sculptor arts in Kotor sacral objects. Artists like Francesco Penso ‘Cabianca’ and Tripo Kokolja, in the late XVII and XVIII c. introduced hallmark of baroque expressiveness and movement in their work in Kotor Cathedral of St. Tryphon and Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Rocks in Perast. Presence of deep music symbolism throughout vibrant forms in the sculptures of Angelic orchestra in sacristy of Kotor Cathedral or singing Heavenly choir with instruments on the walls of Marian sanctuary in church-island in Perast can be seen as the part of outspread expression of reconcile with the old forms, and give us a proof of effort and intent of the Catholic church and its Council Fathers to maintain, preserve and develop its belongings – in harmony.

A Sinfonia em Si B Maior de Carlos Seixas (?): Notas sobre o Estilo, a Data e o Autor

by Manuel Pedro Ferreira

"A Sinfonia em Si b Maior de Carlos Seixas (?): notas sobre o estilo, a data e o autor", in Revista Portuguesa de Musicologia, Vol. 2 (1992), pp. 147-60

Is the 18th-c. Symphony attributed to Carlos Seixas (died 1742) really by him? Yes, and its style was up-to-date. more Is the 18th-c. Symphony attributed to Carlos Seixas (died 1742) really by him? Yes, and its style was up-to-date.
"An article by Manuel Pedro Ferreira which constitutes, perhaps, the first serious and unprejudiced analysis of an Iberian symphony": Teresa Cascudo, in Music in Spain during the Eighteenth Century, ed. by Malcom Boyd and Juan José Carreras, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, p. 146.

A = 415 and unequal temperaments

by Mark Lindley

Published in “FoMRHI Quarterly,” 49.

Some Handelian fingerings

by Mark Lindley

Published in “Göttinger Händel-Beiträge,” v.6, 1998; republished in Peter Walls, ed., “Baroque Music” (London, 2011).

An Introduction to Alessandro Scarlatti’s “Toccata prima”

by Mark Lindley

Published in the OUP journal, “Early Music,” v.10 (1983).

Afinação e temperamento desigual no Barroco

by Thiago Jachelli

Etymology and Barangay History

by Historically Digitized

La «prattica ben ragionata» di Francescantonio Vallotti

by Mark Lindley

Published in “Rivista italiana di musicologia, v.15 (1980).

Understanding Bach Volume Five (2010)

by Ruth Tatlow

Volume Editor
Author (with Robin A. Leaver) of Report on the 14th Biennial Baroque Conference, Belfast 2010
Editorial team: Tanja Kovavcevic, Ruth Tatlow, Yo Tomita

Articles are revised and amplified versions of papers presented in the Bach Network UK sessions at the 14th Biennial... more Articles are revised and amplified versions of papers presented in the Bach Network UK sessions at the 14th Biennial Baroque Conference in Belfast, 2010

JS Bach and the Baroque Paragram: A Reappraisal of Friedrich Smend's Number Alphabet Theory

by Ruth Tatlow

Music and Letters 70/2 (1989), 191-205
Reprinted with permission in Bach: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute 20/3 (1989), 15-33

J.S. Bach, Video Games, and the 'Imaginary Museum': Deconstructing Nationalism Through an 8-Bit Interpretation of the Second English Suite

by Mike D'Errico

Term Paper for Baroque Studies Seminar
Tufts University, 2010
Instructor: Jane Bernstein

“God’s Capellmeister: The Proclamation of Scripture in the Music of Johann Sebastian Bach”, Pacifica 24.2 (2011).

by Andreas Loewe

In his musical retelling of Scripture, Johann Sebastian Bach was motivated by Martin Luther’s insight that the... more In his musical retelling of Scripture, Johann Sebastian Bach was motivated by Martin Luther’s insight that the combination of music and message, sermo et vox, was an instrument that could effect profound change of hearts and minds [WA 50: 372, 1]. This article assesses the way in which Bach understood his own calling as one of “God’s Capellmeister” in presenting and proclaiming the word of God through music.

Pleasure, Patronage and the Castrato

by Heather Hadlock

published in Early Music, 2010

The fascinating and well-presented new material on Atto Melani’s life, music and career would have been even more... more The fascinating and well-presented new material on Atto Melani’s life, music and career would have been even more compelling if theorized within a broader and more up-to-date context of scholarship on music, gender and sexuality.

The Keyboard Music of Jean-Philippe Rameau: Is This Viable on the Piano?

by graham fitch

Messages in the Music: A History of Propaganda and Symbolism within Popular and High Art Music

by Javan Green

'Gottfried Finger's Christmas Pastorellas.' Early Music 33, no. 4 (2005): 591-606.

by Robert Rawson