What is Baroque Music

Some masterpieces are great even beyond time like…

Baroque

What is Baroque Music?

It may literally mean “oddly shaped pearls” that reveal the Renaissance interest in ideas. This type of music is a powerful tool for communication. Great musicians like Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, and even Joseph Haydn played it really well. It has become a way of expression for most musicians, even today.

What does it sound like?

The Baroque music is well-known for its energetic spirit. If you ever listen to a Suite, you can find it actually sounds like a series of dances in the same key.  Some of the standard forms came in a sequence of allemande, courante, sarabande, and gigue. With an extended suite, you can enjoy even more. A variety of allemandes or courantes, bourreés, and minuets were often inserted. All genres can embody different characters.

Where to start exploring the music?

You can find a local concert to book a ticket or just stay tuned with us online!

Listen to Handel

Listen to Bach

(to be continued)