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Baroque music is a style of Western classical music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750, characterized by its ornate melodies, complex polyphony, and the use of instrumental and vocal forms. It often features contrast in dynamics and texture, and is associated with composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Antonio Vivaldi.
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Baroque music is a style of Western classical music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750, characterized by its ornate melodies, complex polyphony, and the use of instrumental and vocal forms. It often features contrast in dynamics and texture, and is associated with composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Antonio Vivaldi.

Key research themes

1. How do Baroque composers integrate musical form and textsetting conventions to shape affect and expression in English vocal music?

This research theme explores the specific compositional choices regarding textsetting, syllabic treatment, and word-repetition practices in English Baroque vocal music, focusing particularly on how these practices relate to poetic form, meter, and expressive intent. By examining a corpus of Henry Purcell’s songs alongside previous scholarship, this theme provides detailed insights into the interplay between poetic structure and musical rhetoric, revealing how composers employed or omitted word-repetition and syllable-extension strategies to achieve distinct expressive effects.

Key finding: Cathal Twomey's analysis of 23 non-repetitive English Baroque songs by Henry Purcell finds that these compositions conspicuously omit word-repetition and syllable-extension, particularly in lyrical, strophic settings of... Read more
Key finding: This comprehensive module outlines the stylistic developments and varied vocal genres of the Baroque era, highlighting how Baroque composers integrated dramatic expression, ornamentation, and the basso continuo foundation... Read more
Key finding: Bettina Varwig’s scholarship re-centers the embodied experience of Baroque musicking, arguing that early modern conceptions of musical affect involved physiological, psychological, and theological dimensions inseparable from... Read more

2. What are the conceptual and philosophical frameworks linking Baroque music, aesthetics, and semiotics within cultural theory?

This research theme investigates the philosophical and semiotic conceptions of the Baroque as an artistic and cultural paradigm, focusing on how theorists like Gilles Deleuze and Juri Lotman interpret Baroque aesthetics through ideas such as folding, the monad, and the semiosphere. It explores the integration of Baroque musical harmony and structure within broader reflections on meaning-making, cultural dynamics, and the epistemological implications of Baroque art and music as 'total art'. This theme offers insights into the complex interplay between Baroque musical forms and their philosophical representations in cultural theory.

Key finding: The paper reveals a profound conceptual intersection between Juri Lotman’s semiosphere theory and Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of the Baroque, especially regarding the Leibnizian monad as a spatial and semiotic figure central... Read more
Key finding: This article explicates the philosophical motif of folding-unfolding derived from Heraclitus and developed by both Heidegger and Deleuze, connecting it to Baroque aesthetics and music theory, particularly harmony. It... Read more
Key finding: This article challenges normative, Eurocentric periodizations of the Baroque by proposing a decolonial, global framework that recognizes multiple, transcultural 'baroques'. It argues for a decoupling of temporal and... Read more

3. How did social, political, and economic contexts shape Baroque musical practices, patronage, and institutional development?

This theme examines the ways Baroque music and musicians were deeply embedded in the political, religious, and economic life of their time. It includes studies of courtly patronage systems, financial aspects of musical institutions, confessional conflicts influencing sacred music, and the intersection of music with cultural and political identity. These perspectives provide a multi-dimensional understanding of Baroque music as both an artistic and socio-political phenomenon.

Key finding: This investigation quantifies the substantial financial investment made by Duke Francesco II d’Este in maintaining one of Italy’s most prestigious musical chapels, including the recruitment of virtuosos and procurement of... Read more

All papers in Baroque Music

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A chance encounter that would evolve into a lifelong collaboration. Their paths first crossed at Indiana University, Bloomington. “That initial encounter marked the beginning of a lasting connection,” recalls Paglin, now retired from... more
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This is the second part of Book XII, Fugue Part Four, of The Art of Fantasía for All Guitars and Lutes.
This is the first part of Book XII, Fugue Part Four, of The Art of Fantasía for All Guitars and Lutes. Book XII is over Academia.edu's 100MB limit, so it has been split into two parts.
This is Book IX, "Fugue Part One" of the Art of Fantasía for All Guitars and Lutes. It contains Thomás de Sancta Maria's demonstration fantasías in all the modes, and all of his material on fugue in two parts, from his Libro Llamado Arte... more
This is Book VIII, "Counterpoint," of The Art of Fantasía for All Guitars and Lutes. I present a modified version of Fux's theory of Species Counterpoint, with comparisons between the theoretical systems of Fux and Jeppesen and the... more
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