See also: 1595 in music, other events of 1596, 1597 in music, list of years in music. Events February 5 - 26 catholics crucified in Nagasaki, Japan. ... See also: 1596 in music, other events of 1597, 1598 in music, list of years in music. ... This page indexes the individual year in music pages. ...
December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Henry Lawes (December 5, 1595 - October 21, 1662) was an English musician and composer. ... Events February 1 - The Chinese pirate Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege. ...
Music from the Baroque period is the earliest European music which we still generally recognize, whether it be the theme from Masterpiece Theatre (Mouret's Suite de Symphonie), the "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Messiah, or any number of other pieces.
Most of the Baroque musical instruments and forms which evolved during the Baroque period survive today, particularly as they were embodied in the most familiar European art music, the music of the Classical and Romantic periods of the nineteenth century.
The principal ensemble instruments in Baroque music, as in all subsequent European art music, are the unfretted (that is, without frets), bowed, string instruments of the violin family.
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