The largest classical music site on the web. Tens of thousands of classical music files. Most composers are represented. Biographies and timelines.Classical Music, Online Music, Music Files, Free, Music Download, MIDI, MP3, WMA, Stream, Audio, Music, Crossover, Composers, Biographies, Orchestras, Baroque, Classic, Romantic, Modern, Opera,... >>read more
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Chicago jazz provides a complete guide to Chicago jazz musicians and clubs in Chicagoland. Chicago’s Jazz musicians have listed their sites here featuring... >>read more
Artist Hotel: Music guides featuring official homepages, fan pages, biographies, reviews, forums, discographies, and lyrics.
Your source for the best artist guides online. In each guide you will find links to official homepages, fan pages, biographies, reviews, forums, and lyrics. Find your favorite artist by using the menu below. Solo... >>read more
Western Europe from 1650 to 1750: Biographies of composers of Early Music complementing Here Of A Sunday Morning the radio program.
England had an outstanding genius in Henry Purcell (died 1695), the 'Orpheus Britannicus,' most celebrated for his compositions for the great English dramas, but also a composer of universal range. In France... >>read more
German Baroque Music 17th Century: Biographies of composers of Early Music complementing Here Of A Sunday Morning the radio program.
The rise of the Italians as the leading composers in Europe induced the more important German musicians to go to Italy for their training. Heinrich Schütz (died 1672) was the most accomplished German... >>read more
The German Pre-Classics 1700-1760: Biographies of composers of Early Music complementing Here Of A Sunday Morning the radio program.
German music, influenced by Neapolitan tunefulness and French elegance, began to develop "popular" aspects. The solo aria was simplified into the simple religious song, dance song and pastoral song. at the... >>read more
The Italian Seicento 17th Century: Biographies of composers of Early Music complementing Here Of A Sunday Morning the radio program.
At the beginning of the seventeenth century opera was born in Florence,derived partly from the development of musical dialogs, and partly from the efforts of the Humanists to revive classical tragedy. Its... >>read more
The Italian Settocento 18th Century: Biographies of composers of Early Music complementing Here Of A Sunday Morning the radio program.
In Italy the transition from the early to the late Baroque saw the division of solo song into declamatory recitative and cantabile aria, a procedure practised in Neapolitan opera, and particularly by its... >>read more
The Early Renaissance 1350-1500: Biographies of composers of Early Music complementing Here Of A Sunday Morning the radio program.
Only a little later than the rise of the Ars Nova, but probably independently, a secular musical art of great vitality arose in Upper and Central Italy, linked with the growth of a vernacular literature, which... >>read more