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The 61 pages that link to Baroque music, each with the reason it gives.

• Bel cantoNarrower topic: Bel canto inherited ornamented vocal practices from the operatic culture of the Baroque era.

• Chamber musicNarrower topic: The genre’s instrumental conventions and continuo practice took shape during this period.

• Claudio MonteverdiNarrower topic: His later works helped establish the musical language associated with this era.

• Neoclassicism (music)Narrower topic: Its counterpoint and concerto forms supplied models for several neoclassical works.

• FugueNarrower topic: The fugue reached its most prominent and systematic development during the Baroque era.

• HarpsichordNarrower topic: The harpsichord was a central keyboard instrument during this period.

• Leopold I, Holy Roman EmperorNarrower topic: Leopold composed and supported music within the flourishing Baroque court culture.

• ColoraturaNarrower topic: Baroque opera cultivated elaborate vocal ornament and display.

• ConcertoNarrower topic: The concerto took recognizable forms during this period.

• Concerto grossoNarrower topic: The concerto grosso emerged within this musical period.

• PassacagliaNarrower topic: The passacaglia became a prominent variation form during the Baroque era.

• ChaconneNarrower topic: The chaconne became a prominent instrumental form during the Baroque era.

• Ground bassNarrower topic: Ground bass became a prominent compositional resource in the Baroque era.

• Figured bassNarrower topic: Figured bass became a defining notation and accompaniment practice of this period.

• Venetian SchoolNarrower topic: Venetian practices contributed to musical conventions that flourished throughout the Baroque.

• VirtuosoNarrower topic: Baroque performance prized instrumental skill and helped establish the virtuoso tradition.

• Antonio VivaldiNarrower topic: This is the period style Vivaldi inherited and helped define.

• Orchestral musicNarrower topic: Its court and theater ensembles helped establish practices inherited by later orchestral music.

• ScordaturaNarrower topic: Scordatura became a prominent compositional resource in Baroque string music.

• Wanda LandowskaNarrower topic: Her performances helped shift Baroque keyboard works from historical curiosities to regular concert repertory.

• Giovanni GabrieliNarrower topic: Gabrieli’s works stand at the stylistic threshold between Renaissance and Baroque music.

• ClavichordNarrower topic: The clavichord served as a domestic and practice instrument during this period.

• Johann MatthesonNarrower topic: Mattheson’s compositions and theories belong to this period’s changing musical practices.

• Arcangelo CorelliNarrower topic: Corelli’s instrumental works helped define the period’s musical language.

• Nikolaus HarnoncourtNarrower topic: Baroque repertoire was the starting point for Harnoncourt’s experiments with historical instruments and sources.

• St Matthew PassionNarrower topic: The Passion’s counterpoint, ornament, and contrast belong to Baroque musical practice.

• Vincenzo GalileiNarrower topic: The reforms debated in Galilei’s generation helped shape the musical culture that followed.

• Adagio in G minorNarrower topic: The Adagio uses Baroque-associated gestures while dating from the twentieth century.

• Barbara StrozziNarrower topic: Its emerging styles and conventions shaped the musical world in which Strozzi composed.

• Alfred SchnittkeNarrower topic: Baroque forms and gestures recur in Schnittke’s historical allusions and concert works.

• Cello SuitesNarrower topic: The suites preserve Baroque dance forms while exploring the cello’s solo possibilities.

• Georg Philipp TelemannNarrower topic: Telemann’s career belongs to the late Baroque, when these conventions shaped both sacred and secular composition.

• Heinrich Ignaz Franz BiberNarrower topic: Biber’s music belongs to the Baroque era while stretching its instrumental and harmonic conventions.

• Johann PachelbelNarrower topic: Pachelbel’s career and compositional style belong to this period.

• King ArthurNarrower topic: Purcell’s score draws on Baroque vocal and instrumental styles for its songs and choruses.

• Tomaso AlbinoniNarrower topic: Albinoni composed during this period and helped shape its Italian instrumental style.

• Concerto for Two ViolinsNarrower topic: The concerto’s form, instrumentation, and contrapuntal language belong to the Baroque period.

• Girolamo FrescobaldiNarrower topic: Frescobaldi’s keyboard style helped define the early phase of this musical period.

• Giuseppe TartiniNarrower topic: Tartini’s career bridged the late Baroque and the emerging Classical style.

• Nicolas ChédevilleNarrower topic: Chédeville’s career overlapped the late Baroque, whose forms and styles shaped his compositions.

• Pachelbel's CanonNarrower topic: The piece’s counterpoint and continuo belong to Baroque musical practice.

• Passacaglia and Fugue in C minorNarrower topic: The work’s counterpoint and variation writing belong to Bach’s musical era.

• Toccata and Fugue in D minorNarrower topic: The work’s style and traditional dating place it in the Baroque repertory.