Baroque Music Resources

Fourth Grade Musicianship Resources

G'day, you geezers! Here are some helpful websites with pictures and information about everybody's favourite composers:
Bach
Handel
and
Purcell

Click on these links to find out how many works of each composer have been discovered ...
BWV
HWV
Zimmerman

Playing Bach on the Piano
Martha Beth Lewis favours playing Baroque Music on the piano, as if you were playing a harpsichord.
Some Thoughts On The Performance of Bach's Keyboard Music
Albert Alan Owen's interesting article,in which he explains his preference for using the modern piano's resources, when playing Baroque Keyboard Music.
Bringing Bach to Life
An extract from Angela Hewitt's lecture to the Royal Philharmonic Society, in which she argues for playing the piano as a piano, when performing Baroque Music.
Did Bach write for the piano or the harpsichord?
Bernard S. Greenberg discusses the attempt to play authentic performances of Bach.

Other Sites of Interest

Music History 102
This helpful site has information about the main periods of Western Music.
The only genuine portrait of Bach?
Bach Central Station
One of the best of many excellent sites dedicated to the world's greatest composer
Anecdotes About Handel
Which composer declared that Handel was the greatest composer of all?
A recently discovered Purcell manuscript
Scroll to the bottom of this page, and you will see a manuscript discovered in 1993, a courant, which is the only piece of keyboard music extant in Purcell's own handwriting. But is it French or Italian?

If you're running out excuses for not practising, try these!
The Practice Spot
This terrific Australian site includes hundreds of tips designed to help music students achieve their best.
Guitar Trek
We think Guitar Trek is the bees knees, and not just because our son Daniel is a member.

BlitzBooks
Information about the best AMEB Musicianship and Theory books. I am beginning to see them in music shops, now.

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This page was lightly edited on Friday, 26th December, 2003