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From music history classes long ago, we learned that the Baroque Period ran parallel with Bach's dates: 1685-1750. The piano was invented during those years somewhere about 1719 by someone named something like Christofori, but I really have forgotten the details.
The piano wasn't widely accepted at first. However, if I were to hear the term "Baroque Piano," I really would think off the top of my hat that someone had made a recording of something written for harpsichord, but had translated the work to piano. Carson McCullers was immovable in her belief that baroque harpsichord works sounded best on piano. So I'd describe her as a person who loved baroque piano, even though the term seems confusing at first sight.
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Here is part of encyclopedia article. Notice German scholars apparently first used the term.
And I seem to remember it being spelled "Barock".
"The origins of the word baroque are not clear. It may have been derived from the Portuguese barocco or the Spanish barueco to indicate an irregularly shaped pearl. The word itself does not accurately define or even approximate the meaning of the style to which it refers. However, by the end of the 18th century baroque had entered the terminology of art criticism as an epithet leveled against 17th-century art, which many later critics regularly dismissed as too bizarre or strange to merit serious study. Writers such as the 19th-century Swiss cultural historian Jakob Burckhardt considered this style the decadent end of the Renaissance; his student Heinrich Wölfflin, in Principles of Art History (1915; translated 1932), first pointed out the fundamental differences between the art of the 16th and 17th centuries, stating that "baroque is neither a rise nor a decline from classic, but a totally different art."
"Baroque Art and Architecture," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 98 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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.. Becker it was the international dictionary ... that the usual criteria of definition ...
Entries are arranged alphabetically by German ... [ak/gw]. Baumeister des Barock und ...
http://www.rre.casalini.com/2000/be.html
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Shwartzenneger is doing a movie about baroque musicians. During a casting session he told one of his fellow actors, "You be Vivaldi, and I'll be Bach."
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Gosh if you say it out loud it sounds like a urologic emergency... ~A.W
Bach penis? ~WO'N
What is it with you guys!?
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can't say I've ever heard (or maybe just never noticed) ba-ROCK
Ni moi aussi. Unless - maybe - an Israeli politician?
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put my vote in with WW and nancy...
four years of Conservatory and I never heard ba-rock...
and why wouldn't you pronounce the "t"?
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put my vote in with WW and nancy... Call me chopped liver.... Well, one of the USn guys I consistently hear using the "Rock" pronunciation is none other than the venerable Bill McGlaughlin, host of NPR's "St. Paul Sunday." http://www.stpaulsunday.org/Maybe because it's true: Bach rocks!
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