Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Minuet
Wikipedia offers an excellent definition of the minuet, a dance for 2 persons in 3/4 time. Includes many hyperlinked terms.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Polyphony
Wikipedia provides a brief description and history of the term, polyphony, including many hyperlinked terms.
CGFA
Carol Gerten Fine Arts: Peter Paul Rubens
Carol Gerten-Jackson gives a good biography supplied by Encarta. There are links to more information on Rubens's work.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Franz Joseph Haydn
This is a biography on Franz Joseph Haydn. It also includes an audio lecture on Haydn with his music as a background to the lecture.
Other
George Frideric Handel: Home Page
This site has indepth information on Handel. It goes from birth to death and beyond. Contains chronological listing of when compositions were composed and where performed. Also has a good reference page for more info.
Web Gallery of Art
Web Gallery of Art: The Love Letter by Jan Vermeer
A great Web Gallery of Art site for information on Vermeer's painting "The Love Letter." Click the links for a picture of the painting, notes about the painting, and a study of what Vermeer was trying to accomplish through the painting.
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: Peter Paul Rubens
This museum site offers a short biography of Peter Paul Rubens.
Cool Fire Technology
Brain Bank: Art Movements and Periods
This website alphabetizes and briefly describes all the major movements in the history of visual arts. Good for use as a general reference for Art History studies and the study of historically based painting and art.
Olga, Helen, Yuri and Sergey Mataev
Olga's Gallery: Thomas Gainsborough
Olga gives you many Gainsborough works, including "Mrs. Siddons". You can also link to a bio page on the site.
CGFA
Carol Gerten Fine Arts: Jan Steen
Read about the artist and view his works. Click on the thumbnails to see the larger version of the picture.
CGFA
Carol Gerten Fine Arts: Diego Velazquez
This presentation brings you many of the works of Diego Velazquez. You can link out to a biography from Encarta.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Willem Claesz Heda
Artcyclopedia has links to Museums and Galleries an the Internet that have the work of Willem Claesz Heda on display.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Claude Lorrain
Artcyclopedia gives you Claude Lorrain links to museums and galleries on the Internet.
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Wayne State College: Baroque Early [Based on Grout/palisca, 5th Ed., Ch 9]
These appear to be notes taken from a college lecture and contain considerable information on the Baroque period of music.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Baroque
Read extensively about the history of the period and the life and works of the artists.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Thomas Gainsborough
This site provides an excellent depiction of the artist's life. Includes his influences and a photo of one of his greatest paintings, "The Blue Boy."
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Jean Philippe Rameau
Wikipedia offers brief biographical information on Baroque composer Jean-Philippe Rameau, including a list of works.
Northern Arizona University
Northern Arizona University: Sojurn: Jan Dismas Zelenka 1679 1745
Brief biographical facts about Zelenka with lots of links to terms as well as references to Zelenka's music.
Other
Boglewood Group: Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini: Baroque Master
A brief biographical sketch of the life of Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680 CE), with a link to an exquisite reproduction of his famous sculpture of St. Teresa of Avila.
Northern Arizona University
Sojurn: Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 1725)
Brief note on the Baroque composer Alessandro Scarlatti with clickable resources for learning more about his music and that of his contemporaries.
Other
Baroque Composers and Musicians
This website provides a listing of some of the prominent composers and musical personalities of the baroque period. Those underlined as links will take you to a short biographical article on that particular composer.
Other
Baroque Music: Composers
Short bio with listing of works by genre with dates composed. Just click on "Lully".
Other
Baroque Composers: Telemann
Brief bio with very organized list of works condensed and catalogued for easy perusal.
Northern Arizona University
Northern Arizona Univ.: Symmetrical Binary Principle
This site from the Northern Arizona University contains the meanings of the symmetrical binary principle in Bach's music and several other composers of this period.