Vincenzo Galilei
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Vincenzo Galilei was an Italian lutenist, composer, and music theorist. His children included the astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei and the lute virtuoso and composer Michelagnolo Galilei. Vinc
Della musica antica et della moderna, 1581
Baroque music
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Baroque music refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Cla
Vincenzo Galilei
…was a figure in the musical life of the late Renaissance and contributed significantly to the musical revolution that demarcates the beginning of the Baroque era. In his study of pitch and string tension, Galilei produced perhaps the first non-linear mathematical description of a natural phenomenon known to…
Painting by Evaristo Baschenis of Baroque instruments, including a cittern, viola da gamba, violin, and two lutes
Claudio Monteverdi in 1640
Jean-Baptiste Lully by Paul Mignard
George Frideric Handel