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Music: An Appreciation: An Appreciation, Brief 4/e
Roger Kamien, Hebrew University
The Baroque Period
The Baroque Suite

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In the Baroque period, composers wrote suites, using musical ideas inspired by the tempo meter and rhythm of certain European dance types. Suites sets of dance inspired movements, written in the same key but differing in tempo, meter and character. To find out more about this musical form, check out the web resources below.









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