Provides definition and origins of the term as well as what elements are required for a piece to qualify as a canon.

Defines the form and provides examples of the fugue. Download sound clips accompanied with examples of notation.

Get details about early music. Find out about instruments, educational institutes, societies, CDs, and publications.

Explore historical themes that influenced Baroque music. Lists profiles of representative composers.

Guide to music history offers this collection of Baroque era music links. Link to other period and genre pages.

Review a guide to the development and elements of the music of the Baroque period. Link to pages on notable composers of the time.

Outlines the elements of this genre of vocal chamber music developed in the Baroque period. Link to pages on composers such as Beethoven.

Formed by The Catholic University of America, it includes a bio, description of various records, and a database of cant indeces.

Furnishes an opinionated overview of Baroque music. Includes brief profiles of notable composers.

Find out what instruments were assembled to play this form of baroque accompaniment.

University of Michigan database on early music worship books prior to 1601. Includes information of over 9,000 titles.

Provides details on rhythmic patterns and phrasing in baroque music pieces such as courantes, gavottes and menuets.

Professor of music offers this paper on the historical background of the oboe and its use in Baroque compositions.

Evolving database from Indiana University, on Latin music theory between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Includes links and access details.