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Q: What is Enchanting Baroque ?

A : Enchanting Baroque is a choral and orchestral concert which will be presented by Parahyangan Catholic University Choir, is part of the routine concert programme held annually by this choir. This excellent performance is a means for classical music lovers in Indonesia to develop their appreciation of both choral and orchestral music.

Q: What does Baroque mean?

A: In it's simplest form, the term 'baroque' refers to a specific period of music with highly embellished melodies and fugal or contrapuntal forms.

Q: So Baroque music is really just classical music, right?

A: That depends on your point of view. If you consider all music before the 20th century to be 'classical', then the answer is yes. It's possible to define stylistic differences in 'classical' music, therefore baroque is appropriate when speaking of the period between 1600-1750.

  Q: Who composed Baroque music ?

A: Many of the greatest composers throughout history are found in the Baroque era. Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Friedrich Händel, Antonio Vivaldi, just to name a few.

Q: I want the dictionary definition,
you're making no sense !

A: Okay, okay ...
Baroque (French). Bizarre. Term applied to the ornate architecture of Germany and Austria during the 17th and 18th centuries and borrowed to describe comparable musical developments from about 1600 to the deaths of Bach and Händel in 1750 and 1759 respectively. It was a period in which harmonic complexity grew alongside emphasis on contrast. So, in opera, intererst was transferred from recital to aria, and in church music the contrasts of solo voices, chorus, and orchestra were developed to a high degree. In instrumental music the period saw the emergence of the sonata, the suite, and particularly the concerto grosso, as in the music of Corelli, Vivaldi, Handel, and Bach. Most baroque music uses continuo. Note that 18th century writers used 'baroque' in a pejorative sense to mean 'coarse' or 'old-fashioned in taste'.

Q : Unpar Choir will performed all those composer ?

A : No, we are not. Unpar Choir in Enchanting Baroque will present difficult yet enchanting pieces written for choir and orchestra, by two German composers , Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Friedrich Händel.

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