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		<title>Arcangelo Corelli 1653- 1713 The Christmas Concerto op.6,8</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Christmas Concerto, concerto grosso op.6,8, represents the beginnings of the concerto form. Corelli’s concerto grossi are essentially an extension of his celebrated trio sonatas, they were composed in a very practical manner allowing a concert organizer to adjust the size of the orchestra and parts to suit budget and occasion. The makeup of Corelli’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hans Leo Hassler 1564-1612</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hans Leo Hassler was a German composer who is regarded as the finest that Germany produced in the late 16th century. As a composer Hassler did not contribute any specific innovations to the music of his time however, he does represent the large influence that the Italian school had on the rest of Europe at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baroque Keyboard Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The history of instrumental music and keyboard music in the baroque period share a similar trajectory whilst retaining distinctive differences. Both genres exhibit an explosion of compositional writing throughout the baroque period with the writing being of an increasingly complex and technically virtuosic nature. They also reflect trends in European aesthetics with compositions that incorporated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hugo Wolf 1860-1903</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a wonder that the music of Hugo Wolf is seldom performed in comparison to the lied composed by Schubert and Schumann. Wolf expanded upon the development of the lied form as he found it and brought to it a unity between music and text that was unparralelled. His musical settings of the text [...]]]></description>
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