Many Pinoys may have read about the Baroque period in their history classes. They may not know it, but they can actually still see and hear a bit of this grand period—and they don't even have to leave ...

Yale has a new organ that sounds about three centuries old. After nearly a decade of planning and 26,000 man-hours, the Institute of Sacred Music unveiled its new Baroque organ in the Divinity ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The only full-size Italian baroque organ in the Americas, a 17th-century marvel with 600 pipes and more than 2,000 parts, goes on permanent display next week at a University of ...

For its 44th edition, the International Bamboo Organ Festival will feature “Magnificat” by J.S. Bach and other works of the Baroque period (Telemann, Charpentier, Buxtehude), performed by Johann ...

PORT TOWNSEND — An organist sits down at a pipe organ. The organ has 23 ranks of pipes replicating the instruments of a symphony orchestra. Each rank has 61 pipes spanning five octaves. Using the two ...

The restoration of elaborate church pipe organs in Oaxaca to their former Baroque glory. Centuries ago Catholic religious orders from Spain created a Baroque culture among the Indians of the Mexican ...

Late last summer, just in time for the start of the new school year, Rollins College hired Charles Callahan – then organist, choir director and composer-in-residence at Middlebury College in Vermont – ...

Last fall, I had the pleasure of taking David Yearsley’s course on Music Journalism. Within discussions of style, diction and structure, Yearsley’s classes taught close analysis of journalistic ...

A sound mainly heard in France is coming to Ithaca as a church gets a new pipe organ. Canadian organ builders Denis Juget and Robin Côté are working in the choir loft of East Hill’s St. Luke Lutheran ...

The chords used in major and minor tonalities were also major or minor - or diatonic. The use of ground bass was common in the Baroque period. Composers would use a ground bass to structure their ...