Baroque Music continued

Baroque music describes a style of Western Classical music approximately extending from 1600 to 1760.

Ornamentation
frilly (lots of additional notes for no reason other than to make it sound better)

Smaller groupings
not a set tuning, so one instrument might be playing one A but it would sound very different to an A on another instrument as they aren't the same tuning

Chamber Music
a small group of players that play in an average sized room e.g. After dinner entertainment

Baroque Period is the first time that the style of music that is opera existed.

Opera is a mixture of singing and instrumental music and drama (a play that is sung)

Instruments
Strings- viola, violin, violoncello, viol, contrabass, harp, lute
Winds- flute, oboe, bassoon, recorder
Brass- trumpet, trombone, horn, sackbut
Keyboards- harpsichord, organ

Harpsichord is the most important instrument, it looks like a grand piano but it sounds different, instead of being hit the strings inside are plucked which give it a twanging sound

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