Baroque music

The term baroque describes a period or time of european music from 1600-1750.

Baroque music is whatever comes before renaissance but before classical. Baroque music could be fast,slow,happy,sad,magnificent and grand. Ornamentation-frilly, twiddly bits.

 Harpsichord-there is a plucking mechanism rather than hammers like a piano has. Lots of string instruments- violins, violas, cello, Organ Flutes Trumpets,horns Smaller groups of instruments.


CHAMBBER MUSIC The first time that opera existed (mixture of singing, instrumental music, drama -it's a play that is sung) The heroic roles in baroque we're generally sung by castrati men who had been castrated as per pubescent boys to preserve there high voices.