Baroque Era Music

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Baroque Era

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1600-1750

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Baroque Era Composers

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Bach, Handel, Vivaldi

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Baroque music style

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More rhythmic, decorative & elaborate than before

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Ornamented melodies

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Musical features that highlight a musical line; made music more dramatic than before

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Oratorio

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Music based on a Biblical story

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New secular forms of music in Baroque Era

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Sonata, concerto, cantata

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Cantata

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A piece of music that tells a story

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Opera

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Large music productions featuring performers in elaborate costumes

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Orchestra

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A music ensemble featuring strings, woodwinds, percussion & the harpsichord

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Harpsichord

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Early Baroque keyboard instrument in which the strings are plucked by quills instead of being struck with hammers like the piano; only able to play 1 dynamic.