Characteristics of the Boroque Period of Music

The starting point of the new epoch is usually taken as the year 1600, when the Italian melodrama (opera) came into being, and its end is generally considered to have come with the death of Johann Sebastian Bach in 1750. The history of music underwent extraordinary changes in this century and a half during which forms that were to exist for hundreds of years were devised, and the structure of harmony was established on foundations that lasted into much later times.

In music, the term Baroque has been used to describe a certain concept of art, a stylistic idiom, but also a method of composition built on a specific component, the basso continuo. Described in simple terms, such compositions consist of a melodic line and a continuous accompaniment in a set form, often playe

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to accompany instruments on which the melody was played, especially the violin, the repertoire for which culminates in the sonata and the concerto, the two great ideal forms of the Baroque period, whether composed as church music or as chamber music. Later, the development of the concerto followed two paths: that of the concerto grosso·in which a group of solo instruments is heard in contradistinction to the whole orchestra, the tutti·and that of the concerto solo in which a single instrument is used to showcase impressive feats of virtuosity. THE EARLY BAROQUE PERIOD The earliest years of the Baroque period marked the departure from the Renaissance period music. During this time, generally identified as the shortest of the three Baroque periods from 1600 to 1630, stylistic changes from Renaissance music came into being. Dissonance was introduced during this period, which was characterized by short pieces lacking longer sustained movements that would be introduced later and brought to full realization in the Classical period. This 30-year period also began the transition from the vocal to the instrumental. The Renaissance period·indeed most music until the Baroque·focused on the voice and words. Baroque opera developed th
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