Baroque music

Baroque period:

Instruments 1600-1750 Ornamentation - frilly, twiddly bits Harpsichord - has a unique and distinctive sound as inside it was a plucking motion on the strings. Lots of stringed instruments - violins, violas, cello Organ Flutes Trumpets, horns Smaller groups of instruments - chamber music Baroque music was the first time that the style of music, known as opera, was performed. This was known as the birth of opera. Opera - mixture of singing, instrumental music and drama. ( it's a play that is sung) The first instruments involved with baroque music where. Stringed instruments such as violins. Concert keyboard instruments where then introduced.