Baroque Musical Movement

Introduction

The period of Western music history from around 1600 to the mid of the 18th century- ca. 1750, is usually termed as the Baroque era. Its music is extensively regarded to have certain aspects in common that validate its being thought of a 'style period'. Derived from the Portuguese barroco, the term 'Baroque', which is actually a French word, implies “a misshapen pearl” or “oddly shaped pearl”. It was initially went for to the Rameau's opera Hippolyte et Aricie's music, for the indication of harshness, boldness, and incoherence.

Baroque music was described by J.-J. Rousseau (1768) as music charged with ...