Question

Instrumental music became as important as vocal music for the first time in the ____________ period.

Answer 1

Late baroque period.

Answer 2

Answer:

Instrumental music became as important as vocal music for the first time in the baroque period.

Explanation:

   The vocal predominance of Italian Baroque music recommended the accessory use of violins, harpsichords and portable organs. The violons, for example, only appeared there in 1650 and only in Venice, because of the intense exchange with Germany. Also commonly used were clarinet, chalumeau and viole all'inglese. The oboe and transverse flute were only adopted in the last baroque stage.

    Music production in Italy was so abundant in Baroque that it stifled all foreign initiatives. Even in the classical period this predominance remained, at least in the field of opera.

    Florentines had invented opera to perfect dramatic art. Instead, a genre emerged that the French and Italians came to call "lyric art."