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Rom4ik [11]
3 years ago
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How do the characteristics of the music from the classical era differ from those of the baroque era?

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Sloan [31]3 years ago
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The Baroque era dates roughly from 1600 to 1750. Some examples of Baroque composers, performers: Monteverdi, Bach, Purcell, Handel, and Corelli. The<span> Classical era dates roughly from the mid-1700s to the mid-1800s. Some Classical composers: Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven.
</span>Baroque music was complex, highly tonal, and often polyphonic. It was trendy to perform in an energetic and emotionally charged style.<span>The Romantic music that followed the Classical period was also emotional often nationalistic, historical, autobiographical, or explicitly story driven.

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