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Key Features of Baroque Music (1600-1750) by mechanomano is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Baroque music featured elaborate melodies decorated with ornaments and reflecting text. Voices often imitated each other. Harmony was based on major and minor keys and included surprising modulations and chromatic chords. Instruments were commonly doubled at the unison or omitted. Forms included recitatives for solo voice over bass notes, arias for solo voice and instruments, and ritornellos. Texture ranged from polyphonic to monophonic to homophonic. Dynamics were usually sparsely indicated for the perform
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