I would start like this. Baroque in relation to the Renaissance is like the period before covid and covid. Everything is different, people live differently, they think differently, you can't do anything and you can do everything. Well, it's baroque! To put it mildly, shock in art, a step further, something new, but unexpectedly new. So let's start.

Baroque is an artistic direction that marked the 17th and part of the 18th century. Major and minor also appear, as well as new musical forms. Concert, fugue, suite and opera.

Concert

Famous concerto grosso. In translation, a soloist accompanied by an orchestra. Both forms quickly became the favorite form of baroque composers. A fast- slow- fast stance is the main characteristic of concerto grosso.

Today's songs are mostly composed just like that, fast- slow- fast part which says that. We have not moved far from the Baroque era. 😊

Fugue

Many aestheticians have often called the Baroque period the era of the fugue. Its creator was the only one, the famous Bach.

Most of today’s musicians, pianists, fugue practice for months to play roughly like Bach. What goes on is that we have not progressed at all, that we are still close to the Baroque. 😊

Suite

The suite is an instrumental composition composed of plays of different origins, which have in common only the tonality. Dances in this form are Allemanda (German dance), Sarabanda (Spanish dance), Kuranta (French dance) and Ziga (English dance).

Believe it or not, composers still use the same method as then. They use different techniques, from different parts of the world, but again nothing. I don't think there's anything left to last as long as one suite. What goes on again is that we haven't moved far from the baroque. 😊

Opera

Opera is an abbreviation of the Italian phrase opera in musica, which means musical work. The cradle of opera is Italy. Opera is a form of theatrical art.

If we compare today's theater, we can see that the plays are still played on boards, the stage is similar to the baroque, so again the sentence I repeat, we are not one step away from the baroque. 😊

Finally, I would like to mention the famous names of that period.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Georg Friedrich Handel

Antonio Vivaldi

Claudio Monteverdi

Unfortunately, I cannot draw a parallel with today because there are no such names today. No sure! There are no works of art that live on after the artist's death, which again says that we are still not far from the baroque.

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