Music Timeline

Baroque Period 1600-1750

• Functional Harmony was used in their works, using chords I, IV and V and cadences.
• They also used terraced dynamics.
• They had a basso continuo which was played by the cello, double bass or the Harpsichord.
• Fugue: super polyphonic/counterpoint on speed.

Famous composers at that time

• J.S.Bach
• Handel
• Vivaldi
• Henry Purcell
• Scarlatti

Classical…