Baroque to Romantic Program Notes
If it ain't Baroque, don't fix it. Baroque is a style of music that generally includes work from 1600 to 1750. Key composers include J. S. Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Pachelbel, Telemann and Scarlatti. The Baroque period saw the creation of tonality, an approach to writing music in which a song or piece is written in a particular key. During the period, composers and performers used more elaborate orchestration. Baroque music expanded the size, range, and complexity of instrumenta